bro i was STRESSED tf out he couldve sliced his dick clean off mid blowjob aint nothing hot about that
so we waited a whole year, got 14 chapters, watched these men fuck for a month straight and now we get ONE more chapter before another 3-month hiatus im crying guys i swear hiatuses weren't even this common in webtoons before koogi, that woman really turned them into an industry standard lmfao i genuinely hope danrim gets better but atp can platforms PLEASE start prioritizing sustainable release schedules cause why are we running these bl authors on 1% battery while their health is falling apart
genuinely one of the worst things i've ever read? i'm not defending jiwook or downplaying what he did in the past. juyeon's anger is completely understandable, but having a reason to want revenge doesn't automatically justify everything he does in the name of it huh
juyeon spent 8 years planning his revenge, yet at some point it stops feeling like revenge and becomes an endless cycle of cruelty. and my issue isn't that he's a terrible person, it's that the story barely seems interested in examining what that ACTUALLY MEANS
honestly, this novel felt more like an excuse to explore as many extreme kinks and fetishes as possible than an actual story about revenge. the plot feels like it's there to justify the sexual violence rather than the other way around. there's nothing inherently wrong with writing extreme dark fiction, but when every new chapter just introduces another way to degrade jiwook, it starts feeling repetitive rather than meaningful
and the dog scene??? i'm sorry but that was genuinely my breaking point. i couldn't even finish reading it. fuck u author.
the ending was just as frustrating. juyeon shows no remorse, the abuse continues, and jiwook still loves him. i'm not asking for redemption or a happy ending, but what exactly are we supposed to take away from this? an unresolved cycle of abuse can be a deliberate tragic ending, but here it just feels like the story stops without ever doing anything meaningful with its themes
i don't think a story needs to teach a moral lesson to be good, but it should at least feel like there's some thought behind its choices. to me, this was just 154 chapters of escalating cruelty, with shock value constantly taking priority over characterization and storytelling. i finished it feeling disturbed, but not in a way that made me reflect on anything. just genuinely disappointed by how little substance there was beneath all that violence
this ending is more painful than anything else
i like to hope that, perhaps in another universe, they came for shinpei sooner—so that he and satoko might have had a chance to lead the life they had imagined, together. he did not deserve to spend his entire life in such sorrow and inner emptiness after having discovered love
