I remember hearing a stat somewhere that it takes on average 7 or so attempts to leave an abusive relationship and I feel like Baekhee just illustrates that in a beautiful but horrific way. Because that's all he's ever known it's scarier for him to forsake the bastard even for someone as likeable as ilwoo than it would be to stay in that horrific relationship. In a way it's better the devil you know.
This author man, always wondering why we're all so stressed every chapter when they write such gut-wrenching things
Ngl I love her characterization because I feel like for once I'm seeing a female lead that's very sharp and quick on the uptake only to see the people calling this a stupid female lead?
Not to say that people are stupid if they look at these characters and think fl is stupid, just that to me she looks like a character who just doesn't know/care about the social norms of the wolf tribe. For example, the bullying scene, for her that whole interaction just does not matter, all that situation gave her was an activity for the day.
Idk I haven't enjoyed an interaction between a male and female lead like this in awhile so very surprised when I see people call this a stupid female lead of all things
You know how there are a lot of stories that are so bad they're good? This one is frustrating to me because this legitimately is such a good premise but the execution holds it back.
Like you have classic male lead who's like "I will not love you" and fl who's actually very proactive about it and pranks him a bunch. And that's very fun already as a premise, but what's better is that he realizes that he's walking down the same path as his father and that's what makes him want to change
What sucks is that all these points on paper sound like a good story but they botch it by having everyone around them not point out how sucky the ml is, they have the ml's "realization" a few panels of him just randomly talking to the fl, there's no lead up to that
Honestly it's not that bad it's just that with a premise like that it could have been executed better
Tbh I don't usually like this genre because I feel like either the mc's actions don't make sense or the male lead does absolutely nothing worth staying for. This is one of the few out of the trope that I enjoyed greatly.
I appreciate how it's truly a slow descent for mc. Like of course in his god awful circumstances, this man who treats him so much better than everyone else he knows (if he follows the "rules") becomes something he clings too. It's kind of abuse tactics 101, there's a reasons why victims often have a hard time leaving and that reason is that when it's good, it's very good. It becomes easy to ignore the absolutely horrible things this psycho does the rest of the time
Anyways, if you want a kind of similar ending I recommend the story "A smile from the villain". It's a chinese transmigration one that kinda ends similarly especially in the epilogues/extras. Just large trigger warning, that one is much heavier on non-con elements. No it's honestly beyond that, read through tags and reviews if you want to read that









I mean depressed that my cat son is going through it bit the grandcats are cute