Cruel's love for Deon is both beautiful and tragic
Beautiful because his love for his little brother never died even after Deon killed their parents. Like he says he should hate Deon, but he can't, because he stays his beloved little brother whom he loves
And tragic because at the end, with all the misunderstandings, he could never properly show that love to Deon
Deon wanted to be loved so much by his family, if only he knew that Cruel loved him he could have survived war with hope
But instead, he had to rely on his madness to survive, and now the situation can't be cleared anymore
I feel for both Deon and Cruel, they are victims of other's schemes
How does the author imagine they can redeem this Ml after that ?
Do they know that they are portraying a toxic story (which is their choice) or do they really think that there is a way of making Mc and Ml end together happily after everything ?
In BJ Alex, the seme was also an ass, but never this much
So I really hope the author is not gonna do the same pseudo-redemption arc in this story that in Bj alex :
Mc leaves Ml -> Ml realizes he loves Mc -> we see Ml's sad past to sympathise with his life -> he pursues Mc, apologies and is forgiven in 2 minutes
I think if they do that for that story, NO ONE is going to be satisfied and even less empathize with Ml. He has been too shitty to be excused because of a pseudo "sad past"
After raping Mc, humiliating him, treating him like garbage,... Ml should suffer A LOT before mc even just accepts to talk to him.
This story really confuses me. It's like the author took the less-liked aspects of BJ Alex, (ass Seme, Uke with low self-esteem) and accentuated them to the point that the rest of the story can't make up for these aspects anymore
But well, I can still be proven wrong when the author decides that they can finally start the character development arc
(Only my opinion)
I love how our Mc is just an extra avoiding the red flags the whole story
Plus, the only moments he is really puts forward as a love story protagonist (like when this childhood friend confesses to him) are in extra chapter, not even in the main story !
The author really created our Mc as an extra in his own story and it's honestly so funny
https://www.mangago.me/home/mangatopic/14180684/
Just saving the link to a topic with really detailed spoilers about the story in that way
This is so depressing, everything that happened to Deon was all for nothing
When you think about it, the whole story is about a bunch of grown privileged adults who are bored and decide to make a CHILD (then young adult) the puppet of their stupid bets
But I'm happy that there is a poetic justice coming for the duke : because of all the situations he put Deon through, Deon is now too strong for him to deal with.
He will never win his bet, and I hope that Deon, the boy he thought was a mere puppet will be the one to kill him at the end