I feel the same! I can appreciate dark media so long as it's portrayed as "dark" and "wrong", acknowledging it's messed up, but that's the plot and theme of the story. But this manhwa makes me feel so much pity for MC and am I supposed to ship them? That's messed up (⊙…⊙ )
I think had this been tagged as a psychological manhwa, I'd like it more because the characters are built for it already
Agree!... checking the tags and synopsis before you read explain a lot of things. And it's not like liking this type of stories doesn't mean you tolerate this in real life...
I definitely think whoever uploaded needed to tag psychological I don’t know if the original work is marked that way but it clearly has those elements. But I got the gist that the author isn’t romanticizing the doctor so much as setting up how he’s kinda all fucked up so I don’t have an issue that some people are taking with the story so far. Depending how the full story gets written I might end up changing my mind
I don’t know if it’s because I’m an adult…but If I know beforehand that a story is a noncon - or that a story is very dark “romance” - I don’t mind the troublesome elements. Like I can read it and realize it’s fucked up and enjoy it as a fucked up story. Kind of like when I read horror. I absolutely don’t want to be kidnapped and killed but I can enjoy reading that horror story understanding that’s what it is.
It’s when a story gets portrayed as “normal” that I then get the ick factor. I think this story made the rape very clearly a rape. The male lead wasn’t getting raped and having those “I hate it but I love it” thoughts that a lot of Yaoi will do. I also feel like the male interest was set up as a kind of sociopath with deep perversions. Or some kind of psychopath…