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I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but ML is already someone who that beats people up and forces them to comply in order to get what he wants. I doubt he's like fighting is wrong and rape is wrong. He's morals are already messed up. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ To him, rape is probably the same as beating the shit out of someone but he also gets to satisfy his sexual needs. Assault is assault. It's both wrong, though, on different levels.
Two things kinda annoy me.
1. The father - the originator of the debt - is walking around scott free (coupled with the fact that the ML chose not to capture him when he could have)
2. The ML was sexually attracted to the MC from the beginning, hence the brutal rape. He stopped treating the MC horribly once he caught feels. My question is - what if he never caught feels but the arrangement still carried on? If not rape, then the sex would still be somewhat coercive, and physically painful for the MC.
I guess the conundrum is this - in manhwa, rapists stop raping when they fall in love. But, if they are not in love they carry on raping. So, there is no realisation of the immorality of rape. They just regret raping ONE SPECIFIC person, usually the MC. And, based on their behaviour and sexual experience, it’s fair to assume that wealthy toxic semes would have raped a whole lot of other guys before they rape the MC.
I know I’m overthinking this, but I was just considering the characters’ behaviour (in a general sense) before ML’s in manhwa meet the MC’s.