Idk how to review this fairly - I love mpreg and babies in BL. I liked the story. I’ll just start with that.
However, in all seriousness, the ML is super toxic. HOWEVER, that seems to kinda be the vibe of the story? Like a lowkey obsessive top and a high key permissive bottom? It’s like, I felt really bad for the bottom for what he had/has to deal with the top. I think adding to their backstory before the pregnancy makes their relationship a little bit more easy on the thoughts, but like, idk he’s still super dismissive of the bottom and obsessive. The friend is kind of an asshole too, his initial reaction to the bottom getting assaulted by the top is ass, but I think that speaks more about the rape culture in Korea than anything else. And then like it sort of felt like he only got pissed at the ML once the ML showed clear dislike at the friend, and that’s like… bruh not before? Ok. He has a lot of valid advice too but it felt disingenuous at that point.
Anyway, oddly enough I did like the story. The ML is suspect as fuck, but he’s a good parent. I saw some complaining about the bottom being so useless at parenting he doesn’t even knowledge his kids, but he does - he’s a good dad given everything. He’s so fucking loving towards his kids and his relationship with the top isn’t bad at all (despite his obsessive tendencies). He kinda sucks at upholding his boundaries but he still gets mad and the top relents becuz it’s not as if he’s a “yandere” per se. And their kids? So fucking cute. The art style is unique but it’s cute in a weird way.
I really enjoyed their past life too - having seen snippets of it in the original story is fine, but expanding it gives the top’s obsession even more of a reason. It’s not an excuse for his actions, but it is an explanation that is needed for the story. And seeing them be in love then makes it so much more gratifying given how sad the past life is. Props to the past wife btw, what a fucking g. She was originally hostile, but not mean. She then softened and understood where the ML was coming from and same thing with the MC since she gave them both grace. She let him close to her when she was pregnant and even let the ML mourn. Truly I felt even bad for her considering the ML followed soon after.
So yes it is an incredibly toxic story BUT NOT MORE THAN THE OTHERS??? The reviews on B*to had me thinking this was gonna be the worst story imaginable like the worst, but honestly it really blanks in comparison to what we got.
Idk how to review this fairly - I love mpreg and babies in BL.
I liked the story. I’ll just start with that.
However, in all seriousness, the ML is super toxic. HOWEVER, that seems to kinda be the vibe of the story? Like a lowkey obsessive top and a high key permissive bottom? It’s like, I felt really bad for the bottom for what he had/has to deal with the top. I think adding to their backstory before the pregnancy makes their relationship a little bit more easy on the thoughts, but like, idk he’s still super dismissive of the bottom and obsessive. The friend is kind of an asshole too, his initial reaction to the bottom getting assaulted by the top is ass, but I think that speaks more about the rape culture in Korea than anything else. And then like it sort of felt like he only got pissed at the ML once the ML showed clear dislike at the friend, and that’s like… bruh not before? Ok. He has a lot of valid advice too but it felt disingenuous at that point.
Anyway, oddly enough I did like the story. The ML is suspect as fuck, but he’s a good parent. I saw some complaining about the bottom being so useless at parenting he doesn’t even knowledge his kids, but he does - he’s a good dad given everything. He’s so fucking loving towards his kids and his relationship with the top isn’t bad at all (despite his obsessive tendencies). He kinda sucks at upholding his boundaries but he still gets mad and the top relents becuz it’s not as if he’s a “yandere” per se.
And their kids? So fucking cute. The art style is unique but it’s cute in a weird way.
I really enjoyed their past life too - having seen snippets of it in the original story is fine, but expanding it gives the top’s obsession even more of a reason. It’s not an excuse for his actions, but it is an explanation that is needed for the story.
And seeing them be in love then makes it so much more gratifying given how sad the past life is.
Props to the past wife btw, what a fucking g. She was originally hostile, but not mean. She then softened and understood where the ML was coming from and same thing with the MC since she gave them both grace. She let him close to her when she was pregnant and even let the ML mourn. Truly I felt even bad for her considering the ML followed soon after.
So yes it is an incredibly toxic story BUT NOT MORE THAN THE OTHERS??? The reviews on B*to had me thinking this was gonna be the worst story imaginable like the worst, but honestly it really blanks in comparison to what we got.