
As everyone has acknowledged yeah I think this is beginning to be more than BDSM and simply Richard enjoys harming himself. He likes to hurt and he gets pleasure from it as a true masochist down to the bone but he doesn't do it only for pleasure. He believes he is a worthless piece of trash because of how his father treated him and everyone after. How everyone immediately assumed he was a monster for "killing" his mother during birth. So they shaped him to be a monster. He wasn't born one. But everyone assumed he was and followed the lead of his father, the most powerful man you couldn't deny around. It messed him up to his core. And it hurts my heart to think about when they have a true deep conversation and how Courtney could react to that when she's slowly fallen in love with him. And he has fallen in love with her too even if it has a big obsessive edge too.

I'm on chapter 22 and the story is pretty good so far? Some comedy, some romance and it's a little cliche but it's not HORRIBLE. The only horrible thing is the translation. Broken sentences, empty speech bubbels, bubbles that have their pattern reversed and the names of characters and terms keep changing so it's hard to get grasp of the general story but if you have basic literary knowledge and use logic and context clues you can put it together. I'd love to re-read when it gets a proper translation. So far it's pretty interesting I like forward flirty funny FLs and Tsundere MLs.
Josh has to be one of the strongest best omega MLs out there.