Can a novel reader please spoil now on earth these 2 wind up together. Because being drugged, violently raped (ML even contemplating raping MC to death), and then being killed (attempted but ML thought it succeeded) all seem like real breakers to me. Without mind break or stalkholme syndrome there really is no believable way. I NEED spoilers.
As a fellow novel reader even I’m confused. The best way to describe it is, no matter how hard taekjoo tries to escape Zhenya will always follow. That and somehow through all the horrible things Zhenya put him through he actually grew feelings for Taekjoo. He’s been tamed. Taekjoo just learned to accept it and eventually grew feelings for the monster. It’s super fucked up and how they managed to actually end up together still haunts me after reading the novel.
Stockholm Syndrome
Do you still have the link?
It used to be on chrysanthemum garden however it got deleted due to copyright reasons the next best one that you can read is on Ao3 however it’s some misspelling here and there and they don’t have the side stories. I can’t find the one that did but I’m going to link the one that’s okay as far as translation. Hope it helps
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55211089/chapters/140044870?view_adult=true
Thank youuuuuuuu so much (≧∀≦)
They could make the “met as kids” coincidence less contrived if the entire reason Jin became a prosecutor/works with police is because of what happened to the twins. If they’re both trying to solve related mysteries, thus leading them toward the same local, then it would make more sense and feel less forced for them to meet again.
I’m thinking the guy who hurt the twins either got off suuuuper light or completely scott free. MC hunting him down for revenge and maybe Jin doing the same but to either find the twins or give the evil man the sentence he deserved…. Super wishful thinking on my part though.
If it’s “have sex with me or lose your job” or anything where the person in power is using that power to coerce someone of a lower position into sleeping with them… that’s rape. The seme is toxic and no better than the boys who raped MC. He constantly ignores how much MC hates sleeping with him, how much MC obviously dislikes pain, and is overall miserable in this situation. He only cares about getting himself off and forcing his sexual preferences on a partner he knows won’t say no to him due to the power imbalance. This is not consensual BDSM and this is not good representation of BDSM. Cannot believe there are people in the comments defending the seme.
And I doubt the author intended this, but it seems less like the MC is falling for ML and more like he’s mind breaking given the way ML keeps triggering his trauma and abusing him, with Mc seeing no way out other than giving up his job. Which is the only thing holding up his self worth at this point, and even that is going away.
You actually got a good point.
It's gonna become more apparent how Mc is falling for ML later on but I agree on the power imbalance.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy reading stories where trauma and abuse are plot points but it's also important to put them into context and recognize when something is bad.
100% nobody would defend the ML in real life so I guess it's another "fictional phenomenon".
Really wish Rashta would do a 180 and focus all her efforts on humiliating the emperor now that she knows he only ever saw her as a tool, and start purposefully trashing the royal family’s legitimacy, ultimately leading to the internal destruction of this pro-slavery nation.
And she should go down with them. How she got her way in, she should reap everything she sowed. Destroy them all she wants, but she should put herself in the middle and set the whole shit show on fire. Take herself and all of them out. Except the two children. They are innocent and didnt ask to be brought in to this shit show.
I’m amazed the MC was able to chase after the ML for so many chapters considering he has no spine. It’s incredible the things one can do with the power of delusion.
Checked the raws and it’s yet more adults acting horny teenagers with 0 brain cells. Going forward it’s going to be 90% fucking, 5% plot, and 5% bullshit. I will never understand why authors choose adult characters when they clearly don’t know how to write someone who has matured past puberty.
Why did the author romanticize selling off children as literal sex slaves? It’s disgusting how happy go lucky they tried to make forced sexual slavery of CHILDREN. Actually makes my stomach queasy.
It never said anything about child sex slaves?
There is no mention of kids, that's just a short adult man on the cover. I'm 5 ft/152 cm and short men exist.
Second story with the beastmen my dude, there's children in the cages.
2nd story dude
we literally see a lion happily adopting a human kid, making them part of his family, alongside his cubs??' wtf are u on abt......
its possible the author decided to leave just one example of how a kid ends up so youd have a gist of how the others go, no?
Kids are being sold as products and the MC literally refers to himself as a sex slave and is referred to as such. What are YOU on about? Just bc MC is happy about it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Where did it say they were adopted just to be part of the family? It didn’t. They live in cages and are being SOLD as SLAVES. MC doesn’t see it as a bad thing because he’s happy to be a slave, btw that was bought as a child by the owner and used as a sex slave. It’s romanticized bc MC is happy being a slave and thinks the kids will similarly be happy being slaves. That’s why children being sold is surrounded by flowers and rainbows.
Why the hell would you assume slave = sex slave? Mc was never a sex slave specifically, he was bought to look after the children before they were sold. He even says to the owner that if the owner had slept with him, he wouldn't have accepted the invitations from the other beastmen, so he had a choice in it all. There's literally nothing that says that the children are sex slaves.
The people hating on Jahan just hate complex characters, also will simp over the literal rapists and abusers in the story bc “hot”. Jahan’s mother SOLD him to pedos ever since he was a child (remember the rant about his mother suffering the same WITH him), he was raised to sell himself and never learned a healthy way of coping. It’s understandable and tragic that he has a sex addiction, but tries to do better for MC’s sake, though failing at times because it’s all he’s ever known. He is the only one in the story who genuinely cares about MC and has no ulterior motives. They even point out he could leave this life of poverty now, but doesn’t because he cares about MC and doesn’t want to leave him alone. Jahan has been the MC’s only source of happiness and companionship for nearly 10 years, the goal of them going to Korea together and starting a farm likely being a major reason MC stopped his suicidal ideations. And what, people hate Jahan, the literal victim of pedohelia, because he’s “slutty”? Because he suffers from an addiction brought on by years of childhood abuse? Grow up. The “slutty” comments really prove you’re not mature enough to read this kind of story yet.
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i get what you mean and i too sympathise with jahan but my opinion of him soured when it was revealed he turned away hawon’s stepmother. he had no right to make that decision on his own and his excuse that he did it to stop her from asking hawon for money makes no sense considering she obviously knew about hawon’s oppressive debt. i understand jahan didn’t completely understand the consequences of his actions but it’s undeniable he was acting selfishly because he didn’t want her to take hawon from him. he gets upset when hawon keeps things from him but he hid the stuff about his stepmother for almost 10 years while hiding the stuff about his own father too. i get that he’s mentally stunted because of trauma from selling himself at a young age but the fact that hawon wouldn’t have had to suffer for the past 8/9 years if he had just let hawon meet his stepmother bothers me to no end.
additionally if jahan went to his father to claim his inheritance he would’ve been able to at least provide some financial support for hawon. i don’t understand why he’d rather they just suffer together. i understand why he is the way he is and why he's made some of these decisions but i just can’t bring myself to like him
People jump to conclusions and make actions subconsciously based on experiences and sometimes complexes. In Jahan's case, his mom left him with all of her debt so he blames her for his misery. He most likely subconsciously assumed that Hawon's step-mom would be trouble to Hawon based on his own experience and so lied to her believing that he's genuinely doing good for his friend.
As for his dad, I assume he resents him for not acknowledging him when he needed him the most, but we don't know that for sure. Either way this matter should not affect his relationship with Hawon since Hawon himself
[Continuation] Either way this matter should not affect his relationship with Hawon since Hawon himself does not let him in on a lot of personal details either. Who would go "hey I hate my father and want to avoid him because he fucked up my life and I'd rather live in misery paying off my debt for the rest of my life instead of accepting his inheritance... but you know what, let's comply because my friend needs financial support" anyway?
jahan said himself that hawon doesn’t usually keep things from him up until now. it’s clear they’re usually meant to be open with each other until now. i think anyone with sense would go claim their inheritance if it makes their and the people around them’s lives easier, plenty people would actually go for this option since frankly it is the easiest. it’s never been implied that jahan hates his father, rather it’s been made clear that jahan just doesn’t want to leave hawon behind and that’s why he didn’t accept his father’s offer, but maybe his trauma has stunted his common sense because as it is hawon has more trouble trying to look out for jahan for doing things that he shouldn’t do to get by then he would if he just claimed his inheritance. jahan clearly isn’t much of a rational person but still it’s not like he chose the best choice, suffering together is not better than one of thek suffering while the other has money to help the other out to an extent
to an extent i get why jahan did what he did but it doesn’t change the consequences of his actions considering just how much the mc’s life could’ve changed if he had just met his stepmother. that wanst jahan’s decision to make regardless of how he felt