
Forgot Agent Poppy's actual name but I feel so bad for him. He has definitely never been cared for properly in his entire life, so this less than bare minimum treatment has him believing he is being cared for. I wish I could hope for a happy ending where he escapes and actually finds people he can call family but that's definitely not gonna happen.

Finally someone who gets it. Geez the comments before you don't get a single thing. He doesn't know how being properly cared for IS like, so he thinks that he's treating him kindly after doing all the WACKY shit. Like wouldn't you be confused if the people who came to kill you patched up your wounds when they don't even use you or NEED you? Like people don't get the story so far. I would do the same thing he would and say it. I would die anyway so what's the point in not saying it for the person who at least gave me a warm blanket and some IV.

Oh dear I hope for an happy ending too and ya I sort agree with u yes he had never been treated well but that’s how the story should go plus I’m not like asking him to drop his pride I just need him to stop this shitty attitude I mean look at him sometimes he wish for basti’s death then again as we just saw he giving him the some conclusions that idk if it’s true or false?!
He hated the way basti r@ped yet he ended up kissing him like darling benji what are u doing exactly??

I guess that just shows how messed up he has become. He hates Basti because of all the things he has done and also because of his beliefs about him before getting kidnapped. But now the people he considered his family abandoned him at the drop of a hat, and he has nowhere to go even if he managed to escape somehow. That's why he is giving Basti the information, since that's his mindset, being useful to anyone is the only way to survive. I'm no psychology major but I can see where he is coming from, and why he is developing Stockholm syndrome.

Exactly, he's just doing what he can to survive and we can see Stockholm developing. I just feel people don't seem to understand the story and/or start to read it when they want "fluffy romance" like seriously, if you want literally all green flags, read smth else. I'm here for the story plot, I wanna see where it goes cause it's really good for me personally.

casual manhwa readers when they find an actually well-written work and call it "trauma porn" because they can't comprehend reasonable traumatic stories:

There is many ways to write a traumatic story and well written characters, but this was not it. I swear you guys make the most basic and predictable shit the most popular and eat it up. You don’t have to torture and make the character get assaulted by random ass characters to make it a traumatic story. If a story is repetitive, that simply means it’s not well written.

This deserves a higher rating. It's a good psychological manhwa, though I hate open endings. But if people are only reading it for the bl/smut tags, then I can see why they would be disappointed.

Stories can contain heavy topics and be well written (and received) if the delivery is, well, actually good. It's been a while since I've last read this but I think for a short story, this did a pretty good job at a psychological horror piece and not a romanticization of a horrible situation like what we see on here most of the time
alright who put that shounen ai tag?
I was thinking exactly the same haha