
I read this at the worst possible time: I'm nursing a flu
Fuck this shit man. Fuck you Maximillian.
It's so ironic because his name Maximillian means "The Greatest" but to Jean, he is "Little Pearl". He really is the greatest, in that he's the brain behind the coup, which meant that even Jean was acting as the leading role in the play he orchestrated, and what–it is a plot where his death is a necessary piece, if not THE piece that completes the play. It's so—Ugh. Brilliant? Brilliantly martyr. And he was right–in that they should have never met at all, they only made this whole thing harder on themselves.
But FUCK, when you think about the times he unexpectedly appeared around Jean, wanting to be seen by him, saying "I just suddenly wanted to see you." BECAUSE HE WAS TURNING BLIND ^$*#*@× FUCK THAT SHIT
I usually leave 5/5 reviews to be a WOULD READ AGAIN but this one ahh. I know it's gonna be a better read the second time knowing what I know now, but I honestly just kinda want to forget about it or the fact that I read it at all. But yes, in all seriousness, I would love to read this again in better health so I can appreciate it better.

If he wanted to stop because he felt uncomfortable with hurting wookyung, then couldn't he have said the safe word himself? Or is the dom supposed to keep on going until the sub says no?

He could have but he was trying to get wookyung to understand the difference between assault and actual bdsm. But he had to end it in the end because wookyung wouldn’t. I’ve seen and read other actual bdsm scenes where doms will do something similar to subs who don’t understand or won’t understand boundaries. Some just want to ride the high for as long as they want and some get scared that if the safe word they won’t get back to that space. I think wookyung truly does not understand bdsm play vs being beat up and is unwilling at this time to actually even look at the difference. We don’t know much from his home life so maybe something in his home life made it so he feels he needs to be punished and it’s moved into being punished during sex.
But I'm not worried