
Hello can someone clarify for me the MaoMao father arc? What did Rakan do to her mother exactly? Sorry for being such a noob :'(

Ok so this might be wrong but this is as far as I can deduce right now. Basically the ex-courtesan with the blackened facial features (the one MaoMao was taking care of after Jinshi asked how to reduce the price of a courtesan) is assumed to be MaoMao’s real mom. Rakan really wanted MaoMao’s mom but she was too expensive for him so to decrease her price, he raped her and got her pregnant (which makes her “worthless” as a courtesan as MaoMao explained). Then MaoMao’s mom either ruined her own face from the trauma, her face was ruined by Rakan, or she fell ill and some sickness got to her. Anyway MaoMao’s mom hates MaoMao because she is the product of Rakan raping her and causing her life to be miserable. MaoMao was hurt when Jinshi asked her how to reduce the price of a courtesan because it was what happened to her real mom. She was abandoned and her foster father (the banished eunuch medical officer with a missing kneecap) adopted her.
Hope this helps you understand sorry it’s so long.

Because of the dark way that Rakan has been portrayed, we are supposed to assume he raped her and she consquently had to take customers and got syphillis (which ruined her health and appearance).
Why Rakan never acknowledged MaoMao or why he didn't get to keep the mother, dunno. Whether it was consensual or rape, dunno. But they keep showing him as sinister and Mao Mao as fearing him...but that could be misdirection. Or he's a jerk. We'll find out.

Spoiler from the web novel
It is consensual. Maomao mom did choose Rakan and invited him first, it is just they both did not know, rakan's family decided to send him far away so there is no competition for the rights of being the head of the Ra clan. When he finally managed to return, everything was too late and nobody wants to forgive him, Rakan was pretty mad too and decided to claim his family name to himself and pushed his family to the country side... He is protecting maomao by not declaring their blood relations coz everyone hates Rakan

Anyone here knows someone who can translate vietnamese to eng? Found an FB page uploading chapters in Viet, link below.
[ https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2780456008666371&id=2244527168925927&anchor_composer=false]

I know that Sungjoon is a manipulative mf red-flag and this is too good but I'm considering dropping it because it makes me devastatingly sad whenever I see Sungjoon's defeated expression. Like, I understand why he can't confess but it's literally depressing the hell out of me :(((

Damnnnn idk if I'm happy to know this. I personally feel bad for Somi
She's a girl in the BL oriented world, so she's destined for failure, but her situation hurts my heart! It reminds me of a gay character that has a crush on the straight protag in a shoujo comic if that makes sense! Idk I'm glad they gave her a fleshed out personality rather than making her some stock female rival, but it hurts me even more even as a fudanshi reading this...

Ikr I love Somi so much, after a long time finding a girl who fell for Naru, instead of Sungjoon (that's why Sungjoon can't use his old strategy to her), then it cannot happen bcs of Sungjoon! It's so sad :(( he's really a despicable character. But I can't come to hate him, in the end he'll get his punishment anyway.
Yes, I want NaruxSomi to happen, but she's just girl trapped in BL world :(((((

but you must prepare your heart too, because the next few chapters will hurt so much, around chapter 95 its so hurt my feelings aghhh, but the flashback chapter and Sj pov will come after that, and they are so fluffy and cute and beautiful and aghh so good, really really worth it to read until the end, this manhwa is just freakin good omg, and i just hope theres a season 2
was this dropped?? planning to read it but last update was from february, i dont want to be left hanging anymore
No it just updates slow but I dknt think it was dropped. I once thought it was dropped and I came back and I had a lot of updates every chapter its tasty lol.
Thank you, I read it all in one go. It's really interesting, hope that it updates more regularly. Thank you scanlators