I’ve been loving this, but I’m dropping it at chapter 26 for SA. I'm so, so disappointed and disgusted.
Jaeyi found out that Mooyoung was the shaman, and his response was the rape Mooyoung while calling him disgusting. When I say rape, I mean rape. Cruel, violent, nothing dubious about it. Mooyoung is laying there bleeding and Jaeyi throws cash at him and tells him to get out of his sight forever. It's legitimately one of the most upsetting things I've read and I did not expect it from this series. The fact that I know they’ll end up together makes me fucking sick.
I’ve been following this on the official platform and I regret that this chapter will forever be included in my library.
Ji-hoo has always been a pushy asshole but the last two chapters have gone off the rails. Seok-Jun said no SO many times in chapter 30 alone and ML didn’t listen fucking once. He mocks MC’s boundaries like they’re a fun challenge, and now he’s doing him a favor by not immediately raping him? Because that’s what “forcing [him] down and fucking [him]” would be.
Any “consent” given in this scenario will be coerced and I have zero interest in seeing this shithead top our sweet MC at all anymore, let alone like this. I already know the next chapter isn’t going to get any better so that’s it for me. It’s a shame because I’ve been enjoying the story until now, so this actually caught me off guard. I’m so sick of this shit.
I was so excited that it was back but this chapter made me so uncomfortable. The lack of things like this is what made this so great and now I’m nervous about the tone going forward.
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I’m interested to see what other people think because I gotta say it’s um… not what I would expect from this and I did not love it.
Really enjoyed this, it was cute and funny but holy shit the ending was SO rushed and unsatisfying.
I follow this on Tappytoon and they’re displaying this message: “This comic can only be unlocked until February 28th, 2025 12 AM (EST). Previously unlocked chapters can still be accessed from your Library in the Subscribed and Recent tabs.”
WHERE ARE MY BABIES GOING???
Heard they are migrating to another app so not sure when it will come back on official sites
This is the best yaoi smut there is. Gloriously horny, gloriously uncensored, a fun concept, and Lord Hyowon is the most powerful of power bottoms. No questionable consent here, my man knows what he wants and what he wants is the D. Holding out hope for their return.
Goddamn I'm so sick of this shit. Why is rape and SA the go-to plotline? What is wrong with people? If the author HAD go the fucked up stockholm syndrome route for some reason, why couldn't president guy just hold him hostage and do REGULAR non-sexual violence? Is that not "bad" enough? Worse, is it not "hot" enough? (Excuse me while I puke.)
But no, instead we get Pilsang shot up with some kind of hellish omegaverse heat drug so not only will he repeatedly be raped, but he'll feel pain and possibly die if he ISN'T raped. This is so gross and I'm so mad about it. The idea of anyone thinking this is some kind of karmic retribution is horrifying.
I was really enjoying this but will be dropping it now, unfortunately. The fact that they're supposed to be a "side couple" is vile.WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS?
My thoughts exactly
No lies told l…
If the story gets even better you can come back to it ince its finished and skip the chapters you dislike/where the side couple is present maybe
Not saying you have to force ypurself to read it, just that if you ever get curious to see how it ends you can do that
I'll probably skim reviews when it ends but I've never successfully come back to something once I dropped it for stuff like this. It's just kinda dead to me.
It's so creepy that the president guy is smiling the whole time.
my thoughts exactly!!!
TLDR: Criticizing the choices that authors make is not "being mean." Authors publish stories because they want people to read them. Those readers having feelings and opinions about what happens is the entire point of putting work out into the world instead of keeping it on your hard drive forever.
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I'm not sure what those of you upset about people being upset think the point of publishing stories is. Authors put work out into the world for people to consume and interact with. No one publishes a book with the hope that readers will have no reaction to it. People are allowed to criticize authors, they are not somehow above reproach just because "it's their story." Once a work is made public, all readers experience the story differently and it's not a bad thing to discuss how it affects you or makes you feel. That's the whole point. If people are this upset about a plot development, it's because they care about the story and feel like the author's choice destroyed something important to them. No one is telling you that you can't enjoy that same thing just because they didn't.
I know I'm going to get "lol it's not that serious," and if it doesn't bother you then please enjoy. But the narratives and stereotypes that are put out in media are actually that serious, they have a significant influence on peoples' worldview and the public perception of what's "normal" and what's not. It doesn't matter if it's a book or a tv show or a gay comic on the internet. So in my opinion people SHOULD call authors out for inserting lazy, needless sexual violence into stories where it serves no plot purpose and makes no sense.
Manhwa, and yaoi in particular, is infested with sexual assault, the majority of which is romanticized, ignored, or included for shock value rather than being significant to the story somehow. Which is what happened here. This is not a toxic mafia story or an obsessive yandere situation, this is an absurd rom-com that's had 25 chapters of humor and ridiculous drama, and then the author CHOSE to hit readers out of nowhere with a violent rape, completely changing the tone of the story and the characterization of the ML as we've come to know him. It would be wild if people DIDN'T have a strong reaction.
Wanting to read yaoi does not mean having to shut your mouth and accept that SA is just part of the package. The fact that it's so pervasive is all the more reason to voice your feelings, actually, because if no one says anything then nothing will ever change. And as someone who intentionally doesn't read the kinds of stories that are prone to including SA, I genuinely appreciate people commenting when it happens in places you wouldn't expect so that I can try to avoid having this exact experience.
thank you so much for saying this, you’re absolutely gorgeous <3
Thank you for this comment. Some people really are weak to constructive criticism and take it as hating something just for the sake of it.