Yessie

How is he this dumb ?! Nothing about Xinlu is pure, innocent, or good! He’s twisted and manipulative. Did he also forget he tried forcing himself on Tay like twice ?! He’s such a sucker for a pretty face

I started reading the novel and dropped it. In my unimportant opinion, the author didn’t do a good job developing their relationship. Zhenya does evolve as a character but the way he physically approaches sex doesn’t change, which I really dislike. At some point, you think he would stop skipping the foreplay. That maybe he would properly prep Taekjoo so that he wouldn't be in pain. Unfortunately, he just forces himself on Taekjoo each and every time. He just shoves his dick in with no care or consideration.

On top of that, Taekjoo has internal dialogues along the cliche lines of, “I hate him, and I need to escape, but why do I lose myself when we have sex”? This works with some dynamics but not in this one. There’s barely any moments between them that would give birth to romance, love, or trust. The sex doesn’t even sound pleasurable with how it’s written. I get Zhenya is the psycho type, and I’m a sucker for those. These type of characters really don’t experience your normal, healthy kind of love. Which is fine, but it just doesn’t flow. The story telling is lacking. How are you having a fight between your head and your “heart” when every time you have sex it’s pretty much grape? When do we get to experience the turning point?

Now, I read far enough to see their relationship develop from enemies to partners in crime, but the “intimacy” or lack of remained the same.

I’m happy to push through remaining chapters if someone tells me it does get better I really hope the webtoon does a better job with these scenes