This has a nice feel to it, I appreciate our ml a lot. You see a lot of "oh I'm a dude with a dark past who can't love because idk how" from a lot of male leads, but this is the most believable iteration of it in my eyes. Like he's got his suave moments of being hot and uncaring but it's paired with a lot of moments where he goes out of the way to give mc hints and clues and let him in on it all rather than actively hide what he's doing.
The mc is absolutely right when he says the ml "doesn't want to be hated". He has this wishy washy attitude of trying to charge ahead with his plan while trying to hold onto mc and not push too far precisely because he's feeling those emotions of love and wanting it to be reciprocated but he can't recognize it. He expresses the emotions he's feeling but has no idea how to handle them and has no idea that they're emotions
Love this story a lot as always ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Man this feels like actual abuse, big trigger warning to readers thinking of this one. You have the whole cocktail of coercion, threatening, isolation, stalking, blackmailing... Man's filled out the whole list
And it was kinda heart breaking seeing our mc go and try to defend suenghuen from a longer sentence with the leniency and wonder to himself if he's actually the problem. God the abuse to this little, naive rich boy is honestly so written. I just hope that it's manipulation from suenghueon and the author doesn't try to victim blame our mc for "acting a certain way". I don't think that'll happen because this is being written well but can never be too safe.
Also, this is a bit more of a better abuse story (not that any is actually good but-), I feel a bit better seeing him have a support network to save him in terms of rich friends and a caring mom but he's very vulnerable at this point. I guess I'm just excited about how this will continue, it's giving me the sense of dread and sadness for mc that makes me wonder if I'm a masochist
.............well, with a name like stockholm syndrome, I mean...
That's fair but sometimes you just don't expect it to hit you so realistically like this ;w;
Communication?? In a yaoi?? I am pleasently surprised. Even tho it's idealized a bit, get you someone you can talk to about the relationship like they do. Is a partnership, not an enemy relationship
This was... honestly really good for how short it was
i need to out one shot on the tag
I appreciate how respectful he is of her and her wishes! This isn't the "slowly corner fl into marriage", it's a more respectful version where he really wants to marry her but not to the extent that he'll force her into it, it's just him trying to convince her. I love them for that
I didn't come into this expecting to like our leads this much but here I am appreciating shion and rui. It's surprising
It's a big emotional story beat so I can see why you want to raise the suspense by giving us another chapter for ml's thoughts. I just hope that the actual meeting lives up to the long wait and high expectations