Idk if anyone else noticed this but the author isn't exactly romanticizing the rape and the abuse. She's purposely telling a story of a terribly unhealthy relationship, without hiding any bit of the manipulation and mind-fuckery that comes with it. She could have easily thrown in more fluff to soften the plot and make it easier for the readers to accept the relationship, but she didn't.

I also appreciated that dedication to the characters, as messed up as they were. The side stories were a good example of this -they were extremely close to canon and the author didn't waste any page space giving us an ideal happy ending. She made it clear in the side stories that a happy ending doesn't exist with the characters being the way they are.

It's not a fun or pleasant story to read. But it's solid enough in plot and character development, and interesting enough to keep many of us reading. That said, I'll probably NEVER read this manhwa again.

... Last updated on February 11th, 2019, 9:50pm

Many many things in this manga have gone terribly wrong. Let's simply start with the plot…
The problem: Which plot?? From the description I expected a story about overcoming a trauma; maybe the cause of the trauma would come up again and stir up things a bit (or a bit more, since the overall mood seems dark). I couldn't have been further away from the truth. The first five chapters were indeed as described. But after that, the story became miserable. This whole long manhwa is solely about rape. I feel like this story was over the course of a year or more and everyday the main character was raped. Seriously, I had to laugh when sometimes there was a trigger warning before a chapter that there would be rape. Damn, the author should've put it before literally EVERY chapter!
I think there was even consensual sex a few times. But I couldn't differentiate between consensual and rape because it was both the same: Not giving a shit about the feelings of the main character, the main character being hurt, crying and begging to stop.
The way the main character was raped again and again made me believe that he'd be happy to never have sex again. Instead it was more like "Oh, today is a day on which I'm not raped! But that's why now I feel pent up and want to have sex with the rapist."
I don't have a problem with the depiction of rape in mangas, but I do have a problem with the way it was shown here. It was neither glorified nor seen as the horrible thing it is. It was shown as a totally normal thing to do and that was what made me feel uncomfortable.
Also, I'd like to cry because I cannot understand how it is possible to put so little plot in so many chapters. The whole story would've fit in 5 chapters without leaving anything important out.

Let's talk about the characters next. Most of them didn't have a personality except being a psychopath. I didn't like even a single character in this story which is an amazing but sad achievement. The servants (later in the story) are such brainless and heartless bastards that it leaves me speechless. The only thing I thought about the main character was "poor thing". But yeah, he dig his own grave. His way of thinking is so twisted and awkward that not seldom I was left thinking that maybe he's actually a total masochist and this whole thing is just an act (which is a shocking way of thinking about rape). It took me until the end to grasp that what he said to Dong Hyuk in the beginning was what he really meant and not an excuse to protect him (I had a little bit of hope because of that sentence but in reality it was just naive me who read too much into his words). I expected some character growth or at least a mental breakdown — neither happened. Even Dong Hyuk, who makes a good impression, is a jerk deep inside. Still less a jerk than all the psychopaths though.
I don't want to say too much about the ending so as not to spoiler you. Just be aware that the ending is as shitty as the rest of the plot. Don't expect a wonder.

Last but not least, the art. I cannot say it's very great but I also cannot say it's bad. It's unique. Usually I can even read very old or bad art styles and forget about the style sooner or later. In this case I couldn't forget it because there were always things catching my eye. For example the glasses of a character being a 3D model. I'm totally fine with using 3D things to make drawing easier or even using them for backgrounds. But in this case the drawing style was so different that I noticed it again and again which was annoying at some point. Still, the art style being unique and good made me give this manhwa a 2/10 instead of 1/10.

My conclusion: Skip this one. Seriously, it will not do you any good. If you like dark storys and want to read a Webtoon with rape, then read The Warehouse instead.
And if you are even the SLIGHTEST bit wary of rape (even if only depicted in mangas): Definitely don't read this. Please, just don't.

I really liked this at first because the art's nice and it's full of smut, but it was just too dumb. it went on and on and there was no pay off to his torture, it was just unpleasant and dumb. and then he ends up with the dbag seme in the end anyway, instead of the other two who were better options. it tries to redeem the seme in the last few chapters by being like "oh he was in love with him all along, and was just bad at it lol" but at this point it was beyond saving.

I read the summary, and thought what the fuck would someone have to do to redeem themself after gang raping their boyfriend. So then I decided to read it out of curiosity, but it just kept getting worse as the chapters went on. I lost my patience after about 30 chapters, and decided to just skip to the end to see what the point of this whole story was and I'm glad I didn't waste my time reading the whole thing. There were so many things left unresolved, little character development, and no point to the whole story line. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy reading psychological/dark/manipulative stories from time to time, but if you compare something like this to killing stalking or anything by Harada it falls short by a lot and in many ways.

MC ends up with the guy that orchestrated his gang-rape. Love interest literally had his friends gang-rape MC and watched it happen with a smile. MC is somehow with him by the end. What sort of madness is this please? This is what happens when authors stupidly try to redeem the irredeemable. He should have been in jail, not having a romance tf. The way it was framed was not just a depiction of a messed up relationship, to paraphrase one of the commenters. If it was just a story of an abusive relationship, without an romanticizing, then that would've been different. Instead, their story was framed (by the end) as "ok he did fucked up stuff, but he regrets it and is trying to make up for it so that he and the MC can be together." There is no amount of making up that will make what he did okay.

Legit this entire Manhwa is just filled with rape and sexual abuse. Anyone who has experienced sexual abuse or rape would vomit at the first few chapters. Like does our mc have Stockholm’s syndrome or what?!



CONCLUSION =
PLEASE DONT READ IT . It’s for your own good. Life was better before I read this crap. FYI people with sexual trauma SHOULD NEVER READ THIS. This comic is so fucking frustrating and the ONLY good point Is the art style. They glorify rape in this Manhwa, honestly pretty disgusting yknow? Reading this was torture to my soul.

... Last updated on November 13th, 2020, 11:42am

The premise was really interesting, however 70% of the content is uncomfortable rape scenes. About halfway through I found myself disengaged and no longer invested in any of the characters. I just kept reading because I wanted to know how it ended.

There were times that I found myself sympathizing with the abusers and that felt really disgusting, however I'm sure that was intentional on the part of the author and I think shows skill at being able to illicit such an emotion. The manhwa was definitely an interesting commentary on the dichotomy and complicated aspects of abuse.

I think it could have been a lot better if we had more access to each character's thoughts and motivations, or at the very least the MC's. The emotional connection I wanted to have with him was just not there.

Um, where to begin? I knew this would be a messed up story going in, so I’m honestly not complaining about that. I’m not going to read an ero-guro manga and then complain about how gross it is, I signed up for this mess.

That being said... what did I just read? Um, the art work was beautiful. The story was engaging enough that I read the entire thing from start to finish. The weirdness of the story... it was over the top. And I’m not even talking about the rape, which was of course over the top as well.

By the end the MC got exactly what he deserved. I wanted him to be happy, but even in the side story (the author gives alternate endings where the mc ends up with a different guy) he’s so focused on his rapist, he can’t move on and be happy. I guess he had Stockholm syndrome? I’m sad he couldn’t get the help he needed after such severe abuse. How would he go back to that when all he wanted the entire time was for it to end?

I’m not impressed. I’m disappointed. He deserved a happy ending after all of that. But the author wouldn’t let him have that. Not even in the alternate ending, which really pissed me off.

All in all, it’s just torture porn and I shouldn’t have expected anything else.

I was really hoping that this wouldn't be yet another glorification of rape, but it's worse than that. It's an incredibly realistic depiction of rape (and PTSD) that then turns into that. I thought I would at least try to read a little longer after checking to see how it ends, but when the abusive ex boyfriend scolds the protagonist for "talking in [his] baby voice again" after raping him I had to quit. Regressive trauma isn't sexy. Rape isn't sexy. Torture and kidnapping aren't sexy.

NONE of this could be called BDSM, I don't care if someone gets tied up or not. This is abuse, and it's vile.

So, one of the worst series I've read, characters, storyline (If you can call it a story at all) nothing to like, no consistency, no logic, rape after rape and so on without any reason... And don't get me wrong, I also enjoy toxic/tough topics in series, but inteligene, coherent series that have something to say, not a bunch of crap that doesn't add anything, toxicity overloaded just to shock all readers...and at the end so many things left unresolved, proof that the series was ill-conceived from the start, just to create an another rape based series...

... Last updated on April 27th, 2023, 1:09am