Roses and Champagne

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I'm so baffled by the amount of people that gave this high scores. Like... did we read the same story?
I want to start this off by saying the first 40 chapters are pure genius. I get why someone would get hooked to this story. The characters are so lively, and have interesting dynamics. Like Leewon, he was such a power house at the beginning. Furthermore, the character designs had thought behind them like with Caesar, his design was jaw dropping. It really showed the hell he went though growing up in the mafia. I even knew that this relationship was slightly unhealthy but these ... characters made me forget about that. It made me want to see how Leewon could make Ceaser into a halfway decent person.
But they had to just go and ruin the story AND FOR WHAT??? Warning mild spoiler but basically Caesar raped Leewon for a WEEK straight well the man was barely conscious. There are no consequences to Caesars actions either...because there never is... The worst thing about this is people are excusing his actions because he was just showing Leewon his "dark side". I swear some people have no idea what that does to a person. Also we could have easily been shown that without the rape. I thought the story was going in an incredible direction, because yes I wanted to see more of his dark side. However this is not how you do it.
I kept reading the story just to see where it would go, because for some stupid reason I had faith in the author. But after chapter 42 the characters don't improve nor do they become static, they actually regress. Instead of Leewon being a powerhouse he instead almost becomes a bystander in his own life. Ceaser just becomes a controlling sex addict that fucks Leewon until he passes out.
This story had great potential this is why I am having a hard time giving it a low score. The first 41 chapters are amazing and what happens at chapter 41 is jaw dropping. It could have been incredible story telling if they handled it right. But no, I guess the first 40 chapters were just a fluke. Don't waste your time on this, I regret finishing this.