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Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever read a webtoon as bad as this one. It’s so stupid and nonsensical it actually becomes funny at one point. It’s an equivalent of a wattpad story written by an edgy 14 year old who thought they just had the best idea in the world and no one had ever written anything as good as this.

I don’t think there’s really anything to say about this webtoon. Even trying to review it would be a complete waste of time, because the only way to improve this story is to just delete it altogether. The plot was ass, the characters were ... ass, the plot twists were ass, the sex scenes were ass, the artstyle was ass. And the pure exposition in the extra chapters felt as if I was reading author’s personal notes about this story, but they didn’t know how to convey this information in any way, so they just copy pasted it into the actual webtoon. Absolutely phenomenal storytelling. Especially the part when the MC tells the reader that even though he lost his memory twice, he still remained gay, and that’s precisely why he got a girlfriend. I refuse to believe anything in this story was written seriously.

Also, with the amount of literally the most direct and blunt explanations we’re given at the end, no one mentions who that blond chick actually is. It’s kind of implied by the psycho guy that she’s that blonde guy from the MC’s high school years, but at the same time everyone else says he died and neither the characters nor the story itself ever denies it. So who was she? No one knows, probably not even the author themself. The psycho guy told the MC that he decided to kidnap only the people who made the MC’s life a “living hell”, and then there’s this random ass girl whom he keeps in one of his rooms and it’s never even explained. It’s probably one of tons of inconsistencies and straight up nonsensical things that were brought up in the story just for funsies and never with the intention to explain them, but I just couldn’t care less to memorize anything else.

Anyway, I think that the fact that this story went through all those editors at Lezhin, got accepted and then published on a website where you have to pay real, hard earned money to read each chapter, serves as a good reminder that no matter how stupid you think your idea is, it’s still probably better than this one. So go for it, write that silly little story of yours and make your dreams come true. If this garbage right here got published, then literally anything can.

I’ve read only 5 chapters and I already can tell that I will hate this webtoon, and not because it has a rape/forced sex scene, but because I’ve seen this exact rape scene and this exact scenario played so many times in so many different webtoons that it’s already simply boring. The characters have exactly 0 personality besides seme being a big aggressive asshole whose ego is almost as big as his dick and uke being a petite and naive guy who’s going to be assaulted hundreds of times and will see nothing wrong in that, instead convincing himself that he’s actually falling in love ... with the other guy. Sprinkle some past (preferably childhood) trauma on top of that that explains why seme is so fucking mean and violent, and narcissistic (his mom died when he was 8 and his dad didn’t like him after that), and you have the characters we’ve seen in so many webtoons already. And they (seme in particular) will have exactly 0 character development until chapter 69 when seme realizes that he maybe doesn’t like uke only when he’s crying while being violently raped but also when he smiles (after being violently raped, that is). After that, seme will still not have any character development but the author will try to desperately convince you (but fail miserably) that seme is actually undergoing some changes and from now on he is going to be a good guy.
It’s not hate for this webtoon in particular, it’s rather just general frustration of mine that there’s already been so many webtoons that are exactly the same, besides slight changes in some insignificant details like plot or characters’ personality (who would care about that?), and the authors are just becoming lazy, preferring to go for that easy cash instead of actually coming up with some interesting and well-thought of ideas. I know it’s probably partly the fault of the publisher of the webtoon as well, as they favor yet another uninteresting and lazy rape story that they try to disguise as a “new original BL love story” over some actually well-written ones, but it only means that sooner or later, the readers are going to be really fed up with it.
And again, it’s not about the story including (or even mainly focusing on) violent rape scenes, it’s not even about the dynamic between the main pairing being fucked up and toxic, it’s about the fact that there’s no more originality in it and everything is just so damn lazily written.

(review originally taken from my mangago account)