Popo's manga / #revenge(6)

Seme reunites with his bully and decides to take revenge by making uke fall in love with him. However, uke is completely are of who he is and has actually been obsessed with seme for the past 8 years. Seme's unwavering perseverance despite being bullied (dude a cigarette burn to the forehead wtf) ignited a degradation kink (?) in uke and he's only able to be satisfied by seme. The truth is revealed and uke leaves but seme chases him and they kinda just settle into a dysfunctional sexual relationship. Honestly it just feels like they went, shou ga nai lol

Ch5.5 I need to reread it when all chapters are out.

This gon be a Ted Talk, bear with me. I see this story as 3 main acts. Act 1: A seemingly selfless and go-getter-type young teacher ends up raping a very vulnerable teen who has been abused and abandoned by his parents. Act 2: The teen takes revenge. Act 3: They live happily ever after. The story would have been perfect if it had ended at the scene where Mirai brings the scissors up to his neck after his rape. I consider this the end of Act 1. It would have been a (open-ended) tragedy and made me feel like shit but it would have been realistic for a story that had been quite realistic up to that point. (Up to that point) Unlike a majority of BL, the story was presented in a way that did not romanticize the relationship between the teacher and the student, nor did it present the rape in an alluring way. Throughout the story, there are hints that the teacher is unhinged and that his motives aren't so pure. He gets a bit of background where it seems his controlling mother contributed a lot towards his sexual repression. However, let me remind you that having a fucked up past is an explanation, not an excuse for why people do bad things. He knew exactly what he was doing and the rape was premeditated. Predators know who to target. They go for kids who are exactly like Mirai, who have no responsible adult or even any support in their lives; and who are very vulnerable and susceptible towards any amount of kindness that comes their way. Act 2 was unrealistic but satisfying if you're like me who is tired of reading so much romanticised rape and predatory relationships in BL. Mirai does not forgive him for the rape as he takes his revenge on the teacher by sexually torturing him. I think I would have at least had a positive view of this story if the story had ended at Act 2. But then Act 3 comes and ruins all the good stuff the story had at the beginning by having the characters run away together to live in cohabitional bliss (even though the teacher just caught Mirai in a vulnerable, unguarded moment imo). There was no attempt to redeem the teacher. No, I don't count Mirai's torture to be redemption. True redemption should be something the perpetrator decides he wants to do, not something that he is coerced or forced to do. And there was no rehabilitation for ANY of Mirai's trauma. A predator who presents himself as selfless and only looking out for the kids in his care ends up raping a very vulnerable kid who has been abused and abandoned by his parents. Up to this point, throughout the story there are hints that the teacher is unhinged and that his motives aren't so pure. A presented a story in a way that did not run romanticize the relationship between the teacher and the student, nor did it present the rape in an alluring way like a lot of BL tends to do.

Ch69 Oh wow, I haven't read their previous work but judging from the covers, the author upgraded their drawing the skills like 5,000% between stories lol The dark under eye circles seme is really bugging me. He pursues Yeonjoo under the guise of love, not comprehending that a someone like Yeonjoo really has no choice in the matter. If he really loves Yeonjoo, he'd buy him and set him free, NOT buy him to be his live-in lover, with no more rights than a pet.

Ch3 Ch1 and it's a wild ride already - child sex slavery - pretty historical Chinese fellas - a love triangle? - messy closeted gay betraying their lover with a beard - rape survivor ends up raping (? I'm still not sure if he did it or was about to do it???) his master's ex-lover - unrequited love who's disappeared off the face of the earth - a hilarious "fight" scene which ends with MC ripping the bottoms off the messy closeted guy's pants

Ch83 Read Left -> Right cuz this is a manhwa. Don't get confused ya dum dum! Ch 11 especially highlights why this comic is so confusing. It really needs time stamps/markers. A while day passes from one page to the next with no breaks and you don't find out until a while into the second day. The flashbacks aren't marked either so that's great. Poor kid. He's been isolated and manipulated by a crazed rapist for years that his entire world view is distorted.