This was the 8 or less than 10 BL books I read after discovering the world of BL novels. Will read again as its good. When I first started reading BL books, I will just randomly read.... but have since tidy up and read those that I wanna read and drop those that I do not want. Its a great to read BL book and will re-read again.

This was a real roller coaster. It was actually hard to read because of the messy situations and emotional downs and ups.

If you are not into hardcore stuff I would not recommend it. There is r*pe throughout the whole book. The 1st few chapters were dark and the seme is oppressive and obsessive. It goes from extreme violence to love suddenly. I feel the author had real mood swings.

While the setting of an emperor and the palace harem is realistic in sense, it wasnt disbanded and the reason is feasible... more>> it still annoyed me. Since it was supposed to be a happy ending but it didn't leave me feeling happy for them. <<less

Sometimes I still like some novel that have bast*rd ML personality but I can't hold up with this novel. The ML is so f"ck up that im sure he doesn't really atone for his mistake. I want to regard this novel like p"rn without plot but any pwp is still better than this novel

I hate it. ML is a major as*hole who has nothing going for him apart from his beauty. MC is a piece of sh*t who has no self RESPECT and still loves a man who r*pes, abuses and beats him.

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1. MC forgives ML who not only never atones for his behaviour but also never said sorry just because ML said he loves him

Not bad. Even though the story early on quite heavy and aghasty. Later part also is a bit better but abit occ. I don’t mind the violence. This is after all a story. It’s a good short read if you don’t mind the dark theme.

So cute, so underrated. Without those crazy abuse, the couple is like He Tian and Guan Shan. Jing is like Tian with sadistic personality while LC is like Shan without cooking ability. What I like about LC is he has no fear to Jing and fight him without fear of death (what a hardcore tsundere). But tough tsundere uke requires tough seme so cannot really blame for the writer to make Jing sadistic as hell. But they turn to be sweet and become one of my favorite couple after the... more>> abuse ended <<less

I have stumbled upon this manga version along time ago and absolutely revolted by it.

I like reading r*pe, sadism, dark and psycho characters (ex. Killing stalking is very fun for me) but this story takes it to a lot whole new level and highlights the smut r*pe scenes heavily. It’d be fine if the characters hold some depths that make you want to explore further but sadly they are so bland and unlikable.

this is my very first low rating novel and to start it off, I actually never really want to read this even after coming across this light novel quite a couple of times bc some of the comments here somehow gave me some sort of lowkey warning on what I'll find as I read it and they were right.

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I am by no means cannot accept any hardcore or sadism type s*x esp in yaoi genre, bc I read quite a lot of manga/novels that basically just dipped into that genre but this novels plot somehow left a bitter taste in my mouth.. all I can think of the moment the MC easily forgave the ML when he just dropped down and knelt, begging for forgiveness is... the effect of Stockholm syndrome.... and just hw manipulative this ML is.. it kinda made me nauseous a bit. I never reacted strongly to this type of black bellied ML type of novel before but this one somehow get to me on a personal level. like, im more disturbed over the psychological abuse compared to the physical tho it rly is still pretty bad but the psychological side of it just threw me off. I actually hoped that the ML get a lot worse of a fate than how this story ends but hey, im gonna give myself a pat in the back for managing to finish reading this lol

the story overall, imo, a bit painful for me but if im to dismiss my uneasiness, its not that bad. read it up. its fine. the last translator that picked the story up is doing better than the first two bc they're easier to read. but yeah!! my very first 3 star ratings!! uwu

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It's an amazing novel! It's dark and the ML is very twisted, but it's also very well written. I recommend it for the ones who likes angst novels and ML who are dark, but not scum.

Things I am: scarred

I simply don't have words to describe this novel like how can someone write this?

Okay I'll admit that the writing style and description of the characters plus the sereny are expectional but the author kinda wasted their talent. They could write so much better novels, through out the whole novel I was literally crying at how dumb lu cang is.

... more>> Honey, you shouldn't have a relationship with someone who r*ped you, especially someone like jing.

I simply have so much pity for the MC god.

Then again this is fiction and there are some people who DO get off this so I'm not gonna go rambo with this.

Thing is that if you have a faint heart then this ABSOLUTELY NOT for you. <<less

美친

The 1st thing I want to say that whoever made this, the writer such a twisted to made it like that, I will love this story if the emperor become less annoying person.

The most sadistic bl love story I ever read. For the first couple chapter I was "uwa~~ uwa~~" "daebak" but more I cant help it to cringe, I dont like Emperor character AT ALL. The round trip of love have this same kind situation but that character force to become a MONSTER because he was separated from his lover, over and over even the lover have another normal patner. But in here the Emperor just like Yeonsangun, and the other hand Lu Cang too commit such a crime just a circle of hell but his not as a hateful like the emperor. Plus too intent in the carnal pleasure, I really want to enjoy such a kind of warm feeling in their own even the tags contain r*pe, Abusive, Stockholmes Syndrom etc but they should have that without that kind of "play".

Seriously even I said something foolish "Did our world turn into such a horrendous place?" A story, novel or webnovel reflected from our real life and the eyes of writer seeing them, I wonder and keep wonder "what kind of world the writer see?" "what the writer want to achieve when write this story?". Such a pity since the writer exposed us beyond the boundary of the bl theme and the situations.