Gain A Cute Wife By “Kidnap” Chapter 74 Discussion

I genuinely tried my best to read this. I'd been searching for a little black box to just wallow and cry for a sad character, only to stumble across this.

Originally, based on the summary, I assumed that the MC would be r***ed, discover it was his brother-in-law, and 'run away into the forest', only to meet him again after his child was born, still filled with hatred. Maybe there would be some resolution and teeth-pulling with the kid involved, but in the end, they would get married or whatever. That was not the case.

Instead, I have read an honestly mind-melting novel that was likely written by an edgy middle-schooler with no idea at all about how trauma and s*xual a*sault works at all.

Rather than a deep hurt/comfort, it is instead a romance novel... Which doesn't at all make sense considering the content. I am someone who is not uncomfortable with the r*pe tag, especially when it is a phycological horror of sorts or not involving the final couple. This is one of the firsts that I've read that is straight up romanticized r*pe.

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They do make a sorry attempt of adding some trauma into the mix (portraying MC as genuinely afraid and hurt by ML, feeling betrayed by his sister and family who blame the affair on him... the victim, thinking HIMSELF that he's the victim and shouldn't be treated this way, and, while shitty, even him being beaten into submission by ML showed some depth... even if that fear and submission lasted like... four hours max. Additionally, his fear of the hotel room where it all started kept my hopes up! Right up until ML suggested another room in the SAME HOTEL, and everything turned into sunshine and rainbows and he was in love again....), and that was the only thing that kept me going... until chapter 74, when the MC directly said to his r*pist-turned-lover that "it's all in the past now." Right after he was scared half to death of the idea that ML was going to brutally r*pe him AGAIN, first thing in the morning. Anything past that... I simply couldn't continue. This is ridiculous.

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In any case. There was some hope. There were moments when I was like "poor baby~" and even teared up like I wanted to out of a story of this... genre, but I was immediately pulled out of it by the poor writing/the emotional... immaturity of the characters. I think that the intention was to portray some sort of Stockholm syndrome... But there is, simply, no way in hell. Goodnight.