Try Begging Chapter 73 Discussion

They say people only write reviews when they absolutely love or hate it. And I absolutely HATE this novel. The worst, bottom of the barrel and I have read a lot of angst/dark romance and none has made me this mad. It is so repulsive. Not even worth that one star. It should be minus.

I picked this novel because the art for the manhwa is really pretty and the reviews were not so extreme so I expected the red flag to be in the range of 'Bastian', 'Apollo's Heart'. Like can it get worse than that? I was so wrong. The whole character of the male lead and the plot felt like some kind of disgusting mu*der/r*pe fantasy of author. What was the author thinking? The ML almost has the same characteristic, behaviour and monologue of a serial killer. He likes blood, torture and sexually humiliates and dominate fl. Why isn't he in jail? Why is he the ML and not a disgusting villain? Why do FL stay with her ab*ser in the end? Just looking at that happy family cover of the novel infuriates me. Why do authors insist on making such disgusting men the ml? Why do FL always go through rough, humiliating shits? Why is there always some sort of s*xual ab*se or non-consensual s*x involved? How can author call this a romance? I am sorry but it is concerning that someone was writing these violent, disgusting stuff in such detail. Every scene is so graphic and the r*pe parts were just hard to read. Absolutely disgusting the way author wrote almost 2000 words for just one scene alone. Then it keeps on going for more and more chapters of her confinement, torture, r*pe, humiliation. Spoiler

He tries to r*pe her even before he found out she was a spy and thought she was just an innocent girl. But just as he is about to put it in, his mom opens the door. So no excuses for this shit. He is just a disgusting monster and FL deceiving/betraying him is not an excuse. Then when he finds out she is a spy, he violates her in front of her colleague and she begs him to at least cover the eyes. He locks her in torture chamber and the r*pe continues until she finally escapes and that's about 100 chapters of torture later. He ties collar on her and treats her like a dog, r*pes her unconscious, puts gun, lighted candle in her v*gina and forces her to get pregnant. And maybe the plot is well written but that's if you can get beyond the first 100 chapters of intense torture and humiliation of FL. F*cking sick bastard.

[collapse] Why isn't he treated as the criminal and FL as victim? Because that's the only thing they are. A criminal and a victim. I can't bring myself to see them as anything more than that and no amount of backstory will change my mind on ml. These kinda trope seems to be getting more and more common with Korean novels and with the current news coming out about Korean men, the problem seems to be glaringly obvious. I know the moral bar is low with smuts from any country but I don't think these novels are advertised as "smut" alone. But rather as "dark romance" targeted towards young women. In the end, all these novels are doing is normalising ab*se of women and telling them this is love. But let's be honest, reading chapters and chapters of r*pe, torture and humiliation of FL then looking at the happy family in the novel cover is like a huge mockery. Respectfully, that tag "r*pe victims becomes lover" should be banned. "Dark romance" is not an excuse for the r*pe fantasy of the author. The pov of ML when he r*ped FL for the first time is this Spoiler

"The tears filled with the pain of being conquered by him were so sweet that it was dizzying."

[collapse] It is all about power, dominance, humiliation and a vile wish to break a person. This is not romance. This is horror.