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It's basically a fetish work, violence + s*x (aual assault), ML constantly threatening and trying to r*pe MC, but all for plot reasons (yeha, sure, how convenient).The "romance" is based on mutual brutality, cruelty, and straight up gore.I'm honestly very disappointed because the story could have been super interesting, apart from a bunch of things that aren't foreshadowing but massive plot holes.It could have even been a decent fetish-work if the writer would have actually known how to write such a thing, sadly she doesn't, and calling it "romance" is so far off, that it's one of the most deceptive cases I've seen.Do not read this if you have a problem with the CP trying to dominate, r*pe, and kill the other, in addition to brutally mutilating each other again and again.Severe violence based fetish and romance doesn't go together, there's a reason why popular fetish-authors never do it.If you can overlook all that, be prepared for broken logic and 99% of problems/conflict being caused by characters not talking about crucial things. That's honestly more frustrating than the messed up fetish aspects and the biggest reason for my rating.I would deduct one star for the "romance", but three for the plot holes and adult characters not knowing how to communicate when a few sentences would have solved basically all conflicts.The writer did it to keep up the CPs violent interactions and large parts of the plot, had everyone talked to each other just for a minute, the novel would have been done in maybe 60 chapters.The writer re-wrote several chapters to correct some of the phrasing, OOC behaviour, and details that made no sense, so you know that she never had a proper outline. And it shows.Can't recommend for the story or "romance", but might sate your hunger for fictional sadism, just don't expect the quality of proper fetish-works.