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[MangaDex]

 

[Guroga]

yay let's traumatise the prince!

 

[firosahoge]

daww, the prince is a sweetheart too... poor kid.

 

[KingMassey333]

destroying children's head 101

 

[RavelGuy]

3 chapter update! THANK YOU!

 

[charkan]

Is this story an allegory of how women have no value in Chinese society?

 

[Hadski]

The information train is not stopping

 

[synubs]

oH for some reason I assumed the father got more princesses so they can be the ones to be sacrificed, not Jean

 

[mammaria]

thanks for the updates!!! i hope she doesn't die asdfljkdfklj I WANT FAMILY MOMENTS DAMN IT

 

[Micro]

@synubs Either that or the other princesses were there to hide Jean among.

 

[botodopo]

@charkan no one has value except the people in charge

 

[gum_rummy]

Good on the original author for not giving a fuck. “Quality” is the enemy of “done.”

 

[cherokeemoon]

Hey you see that cute little toddler? She's gonna die because of you one day, go be friends with her

 

[Writerfromanotherstar]

Lmao still hoping she doesn't play into their plans and makes them hurt + by doing that, making them socialized again in knowing norms and values bcs....

 

[TheDragonLord]

Geez… The princess was MAJORLY spoiled & thus was unhinged, but that doesn't mean that she should die. Now we've got a sacrifice. Bleh. These stories sure are dark!

 

[Raebit]

Will he said something like this in future?
"She will die for me so she is mine!!"

If he similar to that emperor

 

[TheDragonLord]

I'm noticing a trend amongst these fictional tales from Korea and China where the girl has no power and males are preferred, and thus the stories have men who are monsters, doing horrendous things to female characters, with the perhaps exception of the female protagonist, who just somehow manages to escape all manner of horror to escape the vile evil nature of their ways. The male princes are protected by the willing sacrifices of the lesser female characters, and it makes me wonder if this is a kind of unconscious social critique by writers upon the nature of their cultures either in the past or present? I mean, take how these stories so often use 18th and 19th century European models for their fantasy stories. Protagonists get ruled/lorded over by possessive, controlling males whose only consolation appears to be their "hotness".

Makes me wonder if this is a subconscious form of social commentary that might not even be fully conscious by the writer---much like how Tolkien was so vastly influenced by WWI whether he admitted it or not in his writings.

 

[TrapCard113]

@TheDragonLord Not just historical settings, korean and chinese shoujo and josei often depict females falling in love with their abusers and rapists and having them end up together happily ever after. It's a sub-genre of korean and chinese mangas that I have to come to call "rapemance" (rape + romance), where the MC is often targeted by rich, influential males often involved in organized crime and frequently abused by the male leads, her own family and any lovers the male leads have, with plenty of murder, torture and rape to go around.

If you'd like more examples of these, try reading Arrogant CEO: Wife Hunter, The Sex Contract or A Star Reborn: The Queen's Return. These are ordered from most fluffy to "jesus christ, make it stop...".

EDIT: Japan is also fond of this, seeing as their main pornography genre is "rape on [insert location]".

 

[TheDragonLord]

@TrapCard113 Oh, I've got my own list too. But, let us not forget the Billionaire Rapist trope. Can't leave that one out. Billionaire + Roofied + Sex + Baby + I end up marrying my rapist.

Did I forget anything?

Oh, yes! It's OK that he raped me cuz he's hot!

Um... I feel like the organized crime/criminal thematic is bad enough, but the ones that normalize power/wealth and rape hits a little too close to home for me, but that may be because I'm a male reader in the US and we're sort of the capital of "white rich male gets off of rape charges" [bad pun only sort of intended].

But, thank you for the discourse! :3 I enjoy reading other's perspectives! :3

I had some other comics that had similar vibes with the whole "rich kid" rapeiness vibe.