Apparently some of you in this comments section really need this reminder: taking shots at people just because they watch and enjoy the series is genuinely ridiculous. If this kind of story isn’t for you, just move on instead of constantly harassing the people who do like it.
someone give it to me straight is this series politically correct with just cute scenes and flat green flags I…
It’s not a green flag series. It’s a dark centered romance with morally questionable characters and pretty much everyone is a walking red flag in their own way (except for Qin Lang that for now is a green flag)
Unfortunately i haven’t read the book, but you are absolutely right. That level of anger that Lu Feng will experience comes from a deep and soul crushing love. But for now his toxicity is not yet borderline 😂 that’s why I said that the toxic part has yet to come
Lu Feng’s speech in the bathroom really broke something in me. He just wants to be in love, out and proud. He wants to be like anyone else in the world, free to love whoever he wants without being judged for it. And yet people have been judging him since the very first episode. His father opposed him until his last breath, and even now he’s still trying to control him by threatening to cut him out of the will if he doesn’t stop loving a man. It’s so sad and painful to watch.
How do you feel about the fact that Lu Fen violently raped Yichen in his office a couple of episodes back? That's…
I’m full of myself for what exactly? I was minding my business expressing an opinion on the romantic/emotional side of their relationship and YOU came under my comment bringing up the rape scene asking me how I reconcile that with the love I was talking about. So how exactly does that make me the one who’s “full of myself”? If anything, maybe it’s the opposite.
And no, I never said you were defending abuse or that you called me a rape apologist. What I actually said was: ‘acting like anyone discussing the story normally is secretly a rape apologist is exhausting.’ That was clearly aimed at a broader pattern in fandom discourse, not a direct quote about you personally. My point was that you came under a harmless comment about the emotional side of the relationship and immediately reframed the conversation around the rape scene as if my original comment was somehow morally questionable for not centering it.
Also, you’re arguing against points I never made. Saying Lu Feng’s love for Yi Chen doesn’t feel shallow or purely lust-driven is not the same thing as saying lust, sex, power or toxicity played no role in certain scenes. Those are completely different statements.
My original comment was about the intensity and emotional devotion in the relationship overall. You’re the one who narrowed the entire discussion down to one specific scene and then acted like I was denying it ever happened, when I literally never did.
both love each other deeply. I didn't not realise Lu Feng's love towards YI Chen earlier but after reading the…
Exactly 😭 Yi Chen’s love feels quieter, more restrained, almost cautious in a way… but still incredibly deep. Lu Feng, meanwhile, loves like a man completely untethered from reality 😭 like once he fell, there was genuinely no containing him anymore. He loves Yi Chen in this allconsuming, feral way that just takes over his entire existence.
How do you feel about the fact that Lu Fen violently raped Yichen in his office a couple of episodes back? That's…
Rape is always wrong and I’m genuinely baffled that some of you need that reminder every two seconds.That being said, this series is a dark romance and it should be treated as such. People are going to discuss the characters while fully aware of the horrible things they’ve done or will do, because that’s literally the point of engaging with this kind of fiction.What I’m tired of is the constant moral policing every single time someone comments on the relationship dynamics without stopping every five words to clarify “btw abuse is bad irl.” We know. Everybody with basic critical thinking skills knows.Some of us are capable of consuming toxic fictional relationships without collapsing into discourse mode or acting like readers personally endorse every action on screen/page. You do not have to like Lu Feng. You do not have to ship them. But acting like anyone discussing the story normally is secretly a “rape apologist” is exhausting and honestly killing any possibility of nuanced conversation around dark fiction.
Saying Lu Feng is deeply in love is not the same thing as saying he’s healthy, morally right, or incapable of hurting Yi Chen. Dark romance characters can love someone intensely and still be toxic as hell. Those things are not mutually exclusive.
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If this kind of story isn’t for you, just move on instead of constantly harassing the people who do like it.
But for now his toxicity is not yet borderline 😂 that’s why I said that the toxic part has yet to come
He just wants to be in love, out and proud. He wants to be like anyone else in the world, free to love whoever he wants without being judged for it.
And yet people have been judging him since the very first episode. His father opposed him until his last breath, and even now he’s still trying to control him by threatening to cut him out of the will if he doesn’t stop loving a man.
It’s so sad and painful to watch.
I love whatever problem of mutual jealousy they have 😂😂
And no, I never said you were defending abuse or that you called me a rape apologist. What I actually said was: ‘acting like anyone discussing the story normally is secretly a rape apologist is exhausting.’ That was clearly aimed at a broader pattern in fandom discourse, not a direct quote about you personally. My point was that you came under a harmless comment about the emotional side of the relationship and immediately reframed the conversation around the rape scene as if my original comment was somehow morally questionable for not centering it.
Also, you’re arguing against points I never made. Saying Lu Feng’s love for Yi Chen doesn’t feel shallow or purely lust-driven is not the same thing as saying lust, sex, power or toxicity played no role in certain scenes. Those are completely different statements.
My original comment was about the intensity and emotional devotion in the relationship overall. You’re the one who narrowed the entire discussion down to one specific scene and then acted like I was denying it ever happened, when I literally never did.
Lu Feng, meanwhile, loves like a man completely untethered from reality 😭 like once he fell, there was genuinely no containing him anymore. He loves Yi Chen in this allconsuming, feral way that just takes over his entire existence.
Saying Lu Feng is deeply in love is not the same thing as saying he’s healthy, morally right, or incapable of hurting Yi Chen. Dark romance characters can love someone intensely and still be toxic as hell. Those things are not mutually exclusive.