Male Yanderes

The story starts out with Kang Seoju waking up naked in bed next to Jung Woojin with his body feeling very sore. He remembers that Woojin treated Seoju to a meal, and upon drinking something Woojin gave him while in his car, passes out. After realizing that Woojin drugged him, he recalls that Woojin had been raping him mindlessly before he had woken up. We find out that Woojin brought him to his vacation home and gets dragged to the bathroom to get cleaned up. Seoju rejects the food that Woojin gives him and tries to run away, only to find out that they are on an island. Woojin catches up and frets about his injuries before dragging Seoju back, tying him up and trying to bandage him (and also suck him off). Woojin forces Seoju to eat and when Seoju asks why he kidnapped him, he states its out of love. Seoju tricks Woojin into uncuffing him before bashing him in the head with a plate and again trying to escape. Unfortunately he gets caught again while running into the ocean and passes out when he's nearly drowned. Upon waking up, Seoju freaks out as Woojin is raping him as punishment. Seoju screams and insults Woojin, which makes Woojin cry, and he continues to rape Woojin until Seoju is forced to tell Woojin he loves him. Seoju wakes up and Woojin asks him to patch the wound that he inflicted on him when he tries to escape for the second time, even stating that he wants to die here with Seoju. Seoju is exhausted by his crying and the fact that he doesn't listen to him. When Seoju does decide to eat, he finds that Woojin has cooked all of his favorite foods. As he thinks, he realizes that there must be a ship that brings in food like this, then asks Woojin what day it is, only to come to the realization that there's a whole week he doesn't remember. The memory of him being raped by Woojin comes into his mind and he nearly vomits, and runs in the the bathroom. Woojin tries to get him out, and when Seoju tries to use the razor blade as a weapon he cuts himself by accident. Woojin stopped banging at the door, and when Seoju walks out, he sees that Woojin has been sitting at the door crying before freaking out when he sees Seoju injured. After bandaging him up, Woojin continues to cry and hug Seoju while he tries to sleep, begging him to not hurt himself again and even contemplating if he should cut off part of his legs to prevent it from happening again.

Seoju recalls that at the orphanage he stayed at, there was a boy who was well liked by the orphanage staff, that would follow him around asking questions, but can't seem to remember the rest of it. He wakes up to Woojin humping him and when he takes a shower, Seoju snaps and punches Woojin. This doesn't go anywhere and Woojin essentially drags him back to bed to show Seoju that he's raped and recorded him for an entire week, the week that Seoju can't remember. When Seoju wakes up, Woojin mentions that a new shipment for food has arrived. This really keeps Seoju's attention and he asks for something different to force Woojin to ship it over. Seoju has two days to prepare, looking around for some sort of weapon and trying to keep Seojun calm. He ends up finding what seems to be an office, though after finding a note, Woojin finds him, yet surprisingly doesn't do anything. While Seoju contemplates on how to incapacitate Woojin when the ship comes in, Woojin talks about how he wish Seoju would look at only him. At night, Seoju is able to escape from Woojin's cuddling and get into the kitchen to find a knife, only for Woojin to catch him. Seoju runs away to the side of the cliff, with Woojin trying his hardest to make him come down. After Woojin refuses to let go of him, Seoju recalls all of his memories with Seoju, about how he was the boy that he abandoned, only to fall off of the cliff.

Seoju wakes up in a hospital to a crying Woojin, only to find out that Seoju has lost his memory of Woojin. Seoju is confused (and naive) when it comes to the situation and ends up living at Woojin's house. Seoju is worried about all of Woojin's crying and asks if he used to bully him in the past, only for Woojin to clarify and talk about asking Seoju to stay with him longer. Seoju starts to remember parts of his life, including some dreams on when he was on the island, only to wake up to Woojin yelling at someone. When Seoju tries to go out and see what's going on, the man yells at him and Woojin gets protective and nearly breaks the man's arm. Seoju becomes concerned with Woojin's actions ( and even gets into a panic about him being gay), even suffering a panic attack in the bathroom when he accidentally cut his finger. Seoju after recovering from the panic attack starts to get uncomfortable with the physical affection received from Woojin and tries to get him to stop, only for Woojin to pretty much tell him "I won't, you'll just have to get used to it". After being very confused, Woojin offers to bring Seoju back to where he used to live in his apartment, though Seoju doesn't seem to recognize it at all. Woojin brings Seoju to the university next, showing him places he used to eat or study before asking Woojin to buy him a drink. While Seoju waits, Woojin tells him not to interact with anyone, until Kim Gapdol comes over and starts yelling at him for trashing his laptop. Seoju is able to remember his name, but Woojin comes in and basically drags Seoju to safety. Woojin scolds Seoju for talking to other people, but Seoju insists the only way to get back his memories is to talk to others, which Woojin only allows if he runs what he's going to say to Woojin. As Seoju sits at home, he continually is called by Woojin, until eventually Seoju feels pent up enough to mastrubate, which leads to Woojin coming home early to help him and to have sex with him. Seoju wants to see where Woojin works, which Woojin accepts but only if he disguises himself and does as Woojin says. Seoju and Woojin enter the modeling area, with Woojin forcing Seoju to promise to not speak, before he lies to the manager that Seoju is essentially mute. Seoju ends up talking briefly to one of the girls there, only for Woojin to drag Seoju back home for breaking the rule and locking him in his room until Woojin comes back. Soon after, Woojin gets a call from his manager which Seoju picks up. The manager essentially curses Woojin out and bad mouths him, causing Seoju to get mad and Woojin to be happy with being defended. The two have sex and the next day Seoju and Woojin talk about having Seoju's old apartment sold so that Seoju can live with Woojin. Woojin gets Seoju a ring and as Woojin goes to work, Seoju explores the house, until ultimately finding and watching the video of Woojin raping him on his computer. Seoju attempts to run away and ends up running into Gapdol, who reveals that the apartment that Woojin sold wasn't actually Seoju's apartment before Woojin ends up finding him (due to the ring).

So yeah, like I said, the story so far is split into two "parts' the first part, which is where Seoju is kidnapped on the island and the amensia arc. I think that the first arc is much more interesting given that there's a lot more suspense and that Seoju is actively trying to escape the island and Woojin. As I've said before, I much prefer protagonists that are more active in what they want and in the second half, Seoju just... isn't, due to his amnesia, which makes the story feel pretty dragged on. That and in the first half, Seoju is far more abrasive towards Woojin, making a much more interesting dynamic as not only does he never fall for Woojin's actions, but actively calls him out on what he does (like getting raped), which surprisingly is not called out all that much in BLs. Although Seoju isn't perfect when he is on the island, actively getting pissed off and lashing out at wrong moments, it is understandable given the situation he's in, especially as he's been raped by this guy for a week. I do like how he does his best to plan for escape, even after attempting to escape twice, still having hope when he finds out that his food is being shipped and trying to prepare to get on it. The way it sets up the fact that Seoju remembers Woojin as the boy he left to die was great as he fell down the cliff. The second part isn't as engaging for me, given that Seoju is kinda just going along with whatever Woojin asks him (though he does become very suspicious/uncomfortable) and it is still ongoing, with the fact that we are finally reaching the point where Seoju would remember his time on the island, it just feel like it was meandering, even if there were parts that I did like about it. While I understand in theory why they gave him amnesia, since having the reveal of what he actually did to Woojin before he got amnesia was a huge cliff hanger, it just feels sluggish for many chapters afterwards. This is probably going to be remedied now that a lot of Woojin's lies are coming to light though, so I guess we can only wait and see.

Woojin as a yandere is troublesome to say the least. While I personally don't like him that much, he does work as a great force against Seoju in the story. I mostly don't like him because he simply refuses to listen to Seoju's requests at all, and passes it off, as well as continually cries without actually doing anything to solve anything (which is saying something because I love crybaby guys). But as a sort of antagonist, he does make the story very interesting. I will say that in the beginning, Woojin is much more physical with Seoju as compared to after when he has amnesia, but during this time, he shows more cases of being controlling instead. Woojin does a lot of things in the first part, from kidnapping and drugging Woojin, raping him for a solid week (to the point of not even remembering what happened to him) chaining him up when he attempts to escape, bringing in his favorite foods to feed him with, constantly following him around, telling him that he hates when he looks at anything else but him, mentioning about cutting off part of his heel and of course raping him continually. He gets very angry when Woojin tries to leave and gets really scared when he accidentally hurts himself with the razor, crying and begging for him to not die. To make it worse (or better, depending) he doesn't seem to listen to Seoju about a lot of things, basically telling him to deal with it or that he will learn to like it, something that greatly pisses Seoju off. He even tries between three different tactics in quick succession to get Seoju off of the cliff before he inevitably did fall off. It does seem that after this when Seoju gains amnesia he switches from being more physically imposing to being more controlling. He immediately brings Seoju to his house to stay, and lies to him about his apartment by quickly buying a completely different one to show him. While in college, he gets very protective, telling him to not talk to anyone and then dragging him away when Seoju does start talking to Gapdol. When Seoju gets uncomfortable with how close and affectionate Woojin is with him (especially after he asks if he and Woojin are a couple or gay), Woojin completely disregards it and essentially tells him to get used to it. When going to Woojin's workplace, he not only lies to his manager about Seoju basically being mute and tells Seoju to not talk to anyone, but he also drags Seoju away and locks him in his room when he does talk to them. He makes Seoju tell him everything he's going to text to someone else when Seoju protests about not being to interact with anyone and help with his amnesia and calls him consistently throughout the day and texts him. Finally, near the end when he sees the video of him being raped for a week, he attempts to escape, making sure to place his phone away to not get caught only for Woojin to show up anyways (likely because of the ring that Woojin got him and told him to wear).