In the start, I didn't want to write about it because I was watching this when it was airing, left it and finished it after some time. I won't speak about the acting or the music, in this series it doesn't matter.

I cannot believe people are justifying the rape. Nothing and I mean NOTHING can justify it. There isn't "no but..." or staff like that. Whatever the conditions or I don't know, Yong Jie is at fault. I cannot anymore with dramas, romance and BL especially, that romanticize the abuse and the toxic relationships. The obsession sometimes or the completely wrong "I want you only for myself" or even the kissing the sleeping person, It is abuse whatever we say, even if it is the most "romantic" scene. It is wrong and it is rooted in the patriarchy that exist in our society and in the 21st century we have to adress these things and change our way of thinking.
I red in comments that this is a work of fiction and some things is forgiven, something like that. No it is not. First, a lot of people especially younger ones, watch these things and these things create some morals from them and what you say? "It is ok to do anything to your partner, even abuse." Second, when we are speaking about abuse of any kind, especially rape, there are victims, survivors out there, real people with real wounds that they are trying to heal. I have meet some of them and I have talk to them. Let me tell you it is really hard even listening to their stories, think about how they feel. And I don't speak about someone in the road did something to them. In the most cases, it was their partner the one who abused them. How do we think these people feel when their trauma is used in this way?

The second couple had far more chemistry, but also it was created with the wrong reason. A man wants a woman (who is fetishizing LGBTQ+ people), the woman doesn't want him (he is not stepping back and he is pushing her) and he is using and lying to his best friend. We can see where this is wrong. Mu Ren is drugged and Li Cheng thinks how sexy he looks??? Ok... I spoke before about abuse. I cannot also understand how this man that tried to rape Mu Ren came back and the way Mu Ren tried to take revenge.

All in all, it was a really unconfortable and borderline angering experience. Yes, you can watch something and be harsh about it if it is using crimes like this, it isn't "making noise". I truly, truly believe that, fisrt, we will trully try to change our way of thinking about these things, and, second, any kind of series (especially romance) will stop the use of these tropes (non-con, abuse, obsession etc) as their way to create relationships. It is toxic and wrong.