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well you can say rape and can't also as you need to coin a word for When " it" is done Under influence like in susu case a aphrodisiac poison.
The poison comes every 15th of third month! During its recurrence she need to "do the act" with guy otherwise its very painful and kill also.
TTJ hated her but he cn't take chance of susu dieing.
so he use to sleep with her, only like performing a duty from keeping her alive. He had no lust in him after she put nails in his heart.
And he would still torture her during sleeping with her like pushing hard on her broken fingers and not being gentle. and she was blind which was more horrifying but she never push him during it as she was surviving too
well that guy was betrayed what you expect 😅
For him it was like duty to keep her alive, more or less can be called rape but situation non novel readers should know

I don't think its cut as in BTS... i saw English subtitles where TTJ is saying now he have so much power that he can give her "charm" like fireworks anytime and susu saying she regret loving him and say farewell and kiss him.
So i think it will come when there will regret between both of them loving each other.

YZX soul dies and everything got restart button as TTJ is not demon god. Susu have all the memories, well you can say painful memories as TTJ kinda torture her!!
After 500 years TTJ is wondering around world trying to have YZX soul and eventually join an sect and cultivate.
Where he meet Susu where she try to behave she doesn't know him initially and TTJ being TTJ wants her body as vessel for YZX soul but after an accident TTJ got know Susu is YZX and then begging for forgiveness starts😎

Its not anybody's past life. Its dream of dragon!!
Bingcheng also enter "dragon dream".
In novel She becomes tian huan because her emotion are quite reflective to her! Both are jealous beings.

I am not putting spoiler tag because people in comment section is not grasping what novel reader saying repeatedly!! ITS NOT THEIR PAST LIFE!!
This ming ye arc is not arc but a "Dream of dragon"
Dragon is in his "dream of past life".
ML and FL leads entered dream of the dragon.ML and FL nothing to do with ming ye and sang jiu. Dragon is ming ye and his wife is sang jiu.
As ML and FL entered "dragon dream" and relive there life and emotions.
Now coming to why dragon choose both of them to relive as Ming ye and sang jiu!
Sang jiu wants to make FL aware of importance to making decisions and get blinded by love
Ming ye/ dragon wants to make ML aware by importance of love and regret after loosing love one!

Now importance of this dream arc!
In novel, after this dream ML started to feel emotions for FL and never letting her go away from him

So true!! Its quite annoying. Why she needs to be so touchy touchy with anything and anyone 😂Girl stand still and talk! I know you are seductive fox but stop unnecessary touching 😑 and talk like normal people without dragging words like they are chewing gum😂

Poor devil god (well not yet but still) can't catch a break. Betrayal after betrayal.
First the nanny and now aunt! What i find funny that how they justified there betrayal saying he is lack of emotions and cold. They spend so much time and care on him as they love say, then how don't they know he lack understanding of emotion.
Who is cold now? If he was a favoured prince, even he was a jerk. They would definitely be loyal to him. Both women took care of him according to there convenience and when there got aware of fact that ML is sinking ship.. They abandoned the ship simply, no need to blame the guy for being cold.
Betrayal is betrayal! No matter who gives it. Just because they took care of him early days, sudden gives them free licence to mishandle him!?
I think his punishment was justified.