Tall, beautiful, he has domineering aura, he looks like an unapproachable iceberg, but behind that facade is a person uncertain of himself. It’s a 300+ chapter epic that has been adapted into an audio drama, and has a sizable following for it’s angsty narrative, gripping drama and of course, piping hot smut, despite facing the hammer of censorship over it’s explicit chapters. Yet despite Mo Ran’s shameless pursuit of his own goals, he begins to question his previously held beliefs, and wonders if there could be more to his teacher–and his own feelings–than he ever realised.

The idea of a terribly fucked up person being brought back in time and given a chance to redo everything and change for the better is what pulled me into starting the novel. His shizun was really similar to a cat, while he himself was like a dumb puppy slobbering and wagging his tail. Mo Ran is then somehow reborn as his teenage self with all the knowledge of his past life and his evil acts and you watch how both the events unfolding and Mo Ran himself change due to this knowledge.

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun is a painful read that tackles about the morality of us human beings, what makes humans more monstrous than the monster themselves, how a food and clothing can relate to ones identity, the pain of sacrificing our beloved only for the fruition of the cause only became a rotten flower, and the selfish act that bloomed into two lifetimes of hatred and the end of the world. Mo Ran] was used to Chu Wanning being tormented to the breaking point at his own hands, as Mo Ran crushed his dignity and defiled his purity. Unlike authors who treat r*pe lightly as something they can use for their pe*verted characters, 2HA indeed has lots of warnings, but which are used for a character portrayal, madness and cruelty.

Please don’t get things wrong, both Mo Ran and Chu Wanning have their moments where they are complete bastards.This novel is very dark and i don't want anyone to have a hard time because they didn't know where they were getting into, so if you come across this comment, have all this in mind and decide if you want to read this or not. The romance is giving me Lan Zhan and Wei Wuxian’s vibes-which is scary enough by itself-, but with the addition of a writing that makes wonders with my poor heart.

That there is something Chu Wanning never told him that would have prevented Mo Ran’s revenge on his body. That being said, I HATED seeing him obsessed with Shi Mei, who does nothing other than being a saint and having zero personality.

It is worth mentioning that I might change my opinion on the characters as time goes on but volume 1 is supposed to be able to pull you in and make you stay and read the whole novel, and vol 1 of 2ha didn't manage to do that for me, most of the characters did not stick with me and I didn't really like them. It’s a beast of a thing to get through but it’s well worth reading if you like noncon, explorations of toxic codependency or angsty drama and ill-fated relationships.

I seriously felt that the author was trying to do anything to make MC sympathizable, because the elaborate plot twist which I guess was intended to make me think 'oops, I guess Mo Ran being a r*pist is kinda not his fault because he was being tricked/coerced by the villain' seemed more Deus ex Machina than anything.

To further explain my dislike for the MC, Mo Ran is a slightly unreliable narrator, and once I figured that out, I had no sympathy for a character like him. Now, as a novice disciple at the cultivation sect known as Sisheng Peak, Mo Ran has a second chance at life. For my first point, in a literary and psychological point of view, the use of a main character that's the abuser usually makes the reader sympathize with him/her. Mo Ran's character development is commendable, and I can give you it in a nutshell with a few of his lines throughout the novel.