I finished reading this and felt like I didn't really like it and you've put to words exactly what I felt was making me feel unsatisfied with this, thank you
I didn't really like how they resolved the part where the ex came back, I wish it was a proper heart to heart rather than in the middle of sex. I also skipped a lot of the sex scenes, pausing occasionally to look for any important dialogues, but a lot of the sex didn't feel integral to the plot or barely contributed anything to their development. I didn't even bother reading the side stories.
Glad to see a comrade!! ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶ You're welcome my dude since I felt that this review wasn't great and was going to delete it immediately haha
For real! Like where is the let's talk to each other and support each other :') the side story was ehh tbh- there's forcefulness even there and a lot of the romance of s1 wasn't found :0
Definitely was a ride- personally liked season 1 more with a focus on plot/set up more than s2 which felt more like catering to their prime audience (the smut faction) I'm more on the shounen ai-yaoi reader who loves the build up to a pair getting together, moments of care and love and a strong emotional bond over the physical (which I don't mind) but the romance wasn't romancing much in s2 because of/ alongside overabundance of sex at every moment.
Sad moments, bad moments - sex is the next step.
Loved the workplace set up of s1 alot as well- his worries, lack of enthusiasm - the moment the top goes: "why aren't you working hard and you can't pick and choose" felt so real had to pause there.
I liked the emotions of Eunkyum there alot. And the enemies to lovers arc.
But coming back, I generally liked the characters, just wished the Jihyuk (top) wasn't so forceful during their intimate time- that has happened all the times, the bottom says "no I don't want to" and the top says the classic "oh but you want it" only when he starts sobbing does he take him seriously :/.
While he's more the nicer side of tops in the manhwa gang (the bar of decency is in hell) and does care about the bottom, it felt like the author trying to convince the reader that he's just a bully during sex but baby every where else still it wasn't to my taste which lead me to skip most of the intimate times in s2- even the way he held him sometimes like bounding him, hands clutching his neck or arms. So didn't totally dislike the story but towards the middle- lend it was a little draggy since the story really didn't go anywhere.
TLDR: not bad since the art was really nice like really nice and the author tried and the characters were mostly cute but wouldn't be revisiting this anytime soon (づ￣ ³￣)づ