I still ain't forget how he left Leo on that warehouse floor post-coitus 🗿 And thinking...

I know everyone is happy they got back together and I knew what I signed myself up for by reading this. But the way it just was “simply fixed” by this cliche of a grand gesture of Leo running through the rain and giving his best “pick me, choose me, love me” performance break down has me rolling my eyes. This could have been fixed AGES ago realistically if JJ HAD OPENLY communicated his displeasure in their relationship, he knows exactly the type of person Leo is. Leo is very much at fault in their relationship for taking for granted JJ ‘s presence in their relationship, but JJ it seems never vocalized his frustration just excepted things until there was a breaking point. They were together for 5 FUCKING years if you can’t once say with clarity your issues in your relationship you’re certainly not mature as much as you think you are, then to get so angry you proceed to rape your ex not angry sex mind you, rape your ex and not even apologize for this. I fucking hate it here, that this is seen even as the bare minimum of great storytelling but hey what do I expect at this point when I pick up reading a BL in the year 2024. It was the same 10 years ago and it will continue to be the same shit 80% of the time this will be the best I’ll get in a story that’s meant to be seen as “good”.

Accepted things*^^^

I don't have a problem with Leo doing the running through the rain thing, maybe it didn't need to be raining, but the crying is so understandable. I feel a lot for Leo because I've physically and mentally been there and it's true agony.
Bur yeah, my hugest gripe is that JJ blatantly just refused to say anything and thought Leo was a mindreader. I never expected Leo to be someone who was so narcissistic to just brush off a concern like that by JJ if he brought it up and I was right.
But it's the fact that JJ has no faith in Leo as his partner that's what's sending me.
I'm not saying Leo is blame free, but you can't blame someone for not knowing what you're feeling if you don't say anything. Especially if you're quiet and reserved to begin with.
When JJ said "and he's mine," I'm just like ????
What do you even mean, bro? You were literally ready to abandon and throw away Leo the last chapter by deleting his number. You never had faith in him as a person capable of change, so why so you suddenly have that? Because he cried and apologized?
To me, Leo was just grasping at everything he could and apologizing for anything and everything he thought JJ might've had a problem with until it stuck because that's exactly what I did when my partner and I split after he refused to tell me what the problem was.
Sure, he probably figured out that the main problem was this, but just for good measure he apologized for everything else, too.
It's just such shit from JJ.
We all have our problems for sure, but be forreal? It's like telling someone to solve a math problem without giving them the problem. I don't have any idea what JJ was tryna do with purposefully dealing psychic and emotional damage on Leo. I don't know if that was meant to invoke change or what, but it was just unnecessary. Y'all coulda been done with this issue and actually working towards fixing the problems if you had just said something.

This is essentially how I feel towards this couple. You couldn’t convince me to like JJ even with a gun to my head given exactly how you explained his behavior. Leo is ignorant because of his environment and how he was nurtured to be spoiled as we see within his family dynamics. What’s JJ excuse here? He’s a man child just as much but worse in my opinion as he refuses to be mature about even communicating.

Like, for sure Leo is ignorant and dense, but that isn't a crime in itself. But JJ is over here acting like that's a character issue with Leo and like it's a fundamental flaw of him as a person.
My problem with JJ is why would you go through all that to hurt the one you apparen't "never stopped loving?" Was hurting him that deeply supposed to be beneficial to him somehow? If you're okay and so comfortable with causing him that type of emotional distress, maybe you don't love him as much as you thought after all.
It just doesn't make sense to me that he all of a sudden is okay with Leo and is showing him all this affection.
He's honestly so unlikeable to me.
It's clear that JJ and Leo have very different love languages. JJ is quality time, but Leo is physical touch and gift giving.