Drop it if u want but its rlly cute in the end
I lied hahah, i just couldn't shake lrot motives out of my mind so i skimped through til chap 50. Yeah its cute, no angst whatsoever. But everything resolves TOO EASILY, with communication from both of them, that made me doubt myself. Why run away then? If you're going to accept it so fast?? He doesn't feel any betrayal too from yiyeon lying, just how?? Lol (why not explore more on why he has an abysmal amount of self-esteem)
But... unfortunately there really is nothing about his character background other than 'vx is so cool i joined this industry bcs of him(that is only said and not shown), im afraid im insufficient that's why i ran away' and that's it.
Matched each others freaks fr, obsessing over some codes and online interactions even when they never met each other.
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im dropping this at chp 25. Since theyre dumping everything messily, why don't the author dump why kang jin was sooooo hung up on vx. He's really putting vx on A PEDESTAL. im going to ASSUME that he's an orphan who found joy in hacking(?), being a hot blooded youth tried to hack vx and somehow vx takes him as an apprentice and he found family in zeta group. Why would he feel so guilty????? He doesn't betray them, HECK he doesn't really need to ghost his group???? He can go find them under different aliases. Why? Does he feel like a waste of a human being? Its not explored at ALLLLLLL, his psyche & his trauma is shown in one off occasion, HE HAS NO CHARACTER BACKGROUND as of chap 25, and the chasing arc is starting so i don't think I'll see it any sooner. Wasted potential, wasted wasted wasted my morning.
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my episodic rant:
I'm already vexed at the early chapters. Cmon, running on foot and gun chasers. Show some scars or injury at least. Hahah. It doesn't feel intense no matter how i looked at it.
I'm only at chapter 11, but the author is really bad at foreshadowing hahah. It's fucking predictable, ml murmuring to himself I've talked to you casually before etc just makes it clear that he's VX. mc has no other background history too, no friend no whatever relationship so it HAS to be vx. In this chap, mc mentioned that his private never exposed before code is easily breached through, im not a hacker myself of course, but I'll probably check on my NEW SHINY PHONE that i got from a fucking STRANGER who COINCIDENTALLY speaks korean.
Chap 17. Yup. Wtf. Huh. So it really is the damn phone. It's so funny that a hacker of all people would say 'i don't need to be so suspicious', when his life had been threatened for NO REASON before. He's dumping all his plan to a stranger, who knew AT A GLANCE that he's rat, who could be his mortal enemy. Yeah yeah ml is vx, how surprising and shocked i am what a plot twist. The supposed black is vx too how flabbergasted i am.
Chap 19, why did he splash the manager, as of now, mc is never really portrayed as the playful type. He's passionate and concerned yes, but not playful. So it comes off as rude to me.
Chap 24. Kang jin is srsly, too gullible. Since chap idk when, he suspect that black was vx, since their modus was similar. But he never dig into it and believes that black is his fan for NO REASON other than the fact that hes helping him UNCONDITIONALLY, no payment no what not. Suspicious right? He was startled and lost his revenge target...wtf