Ohhhh don't talk about 10 years. It still hurts
We dont mention that name plz. Its my most traumatic read. Plz
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Fuck you (satire) I cried so hard reading ten years I loved you the most
That shit was sad and ending even brutal
indeed. TYILYTM was traumatic. I guess the difference was how the story conveyed that’s why there is a variance with the audience’s reactions. With TYILYTM, most of the POV was on the uke’s side and the seme’s POV was shown in the latter chapters which made the audience hate him even more bec of how stupid he was acting. On the other hand, this story shows both POVs in the get go in order for the plot to progress. Readers are able to make their generalizations with the characters as the plot thickens because there is more information to work with for each character. That probably explains why there is such a stark difference with how people perceive the characters of this story.
Personally, I get why a lot of people would find this story off putting and why it’s scored as 9.1. But I feel like the closer a story is to reality, more people would be against it because most are going into reading to escape reality, not to read an extension of it lol. Fiction is more popular than non-fiction because it makes you feel better. Stories like these and probably like Harada’s are a grim depiction of the horrid reality which makes people uncomfortable especially since violence, r*pe are portrayed without any filter unlike TYILYTM.
I’m seeing a theme here that’s funny and so different from how it used to be. It’s all the same MC’s bf/ex turned bad when he used to be sweet before. Readers who read, “10 years where I loved you the most” all hated the bf/ex to the end and acknowledged he was a bad guy, never believing he could change or wished he went back to how he used to be. Now newer stories come out with a similar situation and readers have hopeful thinking the bf/ex could change or wished he’d stayed the same based on those good memories. Take this story for example and the straight story, “tears on a withered flower.” It is pretty crazy how different the readers thoughts are in comparison to those who read 10 years where I loved you the most.” The funny thing is, the ex/bf does WORSE in this story and TOAWF compared to the other story, but people love them more.
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I’m convinced that people also are like those MC’s who are in denial and get swept off their feet only on the good memories in the past, rather than care more about all the bad things they’ve down and how the character is now.