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I was gonna write out my frustrations but you already did it for me
I’m happy (づ￣ ³￣)づ
Manhwa had a great potential but was bland as water. Just a bunch of things thrown together without actual writing or character development.
Yoo, i didn't read all of that but i already agree with your first para, like i thought he was gon fall in love slowly but bamm. Not complaining tho, just that it was so sudden and there were lots of plot holes too.
(This is all my personal opinion.)
Romance in this manhwa was unsatisfying. It happened out of nowhere that it took me by surprise. Daiki (ML) mentioned that Minjun (MC) gets in his nerves once and BAM - they are already making out and jerking each other. What. It was really unsatisfying. ESPECIALLY when Daiki was acting like an absolute asshole to Minjun, saying that he only likes having sex with him and doesn’t love him. It obviously upset MC a lot, so I was waiting and craving the moment for Daiki to regret saying it when MC grows slightly distant and maybe a potential rival could set ML’s head straight. But no. Out of nowhere he says he loves him and they reconcile? Absolutely pissed me off. Daiki was getting off the hook so easily.
There were so many moments where I felt I’m getting edged and then severely disappointed. The scenes where MC got hurt, the romance, the potential regret and redemption of ML (let’s not forget that he kidnapped, threatened, assaulted and was disgusted by MC in the beginning), but nooooooo.
While I’m on the subject, I absolutely hated ML (Daiki) in the first season then I grew to tolerate him in second. I get why he acted the way he did, but I hated the execution. He was (and still is) an ass with MC. In first season he was a cold prick with nothing good to be said about him. In the second, he somewhat shows that he cares about MC, but it feels shallow. Especially when they have sex. I got really sad when MC once said that it hurt during sex, which is nothing surprising, because ML just shoves it in without prep or anything. Just lube and nothing else. He doesn’t even wear condom!!! I also never once saw him taking care of MC. Not after sex or hospital. The only time he ‘took care’ of MC was to press ice on his back, but then went straight to fucking him after. Like, sir, is he your lover or a fucktoy?
MC stand the fuck up!!! Have some self respect!!!!
Of course I didn’t expect Daiki to become a simp or a soft cutie after falling in love. Not realistic and I get that. However, the least author could do is to expend on their relationship, because it’s shallow af. When Minjun said that he loves Toma more than Daiki - I 100% believed that. And it really shouldn’t be like this.
The other thing that annoyed me was the same face syndrome. There are so many characters with same face that I was so lost in the second season when more characters came. Author did an awful job at presenting characters. They just throw names and then their personal life out of nowhere, confusing tf out of me. I don’t want to sit through the manhwa with a notepad to write down everything to understand who is who. And don’t get me started on characters that were introduced (e.g. the English teacher in the beginning) that just disappeared.
I also hated how everyone treated MC. Comedy is comedy, but constantly calling MC dumb started to annoy me. The guy was a nursing student that got accepted into the top university in foreign country and became fluent in their language. Yes, sometimes he says dumb stuff (very rarely), but mostly he is doing an amazing job at raising the kid. MC is definitely not dumb, so calling him that was just out of pocket most of the time. Also, why tf is everyone so disrespectful towards MC? I get friendly banter, but most of the time it was just straight disrespect towards a lover of their boss and ‘mother’ of the kid they adore. And again, why tf ML allows this?? Never once did I hear him tell his men like ‘watch your mouth’ or ‘treat Minjun with respect’. The only time he showed his dissatisfaction was when his men were too close to his lover. Basically he only cares if Minjun sleeps with someone else but not how he is treated. Got it.
I get that it’s comedy, but even comedy can go too far. I would get it if MC wasn’t MC and was instead a side character. But he isn’t. So it was annoying.
Of course there are good moments in this manhwa. It’s just FOR ME I couldn’t overlook these things. And when there are so many annoying things, it was hard to enjoy the story. If it was just the problem with ML, but MC was getting treated with respect most of the time and there weren’t this many characters on the front - I wouldn’t have a problem with ML. You know what I mean? One problem is easy to overlook, but when there are many - it’s much easier to get stuck on them.