
ok ignoring the cliffhanger im SO HAPPY about the character arc that's happening rn. like taeju has been making so much progress but he has to accept that euihyun might not want him due to everything he's done before he can actually have any semblance of a normal, healthy relationship w/ euihyun. like he's gotta accept that euihyun is his own person who might want his own life. very happy, this is literally the exact character growth i was hoping for, i just hope that the cliffhanger stuff doesn't overshadow/prevent that.

I feel like this would’ve been better if it committed to either being PWP or a story but it kinda flopped between the two. Cheolho’s story was actually really interesting. I feel weird about cuntboy fetish being a trans man, esp since I can’t even use that hole, but it’s still kind of nice to see a man with a vagina represented.

Early on Seunghyuk mentions that he doesn't remember who he lost his virginity to, that "at the time [he] was a little..." and then trails off... I'm assuming the implication is that he lost his virginity shortly following his grandmother's death bcus he was so out of it/needing company but it's a shame that it never came back up again/got closure.

Sex work is real work. It isn’t selfish to enjoy your work and want to continue to do it. Issues of jealousy or possessiveness need to be talked out and resolved. Saying “quit your job because I don’t like how you use your body,” is unfair. Even if there are other work options. People shouldn’t stop having to do work they like just because of their partner. Because there are people who are fine with it, and there are people who understand this line of work, and people who understand that they don’t own their partner. And people who understand that sex for work is nothing like sex with a partner.

The thing that scares me is that the bottom is a pretty realistic depiction of someone who has been horribly emotionally abused for years and years, forced to become completely reliant on their abuser and isolated from the world, etc. Like. The author hits on even less talked about but very real aspects of escaping from and recovering from an abusive relationship.
And yet she... talks like the abuser is a good person? How? How? How? How do you write one of the most realistic effects of a toxic abusive relationship on the victim/survivor and still not realize? Or justify it?
Yeah. I'm waiting until this story ends. I assumed it would end with the bottom getting with the non-abusive character but my expectations have hit rock bottom.
I’m confused about the hickey in ch7? They haven’t seen each other much for weeks, so did seuyoon sleep w/ someone else or was there a mistranslation or something?
based on what i understand, they only avoided e/o for days. not really for weeks. and ig the hickey that jiha gave to seoyoon is not completely gone