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the ending was just… huh
obviously I know it falls in the dark BL category, but the last 20 or so episodes just felt so unnecessary tbh. I’m not kicking the author, but I felt like there was definitely other ways to get from “koh brothers hate pilwon” to “koh brothers ultimately contribute to pilwon’s downfall” without adding that weird (somewhat ooc) dooshik revenge arc. getting revenge was definitely in the cards for dooshik, so that in itself wasn’t odd, but the method was definitely insane. ultimately I understand his roundabout act of revenge contributed to him being able to double cross pilwon later but gd yall after a certain point I was wishing everyone would just d*e everyone, into the trash can pls! The jooha and subsequent brother torture p0rn honestly felt like the author suddenly remembered this was a dark BL and just decided everyone needed to get r—ped to make up for it
Overall, the story is pretty okay. I think what makes it the most interesting was definitely the literal Pearl boy aspect of it, which kinda gets forgotten in the last season lol (or at least, everyone becomes so used to it, it kinda just becomes irrelevant). some parts did feel super repetitive—like jooha’s self doubt… she was in fact a slow burn— but for the most part this just feels like p0rn with plot. I WILL SAY, I haven’t felt such burning hatred for a villain in a long time as much as I did for pilwon, so kudos to the author for writing such a shitty character (and I mean this as a compliment lol)