Tbh, I dislike how spineless the uke is. Of course, as a civilian he should be wary of the seme since hes clearly dangerous. But hes been in the money laundering business for a while now so he should've at least have a good poker face and kept his emotions in check. But he trembles and flinches at every little thing, its getting a bit tiresome. Not to mention he kept making stupid decisions. Like who the fuck go out for coffee with their rapists? I would've slammed the door in his face..
I stopped reading at about chapter 20. I was hoping to pick it up again later when I'm less stressed by the mc but based on the comments it doesn't seem that the manga will get better later on. But for anyone finished reading this please let me know if the mc actually grows as a character later on..
Overall I still liked it. But the pacing felt all over the place especially in the earlier chapters. After a while it felt like the main couple's story dragged on for too long with a lot of nothing happening. At that point I'm more interested in the student's story. The ending also felt rushed, the dad seems to be intended to have some significance to the story but then it felt like the author gave up halfway. Seriously, if you remove the character the story will remain the same way..
I'm kinda tired of this type of story. Where the uke is basically an underdeveloped child with low self esteem issue and have nothing to offer except his body. Meanwhile the seme is perfect in every way and his only flaw is that he loves his boyfriend too much and gets jealous easily. I thought with 20 chapters we can at least see the uke grow as a person but hes the same person as he was back in school except happier now..
The only part I have a problem with is the 'conflict' near the end. It felt a bit dumb and over the top. The MC got mad at the ML even though everything he said was true and his reaction was justified. And afterwards when the 'friend' told him everything, he still didn't have the decency to apologize to the ML. The ML basically had to beg to take him back.
Meanwhile the friend, after nearly destroying a relationship got away scot free without even getting chastised for it. Dude was like "Hey I kissed you knowing that you're in a relationship because I just wanna cause a rift between you two. Sorry lol." and the MC was like "It's fine lmao, it happens. Have fun in France". Like wtf?
Look I get that the author wanted to add some drama to spice things up for the finale, but that was dumb as hell..