Some commentators say that farmer boy was too pushy, and while that did annoy me sometimes, without him there would literally be no story for you to read. I will NOT stand for this slander. City boy had zero interest in him. He was all up in his feels. Without that pushiness they wouldn’t have had ANY development between them. He would’ve went back to Seoul still all depressed. So understanding that, I did not dislike farmer boy. What DID piss me off the most is the fact that city boy did kept kind of leading him on even when he had zero interest in him romantically. Kissing him because you’re ’fond’ of him but you don’t like him? While also being like idk when I will be ready for love? Ok. But please fuccc offfff then. Change your front door passcode. Cut him off. The way he was pushing-pulling farmer boy’s feelings by being kinda contradictory got me a bit heated. Didn’t your super serious relationship that you gave up everything for start when you were 19-20? Oh so I guess that was serious business between ‘adults’ but farmer boy’s feelings are a source of comedic relief and omg he’s such a kid??? (Guess that one’s more on the author’s choice of tone but wtv) It was truly wholesome and green flags only in the last 20-25 chapters or so. People in the comments are shipping what was basically a four-year platonic situationship. Farmer boy is a saint.
Can’t wait to see Aki emerge as a badass bih that kicks everybody’s ass BRING IT
Idk. Everyone thinks it’s so cute and harp on about how they communicate and their dynamic or whatever but I don’t see it. Not completely. Even by the last chapter (of vol 2) they both seemed insecure about where they stand with one another. Clearly, they aren’t built for open relationships and (at least aspire to) take monogamy seriously. They get jealous over sex work, so I don’t think they will be ok in the long run if that continues, even though they do love each other. Cheating isn’t taken lightly by the characters, but the mangaka still keeps pushing them in that direction by treating sex work as though it’s cheating. This mangaka likes to keep things open-ended with regard to cheating in a lot of their works, they like that sort of dysfunctional monogamy, which makes me feel really unsatisfied. The seme trains newcomers at the sex shop, he’s willing to service VIPs as a call boy once in a blue moon (including his ex who gave him trauma? smh, idc if he didn’t have sex with him in the end, he was willing to and it felt personal not professional, made worse by how he brushed off the uke when pressed about it). Uke slept with women. When you think about it the seme is sexually involved with more people than the uke by the end (correct me if I’m wrong), though at the same time he seems to be more obsessed about his partner’s faithfulness. The uke’s greatest crime throughout the entire story seems to be the fact that he’s not a 100% pure homosexa, and because of that the seme refuses to properly communicate with him. In the end, it feels like sex work will continue to be a source of contention between them. More so with the seme, since the uke switched jobs in the end and did not work at the brothel. They still have a lot of issues to figure out.