I had left this to marinate when Kyuho confessed but were still here... might just read the novel at this point... this is eating me alive because I can understand both sides on how they view "dating" but they act so dumb about it it stressed me out too
There are very few characters I want to line up and shoot and Gunner is one of them. He always talks and acts like those abusive and gaslighting husbands that crawls back into the house and repeat "I can change" just to do it again. I do feel bad for him, as someone who grew up poor and in an abusive household too yet, drugs aside, you don't see most of us using it as an excuse to do shit like this to people you technically care about. I feel worse for Theo, he clearly wants to see the best in people but the thing is... some people can't change.
This is so good. Like really good. I was GLUED to my phone and couldn't stop reading until 6am and I had to get up to go to work at 8am. Today im running on literally 2 hours of sleep and i dont regret it one bit.
It's the same author as Approximal guide and I loved the novel a lot, the author is really sooo good at world building and character development. I can see that they kept some of the guideverse elements that were in the Approximal guide novel in this story too, but the military and the guide ranking is very different. I really have high hopes for this story too!! Btw I'm pretty sure it will be r15 for main story and r18 for side stories like Approximal guide, I think the author prefers that a wider audience can read their novels and on ridi you need to show an id that shows you're over 18 to read nsfw novels.
I actually didn't mind ML that much, he is a scumbag and pretty annoying but honestly so far he just has a shitty personality/mentality but he's far from being a Cesar, Heeseo, Zhenya, Ilay or Jaekyung to say a few lmao he clearly cares about MC a whole lot but for some reason (probably dumb too) he doesn't want to show it to him yet he shows it to pretty much everyone else, readers included. Having read their other story and knowing the author's writing style I can take some pretty certain guesses about some points of the plot, but I'm still curious to see how it will go. I'm really close to buy the novel for this one too honestly
So he's actually showing him where he really used to spend his time? Because mc kept saying absolutely nothing rang a bell I thought for *sure* he was showing a random apartment he bought and a random school where nobody knew him so that it would've not triggered his memory... guess he's less of a scumbag than I thought or he might just be dumb and naive lmao
I said this last time but... I really can't fucking believe a big gang leader like him is this dumb. He is super obssesed with Yujun yet he hasn't checked his phone at all and see that its bugged during ALL the time he was with him? He hasn't install anything on his phone too either to see where he goes? He really believed the other group just let him leave like that? He is so dumb that he will let him go to that party alone? When it's such an important job too? Did he even remove the tracking app or are they still listening to their plan? He deserves to lose Yujun to a crackhead at this point I just feel bad for Yujun that is being used as sex slave no matter where he goes
I really like the story but it's kinda pissing me off how dumb the bodyguard spy is because if Yeshin really has the necklace and he goes only from home to school and from school to home and the necklace isn't at home it's most likely at school shouldn't he know what he does at school anyway? And that he works with accessories? If it isn't in a safe then he's using it for his school project
Ah we really needed this flashback to understand Seoin point of view. It doesn't excuse him and justify at all everything he has done and how he acted but it surely gives a reason. Super happy we are back in the present, I will miss his black hair though he looks so good with it ughh
Also!! I don't remember very well but Yeongwoon went to try to meet with Seoin before he left right? And then Jaewon caught him and he and his thug friends ganged up on him and beat him up, the mother found out but sided with Jaewon who was about to die and paid Yeongwoon's dad to keep their mouth shut about the whole thing. The friend probably knew about the beat up and that it was because of him and Jaewon so he told Seoin to stop involving Yeongwoon, probably because he was scared it happened again. Then I think the dad accepted the deal and kept all the money for himself so he could gamble it all again and Yeongwoon run away with some of the money and the ahjussi's help... I think that's pretty much how the timeline went, its been some time since I've read s1. And I wholly agree with a comment below, its kinda fucked up that they are making the ahjussi a love interest when he is clearly a parental figure that Yeongwoon desperately want(ed) and need(ed).
The story is so good!! Its very interesting seeing the guidexnormalperson (yes everyone is a guide or esper here but hes basically normal) in a guideverse setting it's my first time seeing it!! The love triangle (I guess it's more of a straight line) it's fun too I like the chemistry with both the guide and the esper lmao
My baby... I really hope Seoan can convince him to seek therapy as soon as possible, its really cute to see puppy Woowon but he deserve to be a happy cute clingy puppy not a sad one :( also... it's been some time since I've read it so I might not remember it well but did they even talked about their last argument (and about fixing their behaviours) that made them fight? Of Seoan paying the dad and Woowon doing all the part times in secret.. I get it that it might not be the best timing but boundaries and communication is essential for a couple
Finally was off work and I had the free time to read passion, I read it in like a night haha its fun but since I was convinced to read it by bl tiktok... I have to say they are blind, in my country we say they have "salami slices on their eyes". First of all they really love their "flags". They always post videos of like "omg Ilay upset to see Tay cry [he made him cry] <3 he loves him sm goals" "I swear he becomes a yellow/green flag!! [He just raped him... again]"
So far Ilay has been nothing, but like nothing, other than a black flag and the only upgrade he can go up to is an orange flag... once you're anything under yellow flag you can't become a "green flag", especially if there are actual crimes involved... just because he does aftercare, there are some feelings, he gets Tay off and he (Tay) finds some type of pleasure in it doesn't mean its not rape. And he has raped him every single time they have fucked. It doesn't even matter if he can't realise what feelings he has towards him if he can't stop fucking raping him every time.
I have also seen the "Xinlu should've been the ml" discourse there and... no... He isn't that much of an upgrade he is very much a red flag himself... He has assault him twice, has tried to rape him, manipulated, lied, interfered with his life and (initially) was just trying to get on with him because he is the "god of fortune". Not to mention he has tried to kidnap him lately alright they are both tops, yeah there are preferences... if you actually like the person, you will manage to get an arrangement somehow even Tay was about to try out being a bottom exactly because he really liked Xinlu. So yeah Xinlu has never really liked Tay. He just wanted to possess him, basically what Ilay is doing lately, the only thing is that Tay can overpower Xinlu and escape meanwhile he is scared and physically weaker than Ilay.
Finally was off work and I had the free time to read passion, I read it in like a night haha its fun but since I was convinced to read it by bl tiktok... I have to say they are blind, in my country we say they have "salami slices on their eyes". First of all they really love their "flags". They always post videos of like "omg Ilay upset to see Tay cry (he made him cry)
It's so hard for me to differentiate the characters with dark hair they all look the same and have the same build like the guy with glasses really looks like Theo but with glasses... Only Dylan is recognisable and its just because he has blonde hair I could've swore Gunner was more tan too somehow but now he looks white as fck like everyone else, just when he shows his goofy ass tattoos I can see its him ... Anyway I hope Gunner drops dead rapist piece of shit idc if he only had sex with Theo, he is his first love, complicated feelings or whatever I really hope Theo never forgives him and completely cuts him off from his life.. i dont give a shit about the sad backstory of a rapist and a manipulator. He acts like that abusive husband that keeps crawling back to the house and saying "I won't do it again" just to do it again... I'm anxious in particular because Dylan isn't even around and the director and the brown chihuahua are trying to set him up