From what I can understand from the recent updates (chapter 21 in raws) mr. Evil twink secretary with daddy issues is into the pink haired cockblock idiot’s dad lmao imagine being used as a replacement for your dad. (I cannot find it in my to give a single fuck about them. The lead couple’s misunderstandings will soon resolve so I’m sure the story will pivot to being entirely about these two which is when I’ll stop reading).
Joohwan, wanting to feel powerful: *happily sowing* (▰˘◡˘▰)
Joohwan, now is love: *sadly reaping* (˃ヘ˂)
Bro what did you expect you’ve been obsessed with this guy since your enlistment and no one else looks hot to you. He’s been at your beck and call believing you’re a cheater and is content being the side piece because that is all he will have and you let him continue believing that. Ofc he’ll know his place. Ofc he wouldn’t show any reciprocating emotion.
I’m been reading the novel translations (I would not recommend it, they have been MTLed and not even cleaned to make sense regarding many details). It’s better to realise that hylen is not trying to be good, but trying to survive and do good. This is a super slow burn, and if the whole story is published without change we’ll probably have to wait for 4+ years unless they cut story arcs for the whole thing to finish.
Re: Gail x hylen, it’s quite dark? Gail’s father returns from the dead and is then murdered, and though hylen wasn’t the cause, Gail feels like he’s partially responsible, and despite this he thinks ‘I still want him’. It messes him up a little that because though he believes hylen could’ve possibly played a part in his (adopted) dad’s death, he still wants/desires him. They have a bit of a fight over it (dad’s death) and drift apart (honestly hylen deserved the cold shoulder for what he said). Their remaining academy years while being in the same club are rather tense (hylen switches from the swordsmanship track to diplomacy). Gail comes to understand their class difference and strives to better himself till he can become somewhat equal to hylen, and then try and pursue a relationship with him.
On hylen’s end, very soon from the manhwa events he gets engaged to the same girl who he went to the debutante ball with, but it isn’t something he really thinks much of since
1. He knew since his past life that he was gay (he had a crush on the first prince, and this made him want to work against him more + when a girl tried to seduce him and he tried to go along with it, he threw up on her)
2. He’s not the actual heir, and he believes once he secures his interests and sets his life up, he wouldn’t need to marry her anyway since he’ll reveal that Gail’s the actual heir and leave.
He eventually turns down Gail after Gail confesses to him (at this point both are 20, have finished their time at the academy and Gail became a ‘sword master’). Later there’s a brief period where Gail is assigned to protect hylen despite being an imperial knight (he swears allegiance to the royal family instead of Emmast because of a deal he struck with the first prince’s aide, throwing hylen’s plan for a loop). They begin getting a little physical on hylen’s terms.
With the upcoming war, Hylen wants Gail to return a war hero (he wants him to have infamy and a stronger claim/easier time when he eventually inherits the dukedom), so he joins him on the battlefield and asks Gail to win in his name. This obviously ends up in Gail killing a lot of people very easily due to his overwhelming ability, and two such instances increase his infamy. In return hylen ‘rewards’ him by having sex with him while Gail is obviously very torn up (he has cognitive dissonance over killing so many people willingly just to get with hylen, and not even having his heart, only his body). This is where I am rn. (Though I do know that later when hylen wants to reveal their ‘secret of birth’ i.e. being switched, Gail completely shuts it down, and makes sure everyone that knows is either dead or keeps quiet. This allows for hylen to become the Duke of Emmast, and Gail is granted a noble title on account of being a war hero.)
With how hylen is written… It’s weird to describe it this way, but how he acts is like a mature person of the age he returns to. Like he doesn’t act like a 31+ years old, rather like a mature teen/young adult with a knowledge of the future, if that makes sense.
Re: their relationship dynamic, hylen views himself as a monster and the past life Gail as a hero. So when the present life Gail is willing to commit atrocities in his name, he feels conflicted because he believed Gail to be a fundamentally good/great/heroic man who now acts as hylen desires. This ‘corruption’ of Gail also emotionally and sexually excites him. It makes him feel powerful that Gail would cast aside his aspersions, his morality just to have a taste of him. This is why I think their dynamic is twisted. Objectively, what Gail does in the past life is similar to what he does in this one, with the difference being that he became a war hero in the past life and killed many in the name of the kingdom+the first prince and ending the war, whereas he does the same in the present life solely for hylen. Hylen himself sees this as turning Gail into a monster. On reading the last chapter, the final line is something along the lines of hylen looking at them in the mirror as they have sex, and seeing two monsters reflected (in thought, not form).
On a personal note I’m gonna take it a little slow from now on with the novel bc twisted characters and relationships aren’t really my thing and hylen, the person with the most POV content, is not a character i like. It’s just interesting to read how the story progresses, but my interest isn’t urgent.
Hi really loved reading this, would I be able to get a link for the novel?
Hi. Once again, do not recommend bc the MTL is abysmal, but if you do want to read it, the current manhwa is somewhere between chapter 15-20:
https://lumostories.com/en/story/168/chapters/
ahah its ok i feel like years of reading poorly translated manhua has allowed me to transcend my language capabilities , thank you
I want my toxic yearning sad hot screaming crying throwing up yaoi from the lead couple I couldn’t care less about the pink haired stone in a shoe weirdo and his evil twink secretary with a hundred thousand daddy issues.
the way u word it so perfectly lmaoo
The way the artist for the second story draws faces is so similar to the art style of the ‘My Gorgeous Fiancée’.
Got his ass handed to him and his guild by EarlyEvening and he’s saying he’ll declare war on any guild that tries to recruit melodychord… okay sexual harasser you and your guild will get killed by EarlyEvening again.
Tbf ML did exact same thing 2 MC
Oh but ml is just weird while the other is a creep so that's why it worked on mc because he can live up to it and he literally worked hard on that account but i bet if it's an actual creep it's gonna be another story
Yeah I was like
"this is awfully familiar"
Flirting vs Harassment
The asswipe is retaliating for being called what they are: a sexual harasser v the ML put a hit on sleepyhead because he thought he was impersonating the lol sleepyhead, but on finding out it was the same person, he became a simp.
Maybe it’s because I’m also playing WH40K Rogue Trader rn now but it really irks me that nobility and aristocracy view serfs and ordinary humans as expendable. It fucking sucks man. And it sucks because it is a historic fact. I hate people whose lives are build upon the labour and sacrifice of ‘small folk’ looking down upon them. Leave them for 10 days alone to do ‘small folk’ jobs and they’ll straight up die. Fucking parasites.
(Talking about the game I’m playing) The most famous romance option is cassia and she says this extremely stupid shit once (paraphrased) ‘how dare these soldiers attack nobles, when nobles for generations have so dutifully served to govern them and ensure their wellbeing’. I can’t take anyone fictional or real who believes shit like this seriously. Oh I’m sure it must be so hard living up in your gilded palaces, having banquets during famines and toiling away in your stately studies for ‘the welfare of the people’. Genuinely fucking kys.
The redhead and princess can shack up for all I care leave Faye and Kelly alone.
Inseo’s childishness was funny in the main story. After seeing how insidiously Tak and the boss fuck behaved I realized that the creator was very aware of the characters actions being abusive and toxic. Theres no ‘improvement’, they remain like that. It feels weird to read something that sexualized/ depicts abusive actions as hot. Being that cognizant of abusive behaviour and how it negatively impacts people and still sexifying it is a… choice.
With how Tak and the boss acted, it’s completely coloured/soured my perception of this story. Now inseo’s weird possessiveness and desire to keep yihyeok at home isn’t quirky, it comes across exactly as it is: toxic, and a tactic used by abusive partners to isolate their significant other. People will say ‘well these are positive traits if the person will never abuse (physically) their partner like inseo bc he loves yihyeok that much’, but IMO making sure that you are your partners world and crying/losing your shit if they step away from you is just…. A bad relationship dynamic. Dude cries like a man child all the time, even when they fight. Bro is already manipulating through tears, and expects sex constantly, even when yihyeok doesn’t want it. He follows yihyeok to coworker outings, gym… there’s literally no space between them ever. What the fuck. Yihyeok no longer talks to even his close friends Sanho and Tak. Weird as fuck.
I was hoping that the writing for ‘your wish is my command’ was a one of, but I now see that it was deliberate. Safe to say any goodwill I had towards sagold due to ‘make me bark’ has withered.
I haven't read many other Sagold stories, but of the ones I have the only one I know of that is not toxic and actually really cute is 100% love gauge. I was lowkey disappointed when I read that and then got hyped up for their other works, only to find out most are hella toxic. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
It’s a ridiculous premise but bro the pacing is all over the place. Things keep happening randomly, scenes keep jumping around and you have to make sense of it… it’s not even stupid gooner smut (that I read because of the beautiful cover) but shoddy writing with limited smut aaaaa
Like seonghan said ‘I hope you are happy with the choice you make’ because haemin chose to sleep with him when he didn’t know him, imposed onto him to draw him into a fuck buddy contract (made weirder by the fact that Haemin is seonghan’s senior at work), had sex when he desired (use and throw), made seonghan get up hopes only to discard him to get with the guy who dumped him (haemin) for being a beta. Realising the asshole only like you because you’re an omega now isn’t regret enough lmao. Sure you can miss seonghan, but all of this pain caused mostly to him and some to you was a consequence of your choices haemin.