But I'm so concerned about what he means by 'you're so fucked, seyeong' at the end of ch 41. Does he mean that about his unhealthy attachment towards him snowballing into something real or is he running a reverse scam on him but irl. Oof. I'm intrigued.
I wonder if writing this the author reached some point of self awareness about the backstory
He sleeps with his lawyer that he is in overwhelming love with lmaooo
Have the same energy as dudes who say 'shes not a child she's a 3000 year old dragon' meanwhile said character acts like a child.
I always find narratives like these very iffy. They skirt past grooming accusations by ensuring the younger person is the initiator and desirous of a relationship and showing that the older does everything in their power to deny that relationship until they're pushed to a point, relent and grow to be romantically involved with someone they've raised since that person was a child/in childlike state (usagi drop blueprint). I don't think the author is a pedo for doing this, but this trope definitely eeks me out.
As for the weird comments saying 'imagine complaining on an illegal site' I think media criticism should flourish in all spaces because it helps create conversations about narratives that endure in the wider culture of storytelling, regardless of where the conversation takes place. By their logic itself, criticising a media work on this website has no tangible effect on the author themselves, and instead remains purely amongst audience, with whom I believe these conversations should be had in the first place. I hope fans like myself who find this backstory repugnant will not engage directly with the author on a personal level. They are free to do as they wish with their narrative, and readers are free to criticise them without causing them actual harm or mental agony.
I am a fan of the present day dynamics of the couple in this manhwa, so will continue to read it. However, looking at the raws definitely makes me feel freaked with why the author chose this specific backstory when they could've written another equally impactful backstory with just as pervasive but more positive tropes.
But who cares right, after all, we're on an illegal site anyway. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Just to ensure that the slightest human decency from a consistently sexually violent and generally aggressive man makes him fall in love is unforseen levels of crazy.
How he was not only forced to deal with his stalker himself, the whole world saw his stalker as his significant other, which is a repugnant thing for any victim to experience. He didn't even harm the dude. Fuck the dad fr. He deserved to lose the elections.
When these two try to do anything it becomes a dorm wide event. Everybody is trying their best to be supportive it's funny as hell. A sex ed class about gay sex? ijbol
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Put the pen down mingwa. Put the pen down.
Lends you into a false sense of security about the nature of the story. Every story beat here is so well executed and hard hitting. Even as a child, Parvell has a horrid choice to make: to let the people dock and infect his kingdom, or ensure the disease never enters through the most brutal way possible. In a time where one had no alternative due to regressive medicine (the world feels very much set in a parallel dark ages period), there is unfortunately nothing wrong (in a machiavellian sense) in his choices. Regardless, he will now, ever since childhood, carry blood on his hands, and will do so unrepentantly.
On another side note, it's crazy that as a bastard his rep is so bad people will hear him save his brother, and on witnessing him playing a funeral March, would rather see it as celebration for imminent death than lamentation/processing a possible tragedy. That's a child madam.
Top getting a sad back story arc just like always omg .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·. I get that he had issues bc his last partner was a doubting insecure alcoholic but bro this has sucked so much for mr mo for so long. And wow yeah the commitment-phobe top getting relationship issues backstory like always sucks. Xiao-nu.. I know no matter what you do Mr mo will take you back anyway, so this time, atleast treat his heart a bit more kindly.
'still? Well... It's the reason I like you.
Don't you know I'm a mess too?'
A GIRLIE CRIED fuckkkkk
But it's a waste that mingwa's talent is so thoroughly overshadowed by their preference for legendarily shitty main couples. The 2nd couple in BJ Alex makes it obvious that they knows how to write good couples that have the potential for a healthy relationship, but in both BJ Alex and here the bottoms have no sense of self worth and are pretty much exploited emotionally and physically by the weirdo disgusting tops.
I hope that for mingwa's next venture, they partner with someone who is good at story creation bc I like their art and that's what keep me coming back despite how bad the writing is. I don't know if I want to see this story to its end. Jaekyung is pure fucking trash.
Like he could've said yeah you fucked me over by not making me a part of the exhibit I feel used etc but instead he has to go ahead and pretend he's the bad guy here when he isn't. Jinwoo it's so sad you won't let your loved ones see you're angry at them and want to be the one in the wrong instead.
Man tries to have honest intentions and his family and enthusiasm make him out to be a sasaeng omg
