
Overall it was fine. 3.5/4 stars
- I liked that it was more plot driven and realistic than many manhws I’ve read, even the violence and violent characters felt more like real people than the standard BL villains
- The villain ACTUALLY GOT PUNISHED!!!! He didnt get a happy ending, he didnt reveal a sob story past that made everyone feel bad and simp for him, barely anyone felt any empathy toward him by the end of the story hooray
- I felt so bad for the mom and sister and I’m glad they also got happy endings
- The MC looks WAY too young (and short) compared to everyone else and it seriously gave me the ICK every time he slept w someone
- NGL… I didnt really care for the romance and main couple in this. I understood the ML loving the MC, but Yoon falling in love with the ML felt very sudden and random? Yeah that’s his precious older brother that he’s held enough resentment toward for years to be willing to help plot his murder, and sure there were lots of familial misunderstandings and I can see how their relationship wouldve been heslthy and happy by the end of the story, but I feel like Yoon’s feelings and their relationship in general needed to marinate way longer
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Anywayy, thats all. A fun historical little read

Kim Dan is obviously self-destructing, obviously drinking to hype himself up to "inevitably" sleep with JK, obviously has a very negative self-image and idea of what sex means when it comes to JK and yet.......... i GENUINELY had the tiniest sliver of hope that JK would wait and be like wtf is going on.... instead more DC sex lol
Chapter 15 just gave me the BIGGEST ick
right?? and the hypocrisy of him calling the other dude a dirty animal when hes doing the same thing himself