like, i just dont think he’s the same amount of intimidating or cunning…so far it feels like they made him more timid, and submissive…and im sorry thats kinda stereotypical yaoi MC imo…like i was kinda interested with the opening of him doing sexual things to trap his targets and kill them…and i know he said he has to act inexperienced with the violence and explicitness of the underworld but then his thoughts seem to reveal actual inexperience and contradicts that statement…unless the ML can read minds and yujin knows this(yea, i dont think soooo).
OG yujin not stabbing the guy with no hesitation or fear in his face may not be good for his cover up that he’s just “some guy that stumbled into this,” but…it sure established some powerful aura and that yujin was not someone to be easily messed with. he FITS with a gang leader. because he is just as unhinged and willing to do the dirty work as the ML is. he’s just as cold. just as calculating.
the new yujin acts like a stressed, temp worker who just wants to get this over with but is scared and worried at every turn towards violence EVEN THOUGH, like the OG, he desperately wants to make it up to his father figure/politician guy and is no stranger to the ugliness or violence of the underworld. weirdly, he seems to lack the same amount of determination as OG.
and going back to the topic of stereotypical…i want to believe its because they want to rationalize why the ML, who is a gang leader, would suddenly demand sexual favors from this random dude they found on his turf. Like, “oh its not just cuz this is a yaoi and why wouldnt they fck, he was actually gay the whole time and his whole gang knows and respects this.”
okay. sure, ig.
“and he’s also kinda a fck boi”
sure.
but like, i dunno i feel like it takes away from his violent edge/intimidating aura when his opening scene is him torturing that one traitor by fcking him at gun point. its not as scary as the original torture scene and he ALSO loses some of his original aura.
yes i am aware that this is still a smutty BL. But i feel like there was no need to reinforce that with “extra sex with other guys” and replacing the scary torture scene with “sexy (?) torture scene”
damn, stomp all over him, stomp all over her heart, and stomp all over my heart while you’re at it why dontchya.
honestly idc if i die, im jumping into this story and dragging you down into the sea with me i swear on everything you mf sperm donor undeserving of the title of father
was it two years or six months of waiting for sihwa?
Two years, he just hadn’t heard from Sihwa in the past six months.
seeing that visualization of sohan “waiting in the same place for too long” made me tear up a bit. he rly tried so hard to have his dad love him/care for him like a real father would. now he’s moving on to better things but NOW SIHWA has health issues??? NOOOO
but i am seated for his parents’ love story. i see already that both father and son are good at getting into high places…./j
its very sad to give someone your all while trying to show them love and care as family should (usually), but when its never reciprocated, and your relationship with that person only results in hurt for you and enables the other to continue their toxic behavior—-ultimately—its not worth it sohan. you’re so young and have people who are more than willing to be a family better that those people who shared blood with you could ever be(even if they tried). and you have your lovely, slightly clingy and feral, alien girlfrie—i mean boyfriend! who didn’t look kinda yandere at the end of this chapter at all…but lets be honest—who wouldnt kill for our babygirl sohan? esp when the target was that pos!
BEAT THAT MF EUIHYUN!!! YUH!! GET HIS ASS!!! mf who doesnt deserve to ever claim to be rated to you is next right??!? GET HIMMM
*related to you (is what i meant to say…they should rly allow us to edit this stuff)
at this point yall are we even surprised. u knew this was gon be a toxic bl—crime, murder, age gap=nuclear bomb~ ヾ(☆▽☆)
the most toxic relationships are bred by a variety of things, but a lack of communication is one of the major ones, and here it is in this manhwa, exhibit A.
another big co-factor is underlying mental health issues and that is also very rampant in both of our protagonist’s heads. they were a train heading for disaster from the beginning.
Hell, the author even said it in the author’s note if you had read it. If cha taekyung and heeseo hadn’t been traumatized by the death/murder of heeseo’s mother(that clearly affected them in different ways), maybe they woulda had a healthy, cute relationship(with heeseo probably pursuing him as an adult). Cha taekyung would be better at communicating his feelings and thoughts with Heeseo, and Heeseo would be a brighter, more independent individual, with more friends and a community to support him and prevent him from developing dangerous codependent relationships like he did in reality. It woulda essentially been “quiet ball of sunshine” x “outgoing ball of sunshine.” Unfortunately, they were not born into such an ideal world, where nothing terrible like murder, deception, debt, and trauma exists. RIP our meet-cute story with our main couple ╥﹏╥
i think closest thing we have to meet-cute crime bl is Dangerous Convenience Store (but even that one has its angsty issues)
inma be honest tho, i kinda forgot about the grape(⊙…⊙ ;) (the site broke down before i could fix it, lemme clarify:
none of the his circumstances justify how heeseo did that to taekyung, but in regards to the toxic way they deal with their built up conflict/grievances with each other, (like that last fight that ended in stabbing) what i initially commented still applies.
sohan has so much faith in that “maybe things can change between me and dad”/“maybe it’ll be different this time” and its frustrating but when you spend your whole childhood depending on someone, it can be hard to abandon them if you have that attachment to them. It would also affect his perception of his dad. No one wants to see someone they used to—or at least want to—respect and love as someone crazy or terrible. Esp not their parents. Even kids can either brag about or get bullied because of their parents’ identity/actions. its a weird thing, but everybody wants good parents, but when you don’t get that, how people react differs depending on the person (and situation).
His mom took 15-17 years to leave, and perhaps like his mom, he also needed to take a while to finally realize— that he will never change. and this moment, in the next chapter, will finally make him realize. hopefully. prayers or fingers crossed or manifesting idc i just rly need justice served to that piece of sh*t >:( if not at least want him to wake up to the consequences of his actions gaddammit. need him to see how he’s royally screwed up his whole life/family. and if he’s not gonna work on changing/fixing things, he needs to gtfo of sohan’s life.
only 6 chapters in but I SWEAR IF IT ENDS LIKE “Tale of the Yellow Serpent” by BrothersWithoutaTomorrow I WILL BE LOSING IT i cant do that again mannnn
none of that mind-bending other world/another life/circle of life philosophical type stuff—NO, NUN OF THAT, THANK YOU oh plzzzz none of thattt
it was just tragedy with a side of confusion and bittersweet hope so NO, i will not appreciate it if i see it againnn