i have read ouroboros before and i remember really liking how the author approach difficult topics with such tenderness. this one though … hnggg even better neither yugyeom or jooin are the kind of characters i expect them to be. yugyeom is desperate for affection but it’s not because he’s not good enough but rather because he has so much love to give. sure jooin is rich as hell, but he’s so lazy and demotivated and in a way, a pushback of the way he was raised growing up. they were both messed up and jagged, but complement each other so well. i’m currently pausing on the episode at the new year’s eve and read a little bit after that i think things seem to be getting sad so i’ll wait until the story is finished and hopefully they’re going to fall back into each other.
the build up and the tension leading to the first “i like you” and the kiss is so crazy though i should study that as an aspiring writer
umm why do i feel that the love interests look like slam dunk characters
EXACTLYYYYY
Was thinking this toooooooo
what a great time to be alive! these days there are increasingly better and better 18+ het smut webtoons with vibrant and diverse female characters that dont read like picture perfect mary sue’s. i’m so happy about this and happy to finally find a good rendition of one of my favorite tropes - childhood friends to lovers xD
i was captivated by this webtoon so i bingeread the webnovel and i can tell the novel is so well-done. even after the translation, the flow of the prose is still so poetic … i would recommend the webnovel to anyone who’s very curious of how the story will go ~
the imagery the sentences evoke … worldbuilding so well done. i actually really like the setting of the abyss
omg slay, where did you read the novel?
anyone else started reading tgcf because of this manhwa?
the grip & impact both have on me …
what does that stand for??
I think it's heaven official blessing
No, but really love tgcf a lot, i just felt i should read this, tho both are about mythical, traditional & historical, have great art, u must watch animation, its beautiful too
the tension between the leads are so crazy yall it got me writing down some notes for next time i gotta seduce some boyo
okay but the sex scenes with tj are so just so kinky and nasty good in comparison to the ones with jo they should be studied
dear god i saw what you did for other people and i want it for me
yura whenever ure ready to ditch the female lead im here with open arms and open *forcibly dragged by the censorship committee*
at this point im watching everythihg unfold without wanting to form deep attachments to the character and just enjoying the story. just like when i was watching game of thrones lol
i remember hating it on first read because of how torn and fickle the mc seems to be. but on the second read i know for sure that the ML / joowoon has always loved him from the start, and this sheds light on how the main character is intentionally fickle - he is an UNRELIABLE narrator (damn i’m really employing critical reading skills here). and when i read it in this way (that they have alway loved each other from the start) the story becomes more haunting, especially at halfway mark (around chapter 50) where joowon is no longer in heesoo’s life, wow … you can see how joowon haunted the narrative and have every little things remind heesoo of him. i cant believe an overused premise such as “step brothers” can torn me this much, it was so well written the longing bleeds all over the place.
sure i feel bad for taku! but he - like the camera - has always been a spectator, i do feel like heinserts himself into heesoo’s life because the story of the stepbrothers falling in love is intriguing to him and he wants to know more and of course all that until he doesn’t want to become the man behind the lens anymore and become an active participant, and by that time it was too late because it has alwys been a story between heesoo and jowoon
anyways for such a cliche premise (“b grade romance book” as heesoo said) this is so well written and well drawn … love or hate, you’ll always be famous …
Goshh agreed with everything! The thing you wrote "like the camera - has always been a spectator" makes so much sense!!!
Yessss! I remember talking about this with a friend some time ago. She decided to read it and hated the ending, since it felt "unfair" and Taku deserved better. But to me it was quite obvious (and it is clearer in a second read) who the story is really about and whose story it tries to tell. Even the title kind of gives it away. The story was more about the internal conflict of the MC and his rocky relationship/feelings for his brother than anything else. I love the idea of the unreliablke narrator and Taku as an espectator. Spot on!
omg yes! The title does give away the internal conflict!!
Agreee