i reallllly love how both brett and hayden are non-stereotypical top/bottom. like even for an alpha/alpha pairing, their dynamic is so rare and refreshing. alpha male (literally) cold-hearted brett and hopeless romantic lovesick "i can fix him" fool hayden. i love them sm.
nah i'm sorry yall are too used to fast-paced webtoons already cause wym there's no plot or the plot's going no where. it's building up that's where it is TT say what you want about the direction of the story but you could also just wait for it to develop more...
come back after like 10-20 chapters. yall are mostly just mad you have to wait a week to be fed for free and still want more after a new chapter drop. don't judge a book by its cover, and don't judge a story before it's over.
Everyone is sharing there opinion. Everyone have the right to criticize good or bad doesn’t matter if we are reading it freely/illegally. The comment section here is for a reason where we can share our like or dislike. It is not like we are cursing or talking bad about author. Opinion can be good or bad, take it or leave it. You don't have to point out that we are reading illegally including you which is very immature.
And, if we are talking about plot, everyone is frustrated because how the characters are going downhill when they were good in S1. And no one is mad about waiting when there is no cliffhanger. Most people mad about the brother's immature decision and stubbornness.
Umm I pointed that out exactly bc we are reading it illegally??? Ppl who don't pay for the right to read, don't have the right to criticise. I point it out exactly bc people have become so comfortable and entitled. Did I hit a sour spot cause my comment just said to wait, where did I say people can't complain? Lol. It's not just about a cliffhanger, the plot can feel slow when you wait weekly that's what I meant.
And I understand piracy. Especially in this economy. Yeah, I read illegally but I pay for official chapters when I can and when I appreciate the author. And if you follow any author on twt, you would know just how much they hate illegal readers. One popular one even tweeted about how having people read their webtoon illegally felt like someone putting their work in trash.
So, yes. I do feel the need to humble everyone here, including myself, that hey we are already reading for free, take it or leave it.
You didn’t hit any of my sour spot.
I don’t get your thought process. No one is hurting here by criticizing the story. And no one is attacking author here. And, I don’t see the problem, if anyone talking about the bad side of the story. Even if you downgrade us by saying we have no right to talk about how we feel because we aren’t reading it in legal site, nobody would care honestly, and still people gonna comment here.
for how short and straightforward this series was, the characters feel so real and like i really got to know them... the doodles and the 15yl makes me feel like i'm actually growing with them :") love it sm, very good reread material
gonna buy the official to support the author <3 consider doing so too even if it's just 1 chapter <3<3<3
I'm all here for yongwoo x sungjoon. I actually think they're so fking cute tgt. But I wished they had their own series or side stories cause there's just too much going on with gyuwon and hwayoung rn
iruma's cheek buns as opera carries him uwu uwu uwu
also wow alice now joins the iconic eye scar/mark gang ●.●
been here since day one when this wasn't even a full series and there were only fan translations available. fell in love with brett and hayden cause they just scratched all my dirty itches. rmb crying cause all i had was 6 chapters. rmb crying again at the announcement for a full series. and now here we are... at their romance arc. rejoice.
awweee hayden crying :< that was such a sweet moment though T^T now he's definitely realised his feelings for brett aren't just because of his bond, and is actually the other way round. the bond formed cause he caught feelings. but who wouldn't when brett is smiling at you like that while calling you honey?!?!?!?! who can even resist!!!
people underestimate the impact child abuse and trauma has on a person. i see a lot of comments pointing out how his past doesn't justify what he's done. it's not meant to. or "his actions don't make sense, he's a shit person." that's literally the point. a shit environment makes a shit person. and he was so young when it all happened too whereas jooin was older. and i don't think jooin even went through the same physical abuse he did. not to make this some trauma olympics, but jooyung went through really fked up shit that shaped his fked up personality.
jooin went through (mainly) manipulative emotional abuse by his mom. and jooyung literally had to fight to stay alive with a stepmom that was feeding him his allergies. their parents literally pitted them against each other even if jooin was passive about it.
it makes their story as siblings more heartbreaking actually... jooin was reaching out so they can find comfort in each other, but joohyung literally couldn't trust anyone, especially not the son of the stepmom who was trying to lowkey kill him.
i want to see a hopeful resolution between them but i know it won't happen... their father is the biggest villain here imo... pos is a cheater and a literal criminal that makes his children clean up his mess for him...
at least now jooin and yegyeom have each other TT and i hope jooyung can feel remorse and take the grace jooin and yegyeom have given him to heal and grow...
THANKKKKK YOU! Like i genuinely feel like I’m losing my mind when I read these comments. If the reader went through a fraction of what he did they would’ve been jaded as well.
I’m gonna be totally honest, what you expressed about child abuse is totally true as children emulate their caregivers or the situations they were thrown into.
But let’s be clear, while both of the were subjected to abuse (whether different kind, still same outcome) one decided to let go while the other hold on onto something that was destroying him.
I do feel terribly bad and more so when he expresses that he does like MC but he then chooses to keep doing what he’s doing because he has “too much to loose “ when the reality of the situation is much sadder as he already lost himself and keeps choosing not to let go, whereas the other two tried their best to get out of that vicious circle and be better, find happiness. That’s the difference between the two, one understood what they needed to change and the other didn’t.
I do hope his story ends with him being genuinely happy and loved.
But he kinda deserved that because otherwise I don’t think he would’ve realized how to let go.
you're not wrong but you're giving jooin way too much credit and still underestimating jooyung's trauma. jooin did not "let go". he ran away. his whole arc is about how his coping mechanism was escapism, but his past still shackled him even as he tried to walk away from it. on the other hand, jooyung never left the fight. he was forced to continue fighting, especially by their father who in his own words "lost the better heir (jooin)", not verbatim.
plus jooin only understood what needed to change cause he had a taste of what life could be like if he healed, and it gave him hope and courage. there was none of that for jooyung.
it's so easy to say that jooyung should have let go, but again as a child he grew up on the concept of living life on survival mode 24/7, he had no concept of "letting go".
we learn from young that the sky is blue, but what happens when we're faced with the concept that the sky is red? "nonsense. we know the sky is blue." that's our reaction right? and that's what it's like for him. adult soldiers who fight long wars and come back from it get severe ptsd and lose a sense of purpose and self. what do you think happens when a child actually grows up living that fight?
it's so easy to victim blame and say they should have helped themselves and be better. but victims aren't in the right mindset!! everyone has different capacities and reactions to trauma. there are depressed people who literally can't get out of bed, would you call them lazy? no, cause that's literally their condition! kudos to those who can, but not all could.
it's hard for us to understand unless we're in that exact situation but that "too much to lose" is literally jooyung's whole self and being, his whole life, not just this situation with yegyeom. he didn't deserve such a cruel wake up call, but he did need it. and that's a very big difference.
and to me that difference is also what makes yegyeom's character and what he represents shine even more. especially his act of reaching out a hand to jooyung. here's a man who has been taken advantage of, spit on, abandoned, etc. a man jooyung himself has been so cruel to. and yet, that man like a dog full of love and compassion remained kind till the very end. yegyeom could have walked straight away with jooin, but he stayed to give jooyung a helping hand.
it's the final nail in the coffin for jooyung who believed the world is cruel but it's also what set him free. he finally got the love and kindness he needed. a tiny light in his dark tunnel.
it's such a perfect conflict of themes and beliefs, but i'm afraid people are missing that just so they can have an "ultimate villain" painted in black when this whole story is actually just full of grey.
i think their makeup "convo" if it can even be called a convo ._. is reasonable if yoogon's deep trauma is considered. it just feels questionable cause we still don't know what exactly his trauma is... i have my suspicions it's some sort of sexual trauma which makes sense why he's in sex work and why he has that sexual confident cocky attitude. it's his way of feeling in control.
and if he experienced it when he was young and kept it in for so long all while the people around him shame him for his coping mechanism, i can understand how he's gotten so closed off.
so junghae acknowledging that yoogon has deep issues that he doesn't want to talk about, and not forcing him to talk, but still being there for him... i think it's really validating and comforting for yoogon who's been deprived of that.
i think junghae has finally realised yoogon still doesn't see him as someone to trust or rely on, and him fighting yoogon on his profession/coping mechanism worsened that. so he's staying, not pushing, until yoogon can trust and open up fully to him. which is a very mature and reasonable decision when you're in a rs with deeply traumatised people, even if it might seem like he's the only one "putting in work" into the rs.
brett preferring women but also being an extreme masochist that wants to be dominated in sex... now i want to see a dominatrix topping him TuT
The way I drooled god I love Bret this freaky little shit
Brett doesn't really "prefers" it. I'd like to think that it's just what he usually goes for because it's still more acceptable than being with a guy who is not an omega, moreso being with another alpha. But I am curious if he has ever dated an alpha woman before. I think that would be interesting too.
Looking at his preference it might be just a normal sex without kink when he's with woman. Unless the women is an alpha and able to overpower him