Clearly this isn’t for me. I don’t find any of this funny. It’s actually sad. Noeul deserves so much better and ultimately for some weird obsession of friend x friend trope he’ll choose the worse option of Yeoreum despite this man being actual garbage. How is this “sexy” and “entertaining”, this is draining and sad.
So this is a supposedly a 31 yr old MC who acts this much of a piece of shit? Yikes. Realistically Noeul should have cut ties with this bastard ages ago, who treats someone they care about like this for years which such little emotional respect?
Why couldn’t they simply just lick each others wounds so to speak. No we have to have he’s a sad idiot puppy yes that definitely excuses assaulting the guy who simply was being nice to you out of shared heartache. I’m exhausted it’s literally the first fucking chapter.
But it wasn’t even a joint at fault responsibility. It’s clear as day the blond one is entirely at fault.
I actually feel bad for Doyeon. I mean he’s being an asshole but everything he said in anger is in fact true. Can you imagine the very STRAIGHT man you’ve crushed on for years and was your first sexual awakening coupled with being a “familiar” constant in your life, who strictly had a type that you knew you could never measure up to so you silently accepted pining after him because this same guy never would have considered dating you, a man, let alone a person he didn’t wholly respect as he’s constantly treated you as as nothing more than a nuisance kid brother suddenly changes his entire life aspirations and romantic desires for a pretty boy twink nearly half his age. I mean if we simply made Yiyoung a young woman it’d make it more obvious how cliche of a situation it is, typical old man behavior vying for young pretty thang. Of course Doyeon isn’t owed Kang’s love but it has to seriously sting just how of all the types Kang could fall for it’d be the ONLY type of man that a typical straight man would even allow himself to consider if a woman wasn’t an available/option. Plus we have Kang’s early chapters where some of this is actually verbalized in introspection, by Kang acknowledging Yiyoung would realistically move on from dating a MUCH older man who is very much at a different point in his life than Yiyoung who has no experience whatsoever. I admittedly like this drama because it adds some realism even if the fantasy is Yiyoung + Kang are OTP forever. Don’t hate me but yeah I actually do feel bad for Doyeon it sucks, every gay boy knows this feeling of self anger because you’re not afforded the luxury of openly expressing your love to often times your straight best friend or straight object of desire out of fear of violence or rejection. I’m hoping Yiyoung realizes this and is sympathizes which I sure Kang hasn’t and likely won’t be able to because he would never have struggled with this personally.
I know Ash is a child but im genuinely so annoyed how he’s never disciplined properly so this is what you get a kid that thinks “knows better” than adults despite being overly sheltered. It’s honestly realistic how he’d just to this extreme of a reaction to “run away” given his upbringing and especially in this media focused times, children “grow up” but don’t actually know how to handle “grown up” emotions as they can’t still properly regulate.
I don’t even understand the point of takatora being an omega if he never actually experiences what it means to be an omega in the proverbial sense. He cuts out his whom and still remains just as chauvinistic, entitled and selfish despite this “setback”. Yes he’s no longer on the highest pedestal but his disregard for others in all ways is just inherent it seems. It’s actually really hard to read this because he’s genuinely such an awful person in such a realistic way of someone who’s always had his way and maintains that mindset to the bitter end.
Is it me or the MC’s appearance constantly keeps changing? Like his face will look way more masculine one minute then “uke-like” within panels of each other. Then his height is all over the place as well as his stature in musculature it is actually really distracting.
So we have perfectly logical MC proceed to be raped by the love interest because he’s acting “aloof” and the MC acknowledges this occurrence and just takes this in stride…. I know this is just a dumb plot but make up your mind is he dumb or plot dumb….
JJ is the Ben Affleck type. And this is not a compliment. I said what I said
I like the idea but I don’t like is how MC was very much trying to date rape but getting ML purposely drunk enough to sexually make a move on. That’s not okay nor should it be seen as funny.
As much as I love that the plot is plotting, there is nothing compelling about our main character eventually beginning a romantic relationship as we know with his charge as we know will happen. Our MC is nothing but a political pawn and prisoner to the crown prince. He has no actually autonomy true in any of the political games he’s been forced onto the board to now defend a royal power that has no care for whether he lives or dies as long as he serves his purpose. Despite the prince being the younger, the power imbalance and worse given that the prince now cannot be certain who to trust and not trust, our MC may be compelled to fill in roles that a growing boy would require to properly be “well adjusted”. Maybe the author may be able to spin this in a way that will eventually evolve into love, but from my current guess we’ll get an obsession/ possession dynamic between the two more so than anything that one would consider a love story.
So while the author has previously written self respecting confident mutually equal relationships, here we the audience are suppose to accept that an independent, self assured kickass boxer will just end up with a piece of shit fuckboy because we just needed yet another romanticized toxic douche getting a “happy ending” instead of any sense of humbling because he’s drawn to be hot.
One of those enemies to lovers plot that truly make zero sense as to why they would end up together. The ML is just homophobic and toxic for literally no reason decides to blame MC for something he had absolutely nothing to do with plus tarnish the reputation of the only person who was genuinely nice to him. And MC instead of saying fuck this I don’t want anything to do with this piece of shit and now forcibly interacting with this guy at his own detriment, because BL logic. Fucking stupid. The ML is also a fuckboy who likes to play mind games as shown in the Raws. Aren’t Korean authors exhausted by constantly churning out toxic narratives as their bread and butter.