yes i love the main couple so much, and yes i love geon and ajin so much BUT WDYM CHUNGSAN DIED WHAT THE FUCK MAN HE DIDNT DESERVE THAT
sobbing my eyes out, everyone went through so much esp haesoo, but i can’t get over chungsan’s death. when i saw geon carrying his body out, i really hoped there was a way for him to come back
the plot holes in this story was way too much for me man
so yeongeun and minhyuk break up fairly quickly in the ‘new’ timeline, and yeongeun is unmarried and childless, so how does yeonwoo exist at all? the author saying dal gives yeonwoo’s existence meaning hence he can live in the past and it’s just “fantasy” is such an ass excuse, like they didn’t even try wtf
and the whole third act breakup of dal getting so anxious and insecure, he just pushes yeonwoo didn’t make any sense. i feel like the author just threw that in to give it some angst and add more drama and meaning to the story, bc it really wasn’t necessary if i’m being honest
and honestly, i expected yeongeun to get together w that other girl at the start. they just scream girlfriends to me tbh as the story progressed, i quickly realised that she was gonna be w minhyuk, and that crushed my lesbian dreams fr
also, she PISSED ME OFF. what the fuck did she get upset w dal for?? bro, if one of my friends came and told me the man i was dating was their ex and he was a piece of shit, i’d be upset and angry but not at my friend. id go straight for the man. she really was a piece of shit for her reaction idc
the last chapter got me sobbing, i miss them all so much really hope kirito gets his own story - this is just wishful thinking on my part but i really liked jin and rei’s friend from the film club, minori chiaki, he’s a cutie. low-key wish him and kirito get together
so basically jinyoo is a piece of shit (for the bullying in high school - and it wasn’t just to gyuh-wool) and the rest of them (except hayan and hoyeon) are absolute disgraces of a human. good to know
yk, i read this bc it’s like one of those traumatic bls everyone talks about - like pufferfish and dolphins - and it was something i just wanted to see what was so traumatic about it but this was quite…
can a bl author not go one day without adding rape to everything
i’m so tired of it, how did this become a fetish
i understand cnc being a kink but this isn’t that, this is just straight up rape from the top at the start that somehow turns consensual at some point in the story, and then the bottom gets raped by the red head in the past and present, how wonderful
i’ve been waiting years to read this and it was better than anything i could’ve anticipated
the way rafael’s family chose to handle his ‘sexual assault’ at the beginning is the way things should always be, minus his mother wanting to settle. a father beating you, then disowning you? HELL YEAH THATS THE RIGHT WAY
also, the way his family doesn’t gaf about them both being men, HELL YEAH. that’s the way it should be. i’m tired of seeing families in bls cutting off their sons for being gay/bi/or just not straight in general
rafael and dante are so fucking beautiful man. their love is so pure and healthy, their communication is wonderful. they’re so soulmates URGH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH dante is so fucking gorgeous man, and rafael being a beautiful pathetic puppy top EHEHEOWNKAKA this really was so lovely to read
there was hardly any angst, everything was consensual, they communicated well and stuck by each other through everything, their respective friends and families are great and they both got what they wanted in the end (career wise) and they have an amazing relationship. honestly, it doesn’t get any better than that. this was such an amazing story, so fluffy and light and a diamond among all these other bls filled with rape violence.
what a beautiful story, wish we could get side stories
this was actually pretty good, but idk i just feel like there’s something missing - hopefully the side stories will make up for it.
i feel so bad for shin’s family, man that was so sad and keith?? his father is his grandfather and his mother is his sister OKAY???? anyways, i love their golden retriever x black cat dynamic, IT ALWAYS EATS and they’re so cute together, i can’t wait to see them in the sides
loved the three friends. - john, max and carrie right, such cutie patooties and wish we saw more of allen. i have a love hate relationship with ramirez but her background is also so sad and the last chapter seeing her family was depressing man. i was honestly expecting her to lighten up on shin and they trauma bond and become besties and then get together with carrie i definitely didn’t expect her to die wtf also max’s ex-partner was a cutie too, i was shipping them (also allen and his partner)
good story though, quite similar to guide verse but also very unique as well. cant for the side stories (i say again for the millionth time)
this really was a masterpiece man. i love how plot heavy it was, and wasn’t overshadowed by the two main characters just banging their lives away like how most bls are these days. my only complaint is that i wish there was more lovey dovey romance between jay and yoohan, i just love fluff can’t wait for the side stories
also, so many big names ended in 2024 my god. can’t believe payback ended, under the green light (MY BABIES), full volume, pearl boy, define the relationship - i’m getting emo here
now why must the side stories be about that abusive rapist piece of shit and not the main couple, who we actually want to see
idgaf about how horrible his childhood was, like poor kid, but his present actions outweigh the sympathy i have for little him
how the hell are people calling this a masterpiece??
that bastard top, whatever the fuck his name was, was such a piece of shit. back in high school he beat that poor friend for what?? because he was afraid to develop feelings for seonwoo??? so he decided to be a homophobic bastard that goes around calling people disgusting and then beating on others?? TF
then in the present, that useless piece of shit clings onto a woman and then betrays her (honestly idc but it’s just another one of his MANY *accolades* that needed mentioning)
he doesn’t remember seonwoo after putting him through hell, is in a relationship w that restaurant owner but gets jealous and possessive over seonwoo after saying he wants nothing to do with him???
then he proceeds to bash the guys head in, dislocate his shoulder and if that wasn’t enough, he rapes him
THEN eventually, as a big hoorah he decides to give up his oh so luxurious life and mooch off of seonwoo and make his life miserable
the whole arc of them being together was so horrible. seonwoo literally became a shell of himself - as his friend said AND HIS FRIEND WAS THE ONLY ONE MAKING SENSE THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME - dedicated his whole life to that bastard top, by giving up on his dreams to become a character designer and starting med school from scratch, became heavily reliant on his parents when he didn’t want to and lost his friends all for what? a cunt that rapes him, tells him he’s no longer allowed to see his friends, doesn’t care if sex is pleasurable and enjoyable for seonwoo because yk, the only thing that matters is that the top is having a good time, forces him to have sex (aka rape ONCE AGAIN) right before an important exam which forces seonwoo to miss it and… it just goes on
i didn’t go and count the times they had sex, but let’s just say they had sex 10 times - i’m talking penetration here, not about when they masturbated together. only 8/10 times did seonwoo actually enjoy it, the first being the one and only time that fucking top decided to give seonwoo pleasure by fingering his prostate and just one other time.
and yes seonwoo needs to STAND THE FUCK UP. they honestly didn’t even have a deep, meaningful connection back in high school. so there honestly was no reason for him to be THAT hung up on that fucking dipshit. and before anyone says i’m victim blaming NO TF IM NOT JUST READ WHAT I SAID EARLIER IN MY TEN THOUSAND OTHER PARAGRAPHS all i’m saying is that seonwoo needs to grow a goddamn backbone and get a personality that doesn’t revolve around some monstrosity of a man that doesn’t care about him even 1/4th of what seonwoo cares
this was honestly such a terrible read and an utter waste of time. everyone in the comments saying they loved this, it’s a masterpiece yada yada yada are all braindead. because how does the rapist top getting w seonwoo and making him a shell of a human a ‘masterpiece’ at all?? absolute shitshow, do not waste your time
reading this for the third time and it just becomes clearer with every read how similar that rapist chang looks like my glorious king jin cheongwoo and it PISSES ME OFF EVEN MORE like how dare that dirty scum have an almost identical character design to my beautiful handsome amazing lovely gorgeous beautiful beautiful beautiful glorious majestic king jin
and i’m not gonna say anything about the story itself because it gets even better every time i read it, words are not enough, PERIODT.
this was so ass. so many plot holes, so much going on at the same time yet nothing being addressed, the rushed ending, the inconsistent art (and nose for that matter). just all around ass, don’t waste your time with this
urgh, this was gorgeous and should’ve been way longer
it’s the way masterpieces like this are so short but shit show manhwas about rapists like low tide in twilight, and roses and champagne get 70+ chapters
man, what a waste.
i wanna know why edwin chose collin - at the beginning, it definitely seemed like it was implied he was gonna go after collin for a motive but maybe i just read too much into that but whatever
i thought collin was a cutie patootie and he deserved better than edwin playing with his feelings at the beginning but as the story progressed, his lack of anything just showed - he’s so weak and naive, and waaay too dependent on other people, i.e. edwin and demi, it just pisses me off
and edwin wtf? i liked him despite him playing around with collin at the beginning, but the two times he rocked up to collin’s place in the middle of the night and then proceeded to rape him TF? and yes, rape him. before anyone says otherwise, it was 100% rape - sure collin eventually EVENTUALLY ended up liking it but it was because he was forced. remember kids, coercion is NOT consent
i stopped liking edwin after that but i was eager to see him get his revenge, which was absolutely justified and deserved. but what the fuck was up with collin man. after revealing how he was raped and abused for years as a child to collin, why was collin still of the belief that he needed to go to jail?? even at the end when they got out of that old man’s mansion, and the four of them were talking and edwin said he’d turn himself in, why the fuck was collin so ecstatic about that? he’s so fucking useless man. wanting the love of your life to go to jail because he killed his rapists and abusers?? wow, way to go man. such a hypocrite too because even after revealing that he and edwin killed that man that tried to rape collin at the start, he didn’t tell gray he deserved to go to jail now did he
he was genuinely so good for nothing, and the more i think about, the more annoyed i’m getting
demi and gray on top though, wish we could’ve seen side stories of them and not the other two losers