Been waiting for this chapters translation so bad, I loooooove how awkward their first time is like aaaa from uyun not knowing whether to believe he actually meant it or if it’s another prank, to the STANDING FACING EACH OTHER POSITION??!/!/ and then everything else and J saying and doing all the things he remembers uyun wanting to happen and making it come true THEYRE SOOO
Choi min seems so evil, wdym wanna come between them, wdym “if I wanna stir up trouble I should say something” ILL PUSH YOU IN FRONT OF A BUS U ASS, mc deserves a better friend than that, and idk what the blond is scheming, is he just a friend of Seong that was kept at arms length and he’s fascinated someone got him to crack or is he also secretly an ass like min??? Istg if they turn out to really be asses tryna separate them and ISTG if they (min and blondie) get a happy ending getting together or smth I’ll fight
But anyway thats opinions so far, imma go attempt reading raws and pray the comic is completed
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ive gotten only up to ch29 so far but my gosh they’re way too cuuuuteee, min tried to shoot his shot again but seong had already figured out what he wanted to do and made it crystal clear that’s not happening and he’s into mc, min ended up humiliated since he pushed anyway and ended up running away with some messy inner thoughts so idk if he’s holding some grudge now or what, blondie so far got way more sus, but more importantly AFTER THE THREE (MC MIN AND SEONG) FINISHED THEIR HANGOUT AFTER MIN RAN AWAY, SEONG STRAIGHT UP TOLD MC THAT HE CONFESSED TO HIM BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL ETC with no secrets, just,,, told him AND I LUV THATTTTT but also I hate min so much now, liek bro you were clearly seeing hints that your friend is with Seong, you tried to test the possibility of him being with you anyway by asking if he remembers your confession??? And getting heartbroken over being told “ye don’t worry about it it’s all I. The past”??? HOW PATHETIC ARE YOU YALL ARE 28 ITS BEEN MORE THAN 10 YEARS, ANS A SHIT FRIEND
Anyway back to reading
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Okay read up to ch63, it’s not finished so I’m dying here but like AAAAAAA, the couple are so so cute together but they’re basically dating in every way except in official name cause Seong is a dumbass that still thinks jeonsu is doing it as practice cause he likes someone else while jeonsu is scared to confess out of fear of rejection since he’s always been rejected and he’s scared he’ll be called a “time thief” EVEN THO HES WILLINGLY DEDICATING SO MUCH TIME TO HIM AND EVEN THO FEAR OF REJECTION NEVER STOPPED YOU BEFORE but eventually their confidence in the others feelings solidifies more even tho they still haven’t explicitly confessed yet,
Min still feels like a slimey bastard cause Seongs presence still makes him “feel bad”??? Like bitch how long are you gonna hold on and be weird about those two dating all while acting like jeonsus friend, he hasn’t done anything bad yet in action but GOD his vibe of still being conscious of Seong feels nasty, and it feels double weird exactly cause he hasn’t done anything but then I’m anticipating it cause whys he so weird about seong still
The blond I was right about except it’s on a higher level, he IS well meaning in action but his motivations are muddy, as expected he’s the classic “fascinated/obsessed with pokerfaced X character and wants to watch their reactions” type and he did used to have a thing for Seong and he also saved him several times from something that if you pay close attention to the red flags of the plot planted in the so far posted chapters you might guess
Why, so ye I’d say he totally gets a pass for his stalkerish behavior and having surveillance on Seong
And then seong’s dad???? If you so far think he’s horrible, god you have a big storm coming, that man deserves to be buried alive with starving rats covered in butter
And all the while I was lightheartedly reading this being happy how consent-focused nice and respectful the interactions have been only to be hit by a train of why he’s so
JEONSU HOLD MY HAND WE’RE GOING TO WAR FOR HIM
Do you think the blonde and min guy could be a side couple?
I don’t think so and I hope not, min feels way too two faced for me to root for him,
first thing he does when he sees ml has interest in his friend he thinks “what does he have to like”?/ thats such a cruel thing to think about your friend, while turning around and still acting like a friend, and even knowing there’s something between them he still shoots his shot again with ml by trying to feel him out, asking if he remembers his confession from high school,(even tho ml easily shoots him down saying ye I remember but don’t worry about it it’s in the past), and his inner thoughts when blond was inquiring about the two he’s like “if I wanna get between them I gotta say something” And he asks mc if he could stop meeting ml for classes? And after mc says he stayed over at ml’s and min and blond were like ohhh what did you do, mc said slept, and then min went to ml to clarify he’s like “mc said he stayed over and y’all slept, y’all should clarify to avoid misunderstandings haha” hoping he’d say nothing happened and ml said “ye we showered together and slept together” making it crystal clear its exactly what it sounds like, and even after mc is injured and the chicken shop needs help, he goes over to help out seeing ml is already there helping out along with his office crew and he takes it as another hit to his ego or smth instead of being glad for his friend he has such a dedicated lover, like he confessed and got rejected ten whole years ago, and has the audacity to get feelings about him again after finding out his friend is with him and instead of wishing well he hopes getting in between them,
in my opinion he’s WAY too selfish to be likable in a side couple
It feels shallow cause the vibes are so inconsistent and they betray each other so much yet the one’s betrayed are still desperate to cling to them??? LIKE ITS SO WEIRD
The style feels like it’s gonna be somewhat cute wholesome, I mean it still isn’t dark evil, but it’s not exactly straightforward and wholesome either ??
Like it’s the standard popular clingy sunshine character sticking to the outcast loner but then it doesn’t make sense for him to betray the loner just cause the other popular assholes started ignoring him??? he was too much of a genuinely cool guy to be so strategic about relationships to call his best friend a loser behind his back???
And then in adult times he’s like the same except airhead enough for him to take that damn long to realize he doesn’t just want random sex with literally anyone but a proper relationship AND FOR HIM TO TAKE SO MANY TIMES OF SAYING “OH SORRY WE HAD SEX I WONT TOUCH YOU AGAIN” “OH YOURE CLEARLY TELLING ME YOURE PISSED AT MY BETRAYAL IN SCHOOL AND YOURE PISSED I REDUCED OUR RELATIONSHIP TO A DRUNK SEX ENCOUNTER, SHOULD I ASK YOU OUT PROPERLY? NO, LET ME SUGGEST BEING SEX FRIENDS” ?????? Are u stoopid, And then once again he’s wishy washy about yejun enough to go back and have sex with Geon again ??????????
And then he’s dumb enough to be used by Geon and framed for the spying but then smart enough to make a plan to get Geon caught admitting on tape?? But then dumb enough not to hold a grudge and go back to being his friend????
And yejun is just… a doormat for him????
And sarang is a doormat for Geon?????
Bros STAND UP
Like it’s so hard to care and root for them when they don’t have any solid values they stand for, it’s like their actions are a dice
Dice roll*
I agree
Ah but when he last went to sleep with geon(the bj thing?) he hadn't actually thought of the mc in "that" way..yeah weird..but maybe he wasn't aware of it yet..and only took it as a physical thing like giving hj between guys?? Again weird but then there's a talk between them and mc says he isn't into guys and it looked like his thoughts were in transition at that time..... then he confronted the mc about why the mc was upset about geon being handsy etc and actually didn't sleep with geon again even before they discussed being f buddies and being exclusive so let's give him that much credit ig..
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Anyway he's a frustrating character as you said coz he's so inconsistent and even though I can somehow rationalize what he did and why he did it...his behaviour feels so unnatural. Like, he seems too shallow.
Okay this is cute but GOD do I hate the trope of gay mc pushing away “straight” ml and invalidating his feelings even tho he’s standing there confessing to him, like who cares if he’s only liked women so far it means absolutely nothing,
can he get it up with you? Solid yes, is he wanting a romantic relationship with you besides the sex? Yes, SO WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOUR BRAIN TO TELL HIM HES STRAIGHT AND NOT ACTUALLY IN LOVE WITH YOU, I’d literally be so pissed if someone tried to tell ME how I feel I’d say ok cool then bye this shit isn’t worth it, “I don’t believe you you’re lying” WHATS THE END GOAL OF THE LIE? BEING IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU? WHY DO TOU THINK HE WANTS A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU, USE YOUR BRAIN FOR A SECOND
And the top having to explain himself and give his whole backstory and explain why he likes him to make him believe it but the mc is allowed to simply like him and be believed with no reasoning and explanation? Even tho they know the same amount of info about each other but it’s enough for mc to have feelings but not enough for ml??? I DONT GET IT, I HATE THIS TROPE UGHHH
It’s biphobia at its core. I hate the trope too.
definitely biphobia but i think there's enough guys who fuck another guy but not date them and might be manipulating and lie about that stuff
It's not biphobia. Thinking so is ridiculous. Try to understand MC's POV.
Imagine being a gay guy (with homophobia trauma) who starts having se* with a man who clearly said he never had exeperience with a guy before (ntm that he found straight por* in his room at some point). From the begining of the relationship, ML clearly displays signs of having no care in world. He looked like he only stayed 'cause MC cooked and warmed his bed (he even helped him clean his house and did his laundry). Wouldn't you feel insecure if you were in his place? the ML looked like he could leave the moment he got bored. MC knows better than anyone how hard it is to be gay in a conservative society. So why would a man who could have a relationship with a woman stick around for long, much less fall in love with him? I wouldn't have believed ML either. A guy who confesses out of the blue, only a month after meeting you and without showing it is weird. What did he really do to get MC's affection? NOTHING.
How is that biphobic? they didn't display their hate towards "bi people" at all (they never ever mentioned it).
Se*uality is not binary, it's a spectrum. You can be curious and try stuff without being able to be in a romantic relationship with the people you sleep with. MC was right to be cautious. Just 'cause you can get it up with a guy doesn't mean you can love him. OR even be able to resist the stigma around your relationship.
Okay but then already being together for 10 years in the third ending but also them knowing each other for at least another 10 years since childhood by the time they get together BRO
Also lmao 5 bottles of lube
lmaoo, I just remembered that chapter loll xD
Okay out of everything this was the best possible resolution to the “are we really gonna live as a gay couple in this conservative countryside society” problem, both of them being entirely sure that yes what they have is worth everything AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
but also in the meantime before this chapter I read the authors other works besides unromantic and now I’m feeling dumb for even doubting it being anything but the most wholesome drama-less outcome, the author consistently COOKS in the wholesome category
Okay I’m rereading and I’m confused what’s happening when mc is drunk wandering and runs into ex, whys it relevant whose phone the ex borrowed to text him or was it not the ex that texted? I don’t get this
Bro mc saying his relationship to his dad is basically nonexistent and that he’s ‘just a nuisance” to dad THEN IF ITS NONEXISTENT WHY DID YOU LASH OUT AT YUMIN FOR PUSHING THAT GOOD FOR NOTHING SPERM DONOR AWAY
The audacity of his dad to talk about how yumin’s family “only raised him for the money” and that since they’re not blood related they don’t really care for him, like do you reeeeeally wanna bring talk of “blood” into this considering the two people related by blood he was dependent on abandoned him with no looking back?? Do you reeeeeealllyyyy wanna talk about blood
i genuinely didn’t understand that scene with the ex and the blocking either
and i was wondering the sameee thing because what was the meaning of that crash out at yumin when he doesn’t have any relationship w his dad ?
i think what was happening was that the ex texted him a while after they broke up through his friend’s phone because it took the ex a while to actually figure out that he was blocked meaning that the ex wasn’t actually serious about him (if the ex was serious he could’ve texted mc immediately and then ex would’ve realized he was blocked and then would have texted through his friend’s phone sooner)
but this is literally just what i think bc that scene is hard/vague for no reason
Does anyone know another manga where mc has similar trauma about being with straight guys who got turned off by seeing his pp so now he hides it during sex? It’s a specific manga I’ve read that I can’t find, not sure if it was a full long one or a one shot chapter inside some other manga’s chapters,
there was a panel of him hiding his front with a bedsheet while riding on top of the ML, that’s something that was definitely there,
any other detail I’m not sure about anymroe cause it was long ago but it may or may not have had similar self made rules by the mc? he also hid his front another time by pulling down a button up shirt too I think? But again not sure about those details I just know there was definitely the bedsheet panel, if you know pls tell me what manga it was
Coult it be Neon Sign Amber ?
Its neither of those cause there was a bedsheet panel, but those were nicee
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/principle_side_hentai/
I think this is the one with self made rules
This comment is under that manga hehe
Hahahahaha
I think I've read something like that but I can't remember, so I hope someone will find it
In the meantime, I recommend this titles with the same trope:
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/kimi_ni_koisuru_hazu_ga_nai/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/soredemo_yasashii_koi_o_suru/ (I don't know why, but this version is censored...it's missing two pages from the printed version
Did you ever figure out what it's called?? If so I'd love to know so I can read it lol
I didnttt ToT
Okay this is so weird, in the end they don’t even properly get together romantically but the bottom sex friend-zones him, tho they start going on movie dates and stuff but stillll
Also why did we get a slight tsuji backstory, it feels like it was just to fill pages?? (Even tho he seems like the most normal chara in the whole thing)
And then what do you mean 10 whole years of chasing him??? WDYM 10 YEARS
also ew what the hell was the ONS blindfolding him and switching out for the ML to unconsensually come replace him wtf was that
Bro I thought it was gonna be 80 chapters of the first couple so them being so frustrating would’ve killed me if it was a 80 chapter slowburn CAUSE LIKE y’all have been friends for AGES, why do you have so little trust in his character to think he has some grand manipulative evil plan, but also for someone who thinks his friend stopped being friends with him because he’s gay, he’s awfully too ready to suspect he’s “getting some dick elsewhere” when ml was tryna take it slow and do dates instead of sex, not even counting the fact that IF HE WAS HOMOPHOBIC THEN WHYS HE SLEEPING WITH YOU NOW, MAYBE STOP FOR A SECOND AND RECONSIDER YOUR INTERPRETATION OF THE SITUATION, you even noticed that he’s freezing up unable to speak, is the “I hate how he can’t even speak up” thought important enough to not maybe freaking push him to spill his thoughts??? Liek would you rather lose a chance of moving forward with your actual best friend just cause he’s unable to speak by his own?/ YOU KNOW HE HAS SMTH TO SAY JUST PUSH HIM TO, but instead going to date your ex that DUMPED YOU WHATS wrong with you,
And what comes to the ml, holy shit have a little less fear of rejection, EVEN ON THE VERGE OF THINKIG THEIR FRIENDSHIP IS OVER HE DOESNT HAVE THE KICK TO THINK “OK IF ITS ABOUT TO BE OVER EITHER WAY MIGHT AS WELL COME CLEAN AND CONFESS IT ALL”?/? NOT EVEN TELLING MC ABUT THE STUFF SEONWOO DID BRUH, also avoiding him back when he found out mc is gay BRO WHY ARE YOU TAKING TIME APART, JUST RUN AND TAKK TO HIM WHO CARES IF YOURE STILL SHOCKED, and you’ve been friends for ages, why does seonwoo getting under your skin work so easily on you, does the friendship mean nothing to them to have so little trust in each other to not be able to talk at all till it got to that point???? ALSO WHEN YOU KNOW THE LITTLE SHIT MC HAS A DRUNK BLACKOUT PROBLEM WHY WOULD YOU POSSIBLY LEAVE HIM TO WAKE UP ALONE THE NEXT DAY WIH NO REMINDER NOTE OF WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED THE DAY BEFORE, how many times can you let “having an important conversation except he’s drunk and won’t remember any of it So let me leave before he wakes up without leaving a note so there’s no proof of the important thing happening and saying it later won’t be believed LIKE I HATE YALLLL FREAKING DO SMARTER STUFF
And seonwoo, hated the little shit for the first half so I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to like him and to root for a second couple including him but holy shit I loved second season, the authors note at the end is so real, tryna make him an irredeemable ass before having s2 plans then suddenly deciding he needs to be redeemed AND IT WORKED SO WELL I LOVE IT, they’re so good together and while seonwoo was annoying in his paranoia, self sabotage and his hot and cold but it was BELIEVABLE, considering his backstory it makes sense why he thinks how he does unlike how the conflicts and problematic thought processes in s1 that feel artificial, the ml being immune to his gaslighting so he can’t play strategy games so he has to straight up talk and say what he wants with him, and it’s so funny the few times he had the paranoid accusation monologues with him and ml is standing there like huh and seonwoo is like nvm let’s go, LIKE HIW EASILY HE GIVES IN LMAOO
Also their ending is chefs kiss, him finally giving into his feelings but also going from 0 to 100, like ok I love you but NOW IM A LIFELONG COMMITMENT THERES NO BACKING OUT, bby just wanted the comfort and reassurance of having someone to give and be given unconditional love LIKE SO REAL I LUV U BABYGIRL