I'm seeing people still defend cha as if he wasn't looking at wooju in disgust and hatred in that last panel. Second love enthusiasts can never accept lying and pretending are a thing because it is not to be expected that their beloved is not angelic even when they're weird ass creeps. Bringing up jiheon doesn't negate cha maybe way worse than him. Y'all like deflecting so much. I even saw some say the creator was bullied into changing the story and that's just ridiculous tbh. This was never pushed as love triangle so I know y'all are just coping. Everyone on here was suspecting it and they were completely dismissed cz y'all wanna see his dick and see him fuck wooju well you got your wish now. And if it happens he's gonna be brutal with it so...
I know I shouldn't be victim blaming but I'm so over the stupid bottom trope cz like were you not warned by your parents to always be vigilant and smiles and niceties don't always mean good intentions??? You'll think I'm tripping but I swear these creators are so intentional in writing bottoms sharp as marbles. Why do they always trust anyone that shows the slightest interest in them like wft is this even? Why the fuck would he take unlabeled pills even if the guy took them and it had no effect why would you think it wouldn't affect you? Geee maybe he twiked it!!!! These bottoms be grown men with the intelligence of a rock. This type of idiocy is only cute on children.
I always knew Cain wasn't end game because of the flower that represents his love with Jooin which is the sakura/cherry blossom. One thing I'll give the creator of this series is the insane symbolism throughout the series. As an anime fan I always knew sakura basically represents fleeting love, love that ends quickly and also represent life and death. Also I noticed pink haired characters are never end game like snafu and blue box. The flowers themselves have a short life span too and only blossom once a year during spring.The flower in a tragic way represents Jooin and Cain's romance quite well. Their love was vibrant and beautiful but at the same time started to rot and die just as quickly. Their love even within the series started in season 2 and by mid season 3 it had basically come to an end. In hind sight that is short compared to Yahwi and Jooin from chapter one to the very end. Another thing to note is the sakura cannot endure heavy rains. This also represents the part of cainjoo that could not endure the fallout of the love triangle. The fallout just showed how fragile their love always was.
On the other hand Yahwi and Jooins love is represented by the gladiolus flower. It's not a popular flower and is not a spectacle like the sakura and to some people it's plain. This flower is the complete opposite of the sakura. It is a simple flower that represents endurance in life and in love. It can grow almost anywhere in the world unlike the sakura which only thrives in east Asia. It blossoms multiple times of the year as evidenced in the series. Jooin receives these flowers twice in the series, on his birthday(10/10 which is autumn) where he rejects them representing him rejecting Yahwis love and also during his graduation from the t.a which is around February or march in the spring. This time he accepts them meaning by this time he had already acknowledged his love for Yahwi and if it came back he'd accept it. The flower also represents how Jooin and Yahwis love could endure all the trials and tribulations that happened within the series and can thrive anywhere they are in the world evidenced by how Jooin moves to America and is still in love with Yahwi.
I saw a quote that reminded me of this series and it is 'Someone who falls in love with your flowers and not your roots will not know how to handle you in autumn.' I think it best fits Jooin's fickle love for Cain because he only loved the beautiful parts of Cain and never even tried to embrace the parts of him that didn't fit his narrative. When he finds out about the not so shiny part about Cain he quite literally tells him to go back home.
The sex in this series is out of this world. It's so good that I kinda get horny which isn't normal for me. The dynamic poses and the exaggerated rhythm are so well done it's beautiful. It's become one of my faves and I look forward to it always.
This is refreshing. It's so rare to see bottoms get called out on their bullshit. Fucking with other people when they are into someone else is disgustingly mean and cruel not only to the person they like but the person they don't like. What if that other person was serious about them and here they were just using them as a convenient distraction? What if the person they like is seeing all this and just feeling like they mean absolutely nothing to this person? This series does a good job of creating characters that are very human like and don't pretend shit doesn't hurt them. In so many manhwas it's all about characters egos until the end and pretending to be bad bitches when they're just crude and rude.
I love scummy characters top or bottom I really don't care. The male lead is my cup of tea and the breedable beefcake uke is just so delicious. I hope it gets more twisted as they lie to themselves. What a treat it would be if the plot twist is that nanjo actually just wanted to taste bottomhood but because of his not so stereotypical uke physique he's often just counted out...
I feel like shit every time I see a story like this and it's just so short and the creator just experimenting
The MC is really trying his best not to be a fucked up person. The self sabotage is sad but he used to sa the ML in their past life. Anyone truly holding themselves accountable won't just ignore the nasty shit they did.
I will always hate when characters are woefully ignorant. I can't help it but Ari reminds me so much of Cain from yours to claim. They just sit there and let themselves be played. Both of their situations with their respective love interests are proof that you can spend time with someone and do all the relationship shits and that mf either just doesn't want you or just hates you. They are so frustrating cz of all people they are in a position to remove themselves yet they stick around and say they can't help themselves. This shit pisses me off so much cz they literally just cosign themselves to being glorified side bitches.These types of relationship make people irrational and obsessive. The make people think that they need to move fast and lock them in otherwise they'll lose them. Look at how both are willing to throw their lives away for something they already know is uncertain. Jfc I hate to see it. It hurts me in my soul when people don't value themselves and are actively enabling another person to destroy them.
P.s I'll probably get hate for bringing up a popular fav like Cain but it is what it is.
I like that jae not being a dickhead isn't rushed cz it would end up feeling gimmicky. I don't want a rush of him kissing Dan's ass cz even Dan would probably feel overwhelmed with such a personality change. I don't want a 180 development but a gradual one and this gives me that. At least in all that muscle brain he can acknowledge he wants Dan in his proximity. Every chapter of him questioning why he tolerates Dan is just a sign his default setting is rejecting that he likes Dan which is a nice touch. He is so used to being a dick that his mind refuses the idea that he is capable of liking someone else. The simple things really do it for me.
I like that jae not being a dickhead isn't rushed cz it would end up feeling gimmicky. I don't want a rush of him kissing Dan's ass cz even Dan would probably feel overwhelmed with such a personality change. I don't want a 180 development but a gradual one and this gives me that. At least in all that muscle brain he can acknowledge he wants Dan in his proximity. Every chapter of him questioning why he tolerates Dan is just a sign his default setting is rejecting that he likes Dan which is a nice touch. He is so used to being a dick that his mind refuses the idea that he is capable of liking someone else. The simple things really do it for me.
The series is coming back tomorrow. It will be taking a one week hiatus after five chapters. They didn't phrase it right but that's what it is.
I'm so glad Taegu will suffer the one sided love curse that most second love interests do. Heavy on him cz his attraction is basically pedophilic. It's giving "I wanted you to grow so I can fuck you without feeling guilty for my pedo attraction." No one will convince me otherwise. I liked him at first but we find out he knew bbes when he was a child and I can't help but feel his love is some disgusting pedo shit and I will be skipping that part of the story when it arrives.
People complaining about karlyle being insecure do my head in. Insecurities wouldn't just disappear because he and ash are together. Another reason why ash is my one of my fav tops, he ends the bullshit so quickly and reassures bbes even in front of his nasty cheating ex, leaves that entitled shit twink there. Regardless of whether it's top or bottom I really love characters who stand on business. I'm so glad they didn't drag the ex bullshit and even more glad it wasn't in the main story cz the little shit is so irrelevant. The audacity of this little shit when he's been dipping in and out of ash's life and cheating is beyond me
Someone please upload or translate the guide verse side stories too.
This series was so good I let it marinate for four years and it paid off. This series articulated so well why I don't like regular bottoms cz why you a grown man not fighting back? Why you a grown man acting like a little animal? Toxic power bottoms are a breath of fresh air. The top too was so sweet. The writing was immaculate and the dialogue well done. Even the rescue scene didn't feel cringe like other bl. I loved when the top told the grandpa that killing him won't make the MC a strong powerful heterosexual man
At least in this the "second love interest" doesn't lie about how he uses niceness to manipulate the MC. Too many BLS endorse love bombing as a manipulation tactic via the second love interest but that's not a conversation people are ready to ever have. Anyway bls romanticise a lot of shit so...
Cain and Jooins relationship is so much of blind devotion, dishonest harmony and inequality and that's why I always thought it was toxic too. Most of the series both of them pretend the love triangle isn't a problem for far too long and that as long as they're with each other the problem will fix itself. I don't know why it reminds me of the nonsense of saying "as long as he comes back to me I'm okay". Unfortunately Cain even says something along these lines too. The issue with all this is how can you fix a problem when you aren't even willing to acknowledge it exists. Between Cain and Jooin a lot of uncomfortable and painful conversations needed to happen if they were ever to be anything. We all know the only tough conversation that they had was when Jooin rejected Cain which wasn't even fixing anything but just ending it all between them. Love isn't enough to fix problems that needs to be verbalised to be fixed. I do get that Cain was always fearful of Jooins retaliation but doing nothing when something could have been done is where he truly lost to Yahwi. I always wanted Cain to at least crash out on Jooin bcz it was Jooin hurting him more than anyone else but the creator hit us with the whole "Cain would never do that cz he's only nice to Jooin". I don't know why second love interest are often just written by default as doormats who should just take it until they are bent and broken. I hate how in manhwa they don't have agency and only exist to love people that don't love them back.
I want the teasing games to continue. I want the wildest sex from these two. I want raw nasty down bad bedroom bullying shits. I will not accept anything else. That's why I want the sex to be delayed gratification.