The communication between these two is already peak. I know they both probably have loads of secrets but at least right now they are communicating! Seeing actual communication in a BL manhwa, especially at the beginning, feels so rare.
This is both cute and vaguely unsettling at the same time. I love our MC and Guwon, but the author is doing really well at creating an underlying tension. There are little hints here and there that things in the town are odd, and hints that something is going on with our MC (I don't feel like it's just PTSD). I'm really curious how this will develop, I just hope Guwon and Jinwoo end up as a fluffy couple.
Seeing Ray's body grow up just continues to highlight how creepy Jiskar is. He was sexually assaulting a child and everyone around him was just like, 'yeah whatever the child is actually the problem here.'
Taesung has no right to be surprised by Sooyoung's behavior. He regularly used sex and violence to punish Sooyoung. Sooyoung is legit like a battered spouse who thinks he deserves to be hurt any time he perceives he made a mistake. Taesung did this to him so now he has to live with the consequences.
Seeing Yeomin so happy just being able to afford public transit was both cute and heart wrenching. He has been through so much.
Also, as much as Yeomin's dad is awful, seems like that company pulling funding literally in the middle of a job is shady as heck. Most companies wouldn't be able to recover from that. I wonder if we'll learn the reason the funding was pulled. But regardless, that loss of funding directly contributed to Yeomin living a life of extreme poverty and abuse. We'd better see the ML grovel at some point. Baby Yeomin deserves nothing but happiness.
I'm baffled by the way the manhwa completely changed the ending. In the novel, they don't really end up permanently together. Ray's body matures so he regains his former appearance, and he goes back and rules his own country. He even gets married and has children to ensure succession. He and Jiskar still meet, but it doesn't happen often and their meetings are brief. Ray was always meant to be a monarch, and he refused to give up his position and his country for Jiskar. They do love each other in their own twisted ways, but neither is willing to give up their titles and countries for each other.
The novel ending was far more realistic considering everything Ray has been through and his inherent personality. To the end he was never willing to submit to Jiskar's control.
I can understand that maybe they wanted to give the manhwa a happier(?) ending where the pair ends up together permanently, but I feel like there were ways they could have done that without completely gutting Ray's character. Novel Ray never forgot he was an emperor and was always meant to be an emperor.
What's also weird is that the manhwa stayed pretty true to the novel for a good chunk of the story, then wildly deviated right at the end.
Seriously this story is so good. I wish more BL authors went this route instead of defaulting to the ultra toxic MLs.
Dan was an orphan, bullied badly as a child, chased and beaten by debt collectors, worked himself to the bone, lived in a state of constant stress, was abused and mistreated by jjk, framed, the puppy he adored passed away, and now he's facing losing the only person who has ever loved him, and people are mad because he's being "weak"? FFS he's losing everything that was keeping him going, and has a horribly low self-esteem on top of that. This crash out has been a long time coming. I do not, in any way, think Kim Dan is weak.
It certainly took a while for the plot to start moving again, but damn when the plot of this story starts moving it REALLY moves. I still don't understand a single thing, but whatever. Time to wait for S2...
He loves his puppy's terrible attitude so much! Chiyoung will literally give Heeseong anything he wants and fulfill every whim and wish the puppy could ever have. Chiyoung loves Heeseong more than anything and I'm over here single and crying in the corner being stalked by old creeps and wading through fuckboys.
I think this author has a list of kinks and is just going down the list trying to check off every single one. But whatever, it's hot, the characters are pretty, and I don't really expect a plot-centric story anymore.
I feel horrible for the original owner. Forcefully drafted into the military, forced into a job he didn't want, despised by everyone on his team, severely depressed, underpaid, and from what we know guides are also mistreated and under appreciated in general. He tried to take his own life multiple times and it's obvious that not a single person cared about him.
I know it's not going to happen, but a part of me truly wishes the original owner would somehow get a happy ending. Idk why his backstory is hitting me so hard, but legit I'm so upset about how hopeless he must have felt. And seeing his cute pastel clothes... ugh I'm getting emotional over a character that literally we've never even met.
It is wildly hilarious to me that somehow there's not a single article of clothing in that bed of clothes MC is sleeping on that he can wear. He's just gonna stay in that disgusting blood and cum stained button up I guess
These men aren't green flags, they're not even green forests anymore. These two are a whole damn thriving ecosystem with how healthy they are. I love them so much!
My heart hurts so much when Mittens said "Even after he loses interest in me, and I leave when the agreed time comes..." Like, he is so desperate for love and affection and he's so happy with Jooin right now, but he literally has no expectations. He truly does not believe anyone will ever want to stay with him. And Jooin just floats through life so he's not really in a place to give Mittens the stability and reassurance he needs. I love them both so much but I feel a separation has to be coming soon.
Spoiler about Ray's appearance & what happens with the couple
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I believe after Ray meets some elves and goes through a trial he figures out how to get back to his old body and appearance. He does eventually go back to ruling his country, but Jiskar also continues to rule his country. The pair are still together, but also sort of not together? They continue meeting with each other, and continue to have a relationship, but neither one can give up on what they are meant to do (ruling their respective countries). And they also have separate lives in their own countries. It's not really a happy or a sad ending, and they don't really end up together nor do they really break up. It's a very realistic, kinda bittersweet ending. However the manhwa could change things, as there have already been some deviations from the novel.
There have been a few questionable things in this manhwa but mostly the humor and hot sex scenes made up for it. But this chapter made me feel super uncomfortable. Why is it so hard to have a polyam manhwa without all the tops being rapists? And then I read some spoiler comments below that made me even more mad at where this story is going (please don’t ask me for the spoilers, just scroll down the comments).
I love how quickly Juheon went from absolutely despising everything about Dohu, to becoming absolutely obsessed with him.
President is the definition of 'looks like a red flag at first but ends up being the greenest of green flags.' Joo Jaekyung could never.