The author is amazing. They're so good at making you change your impression and idea about a character. I started off absolutely hating Grayson bc of what he did to Chase in KMIYC. I still loathed him at the beginning of Desire Me If You Can, and to be frank, I actually disliked Dane as well. With their personalities, I thought they'd never get along, much less work as a romantic pair. And if they did, it'd be toxic as fuck. But to my surprise, they are a really, really good couple. And shockingly....they are super green flags to each other. It's crazy how the author made it work.
If you finished KMIYC novel, I recommend reading DMIYC as well. If anything, you see more about the Miller family and their dynamics. Josh shows up for a significant part of the novel too.
Who is Dane? I'm sorry I forgot everything in kiss me liar
Dane Striker. He is the fireman that took in Yeonwu in KML as a favor for Josh. He was in the military with Josh, and the two are somewhat friends. Dane will also make a brief appearance in KMIYC. He is a super rare dominant omega.
Ah thank you i remember now
Did Haeil even enjoy the sex? He never once said anything other than "stop", "wait" and "no".
What I love about this story is that Josh, despite being the omega, HE is the knight in shining armor to Chase. Chase actually is the damsel in distress. TWICE, Josh saves him. After the first time Josh saved him, Chase completely falls head over heels for Josh. Chase is the type to wake up, feeling Josh's side of the bed is empty, and immediately wakes up to go look for Josh. He goes looking for him like a lost puppy.
Chase goes from rebellious and insane to being very docile and obedient to Josh.
It's also very obvious Josh is the one that wears the pants in the relationship. At one point, when Chase punches Josh bc he thought Josh was cheating on him, Josh pins Chase to the bed, kisses the hell out of Chase until Chase calms down. He gets Chase to talk, and they clear up the misunderstanding. The person Chase saw Josh hug and talk affectionately with? His sister. Afterwards, Josh tells Chase if Chase ever misunderstands him again like this, Josh will punch him once and then completely disappear from his life. Due to this, after Chase finds out Josh is an omega and has a child, Chase is afraid to ask or say anything bc what if it's another misunderstanding? What if he accidentally says something and Josh takes it the wrong way and thinks Chase is accusing him of infidelity? Josh said he'd leave him. So Chase clamps up and ignores the obvious signs of Josh being an omega who already gave birth.
Where did u get this from omg!!
Josh is a lot more mature than Chase, since he had a well rounded up bringing, but he is also about 4 years older I think? So makes sense. This is all in the webnovel, you can google it
He is 5 years older. I'm just comparing Josh to Yeonwu and Keith. God, so much miscommunication and misunderstanding in the first story of the series.
I read the novel
Oh to add on. You know how Chase is Josh's first love bc Chase was in a chocolate commercial dressed up as a girl? The new movie Chase is making, his character dresses up as a woman in one scene. Josh sees Chase dressed as a woman and is completely enamored (and so is every other male on set). Chase actually was embarrassed to have Josh see him, and didn't want him there. He was about to get upset until Josh tells Chase that he was his first love bc of the commercial. Chase immediately calms down and then asks Josh since he was his first love, did Josh ever masturbate thinking of him? Haha
The changing point in their relationship is when Josh saved Chase from a pack of coyotes. Since coyotes are essential canines, Chase completely froze and wasn't able to listen to Josh's direction to hide. Chase straights up faints. When he wakes up, it's to miraculously to find himself unharmed, despite the number of coyotes. Josh didn't let one coyote pass him to get to Chase. Josh is bloody with one arm fracture(?). He was able to fend off a dozen coyotes by himself. And this is what makes Chase fall completely for Josh. Lol as a reward, Josh actually asks Chase for a kiss. Chase is taken aback but seeing as Josh saved him, not only is Chase grateful but feels guilty that he put Josh in that position. He couldn't even help bc he fainted. So he kisses Josh as a reward.
The second time Josh saves Chase, it is after the two of them are in a relationship. Chase gets kidnapped. The kidnappers want to use Chase as a stud. However, Chase refuses to cooperate, so they slap his face. When Josh drops in to rescue him, he knocks everyone out. He goes to untie Chase when he notices the swelling and bruise on Chase's face. So he asks Chase to tell him who did that to him. Chase points to one of the kidnapper that knocked unconscious on the floor. Josh walks over, grabs the back of that person's head and smashes it against the wall repeatedly. No one gets to hurt Chase and leave a mark on that beautiful face. The other ppl are like wtf and scared of how violent Josh can get, but Chase is staring at Josh with hearts in his eyes.
Yes, and then Josh became a womanizer, an omega who only slept with women...until he met Chase again.lol Him and Dane were a promiscouos duo for some time, although Dane was much worse. While Chase only slept with Josh.
Chase sometimes dresses up like a woman for Josh. And Josh desses Cecil up like a girl. Funny, with Chase's parents it's the other way round. Koi wears woman's clothes for Ashley in private... . And Grayson... spoiler
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bought a b.. for "Venus" which got him almost killed by a very angry extreme omega.lol
It's so funny how much Josh loves Chase's face, especially when he's dressed as a womN haha.
I thought I would hate Grayson, but he's so unhinged and funny in his story with Dane, that he grew on me. His story is definitely more of a romcom with all the mishaps that happen haha. I've been refreshing ridibooks nonstop waiting for ch 156.
Aside from Chase, Josh was only into women, and when he had a crush on Chase he thought he was a little girl. So it's like a fantasy coming true for Josh.lol
I think Chase wasn't happy about playing a little girl, but iicr they searched for a girl for that commercial.
Yes, I can't wait for the next chapter. That cliffhanger can drive one nuts, wating for 2 days now that he continues.-_- If there is no delay it should be released at 7 am korean time. I hope for more then one chapter, sometimes we get lucky.
Grayson became my favorite character, he is hilarious, so weird and crazy.^^ Others I know love him, too. And a lot of readers who wanted to see im suffer, fell for him. He dragged Dane along, they are like a comedic duo now.lol
But for the ones who wanted karma for him, Chase will only get closure if Grayson really understands that he hurt Chase with his way of helping and apologizes, and thanks to Dane he is learning emotions, but it's still a long way to go and I think he needs Dane for that. Since you read it you know about his problems with emotions,"helping" and some of how he was raised/how paranoid his father is, because if his own father.
The author wrote on twitter a few weeks ago, that Grayson's story was the first one she came up with when she started with omegaverse~10 years ago. So probably their characters are more fleshed out than her other characters.
Just a side note in case anyone was wondering. Josh confirms in the side story of the novel he is 5 years older than Chase.
Everybody getting all mad at Tristan has to understand Eden barged into his tranquil and quiet life. Eden is nothing more than a stranger to him. The fact Tristan was willing to pay for his medical treatment and make sure he'll be in want of nothing speaks a lot about Tristan's sense of responsibility.
So I read the novel and got to the part where they returned to London, and then skipped to the end. I skipped not because it's boring or bad, but I'm getting to the part of the novel where they're dropping hints and foreshadowing something bad is gonna happen, and I'm just dreading it. I didn't want to read the angst lol.
Anyway, Tristan falls for Eden first, but because the novel is told from Eden's POV, we don't really see when, how, and why Tristan falls for Eden. There was only one chapter from Tristan's POV, and it's towards the first half of the novel.
This whole having sex as a form of treatment for Eden? Tristan becomes obsessed with it. Eden actually recovers enough that he goes back to London for physical therapy and in hopes of restarting his career. So he goes between London and Scotland every 10 days. When Eden is back in Scotland, the first thing Tristan does is drag Eden to bed and have sex with him. At one point, the chef and maid don't see Eden for an entire week because Tristan kept him in bed with him for that long. The sex is also no longer painful btw. It's definitely pleasurable for the both of them now, especially for Tristan (more on about this later).
At one point, Eden delays going back to Scotland due to his interview with his company getting pushed back + snowstorm canceling his flight. Out of desperation, he takes the train from England to Scotland. In the middle of it, though, his seizure comes back. He hasn't seen or been treated by Tristan for 14 days at this point, so his symptoms of separation comes back. When Tristan hears Eden going into seizure, he goes batshit crazy. The secretary and chef try to stop Tristan from driving out into the snowstorm, but he fights both of them. He knocks both of them down and is about to drive into the storm when the chef yells, "If you die, Eden will die with you!" Hearing that, Tristan immediately calms down.
Something that I should mention at this point, it's heavily implied in the novel Tristan values very little about his own life. He's tired and weary of it. The reason he gave up his company and secluded himself in the castle is because he wants to get away from it all. Just disappear. If he dies...then oh well. Though we barely get any POV from Tristan, in the novel, we do see how Tristan acts and talks to Eden when they're in bed together. Tristan even says at one point that his entire life, from everything he does, it's out in the open. Everything single part of his life is scrutinized and posted on tabloids for ppl to gossip. All except Eden. Only Eden is his secret to keep. Only Eden is fully his. Eden is his own patch of peace. (And it's around here that I stopped reading bc oh man, the foreshadowing).
I can't recall it word for word, but at one point, Tristan says something along the lines of if it weren't for his name on Eden's body and the obligation he had to keep Eden alive, he would've disappeared from the world a long time ago.
Anyway, after Eden's seizure incident, Tristan decided to reintegrate himself back with society. We as reader know why Tristan decide to go back to London, but Eden doesn't find out until later in the story. Tristan goes back to London so that he can be with Eden. Eden can get both his physical therapy done and still receive "treatment" from Tristan.
EDIT: I should add, before Tristan moves back to London for Eden, he at first asks Eden to move in to live with him. He will pay Eden to be his personal pianist. Eden can continue to play the piano just as he wishes. He can play whatever he wants, and Tristan won't judge or demand much from him. He just wants Eden to enjoy and play the piano. The two of them can live out the rest of their lives together, just the two of them here, with no one to bother them. However, Eden later rejects the offer. While it is tempting, and Eden almost took Tristan up on it, it's not just about playing the piano. It's about being recognized as a pianist. Eden threw himself into the piano, staked his life to make it as a professional pianist. If he doesn't recognized for it by his peers, then it makes his life meaningless. Although he appreciates Tristan's offer, if he chose it, he might as well be dead. No one will remember him. No one will even know he existed. And so because Eden rejected Tristan's offer to stay in Scotland, Tristan decided to go back to London for Eden.
Also, Tristan uses his money to launch Eden's career. Creates an entire company JUST to launch Eden. Eden is the ONLY pianist managed by the company btw. Tristan really spared no expenses. Eden has trouble finding a studio where he can practice? No problem. Buys an entire building for Eden where he can practice. Eden's original company is about to drop him? No probelm, Tristan creates a company just for him.
Because Tristan decided to come back to London after 2 years of absence, he has a lot of paperwork and catch up to do. The two of them can only meet once a week for 30 minutes at first while Tristan is busy. Eden understands and tries to accommodate the short time. At one point when Tristan apologizes, Eden says it's fine. The 30 minute is more than enough for his treatment. Tristan then looks at Eden with a frown and says while it's enough for Eden, it's nowhere enough for him. Tristan actually always goes over the 30 minute allotted time to the lament of the secretary. Tristan tries to linger, but Eden always urges him to go bc he feels bad for the secretary.
The two aren't officially lovers yet. Neither confessed or agree to go out up to this point in the story. However, Eden is well aware he's in love with Tristan right now. Especially when Tristan is so gentle and sweet to him.
Anyway, I skipped to the end. Eden was able to surgically remove Tristan's name from his body, much to Tristan's lament. After Eden wakes up from the surgery, Tristan goes to see him one time. They both know if Eden doesn't stop him, this will be the last time they'll ever see each other. Eden lets Tristan go. For 2 years, the two don't contact each other. From what I gathered, Tristan didn't want Eden to go through with the surgery, but Eden was persistent. Eden unilaterally cut off the connection they had that bound them together.
Tristan pulls away from society again. Eden's career is soaring. He's a world renowned pianist now. Fully recovered. When he returns to London, he visits the studio Tristan gave him and find a card tucked away in a book Tristan gave him. When he calls the number, hoping against all hope it will lead him to Tristan, he hears the voice of Tristan's lawyer. He finds out from the lawyer Tristan gifted him the castle in Scotland. Not just he castle, the entire land. Thinking this is a sign, Eden goes to the castle, going through every nook and cranny, hoping he'd find Tristan. At this point in the novel, you as a reader are just as anxious as Eden. Neither the reader or Eden know if Tristan is still alive...or if he decided to end things once and for all because he's THAT tired of all the noise and life. In the 2 years they've been separated, no one can find Tristan. Not even a trace.
Just as he's giving up, Eden remembers the tree house Tristan took him to. Eden realizes this is the reason Tristan gifted him the land. It's not bc of the castle, but the tree house. In the tree house, Eden finds a secret compartment with a postcard. The postcard has an address of this remote, practically unknown Italian village.
Long story short, Eden finds Tristan in the Italian village. Their reunion isn't sweet as you think. Tristan is still recovering from all the mental stress, and he tells Eden at one point that he didn't want Eden to find him. However, Eden pointed out that if Tristan didn't want him to find him, he shouldn't have hid the postcard in the tree house. Tristan admits that yes, he did hide the post card in the tree house bc he can't give up on Eden entirely. He left the post card to leave himself a bit of hope. Hope that one day Eden might find him, that if he looks out in the street, he'd see him. The hope is what kept him going.
The two are in a very difficult situation, very similar to the one that happened in London. Eden says he'll stay with Tristan, but Tristan stops him. He tells him Eden is meant to be in the spotlight, not waste away his talent in this tiny corner of the world. Eden suffered so much, but preserved through everything bc of his piano. Tristan will not be the reason Eden disappears into obscurity.
Meanwhile, Tristan suggests they move to New York together. He will move to New York to be with Eden. Eden vehemently vetos the idea. Tristan just got back his life together, but bc Eden barging into his peaceful life again, Tristan was about to give everything up for him. Eden didn't want to do that to Tristan.
So while the two love each other and want to be together, one of them will have to sacrifice either their dream or peace to be together.
The novel ends by flash forwarding 2 years into the future. Tristan and Eden come to a compromise. Eden basically works 3 months(?) out of the year, and then spends 9 months with Tristan at his villa. Also, after working for about 4-5 years now, Eden plans to take a long hiatus. He's done everything he's wanted and reached the peak of his profession. So he wants to take a long hiatus. Though it's not said explicitly, the novel ends with Eden running into Tristan's arms that his long hiatus is bc he wants to spend it with Tristan.
Omg that's is such a beautiful story.
Thank you so much for the spoiler.
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I should mention, Eden's desperation to survive, his willpower pushing him through, his fight for his life and piano, and knowing with certainty the meaning in his life (piano) is what drew Tristan to Eden.
Tristan, though he has everything a person can possibly want, feels his life is empty and meaningless. Eden is the complete opposite of him. Eden is nothing without his piano, and though he's lost the use of his hands and thus the ability to play the piano, he clings onto the smallest chance if it means he can recover and play the piano again.
The car scene where Eden says he'll force himself on Tristan showed Tristan what the will to live looks like. Such a stark contrast to himself who wants to fade away from existence.
While Eden resents Tristan at first because Tristan can grow tired of him and end it whenever he wants, in the end, it's actually Eden that becomes Tristan's rope and anchor. And ironically, it's Eden that cuts their tie to each other.
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Thank you! All i wanted to know is if he was gonna fall in love with him or if it was gonna end tragically. Now I'm for sure gonna read it.
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Oof, I edited my post, so all the replies got deleted.
Anyway, Tristan first becomes interested in Eden because Eden is the complete opposite of him.
Although Tristan is seemingly a man with everything, he considers his life empty and meaningless. He has no will to live. But then comes Eden barging into his life. Here is a man that is desperate to live. The contracts Tristan offers?
Eden had two options - live but it's a meager way of life where he's suffering but his wants and needs are assured. For the next 30-40 years, although he won't be able to play the piano, everything he could possibly want will be at his fingertips. Tristan will pay for everything. The second option is to risk it all. Tristan will sleep with him, but if he doesn't improve, then that's it. Tristan will give him a lump sum and that's it. Whatever happens to Eden, Tristan will wash his hands of him.
Eden chooses to risk everything for that chance, no matter how small or slim it is. Even before that, during the car ride, Eden said he will even force himself on Tristan if it means a chance of healing his hands. With that, Tristan sees what desperation to live looks like.
Eden is desperate not just to live, but he has a drive and passion for the piano. He's made it the reason for living. Tristan has none of that drive. And so Tristan is drawn to Eden for that reason.
Where can i read this pleaseeee
Tristan may seem cold and uncaring from the first few chapters, but other than the fact he didn't want to have sex with Eden, that was really it. That's about the only "cruel" thing Tristan does.
The painful, almost torturous sex isn't all on Tristan. He does try to stop for Eden's sake but Eden insists. After all for Eden, it's a matter of life and death for him.
But regardless, once Tristan opens up a little, I can say for certain Tristan's love language is through action. Top of my head, I can think of several instances where it's obvious Eden holds a special place in Tristan's heart:
1) He leaves his castle to go into town so that he can get a piano for Eden
2) Hires a tuner to fix the piano so that Eden can play it
3) take Eden and only Eden to his secret hiding spot (crucial part for the end of the novel)
4) was going to drive out into a snowstorm so that he can go to the hospital where Eden collapsed. Only stopped when his staff says its suicide for him to drive out during a storm. If he dies, that means Eden will die.
5) asks Eden to live with him in the castle. He will sponsor Eden as a pianist.
6) When Eden rejected the offer, he goes to London to he with Eden
7) starts a new branch and company for Eden with Eden being the sole artist of the company
8) builds and furnishes a private studio for Eden to comfortably practice music
9) buys TWO professional piano both estimated to be 100K minimum each
I paid to read the translation.
https://readhive.org/series/77875/#releases
the way i almost cried reading it to the middle, omg the angst hits so bad ill prolly not gonna survive reading the novel
Exactly!!
I paid to read it too. It was too good to wait for (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Whooooo there's an official release now on Manta. Up to ch 12
The author made a one page extra of Doyun and Taehan's kid haha. Cute and funny.
Isn't Chase the 4th oldest? Nathaniel is the oldest, then the twins Grayson and Stacey, making Chase the 4th. There's sibling 5 and 6, but I forgot their names.
Sibling 5 is a girl, I forgot her name but she is a dominant alpha
Sibling 6 is a boy his name is Billy a dominant omega and the only one who looks like koi (if I remember correctly)
The official translation is incorrect then. Chase is not the 3rd oldest.
5.Larien
6.Bliss
Yes, he is the 4th. Probably they thought of Chase beeing the third son, or counted the twins as one, because almost born at the same time? But it doesn't change the fact that Chase would be still the 4rth oldest.
Where are yall getting this lore from is there a prequel?
Ik it's Kiss Me If You can , then, Kiss me Liar but Keith isn't linked to them biologically...is there another one im missing??
Well there is "Lick me if you can" which is about Ashley Miller and Connor niles who are the Miller parents
There is also eat me if you can which is about Dominic Miller x Ashley Dawson the miller grandparents
Omg thats a whole family family bl (⊙…⊙ )
Grayson's story is in progress, and Nathaniel's is next, and then Bliss's. ^^ The other two are females, the author only planned stories for the males.^^
Omg it's too muxh to digest for me (⊙…⊙ )
Desire Me if You Can is Grayson x Dane Striker's story. We met Dane in Kiss Me, Liar, the firefighter that Josh asked to help hide Yeonwu.
His and Grayson's story is HILARIOUS. Virginia x Venus. If you know, you know.
Am I missing something? Bc in the Grayson's story, it mentioned Koi being apprehensive calling Chase, that Chase and his family just reconciled where he finally started taking calls from the family. And I'm like, I don't recall Chase talking or reconciling with his family in Kiss me if you can.
I know Chase meets Josh's family, but I don't remember reading a side story where Josh meets Chase's family. Only Grayson ever had a scene in Kiss me if you can.
Keith's family is next, his half siblings.^^ Haydon is one of them.
Don't know if she'll do Keith's parents story, because that one is most likely a more dark one, given the circumstances of his extreme omega father who has 5 alphas.
It's years later, KML and KMIYC take place around the same time, they overlap.
When Grayson's story starts Keith and Yeonwoo already have a second child, and that happened after Josh and Chase had their third child.
Yes, I died of laughter.XD And Dane even suggested it.lol Hotdogs.^^
Dang. I was hoping there was a side story i missed of Josh meeting the Millers. Koi must've been so happy to meet his son-in-law and gradkid.
Wait thet counted those twin as a set of same so based on tht chase is 3rd one
Vol 1 can be bought on Amazon. Chapter 14 of the manhwa ends exactly at the end of Vol 1.
Vol 1 is translated by worldexcerpt. You can continue reading the translation at:
https://wordexcerpt.com/series/kiss-me-if-you-can/
Volume 2, where Chapter 14 ends, starts at Ch 26. So far, Worldexcerpt does the best translation for KMIYC. All the other ones I've found, it is obvious it is google translated.
Once you've finished and get caught up and read up to ch 58, I recommend novelight:
https://novelight.net/book/kiss-me-if-you-can
Wordexcerpt ch 58 ends at 3 vol 4. So start 3 vol 5 on novelight.
Both wordexcerpt and novelight require money. If you want a free, but okay to bad translation go Blsnack:
https://blsnacks.wordpress.com/kiss-me-if-you-can/
Again, ch 14 ends at vol 1. So start at Vol 2.