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I'm not sure too.. Somebody help

I didn’t think so.. cause roses lover had a mole under his left eye :/ but I could be wrong. (〜￣△￣)〜

No, they are not the same person (=・ω・=)

Ok Thanks .

Exactly. Probably because they had second lead syndrome that is usually the case in love triangle stories but this story's second lead was ACTUALLY the toxic one though joowon was portrayed as the cliché toxic first lead. They got stuck in first impressions probably -- for me I stopped rooting for taku right at the start when he kissed haesoo in the car and suggested he can USE him and looked at joowon like a toy he wanted to play with using haesoo as a rope between tug of war tbh there wasn't a SINGLE scene where he wasn't trying to have sex with him. People really need to re-read it to catch a lot of things...even when his friends were there, WHEN HAESOO WAS SICK, he was fucking him.nonstop. bruh he's my least favourite bl characters list of all time. People who like him are just as annoying as he is

I completely agree. You are so respectfully insightful. I was a victim to the second lead syndrome and I thought the use of the toxic cliche was such a clever menuver to the story. I don’t necessarily love the comic like that but its something I can sit back and be like, wow, that happened, and respect it in a literacy sense and praise the author’s writing. I was also a taki stan and was 100% set on hating the other guy but now i’m glad and content that they ended up together. I just hope that haesoo is truly happy and their relationship is healthy. Thats all I can ask for.

ahhh~ i totally see how people could get caught up in second lead syndrome. yea honestly taku was so shady from the beginning. thanks!!

I really dont know too. Im not being biased but theres nothing to hate on joowon except for holding back his feelings, but nothing more.

Nope, that’s the problem at the start of the story it’s was heasoo POV about joowon that’s why he seems arrogant but that’s literally the opposite no one care about heasoo like him

Yessssss thank you for the compliment haha. I'm really REALLY grateful they ended up together too. I re-read it to see where the story was coming from since if you read it chapter after chapter, you tend to forget the story narrative. The same thing happened with Painter of the Night with me...people hate on the main lead for being toxic etc but I find it interesting because we still haven't gotten the backstory of his completely. I hate when people judge the uke as innocent and pure by default and the seme as toxic at once and don't take into consideration the changes they go throughout the story...same thing here with joowon and taku. The readers didn't even notice when the toxicity changed between the first and second leads and they were still stuck hating on the 1st lead. I don't think story is toxic... it's very realistic and covers "taboo" relationships and how people simply can't be honest with themselves when it matters because of "n" numbers of reasons and they almost end up losing someone they love. It's a very interesting story full of imperfect characters and joowon's character development was A+ when he pulled in haesoo and confessed first without thinking twice was SOOOO well done. He had been the one to suggest they remain as "brothers" and now he was the one who broke that line between them as well. So GOOD. Taku was annoying throughout the story. I don't care for his story as all...and frankly he was much more manipulative and out of place than anything. His character wasn't deep enough for me to feel anything for him.

No, I'm comparing the stories and the main characters becoming victim to prevailing narratives. Like people judging someone as a character as irredeemable before his back story is revealed and they continue to see him as he was in the beginning of the story...with seungho, after his LONG-AWAITED character development, people will predictably ignore it because they wouldn't be able to get over his initial asshole-ness. The same mindset people had with joowon - even when they were seeing his character development. In any case, people forget that these are fictional characters and fictional stories and not advocating that HEALTHY relationships are like this so personally I don't understand how they can lose their minds everytime a character does something unbelievable I hope POTN has some major plot development apart from the repetitive rape smut.

I wholehearted disagree and agree at the same time.. I don't think the author is trying to JUSTIFY rape or anything of the sort...the story of POTN is NOT to advocate what a healthy relationship looks like... I mean I'm not a 300 IQ genius to figure that shit out. Seungho literally kills someone in the first chapter for no reason lol. I don't think "morality" was the core of this story since the start so I don't understand what expectations do people have from POTN in general...people are appalled and they continue to read it why? If you really think, the author is trying to tell the story they want and are ACTUALLY advocating rape as something "romantic" then one shouldn't read it to begin with. But it's not the author, it's the readers who romanticize it.
I personally don't mind the gruesome stuff in it, as long as it has some sort of plot pr character significance. I'm not reading BL shit for moral lessons

I don't think the readers are romanticizing rape tbh...but they still read it, even if it is appalling for the story. I don't think the author is writing Seungho's character to be defended...but just it's what the author wants to write about. Just because you like a fucked up character doesn't mean you JUSTIFY his actions, I mean. That's how you distinguish between real life and FICTION.
People don't need to like seungho, but personally, I feel disregarding the character development of a character that the author intended to portray is what I find super weird people take these things way too seriously. Seungho is *the* most fleshed out and interesting character in POTN. Miles miles MILES better than Nakyum who is supposed to be the MC. But that's the author wish so whatever.