first so funny that the mc was googling lawsuits/discplinary measures/manslaughter lol.. also just so hilarious to me how different they are in literally everything possible so their conversations are super off-kilter ....i love the mc losing his smiley/slimey politician politeness and just revealing his "true" irritated self? he's basically the relateable, dead in the eye working man...mc is so used to everyone treating him with respect meanwhile ml is this young, weirdo kinda whimsical guy who can take everything in stride and forthright and unashamed in what he wants..(also a cutie)
their dynamic and conversation is so fun to me (ml: coochie eyes, mc: wtf?????). still can't imagine them fucking but the unpredictability is what makes it so refreshing i'm so excited to see where this goes
surprised everyone thinks nanjo just has 0 clue as to what's going on when clearly he isn't that into the twink anymore (skipping his bday) and he's been having mini revelations about mokyeon in prior chapters (realizing mokyeon cooked him seafood without liking it, understanding that mokyeon and the twink have a bdsm/safeword relationship, etc).
i lowkey think nanjo knows the truth and does having some feelings for mokyeon but he's still confused and thinks he's being played by both mokyeon and the twink. you can tell he's been softening and doesn't think of mokyeon as an violent aggressor abusing the twink and even sometimes is quite soft with him. but whenever the three of them hang out together i think he notices the close dynamic mokyeon and the twink have (in this chapter too, maybe it seems to him that they keep talking about each other and are toying with him). maybe he even thinks mokeyeon likes the twink and that's why mokyeon keeps trying to get him to leave the twink
ALSO i remember seeing this chart somewhere the author made about the character preferences and nanjo actually is really possessive (compared to mokyeon...so food for thought)
like omg so self-destructive and sabotaging he's definitely going to say something that he really regrets next chapter...it's hard to imagine what happens next bc even though it would make sense for nanjo to leave (assuming he has feelings for mokyoen and will be hurt) i can't imagine mokyeon going after him bc mokyeon has such a low sense of self-esteem. on the other hand though i can't really see nanjo going after mokyeon either..like who's gonna take the initiative here...
like i actually enjoy the fact that despite being kind and smooth and competent (seemingly perfect in yunho's eyes) he's also kind of ruthlessly cold with his relationships and how he draws boundaries. (this is sooo in line with me liking characters that are warm on the outside and have some coldness on the inside lol) and also unintentionally callous bc he's stubborn with imposing his worldview (ie fooling himself in certain ways bc he actually is unwilling to tap into his own feelings and instead is operating out of instinctive need to keep yunho close) in some ways he's still being very alpha/dominating rn
yunho is still a bit too lovelorn and passive for me..i hope for the sake of character development yunho runs off eventually, getting the space he really needs and becoming his own person with his own agency who can hold his own against haewon. i think it's necessary for the plot
i really do enjoy stories where one character percieves the other character as having all the power in the relationship and then they/we later realize that that was never the case
pretty sure the cig doesn't taste different loren probably just doubletaking bc he used the cig after uno used it (ie he's let his barriers down accidentally) and uno notices it and is smug
STILL SOOO GOOD oh my god just A+++++ storytelling such incredible character writing i feel like this author is really good at plumbing psychological motivations to the extreme, just the ugliest and intense parts of the way we feel and love... but also why did i reread that ji nx charin now i'm sad again...
liek what's going on...what does he want man..
also did anyone else find the twink more likeable in this chapter LOL kind of refreshingly straightforward and not putting up with mokyeon's dramatics
pleaaase i'm so excited to see their dynamics finally switch and cheoljin being the one losing control and embarassed...minwoo putting his extensive sexual experience to good use fjdsaklfjas. they're actually SO good and hot together (minwoo = turned on by cheoljin; cheoljin = turned on by minwoo being turned on by him = endless cycle)
its crazy though that all the misunderstandings still persist...it's clear cheoljin is feeling super vulnerable and desperate for minwoo so minwoo could hurt him SO badly if he wanted to. i wonder if things will seirously blow up because i sense the season end coming soon...
cheoljin playing toxic stereotypical seme here meanwhile in the latest chapter he's basically revealed to be like a slutty virgin fjdasklf
the purposeful ambiguity of it and how there isn't really a clear conversation? there's def more bc if guwon rly did murder his father in cold blood for no other reason than i don't see how we come back from this lol
actually hilarious that kimoto is just in a constant state of tortured spiraling and denial but still lowkey having human thoughts meanwhile everyone around him just seems utterly insanef fjaksldfjs
is he really just kind of blindly in love with the twink and still putting up with all of this from mokyeon because of that? he seemed affected by how well mokyeon and the twink knew each other at dinner and how they even cater their eating habits towards each other - if we assume he's just into the twink then it would be bc he's jealous and wary of mokyeon (like how mokyeon perceives it).
BUT if he actually doesn't straight up hate mokyeon and is not that intl the twink anymore then it would be just him feeling confused and feeling played by the two of them? idk he's actually pretty frustrating too he doesn't seem very in touch with his emotions
stay strong!!!!! and then we'll get the superior couple hehehe. i wish we could skip ahead bc there's soo much to talk about w/ cheoljin and minwoo...
i know norman seems boring but i feel like that's kind of the point too...someone who's straightforwardly kind and also SOOO so tolerating - like that's the only person who could be with sungtaeok in some ways and put up with all of him. you need a normal, well-adjusted person with a group of deeply troubled people lol. minwoo does like him but norman's easy kindness and straightfowardness (basically the opposite of cheoljin, who is difficult, unreadable, the least straightforward person in existence) kind of represents an escape from being stuck on cheoljin, a chance at normalcy and something he craves as someone who's still heartbroken and lonely (the easy companionship, etc).
ALSOO if you're caught up with the raws, I have a theory that norman lowkey looks like younger cheoljin in some ways (so he represents some past ideal that minwoo holds onto - like past minwoo thought of past cheoljin as some innocent rabbit lolol)
absolute DESPISE ppl like the mc irl but in fiction...so good... esp when you know they're gonna take it up the ass hehehehhe
love the darker turn i never thought it would go THIS dark i'm genuinely intrigued by how everything develops. tbh i always thought that jinwoo might have killed his father/done something that would have been so traumatizing he would lose his memories...like he definitely feels like he's running away from guilt
BANNING all top/bottom/switching discourse for at least 24 hours...let's make some predictions. so based on that hunting/bird childhood story in chapter 5, where lorenzo's grandfather tells him that a bird that can fly is one that can always escape, but also what use is a bird that can't fly....and that his job will be to pick out the "gems" - is uno going to be that "bird"/gem that lorenzo will want to pick out and keep? but uno is "precious" bc he's basically a bird that can fly ie. someone who's always out of lorenzo's control?
with usual bl authors i'd be like oh we're going to have that trope where lorenzo locks uno up and sexually tortures him or something but from what i understand this author is pretty chill/doesn't really do that kind of stuff in their work so probably not lol
i'm kind of curious like uno is definitely sexually attracted to lorenzo rn and lorenzo seems not that impressed. but based on that first chapter/preview it seems like lorenzo was the one pursuing uno? they had a wierd flirtation going on? or was lorenzo just being kind of psycho (or both)...