this manhwa is SOO GOOD i love where incheol is marching to the door and knocking while thinking "please don't open the door" he's begging for some external force that will stop his own impulsive behavior but ofc it doesn't come ;) there is something so fun and
human about the dialogue and humor and characterizations <3
special shout out to how the manhwa potrays the plight of the working person i feel SEEN the constant messages/email bombardment the exhaustion the insanity where you feel like you're teetering near snapping point at all times..the manhwa captures it SO well. seriously obsessed by how much personality our two leads have already...love how when incheol's working he's constantly communicating with a "~" even while making plausibly deniable threats and sending messages with ^^ with the deadest expression on his face...love how behind it all he's rolling his eyes and constantly making feax pas (sending very misleading work messages to his gf fjadklfja) and so much less cool behind it all. will never get sick of pyeonghwa saying off the cuff shit and incheol going "...wtf???"
i don't think i've ever come across a bl where there is clear SOMETHING/chemistry between the characters but also somehow entirely unpredictable its so so fun
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- Author: Choi Yu Jin,KANG Ji Young
- Genres: Adult / Drama / Romance / Smut / Yaoi / webtoons
uno's wearing a different outfit from the first chapter right? since the first chapter is them two months since meeting - i'm assuming there's TONS of chasing that includes whatever happens in the desert and then uno escaping and then having to escape again...need the author to write 50 chapters immediately
two sexy characters together is SO EXCELLENT and omg uno is SO fun and charming and hot..hope he keeps putting up a fight. i wish there were more characters like him (bottom) in bl..
can't wait to see uno bent over can't wait to see loreanzo cry (which will happen...prediction: at one point we're going to see enzo get pathetic and he's going to cry and say "why can't you love me" :(() i just know it...
but i really don't understand why he's insisting that mokyeon is an abuser...? like it's one thing to be confused about whether mokyeon is playing him (which i think is understandable) but it seems really unecessary to call him an abuser when you've seen all the signs that he's not w/ the twink? it's like the very beginning when he thought the worst of mokyeon as well. this judgey, presumptious thing is probably the biggest thing i dislike about nanjo (mokyeon is right about this) i could see it being his fatal flaw. (and obv mokyeon's is his erratic, self-destructive way of being bc of severe low self-esteem)
idk how mokyeon is supposed to think nanjo likes him at all if it seems like nanjo thinks he's scum and an abuser?...and i don't see nanjo taking the initiative either? ig right now they have physical attraction...but what a mess lol.
yuwon wanting dohoon to blame him for everything so that dohoon can externalize all of his feelings of inadequacy/guilt etc and finally externalize all of his unhappiness and emotions onto an external target instead of constant blame himself.. lowkey selfless love even as he's selfish as hell whoa
uno you have to stop. your mind too smart. your swag too different. your aura too sexy. they'll kill you
tehir and charin both suffer from intense shame/inferiority complexes and it manifesting in different ways..jin and kimoto also hiding parts of themselves out of their love (jin literally brainwashing himself into someone "dumber" and submissive to appease charin, kimoto living in a constant state of anxiety and fear but repressing it through a placid, "rational" veneer). charin was comfortable with jin playing "stupid" because it validated the only sense of control he had in his life (until it was no longer satisfying and he fell in love w/ jin). kimoto's unbothered attitude making tehir feel especially "weak" BECAUSE kimoto seems like a patronizing caretaker...perceptions of power are always so interesting to me, especially in romantic relationships. and you can that perception is driving so many of the characters here
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...