진이's manga / #unrequited love(10)

wHAT THE FUCK WAS UP WITH THE SEME clueless(???) dating girls seme x unrequited love very direct good uke

student who secretly has feelings for classmate and proposes to go out x classmate, who secretly has feelings for his (straight) childhood friend slowish burn, and feels very realistic. goes through their lives together and with the childhood friend (read on mrm)

guy who has had a crush on his childhood friend for forever x his sex friend, who has an accident w/ the childhood friend and pretends to have swapped souls w/ the childhood friend

experienced group leader takaomi x virgin idol hina who has unrequited feelings for a childhood friend/fellow idol and got back into the business b/c of him but finds out he's in a relationship so seeks "lessons" from takaomi

-heeyong has been in love w/ sumin since they were kids and they're best friends -heeyong confesses to sumin who just leaves and then pretends like nothing happened -sumin has always dated other girls and it always ends poorly b/c he's p messed up and can't love anyone -heeyong is hurt and ends up becoming sex friends w/ hangyul, who is in an unrequited love(?) w/ his step-bro who looks like heeyong and got a bit obsessed w/ heeyong at first sight -they learn more about each other, and hangyul falls in love -sumin hurts heeyong more (inadvertently, and purposefully trying to meddle w/ hangyul), and heeyong is v conflicted -sumin ends up getting desperate and asking heeyong out, but by this point heeyong has been pretty hurt so it doesn't work out for long -angst -hangyul confesses to heeyong and after a bit of time it's happy end

amnesiac/ split personality general lutao x self-improving pretty chengjin -takes place in a future sci-fi universe w/ gender H (mpreg) -chengjin fell in love w/ lutao at first sight -chengjin was the son of a wealthy fam so he was able to do bad things to put pressure on lutao and make him marry him even though lutao rejected him -lutao agrees to the marriage but resents chengjin, and gets himself deployed for nearly the entirety of the marriage -7 yrs later, chengjin thinks lutao is going to divorce him so he decides to file first to make it easier on lutao -chengjin's family fell to ruin and his dad is v sick; chengjin has grown a lot and has tried to make ammends for the past, but lutao continues to ignore him and treat him coldly -lutao has an accident on his way back and loses his memories; he wakes up and immediately falls for chengjin (which honestly makes sense b/c chengjin is extremely pretty and nice) -new lutao (no. 2) genuinely falls in love w/ chengjin, who tries to set boundaries since he knows lutao 1 will hate him for going along with it once he regains his memories in 6 mo (but he totally fails since he is in love w/ lutao) -doc finds that lutao doesn't have amnesia, but actually developed a new, separate personality d/t the monster poison inside him from the attack -now he won't regain his memories, instead the original personality will take over and this one (and all of its new memories) will disappear -ANGST as the og lutao begins to emerge and act cold again, and chengjin learns what's going to happen and mourns the loss of lutao 2 (this part is soo good) -except it turns out lutao 1 was starting to accept chengjin, and gets jealous of lutao 2 so he speeds up the process and decides to have surgery to eliminate lutao 2 -chengjin has a beautiful tragic goodbye w/ lutao 2 and secretly leaves w/ his brother and dad to a new planet after filing for divorce -except their train gets taken over by terrorists, one of whom saves them since chengjin saved him before, and they wind up on a different planet -they live there in secret when WOO chengjin is 3 mo preggo -stuff happens, lutao finds him and brings him home, they fall in love and have a happy family, etc. -side story: childhood friend yanqi x chengjin's older brother chengxu -yanqi falls for chengxu, who is way older and not an H, and pursues him relentlessly even though chengxu is not interested (though chengxu is kind to him) -after their family gows bankrupt, yanqi propositions chengxu to sell himself to yanqi to afford his dad's surgery -chengxu agrees and starts to get closer to yaoqi, but then learns that yaoqi orchestrated the company's downfall to tie chengxu to him and hates him -yanqi goes yandere and locks chengxu up and blackmails him -chengxu escapes and moves planets w/ his dad and brother -yanqi ends up finding chengxu and tries to treat him well to get his forgiveness -shit happens, yanqi sacrifices himself to save chengxu, and chengxu forgives him and falls for him (happy end) -time skip, happy lutao/chengjin couple is happy w/ their kid when lutao has another accident and loses his memories again lol -except now he thinks he's in hs so the doc suggests they pretend he and chengjin are in hs to get his memories back

slightly obsessive/manipulative older brother jigeon x sweet student w/ a one-sided crush on his childhood friend wooseo x the oblivious childhood friend jiseok -setting: rings can spontaneously spawn on people's fingers connecting them to a partner once they hit adulthood; they are unable to sleep w/o their ring partner once this happens -mc has had an unrequited crush on jiseok for years and has resolved to just be w/ jiseok as a friend -he comes into contact w/ ml, jiseok's older brother jigeon, who has been avoiding him for several years after being their tutor and getting pretty close to mc -they manifest rings w/ each other, and decide to sleep together and keep it a secret from jiseok; mc moves in w/ them -(turns out jigeon has actually loved wooseo for years but kept it hidden when he realized wooseo's crush on jiseok) -thus starts a master plan of secret manipulation by jigeon to win mc's heart over his brother (it's mostly benign tbh, but does involve some acting and some maneuvering and slight stalking) -it's v sweet to see ml so desperately in love w/ mc, who is understandably confused and hesitant -jiseok slowly realizes smth's up and panic confesses to mc b/c he doesn't want to lose him and is a bit possessive himself (this was also orchestrated by ml to make it clumsy lol) -there's a "connector" who can see and change rings that they all end up consulting with for different ends -ultimately ml confessess all of his manipulations to mc, who after freaking out a bit accepts him for who he is, thus completing their ring form -happy end