Ariest's manga / #Drama(98)

The story was amazing up until ch 44, then the author completely ruined their own story. It's impossible for me to root for the two main characters to end up together when one of them is literally cheating on the other. Right. In. Front. Of. Them. Just no. When all you want is for someone to save the seme from the undeserving uke, you know the story went wrong somewhere. All the main characters are horrible and toxic (except for Seunghyun), and I especially find it disgusting how favorable the author writes Soohyun when he's a whole ass rapist. Dropped

Art is pretty, but the story is way too overdramatic and cringe, and the seme is toxic trash. The seme is so unlikeable that it's impossible to root for them to get together, which is the whole point of the story. Dropped ch 13

Extremely rapey for no good reason. Like literally, for no reason. None of the rape incidents affect the plot, some of them even feel silly or unrealistic, and the victims all carry on as if it never happened. Which just makes it pointless and disgustingly sadistic. I hate when authors do that more than anything. It feels disrespectful to real-life rape victims and just makes readers uncomfortable for absolutely no reason. Actually the author doesn't just wrongly use rape as a plot device, they straight up fetichize it too. Literally has one of their characters get drugged and raped by a rando, just so he can be all wet and loose for the ML in the next chapter. Like wtf... I'm so disgusted. I like most of the characters (especially Noah and Phil), they're funny and interesting, but the rapeyness of the story is just not it. Dropped at ch 30.

Strong female lead... kinda, because besides her profession and combat skills, she's a pretty generic Mary Sue type character. And unfortunately the story is kind of boring too. There's an attempt at political intrigue, but it's not very... intriguing. Dropped at ch 44

Art is pretty, but ngl the story and writing is lacking. The main couple is cute, but I feel like their will-they-won't-they drama was too drawn out, and some of their logic was just... not logical at all lol. The second couple is definitely just a plot device for the author to add smut to the story until the main couple gets together. Their storyline is side-lined A LOT, which results in half-baked drama and rushed plots, making them quite boring to read about tbh. One of them gets raped halfway through the story, and you expect it to become an issue between him and his boyfriend who he keeps it a secret from, but it doesn't. It never gets mentioned and the guy just carries on like it never happened... So that scene was completely pointless and just feels like bad writing.