DisconnectedMidnight's manga / #Manhua / Manhwa(36)

This was actually not horrible, I'm surprised. Since I read the prequel and was thoroughly traumatized without warning, I was sort of expecting this one to be horrible as well. Turns out, it was almost cute, kind of heartwarming, and I dare say, a little hopeful. Maybe it's just that, in comparison with the prequel, anything short of abuse would seem like the softest love story. But regardless, I enjoyed it. 3.5/5.

I really liked the premise, and had it been well done, this could have been an amazing story, but it just fell flat. I could tell what the author was going for, but execution was kind of a disaster. I wasn’t expecting much, and I could tell this was going to be terrible from the first chapter, and I still red the entire thing. I don’t regret the hr I spent on this but I do think it’s a waste of a great premise.

Someone should re-write the synopsis for this manhwa; it’s not about online games, it’s about abandonment issues. Anxious attachment blond falls madly in love—read: gets obsessed with—avoidant attachment brunette. He proceeds to basically stalk the brunette, who does anything humanly possible to get rid of anxious blond and only succeeds in making the guy even more obsessed with him. It’s a very boring and tired plot. I gave it a try because the comments were good; the first few chapters were interesting enough because they haven’t met yet, and I was hoping their relationship would develop enough that it would make sense the falling-in-love part of the story. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t. I read 80% of this series, and neither of them actually likes anything about the other. If it weren’t because abandonment issues blond goes full stalker mode any time he thinks someone is going to leave him, and the other guy is really fucking lonely yet incapable of letting anyone in, so he settles for the one guy who is willing to get punched, kicked, and cussed at and still stick around, they would’ve never end up together. If I had a dollar for every BL that sells obsession and toxic behavior as love, I’d be a fucking millionaire. At this point, I’d paid good money to get an actual love story for a change.