Olgami
tension was palpable. great enemies to lovers with unrequited pining. last 50 chapters or so was messy cuz of pacing issues
Steel Under Silk
im giving it an extra star because of the translation quality. i detest the seme and hate a story in which the uke submits to and falls for the person who killed his family, but I am interested as to how the story will unravel, albeit it's a bit slow seme: ruthless, ambitious. very clear-headed and doesn't let his lust (for mc) affect his judgment. whom i assume is the 2nd ml: love and lust for uke. he's willing to leave his job for uke's sake. as it stands, he is wayyy better than ml. edit: welp that aged like milk. he thinks of mc as a whore and rapes him too. he wants mc to be indebted to him and fall in love with him but he's not respecting the mc at all. edit: seems to me the author either wants to prolong the series or hasn't really planned out the revenge on mc's end, so she just supplementing the story with smut. how disappointing. is it just gonna be like those stories when mc and ml get emotionally attached to each other bc of their constant skinship? it's one of the hackneyed plot devices for enemies-to-lovers trope. furthermore, there's a clear power dynamic between them- mc having sex with ml so he can live- so anything mc feels will just be stockhome syndrome.
Red Fox -Heul ReDam-
sad that arin still yearns for iza. sana, rather than being swept by the sense of meaninglessness and numbness, it's more like being drowned by that feeling. she is slowly losing her humanity, yet still remains human because she is fundamentally different from the red fox. the red fox in this sequel is slowly learning human emotions such as jealousy, or rather, deciphering it, and how his 'love' evolved from that of the prequel.
90's Cram School for Unripe Apples