apwepuee's manga / #manipulative character(9)

i thought mc would be more clever but seems like all those years of studying served absolutely nothing. sunghyeon is also dumb af for sticking with a guy who was just screwing him over back and forth the whole story (if you can even call it that). i liked how haemin's manipulation tactics were written, and soohyun's not that bad of a character if you read the story far enough. i'll admit that's what kept me hooked for a while, but i despised everything else.

"bae keeps pushing my boundaries and disrespecting me, but it turns out it's my fault for not being a brainless amoeba who gives in to every advance I dislike. love is beautiful" fucking ridiculous. the art is the only tolerable thing in this.

writing was compelling at first but not worth reading until 3rd volume. i wouldn't be impressed if this turned into a victim to abuser pipeline by the way aya was becoming ngl.

(free on webtoon) didn't really care about the second couple

seeing all the praising comments and high ratings makes me feel crazy for disliking this even persisted on reading to the end to make sure i wasn't insane cuz i'd be trying to kill someone too if a man in his nearly 30s was allegedly flirting with my fifth-grade sibling. the fact that they didn't do anything when hangyeol was still a kid doesn't make this any better like some of you seem to think man... taehyuk may have never admitted to any kind of feelings for him but the fact that he decided to wait until he reached the age from where they previously met (which makes this even more disgusting to me) kinda implies he did fall in love with him when he was 11. and him meeting hangyeol's 21yo self for a brief moment doesn't change anything. MC is almost proclaiming his love for him to everyone yet there isn't a single responsible adult who tried to put a stop to their weird relationship other than his braindead brother who was then refuted with "age and gender have nothing to do with liking another human being." ig makes sense to have that type of mindset when you managed to date a middle aged man in your early 20s huh? this all felt like pure shotabait to me.