(side note thank you to the translation team for your work & efforts! the story may have disappointed me past a certain point but it’s because of your tling it i was interested enough to try and look into the raws to begin w/)
Omo thank you reminding me of starstruck!
When I was reading this manga I was getting confused coz I was so so so sure that uke confessed and there was no military enlistment arc and I thought uke was thrown out of his home.
Thank god I was just confusing it with another manhwa
happy to remind! ^_~ i liked starstruck a lot more than i was expecting to, so i’m happy to rep it. & to help remind of it since i went through pretty much the same thing you did in reverse.
when i was going through it, i actually i kept thinking “huh, this reminds me of another series i dropped, except i’m enjoying the general pacing of this one way more…? what was that called again…?” and then it finally hit me what i was thinking of when this story updated today. LMAO
i read the raws up to a little past now before giving up on the story initially (& just skimmed them again now to see how things are going), & the pacing really is bonked. what is a ~two year time apart is resolved in the span of a single chapter, the two of them sleep together in ch~35, and are just pretty much dating going forward and are as of the most recent chapter a happy couple. it’s kind of a major disappointment because of how ch30-31 really build up to them being apart for a long time with taesung having to face how badly he ruined things due to his own possessiveness, only for that long time to be passed in a single chapter without anything that feels like real resolution.
some people might be fine with it! but it was personally a dealbreaker for me so i’m warning everyone that the pacing for their time apart & the timeskip is really off. taesung’s possessiveness doesn’t ever really seem to come up as too big a problem; he shows up pretty much immediately in the college arc, they go home together, they sleep together another four or so chapters after the first time, etc. i read another one w/ a similar premise that i think is so far far better executed, if anyone likes this kind of story - starstruck. s2 is just about to start in en & finished recently in kor, and while the ML’s possessiveness and behaviour are very much unjustified (and are actually treated as awful), his perspective is shown a decent amt & his problems w possessiveness are kind of explained. but the story very much does not let him off the hook or rush their relationship. do recommend it more than this one past this point personally