Hmmmm

I agree I felt genuinely insane scrolling through the comments until I found yours T-T definitely not my cup of tea but the art is nice

Right??? I feel really disappointed to be honest especially I dropped this at first when it just uploaded here bcs I thought this would be another dark romance with all that blackmailing. I just come back bcs every single comment I found in all platforms regarding this manhwa is highly positive. Though this is not actually a dark romance like I thought before, every single problem they mentioned here just left hanging without further closure. I mean, the author did say Minwoo was just a plot device and will not have a reappearance, but c'mon. You can't just drop a villain and then put them aside just like that after making the MCs suffer with mental and physical damage? And what? Will those fckers will now live happily ever after that their source of headache (aka our MCs) left??? At this point all of these were just ragebaits.

I think u didn’t understand it at all and funny thing is that the author herself also explained in the Note: Minwoo is part of the past and Skylar moved on and overcame that hurtful experience. At the same time Minwoo will always be alone and regret all the school bullying he did to Skylar.

The main goal of this story is to show that no matter what bad experiences one could have like school bullying (since it’s so popular in the Korean school system) or in Cirrus’ case family troubles and detached father (another common trope in KR media) these teenagers CAN become the better people despite all this! That’s why this is a coming of age story. And to do that u don’t need to make those people who hurt reappear.

Yeah, I know that. But this is why I said everyone has different taste, since I don't like how this ended. Mind you I read some other coming of age stories and I prefer a story where they didn't just move on and overcome the hurtful past, but want to read them sort it out, whether it's in a positive or negative way.

This is a matter of taste in what someone reads, I'll said it again since I think it's u who didn't get what I mean.

You can read between the lines that the author also showed them sorting it out. I guess it’s simply a different approach from what u are used to reading.

I think the issue is that the subject matter they talk about is very heavy and both characters clearly suffer from PTSD related to their childhoods. Just having them make a few friends and talk about it a few times isn't really them "sorting it out." Cirrus treated Skylar badly because of his own trauma and it kinda just gets glazed over; Skylar somehow makes it his own fault when he absolutely had valid concerns about his behavior. I think it just personally rubs me the wrong way when sensitive subject like SA, suicide, mental health, abuse, etc. Are not handled properly and are just used as a "plot device" as you put it.

If by SA u mean the forced kiss(es) those aren’t so important.

No I think they meant the part where Cirrus got SAed by his former teacher, which he got no justice for btw.

Ah the forced fellatio act which he got away (thank God) in the middle of it. I kinda wanted to see that teacher in hell.

... So you think kissing someone without consent is cool then? Interesting...

Yes that's exactly what I was referring to :) that ones especially egregious because it's child SA/grooming

It happens in all Bls. It’s not such a “tragedy” and most of the time isn’t so important.

Are u saying SA isn’t a big deal and that BLs only use them as plot device? That’s really disrespectful, the fact that you think SA is something you can just brush off as “not important” is really disrespectful to the victims who actually experienced SA.

Using sensitive topics such as SA, abuse, mental health, etc. as plot device and not representing them properly shows that the author couldn’t careless about that specific topic and is clearly not educated enough to add it in their Manhwa. I mean don’t get me wrong I lovee LITC but parts where they’re using sensitive topics and brushing them off suddenly never sat right with me, because the way they present them with no justice at all isn’t rlly representing those topics properly, it’s like saying u can just SA someone without any legal action or consequences.

Well no offence but in the real world there are very few cases when the actual perpetrator gets what he deserves in this case the pedo teacher. I guess him not getting his punishment was something used to reflect what actually happens in the real world…many don’t get caught and don’t have consequences.

A movie that came to mind which happened in Korea (so same universe as the story) is called HOPE (maybe u have heard of it). Depicts a real case of a little girl (minor) who got brutally raped and abused by an older man. And guess what happened with the old man? He’s now free (after he stayed in jail for some years) and even moved in the neighbourhood the little girl lived.

Since this manhwa is a KOREAN story maybe the author just wanted to show how especially “twisted” the KR law is when it comes to sensitive topics like the one(s) above.

Oh okk thanks for the info:)

Definitely wasn't the intention of the story but whatever helps you sleep at night man lol

No actually it doesn't :D !! Just because it's a common occurrence that doesn't make it ok, hope this helps!

Re-read the Author’s Note lol she clearly and explicitly states that but I guess if u like to sleep with a different concept in mind u do u