ah, taerim.

Do you have the link ?

i don’t share links to translations, my apologies! a lot of TLers & sites request the links not be shared publicly due to containment breach risk & i abide by that. you should be able to find it pretty easily though if you look up “sweet shot” on novelupdates, see who the translator is, and then google it from there!

Haha reading the novel he frustrated me too I love the side characters too! His brother Taein was such a supportive friend too and I loved how eventually things worked out in a way that Taerim got his comeuppance haha

yessss Taein is such a good character he’s genuinely so supportive of Hamin in all his endeavours no matter what they entail..: the way he cried for him when Hamin shared the secrets of the years they spent apart was genuinely sweet. the supporting cast really is so good from him to Chaein to Eunsoo…. even Heegyeom. i don’t care for second MLs generally because they tend to feel pointless to me a lot but Heegyeom was such a sweetheart rare instance of me feeling genuinely like man. I wish the second ML won out. bc he was just so nice. it’s so wild how good the supporting cast is contrasted against how horrible Taerim is LMAO he deserved every ounce of anguish his feelings caused him along the way once he realised them!!!

Give some spoilers pls. What does the ML do that makes him one of the worst MLs you’ve ever come across? I’m curious hehe

Spill some tea bestie

Don’t wanna spoil too much but he drops a huge bomb on him after they stopped seeing each other for a bit bc of certain things that occurred and it wrecked Hamin so much. Just callousness lol. Taerim’s brother Taein comforting him after that scene was so

generally a lot of why he’s one of the worst to me is a combination of context (hamin’s background combined with taerim’s behaviour and possessiveness) and also the fact i do not fw toxic leads so i usually drop if things get weird to me bc i know they won’t hit any sort of conclusion that would satisfy me (which would typically involve the mc moving on and never looking back no matter the chasing arc lol) and thus i don’t have a super long list of Thee Worst bc i tend to ditch and forget a lot. but i rly liked hamin & the supporting cast and how the story approaches his mental health struggles and body dysmorphia (esp in comparison to like… pretty much any other story with a weight loss storyline, his dysmorphia is treated quite seriously) so. alas. i was stuck with taerim

but for actual spoilers…..

[MAJOR SPOILER] as established by this point in the EN manhwa hamin has a scar on his wrist from a suicide attempt (as well as several cigarette burn marks from severe bullying in the same area) he covers up w/ his watch because he’s ashamed of them. taerim’s general possessiveness without a willingness to commit or explore why he’s so dedicated to hamin is really insufferable because of hamin’s backstory and how remembering taerim as his long gone first love was like… a salvation to him when he was suffering alone esp also bc taerim does get very forceful / hostile when hamin tries to cut things off or draw a line.

specifically at one point he forces hamin to show him the scar on his wrist because he was consistently mad that heesung (second / false lead) was close to hamin and knew Something about him he didn’t and it was just such a gross invasion of privacy with the background knowledge hamin’s narrative had provided that it solidified him as one of Thee Worst to me lol. it ended up being the breaking point for hamin too for a while.

Omg thank you but nahhh spoil it all! I want the full tea hehe what huge bomb does he drop? How did he wreck Haemin?