Also sidebar, this author doesn’t seem to realize they weren’t feeding MC or ML which was gnawing at me. ML downed like 1 million cigarette packs and maybe a steak the entire novel I completely understand why the artist drew his cheekbones so snatched. The MC wasn’t much better but no spoilers we find out WHY he’s not eating much later but still no one can live on AIR and soju author omgggg.
No, that’s why I was so excited! MC was giving “collected, rolls with the punches if not a little naive” vibes but come to find out it’s literally another case of plot armor poker face which had me throwing tomatoes lmaooo. And is it really a poker face if your coworkers could clock your jealousy immediately??
I DO love the novel, though! I just did a bit more eye rolling than anticipated haha.

Once they are together I really like their chemistry (minus the HUGE RED FLAG that is the ML using his Golden Alpha pheromones on the MC to turn him from a Beta into an Omega without his knowledge or consent because you know if he wasn’t who he is we’d all be disgusted).
BUT. I have to admit that I was EXHAUSTED at so many points in the novel with the MC being so damn pathetic. I had to convince myself it was some sort of addiction to the Golden Pheremones from ML because holy SHIT he knew this man for two seconds and it’s all he thought about. This was before they were fucking on every surface.
I kid you not every time ML walked in a room he was looking at him and trying not to be jealous or insecure like pleeeease get a hold of yourself. Is it too much to ask for a confident Beta MC??