Still hate the uke.

Life is like that man. Not everything happens the way that you want it to happen but it happens anyways. The premise of vampires is unrealistic but the depiction of toxic relationships is on point.

A lot victims of abuse are like the mc. It’s not an ‘excuse’ and it never was. He knows that what he’s doing is wrong and he hates himself for it. After going through abuse, it’s important to learn to love yourself before loving others but he didn’t get the chance to do that. He just plunged himself deep into an emotion that was sweet and foreign without healing the emotional scars his father left him.

What matters most is that he learned from his mistakes and Chunsam loved him enough to let him learn. The mc has his own way of showing his love because he never knew what love was until Chunsam showed him. He’s still learning.

Not everyone has the patience to deal with someone who has emotional scars. I really like Chunsam’s character because he gets mad but he never left Mingyeom. Love is not always pure and that’s perfectly fine.

There are things that you have you to experience for yourself before you understand why people make the decisions they do. No one deserves to be abused. I hope you won’t dismiss the people that made regretful mistakes, please help them learn from it because they might be going through something unspeakable and doesn’t know what’s right from wrong anymore.

Oh boy, yeah, life is like that... not everybody will like what you do. It doesn't mean they are wrong and you are right, it's just a matter of taste and opinion.
The uke was annoying, selfish and the story was badly written on the part where he started with the other guy.
You know nothing about me or what I experienced, what the hell with this patronizing tone?
I hate this arrogance of readers who think that just because one doesn't see a story the way they do, it's because they didn't get it.
I wish people in here grow up and stop jumping on other's posts as if they had been assigned to explain to others the right way to understand a story.
What matter the most is that sometimes you just don't like a character or a story even if you were supposed to and yes, like is just like that. Learn to understand the difference between having a taste and an opinion and thinking that yours is a fact.
Thank you for your arrogance in jumping into my post explaining how I should feel about a fictional character and story.

I did say to ‘let them learn from mistakes’ so I appreciate getting called out since it’s true that I know nothing about your experience, I am arrogant, I have a loose mouth, I get easily swept away by my emotions, and I had no manners to begin with. But you’re also being patronizing with your thank you. Like you said it’s all about taste and opinion.

Call me out if you don’t like what I said but don’t say thank you if you weren’t thankful to begin with. It patronizing

Oh please, you stop by my post, being one of those 'story explainers' to readers who happen not to 'understand' the story as you do ... literally the opposite of saying it's all about taste and opinion and then when I close with a thank you for your arrogance you still have the nerve to play victim of patronizing? You are something else.
Holly fucking shit, that was not patronizing, that was irony and sarcasm, what I had the point to do after your asshole attitude on my post. ... it's amazing that can't tell the difference.
... It would be patronizing if I ever stopped by your post telling you how to like a dislike a character based on my taste and opinion. As I said, learn the difference between expressing taste and opinion and stating yours as a fact.
My opinion is that this author failed to write a character uke that showed the same amount of affection and love for the same as he received. The biggest flaw of the story is that they only end together because the blonde didn't want the uke. There would be no happy ending for them if the blondie was a good guy or didn't cheat. How is that a satisfying plot?
If blondie had never cheated, if he weren't the convenient asshole that he turned out to be, the way that the plot was written, the uke wouldn't need to be rescued and nothing in their scenes showed ever the uke missing the seme. When he and the bat broke up, he just moved on with the other man. When he and the bloke broke up, he almost kills himself. The whole story the uke doesn't do one single move towards the seme, he only gets rescued and his love resembles more one of someone who stays with a person who loves them out of gratitude or because they are the only ones who ever cared for them. Even the blood he gave, he himself admitted it was because it made him feel superior, so not even this bit can count as the uke doing anything for the seme other than use him as his savior for some kind.
The weird thing is that it wouldn't take much for the author to show at least some balance if only at least one minuscule scene had been shown when the uke was with the blondie, that showed that he missed or loved the other man. Nothing, zilch. Literally their love story is about the uke only staying with the seme when he had nothing else to lose. The seme looks not even like the second best choice but the only choice he had and that's the extent of how much the uke ever acted towards the seme.
My opinion: a big flaw that it's the blondie who decided in this story who the uke would be with. It could have been with him and the seme would live with a broken heart forever.
My taste: Love stories with a lopsided affection are not worth it and an author has to know how to balance the 'abused uke/seme' trope with the excuse for the unbalance.
I'd appreciate now that you left my post alone. Thank you ( take as patronizing or not, at this point I don't care).

I don't want to get into the middle of a fight but just read this on the main page and remembered why I felt so bitter reading this story.
I couldn't tell what rubbed me off so badly because they end up together after all but you said it something that I realized ... if the blond guy had been also a good guy or at least nice, there would be no love story between Chunsam and Mingyeom.
Chunsam was not someone that Mingyeom ever chooses when he gets the choice. The bat is mostly the only one who is always available and rescuing him.
One of the worst comparisons is when Chunsam and Mingyeom broke up and the bat almost dies so much he is suffering but Mingyeom just picks up and goes on living fairly reasonable content with the other guy. It's only when the other guy dumps him that he falls apart and almost kills himself. He is supposed to love Chunsam but he can move on when they are not together but the new guy leaves him and he falls apart. Okay.
The story could have stayed mostly the same but the fact that Mingyeom could have lived with the blong guy indefinitely or forever and never more look back at Chunsam sounds more like Mingyeom didn't really needed Chunsam in his life, he just needed someone who would love him and could have been anyone. It didn't need to be Chunsam.
The bitter taste of this story is that Mingyeon never chose Chunsam. The blond didn't want him, he had nothing else to lose. Chunsam was always there.
Chunsam love for Mingyeon is undeniable throughout the story but Mingyeon
s love is so much dimmed in comparison, especially when he never chooses him on his own, it's always by circumstance of his situation.
It's understandable to be frustrated with the lopsided love. Abuse or not, few details with Mingyeom scenes would have made a big difference in this story.

Yes, no matter how you tell their story, by the end of the day, the story showed that despite being the abused one, Mingyeom didn't need Chunsam to move on and have a life of his own. He wasn't dying of a brokenhearted or losing sleep, he was shown to even enjoy the relationship with the other guy. Chunsam however, clearly couldn't breath without him and would never have moved on.
If the blond had been a nice guy who took care of Mingyeom, Chunsam would have spent his life watching them smiling from afar. It's an awful plot to rely on the fact that the blond guy didn't want Mingyeom and only then Chunsam had his happiness.

the boy was neglected since he was a kid, he was left then betrayed, he's scared that's why he looks selfish to you, he's scared to get hurt and be alone again. （￣へ￣）

You guys act like this story could not have a character with an abusive past and still be written to show a less lopsided love. I am fucking tired of explaining why I dislike the uke and the way the author didn't show more balance between their affection. It was already frustrating the way the author made their break up without making any sense over a lame misunderstanding... then the author shows one of them literally dying away because he misses the other ... while the uke, despite all of you apparently denying it, the uke just went on having a relative normal life and relationship with someone else. And it would have gone through his life without looking back. The whole love story only happened because the blond didn't like the uke. A convenient exit but still, a very lame way to put Chunsam and Mygeyom together ... because the uke never chose him. Chunsam only got his happiness because Mygeyom had nothing else to lose. From start to finish, this is a story of a seme who loved with all his heart and how he got his partner because he was the only one who was always by his side. The way the story is written, Chunsam should be sending a thank you note to the blond for being an asshole because had the blondie give Mygeyom just a bit of love, the uke would have moved on just fine while Chunsam would probably be single forever or die of broken heart.
Do readers so triggered just because not everybody is falling in love with the uke in this story can see the problem with the fact that they only stayed together because the blondie didn't want him? Between Chunsam literally dying of a broken heart and Mygeyom being able to live on and even enjoys small moments with someone else, I say the problem with this story is that it shows a very lopsided love and I for one, I am not fond of it.
People who dislike the uke do it not because they don't get it. We do and we still don't like the annoying unbalance from start to finish and the turn off plot of their relationship only have happened because the other guy had to be bad for the plot to work.
Stop 'explaining' the story just because you are upset that some people dislike the uke.

dude, as far as i know, the uke didn’t tried to kill himself because he misses the other, it’s because he was betrayed and felt alone, and the uke didn’t liked the two-timing jerk, he just used the jerk like how the jerk used him, and they didn’t broke up, like you said it was just a ‘misunderstanding’. ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶ we ain’t triggered because you dOn’T lIKe thE uKe. try to understand his situation, but if you can’t then nEvErMiNd

ciao

Dude, stop explaining the story according to your taste. What a bunch of fucking annoying arrogant pricks your type are whenever someone dares to say they disliked the way the story was written.
Sometimes a character and a story convinces you, sometimes it doesn't. The author didn't balance the characters affections and actions and from start to finish portrayed one of them giving it too much while the other only took it. And again, the plot only worked because the blond guy was not a nice dude .... otherwise they would still living on together.
I think it's you who need to understand that people have different tastes and opinions and stop barging into somebody's post 'explaining' how they should read a story based on yours. One of most annoying things in this story are the 'uke' explainers like you who can't read anyone here saying that they disliked the uke and the lopsided love.
Worst of it is that no matter how many times someone explain why they dislike it, you guys insist on 'explaining' ( meaning, think as you do or I don't get it).
Get lost and Ciao.

what a narrow minded pussy brainless prick. you should’ve not read it in the first place if you’re gonna complain about how the author made the characters or how the author wrote the story. it’s you who almost everyone hates the most, Mr. Genius.

WTF with the children in here. If I had jumped on somebody's post trashing their opinion on something, you guys could maybe have a reason to act like the asshole you are.
What is with the bunch of children like you?
What an idiot whinny pussy asshole you are. Your post doesn't even make sense because one cannot know if they are going to like something before reading it, genius.
Besides that, if people were not allowed to dislike or criticize a work, we might as well not ever give prizes or honor people for excellence on something. Do you even understand what you propose?
Grow up, child.

You take the words right out of my mouth

finally someone who shares the same opinion as me

read this 2 years ago and just happen to pass by while scrolling.. don't worry i agree with what everything you said. til now i still can't forget how i felt bad and sorry for the bat. i never got to like the uke.

Yep, I never liked him from the beginning. The way he treated Bat Boy was so shitty... like he was his owner or sth... But then just when I started to feel sorry for the MC after getting his back story with his father, he goes on and ruins it by sleeping with a random guy. He doesn't deserve Bat Boy, tbh at times like this I wished there was someone else who Bat Boy could get on with instead of the MC.

i cant change your pov but as someone who suffered from mental trauma i could actually relate to the uke....ppl just think that v r annoying or too much.I was happy gyeom met chun sam bcoz he needed someone to assure him that someone could love him too......