I bought volume 1 way back in 2011.
That means I’ve been collecting this series for 14 years with no end in sight.
Eunsung is bigger than Jaeha.
The first time they had sex, Taegun thought to himself that he’d never been filled that much.
Too bad he doesn’t know, though, cus since he thinks he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, that’d be a blow to his ego,
I feel like this is a good chapter to share the story:
When Raphael lost his ring finger — in other words, when he could no longer make vows of love — he forgot how to love someone.
That meant even when it rained, he couldn’t long for anyone.
Things like mistaking a stranger’s silhouette for someone he missed were illusions that no longer existed for him.
To Raphael, who had just come of age, Margo Weaver was everything in the world. But it wasn’t love.
It was jealousy. It was a desire to conquer. He was like a target he was determined to bring down someday.
Sometimes, after sex, Margo would place the cigar he always smoked between his lips, look into Raphael’s eyes, and say:
“If you want to stay beneath me, bet everything.”
But he, too, never spoke of love carelessly.
It was laughable, really — considering he was the one who had lost his ring finger, as if to ensure he could never promise love to anyone again.
Raphael thought Margo was the one who was afraid.
He stayed by his side , working thoroughly like his hands and feet — always taking the initiative to handle what he wanted, what he needed.
Like his shadow. Like the strong liquor he drank constantly.
At times, just like any presence that seemed to exist by default.
And then, Margo did something foolish.
He gave a place at his side — something he should never have offered — to the one person he should never have trusted.
He had given it away.
Can anyone separate themselves from their shadow?
No one ever could.
And after a long time, on the day Raphael killed Margo —
he did think of him, if only for a moment.
He wondered — if he still had the ring finger on his left hand, would he have been able to feel even the faintest trace of love for him?
Raphael lit one of the cigars he used to smoke.
He would often lounge on the sofa in the same relaxed posture he used to sit in.
The empty space where his ring finger used to be would, from time to time, remind him of the one he had destroyed with his own hands.
But without being defined, a feeling holds no meaning.
Unless you call it love — yes, it’s as if it was never love at all.
Raphael didn’t long for anyone on rainy days.
He simply chose to forget that feeling — pitiful, tattered, and endlessly fragile.
We get many cute shots of both Eunsung and Taegun.
https://www.mangago.zone/home/album/617746/
https://www.mangago.zone/home/album/617747/
Spoilers for chapter 60:
In chapter 59, Taegun is debating how to ask Eunsung to go shopping. In chapter 60 they’re on their date (Taegun hasn’t really realized is a date though).
They’re super cute this chapter.
I fear is the calm before the storm, though.
I’m going to start reading the webcomic, but I don’t think I’ll be reading the novel.
How comparable is the comic to the novel? Or am I missing a good chunk of story if I don’t read the novel?
My main reason for wanting to read this one is mainly because I want to make my own opinion about Caesar.
I’ve read a bit before and read the comments and he’s definitely unhinged, but just how much? I constantly see him being compared to Ilay and Zhenya and who’s worse, and I’ve seen all kinds of answers.
I’ve read both Passion and Codename Anastasia in their entirety, so I have a pretty good idea of these 2 MLs.
Anyway, I don’t think it’ll be reading the Roses and Champagne novel, mainly because I read somewhere that Dimitri (that’s Caesar’s cousin, right?) is creepier in the novel than the comic and I’ve come to realize that I don’t like those types of characters who are obsessed with MC or ML.
Luke could very well be Andrew’s whole world, and it might sound romantic af, but that’s not a healthy thought to have. Andrew needs to expand his horizons, and I don’t mean he suddenly has to become outgoing, because he’s not naturally like that, but he does need to find 1 or two people outside of Luke he can rely on.
Additionally, with Luke being social butterfly, he might feel suffocated and or worried if/when he finds out he’s Andrew’s sole raison d'être because he wants Andrew to expand his wings.
Hopefully Andrew does find that one friend and his relationship with Luke continues to grow stronger.
They’re pretty solid, but there are also some issues that need to be addressed.
I refuse to believe he is.
The only corroboration we have that he is is what Seongchan and Doha have said. They made that determination.
What if Bada is the original trapped player?
If you remember, Min Wooyoung was attacked by what looked like Taegun’s memories of his suicide attempt.
I think the prophecy is about that. It was mentioned that Nightmare has evolved, and Wooyoung was very badly injured by something in that dungeon, so I think the “Lee Taegun will see blood” means Nightmare is either going to hurt him directly or other espers until someone realizes the nightmare attacking them is Taegun’s.