Between this and stranger than friends side stories I feel like the manhwa artists are just trying to see how far they can push re: abhorrent treatment of one partner by another and still keep an audience engaged. Dragging out suffering this long… I don’t think any kind of fucking cliche chasing and groveling could make up for it. It’s either that or accepting that a good artist does not a good writer make bc both of these manhwas have such bad plot rife with abuse (in the case of STF, specifically talking about the side story couples).
Dude is pretty alone in this world. Family dead. Apparently no friends except some coworkers and the former showering of love from that fucker makes him crave for the asshole’s affection. But honestly with how things are going this feels like abuse. It’s like the disgusting freak is chipping away at dajeong’s soul, treating him as a stand-in human fleshlight for his abhorrent attraction to hyeok. Dajeong takes whatever he gives because he feels like this is all he can get and wishes for their past relationship meanwhile being convinced by the weirdo that the new dynamic is all his fault. Never being emotionally fulfilled and being used as a sex doll with no safety (denying a safeword shows that the freak does not even see Dajeong as human, only a thing to use and abuse for his sexual gratification), Dajeong is visibly emptying out and being emotionally hurt. Dude literally cries everytime they are intimate because he is not getting anything positive from this. Honestly I don’t think anything could redeem the boss with how he’s outright emotionally depriving and physically taking advantage of Dajeong. ATP I honestly just hate read but I’m mostly sticking around to see if Dajeong leaves his creepy ass. I know the author said this is the boss’s story, but I hope for once the story is about him not having a happy ever after and instead leading a hollow life after Dajeong leaves. Would be weird to see them end up together after all this emotional abuse. Those kind of couples are never happy irl because one is actively making the other person miserable.
Kageyama and Hinata are genuinely insane. Imagine making a promise to compete together at the top of the world as teens and then having the willpower and sheer fucking effort to make that a reality. Hinata crossed continents in the pursuit of his dream. He took fate by the hand and moulded it to his desire. This really is something special.








Usually it’s the top that looks refreshed and the bottom bedraggled after a long night of sex but here Mr Jeong is fucking exhausted and embarrassed meanwhile seonwoo is fucking glowing lmfao.