Seriously I’ve reread them so many times past life baby kihoon and yeon are so cute in terms of design and so clearly enamoured each other since they first met it’s like pure happiness being injected straight into my veins it’s so cute I love the random goofy drawings soop2rang does too I love this HOWEVER I do my best to skip past all the ominous stuff because I know it’s coming anyway. Let me just see this dynamic without tragedy please.
This is so cute and so dreadful a child wanted to be with his beloved forever and now they’re doomed by destiny aaaaaaa the fact that they always stuck together, kihoon teased yeon about tying the thread, they hugged and stuck close together and when the stranger (errant prince) came kihoon’s instinct was to shield yeon…. What da hell I want to cry at how much they’re loved each other, long before even understanding the depth of that emotion. The fact that this is so sweet but headed towards certain doom is frying my brain.
It’s clear the disgusting freak loser wants to train/groom kihoon into being his loyal attack dog and yeon will end up dying because of it. Fuck.
The style wasn’t to my taste so it took me long to get around to reading this but this is just perfect. Their chemistry is great, even the problematic nature of entertainer/fan dynamic is addressed because on realising it’s really Taegyu, Cheongrok doesn’t try to throw himself at taegyu, rather run away from him. He really does things for taegyu’s sake in a way that isn’t self sacrificing but protective.
Also I’m so sure Yoon Cheongrok would love the shit out of hua cheng if he ever read tgcf he’d think hua cheng is just like him fr fr he would probably read the ‘your highness I understand your everything’ monologue and think about taegyu the whole time, because in the end he really does think of taegyu that way. Also his pouting in the last chapter was so cute lmaooo.
Ilya’s genes didn’t even try what da hell lmao.
Dominant genes win for a long time so the face and body features should be the only places we see Ilya's genes with some lightening of the children's skin but not as pale.
And yes, this is omegaverse so we do have to throw certain logic out the window. My only gripe with the genre is when there are female-female pairs because their only option is to have girls, genetically speaking.
I know Kaji and Jaehyuk from can’t think straight (ultimate fuckass loser boy whores turned lover boy simps) would approve of each other.
When you know something but just can't prove it(yet)
YOUR ABSOLUTELY DAMN RIGHTTT LOSER LOVER BOYSSS
I began rereading and in the second chapter when the string first shows up kihoon jokingly says ‘You sure you didn’t tie this to me while I was sleeping? You naughty boy, you!’ which knowing their backstory and how the string between them ‘began’/ first appeared was so sick and twisted (based and cool) of the creator to write.
Edit: in chapter 6 yeon pictures his (not really) unrequited love as a nobleman of old falling for a commoner (though kihoon here is not depicted as a general/retainer but as a woodcutter? Idk he has an axe). Soop2rang was having too much fun with this lmao.
Edit 2: in chapter 12-13, yeon sees his past self’s painting and instructions on how to connect the string by force through the boulder.
soop2rang def had fun writing smut in the 1st season so that they can lore bomb us on th 2nd
Anyway, very familiar with tropes so this is what I think is happening/ will happen, even though it is purely conjecture. I am not making excuses for woosang, I’m just listing out what I think will/is happening:
1. Like Soohan who is lying about being someone who has had sponsors, woosang is also lying by pretending he is straight and that soohan is just a random indulgence, and that he eventually wants a ‘stable family’. He’s definitely not straight and has been into soohan since he was in school. Reason: their classmate mentions in chapter 9 that woosang looks at Soohan the same way he used to in school.. likely with longing. (Soohan cuts his classmate off before he can finish his sentence). Also it’s much easier to pretend to be nonchalant about finally hooking up with your HS crush than dump the heaviness of guilt and longing you’ve felt towards them all at once, coming clean to try and have an honest chance with them. Even though woosang is sponsoring soohan, he mistakenly calls it dating.
2. The rumours didn’t begin of woosang’s own volition. Things escalated either because it was a misunderstanding or someone pinned the blame of outing soohan on him. Reason: classmate states that it was unlike woosang to spread rumours.
3. He most likely knew what soohan actually said at the reunion, but used similar sounding phrases to get in contact with soohan again. He definitely knows that they can’t get close normally bc they had bad shared history, so he used an outlandish excuse. (This one is a little unlikely).
Overall, other reasons I think this is: woosang is not the dominant/ abusive top with how he’s written: sure he’s jealous, but he consistently goes along with how soohan treats him, gives into his demands, apologises when he wrongs soohan, wants to take care of him and (most obviously) he’s not homophobic bc he’s a little too excited to be on, in or with soohan anyway possible. This means it’s probably a long time desire being realised by him. The way he’s written is obviously a ‘romantic’ archetype as opposed to a ‘asshole turned remorseful’ archetype.
My reaction when the main characters are and always have been madly in love in every reincarnation but cursed eternally by destiny : ༼;´༎ o ༎༽
The ominous threat of misfortune being headed their way doesn’t concern me because I can’t read. I am not worried (I am. stay the fuck away from these littol lovebirds misfortunes. Stay away!!!).
Falling for your situationship/ kind-of-girlfriend’s brother is CRAZY WORK I honestly like them together but this kinda stuff really messes up sibling relationships damn. Bro is so caught up in his own head he’s telling his girlfriend’s best friend about it. She may be a friend by association to you bro but her loyalty lies first with her best friend. Why would you do that??
Tbh, I hope she tells the girl so she dumps him. Make things easier. (Altho he should still learn to vocalize his own interests more loudly, rather than be so fearful.)