Man, I love the fan-made translations. “Sorry to interrupt, but I have no idea what he’s talking about” (● ˃ロ˂)੭⁾⁾ NO, LOVE, YOU’RE DOING GREAT
Man, I’m kind of struggling to get through this one and I’m at chapter 37!!! It took me like 4 days to get there and I felt like I would be at around chapter 15 or something…
Not much happening, the art is pretty, the smut is good, I liked that little domination play the MCs have… But at the same time I’m not buying their characters at all.
FL doesn’t show much character for how she is portrayed as this queen of the society type of lady in the beginning.
ML is boring, his only personality trait is liking the FL and his love isn’t even believable, it kind of happened put of nowhere (fell for her at the first sight cause she was showing a human fucking emotion and now I will abandon everything I have to be with her for no damn reason type of romance).
They have no chemistry outside of bed, their interactions and conversations are just plain and unremarkable (and they met like three times in those 37 chapters).
The political drama is repetitive, unimaginative and boring. So far the villains show no motives and purpose, the princess is just plain evil so we have to hate her and that’s it.
The only character I’m kind of vibing with is that man-child future duke. Sucks that he has a mentality of a five years old competing for toys with the ML but he’s a cunning smartass in an enjoyable way.
I think I showed more agent skills when convincing my parents I was sober after coming back from a party I shouldn’t have drank at than the MC on a mission to thwart a terrorist organization’s plans.
(at ch 79) Wow… There were times when I didn’t really want the main leads to be each with other at the beginning of the story, but I would usually warm up to them as the story progresses. It’s the first time I wish they just stop and move on at the very end. It’s not a bad read, we’re complicated creatures, I can see the characters points and emotions, I don’t hate any of them. I just… don’t root for their relationship at all at this point. I almost want to stop 10 chapters before the end of the main story so I DON’T see them get together.
When the side stories are better than the actual story lol. (I mean, it’s just that the drama got too repetitive at certain point).
Kinda bummed w didn’t get to see Yirim get back to skating though… Just this one sneak peak scene. Wished they showed it in the side stories.
I agree.
I have such insanely mixed feelings about him… TT I would have never guessed that he was such an obsessive psycho in the first few chapters lol. The thing is, his behaviors would be a total red flag if the other party wasn’t interested. And even in a relationship, if my partner acted that way I would run for the hills and never look back. But since MC LIKED how he expressed his affection through obsession, enjoyed the attention and it stroked his ego …I guess it’s fine? As long as the relationship dynamic truly works for the people involved, I have nothing to complain about as an onlooker.
The only issue I have and I am SO MAD they didn’t show how it was resolved: was ML hiding from the MC that his family and friends know he’s in a gay relationship. Open obsession, stalking, jealousy, being controlling - whatever, the MC knows he acts this way and consents, heck, even enjoys it. But he can’t be ok with something he doesn’t know about. ML claims he did it to protect him and because he didn’t want to stress the MC out but bffr: he’s keeping him entirely dependent on himself. MC has no idea that he has a support system in case anything goes wrong with their relationship. What could possibly make him anxious about knowing that the people he values know how he lives his life, accept it and support him?
Can’t remember the last time I got so into a story. Feel genuinely sad to be all caught up and have to look for something else to read. The narration, characters, art, colors and light/shadow work in the second season, how everything is portrayed, scenes are played out, their gestures, I love it all.
The dubcon took me off guard and was a bit sickening but I was actually relieved when MC called it what it was - an abuse - instead of brushing it off like in most of BLa (or romances in general) so I guess it didn’t ruin it all for me.
Can’t believe it’s not all over social media, I didn’t even marinate it, just never came across it in the 4 years it’s been updating?? Is it really THIS criminally underrated or did my algorithm fail me?
Considering dropping it at ch 23. It feels like the author made someone she hates in real life into a main character of this horrible, overdramatic, cruel story just to make her suffer.
*spoilers ahead*
Like, I don’t know what the FL presumably did in the past to deserve to be at the receiving end of that psychotic revenge, but it seriously couldn’t have been THAT bad. She came from an abusive household, had an emotionally manipulative mother, fell for a guy that she had to leave because of said mother - and now she has some bitch on her back that she only met once but she’s trying to literally drive her to her death. All of that for what? What kind of fucking sob story is that psychotic bitch going to have to “excuse” this behavior? And that husband of hers??? Jesus fucking christ, he ruined one woman’s life and decided to leech onto another, just to cheat on her. And somehow felt like he was in the right cause his father abused him so boohoo don’t want kids with my family’s blood. He wanted a strong woman to stand her ground unlike his mother so he picked one and chose to ruin her. Motherfucker, if your whole life revolves around not wanting to continue your father’s bloodline then maybe don’t go around spraying your genetic material around and keep it in your fucking pants? AND YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT THIS MF GETS TO RECEIVE FLs “HELP” AND “PROTECTION”?????? What is it, he actually deserves everything that’s happening to him but he gets to be taken care of and forgiven? When no one was there for FL and she had to pick herself up, even though her only crime was loving a man? AND she still blames herself for everything and stops herself from putting it on others? JFC those japanese authors really seem to hate their female main characters. There’s something so inherently misogynistic in the way they are written.
Also, I get that the brother of MLs ex wife wanted to get his revenge on that MF for abandoning his wife and kid. But why did he almost drive to suicide another woman in the process? You’re acting exactly the same way that the guy you tried to take the revenge on - ruining an innocent woman’s life and driving her to despair for your own selfish goal.
Awh man, this one is so good at building sweet and thick tension… Everything feels so veiled, every gesture so direct, yet hesitant, the way they so carefully observe and long for each other while keeping their distance. I don’t know, it’s like sitting in a summer heat and licking honey off your fingers with a glass of cold lemonade in front of you - that’s the image that comes to my mind.
Just because you can write something doesn’t mean you should type of story