This is definitely not a review on the story, but more so on my personal reading experience.
It's such a heavy story, but feels so hollow which I'm thinking is bc of the art style. It's like I'm chasing a fading dream that I struggle to grasp any of it.
I just feel so hollow after the whole thing. It's so weird to me that I felt the most heaviness for the president, after he had found out about the illness. I didn't like him at all for the constant cheating. Hell, in theory I despise him the most. But the mc's resignation, the acceptance of their ending before it could be closed mutually on both sides, it's so??? cruel. Yet so well-deserved. And for some reason that makes me feel sympathy for the president.
I think the translation didn't help. I should really read it again from a better source to get a better understanding of it. Heck, I should really read the novel. I just feel so hollow after the whole thing. Everybody's saying they were sobbing, and while I understand that it's sad, I didn't even shed a single tear. I wish to be sad about this too. I thirst for the sadness.
I'm not yet reading and didnt wanna spoil myself but I did notice a gap in the upload dates, just wondering
the uploader is just a bit behind, this season ends at chapter 50 :)
I see. I'm guessing there'll be a season e 3 huh?
Yes especially with how it ends
It actually felt like it was trying too hard with the "heavy" parts. Left a bad taste in the mouth. I wish they just kept it light all throughout tbh
Agreed, this didn’t need to be 25 chapters long
"If I'm correct, the last chapter I remember was around when the ml laughed hard at the mc in the hallways?? Or the pink hair guy being at the same hotel as mc?? I can't remember which chapter I stopped reading from and I didn't even have it bookmarked"
i’d just start at chapter 49-50 just to be safe
I looked and I think it might be chapter 61 :) The pink hair guy goes to ML’s house to get the s*x tape USB and the MC and him get in a fight.
Hey I started reading again from ch 58! Thankss
Was it the chapter you were looking for?
I didn't find it but while reading around the chapters you gave me it felt like I was jogging my memory. Before stopping reading the last chapter I had read was about the class pres going to Ibiza and the rest after that was all new to me
Commenting so I can find out too.
It’s not so much hate. MC is extremely reckless and got into many many bad situations. He pushed ML to do dangerous things without a safe word and kept pushing ML and eventually ML gave in and did something dangerous to MC and he ended up in hospital. ML has been cold and distant from MC ever since then. He feels both guilt and anger towards MC.
Fast forward a few weeks or months and MC gets himself in another bad situation and this time it’s really really serious. Like traumatic serious. The cops are involved and for his safety, he ends up living with ML. I think people dislike the ML because even in this situation where MC just faced something traumatic and is very clearly scared and trying to do better and be less reckless, ML is still cold and distant. Tbh, I would too. This guy pushes you to do something dangerous and gets hurt and you said no a million times before doing it and then you hear he did it again and got seriously hurt and now he’s on your doorstep and asking for help and you give it because you’re a good person but you still feel all that guilt and anger at them for making you into a person who puts another into hospital. That’s something you don’t just forget. People are putting MCs trauma over MLs trauma but he has never once in all his years of life put someone in hospital. I feel bad for both of them. I do want them to get along and trauma bond since they both seem to need it but two stubborn men won’t change easily. At least we see some progress.
Thanks for jogging my memory, I remember now. I was kinda surprised to find people reacting the way they did towards ml because I didn't remember thinking or feeling anything Ike that towards him in the previous season hence the question. I remember ml was logical while Mc was reckless / not really thinking about his well-being. But also, I feel like ppl are reacting this way towards ml bc the story is being told from the mc's perspective. We don't really know what's going through ml's head, but I'd bet the whole thing had been traumatic for him too.
Well I’m pretty sure I remember the ML crying or something at the hospital bedside next to MC and begging him to stop but MC just told him “it’s my life and imma keep doing it! You can’t tell me what to do” and true to his word, he kept it up and ended up in the hospital again. It was definitely shown that it was traumatic for the ML but people are ignoring it in favour of MCs trauma which is being shoved into our faces over and over. I hate victim blaming and I’ve faced victim blaming myself so I don’t say this lightly but the MC put himself in this situation over and over, faced the consequences once (and that was with a responsible person who took him to the hospital right away) and STILL did it again. What did he expect? He literally did this to himself. ML was a mostly unwilling participant who was pushed into it and although yes, he could have not done it to begin with, it was either he does it or MC goes out and does it anyway! The MC literally threatened ML into it!
This. I would feel more furious.
Honestly I’d just be sad and a little lost at this point. Like I’d be angry but more angry at myself that the pressure and emotional blackmail worked and I’d be lost cause yes it’s going the way I want and he’s stopped being reckless but at the cost of both of our mental health.
I would be furious because of what they did to him, for him not listening and going out with bunch of guys, not making him stop. Its sad, yes but the fact that it couldve been easiely prevented and how sad it is, that itself is enough go mad. You can feel all of those things together.
True. I’d just personally get over most of my anger pretty quick. As someone who has anger issues and has been to anger management, feeling lost and sad are harder to manage than anger.
For me, its opposite. I am the type who almost never get angry. Maybe since i am the type who holds a lot, this type of situation would trigger me.
lol sounds like it depends on the personality type. I used to hold a lot in and then explode like a bomb but now I let it out little by little so I never explode. I highly recommend it! There are lots of healthy ways to express “negative” emotions without them being toxic for you or others and they’ve helped me a lot. I hope you can find something that helps you since studies show that people who hold emotions in end up getting sicker than those who express their emotions freely.
in my head but then there's not enough chapters so first season ends eventually and it goes on a long break which means I'll forget about it all no matter how much I loved it so when the next season comes I have no idea who any of the characters are or what the story is about and it ends up on my notifications whenever it gets an update and every time I'll be like "YEAH I remember really loving that at some point but I don't remember any of it now–I'll have to reread from the first chapter to catch up but the task doesn't seem so inviting and I know I won't get any dopamine doing that because I don't really enjoy reading the same thing twice so maybe, maybe later" and Surprise, surprise, I never get around to it and the bl just haunts my notifications like a ghost of the past–
And yeah I think this is a good time to nope the fuck outta here but this is a love letter. I really loved you Yang Ilwoo and I during the 30 minutes I was with you today 20th November. Goodbye, I hope I won't miss you too much and I hope the best for you. I will come back someday (I hope)
I feel the same way, please return so I could read more of your thoughts. I don’t even know you but this letter felt like a goodbye I couldn’t bare. Maybe the story gave me the feels but yea…
I will do the same and marinate this
Believe me, I want to so bad, but I just don't have the energy for that kind of commitment (pfft is it ever that deep ) I'm coping by reading Shape of your love by this same author which I'm just now finding out is connected to Form of Sympathy, which, BTW, is something I've dropped at like the 3rd season and haven't gotten back to since, bc of this ^ pattern
Yea I started with shape of your love, then I was really happy for form of sympathy and now this one but I feel like the author’s work is getting progressively gloomier, TT
It's not even about where hyungnim had kissed him, this is a prince we're talking about! His body is "royal", and for a mere scholar to place his lips anywhere near that body just means he crossed a line: he went against everything he knew–the teachings, the rules, the traditions–and let his affections for him win. And he knew it was wrong because he could only do it when chang geon is asleep, and the fact that he had drugged him too?! Double whammy. !! It's so conflicting, because by the act of kissing he admitted to himself that he had felt SOMETHING (whatever it was he felt is another matter entirely) and by doing it unbeknownst to chang geon is another admission in itself–that he couldn't let chang geon know!
I'm so conflicted. I wouldn't call it romantic love at this point, only a sense of ownership and possessiveness over someone that's impossible to be his. Which, at this point is not yet mirrored by Chang geon, because the kid lets go of hyungnim and even roots for his happiness, and YET by setting chang geon free albeit cowardly he unlocks something in chang geon which causes the boy to thirst for power. And I'm not at all victim-blaming, but this comes back to him later down the road and we all know how that ends. The irony of it all.
(Also, wtf was he running away from—why was there a need to end it this way, why even drug chang geon at all (((IS IT DESIRE !!!!))))
That kills me