Sex is often used to hold power over the head of one party to bend them into submission but put that in the omegaverse context and you'll have a couple whose power imbalance gets even more pronounced by the nature of the world they live in.
Also, what's with mc's names? Yejun and Noah?
Both MC and ML have Korean names and English names I guess for ease of living abroad. Good chunk of Eastern Asians does it like that. TBH I'm from Europe and I often use English name when speaking English cos I'm over people not even hearing and thoroughly butchering the different sounds in my proper name.
A lot of ppl do it for social integration, esp. as immigrants.
And yes, my name is difficult to hear, esp. Over the phone. After I've said my name, they still say "Lisa"? And it's not ANYWHERE close to my name. And when it's written, in it's original language, obviously it is pronounced correctly, but in the English language there is no equivalent, and even ppl who have immigrated like I did butchers my name too since it's way too "unique" and isn't something they're used to hearing.
I'd never get used to a non-birth given name, so I've never changed it. But once you're an adult or had your citizenship it's hard to change your name. I had a classmate in H.S. changed her legal name, I had wondered why. I liked her original name. Both sounded good, to be honest. But when I had commented on why she had changed it, and it was both first and last names, not just her first name, when it was so nice. But it's cool you can change your name. And she'd said that but it makes all the paperwork such a pain. Cuz literally ALL of your life documents will have to be transferred. And like your school certificates, transcripts, etc. You'd have to keep explaning and providing info for everything pertaining to your previous title. Sounds like a pain to me.
Had another friend did the same thing. Had known him forever and it was a name in my mother tongue, but then in his senior year also changed his name. But I will always and forever his native name. And the change again was drastic too. He not only took in an English first name, and had a change of last name as well, though that remained the same native last name. And but I'm so used to his original birth-given name. So whenever he would come to kind or referring to him it would always slip into that name naturally.
A lot of different Asians (not just East Asians) do. All my viet friends have a Vietnamese name and a western name they got when they were baptized. I personally just started to use an easier to say nickname when I was in grade school. I legally changed my name to my nickname when I got married but kept my real first name as my middle name.
Also to the original commenter, a relevant example of someone Korean with a Western name would be Hwasa and “Maria” which she made into a song.
Ah I was referring to this virtual boy group PLAVE having members with the same names
I even forget the title sometimes but won't actively search for it. I only click on it once I see it on the main page and by then I'd have about 4 chapters to read. Which is a treat for me tbh. I usually cannot follow ongoing stories because of poor memory retention but this plot line is so rare I'd be stupid to have it confused with something else.
It might also be the first time I like a kidnapping story. It's still kidnapping but it's not torturous for the kidnapped and the reader.
I want more
Could u please give me the link?
THANK YOU
But ig I have to put it on my read list to remind future me not to make the same mistake I did
I didn't do this nooooooOOOOOOOOOO i read this but didnt wanna put it on my already read list so I didnt and I ended up rereading it because "it looks familiar" oh god what an idiot 5 minute ago me was
Oh nooo (not really knowing what the manga was about bc I can't remember) There should be a separate "I read this and I wish I didn't" tab fr!!
Absolutely!!! And dont bother trying to remember this its a waste of your braincells ToT
Like that's not his birth mother but they're bantering like friends. I'm soft. Their family is so cute. Which makes it all the more sad when you think about how Lee Nok grew up. His mother died when he was at a young age, the royal nature of his family and him being crown prince already imposes upon him a huge responsibility from the beginning and that might imply his dad and him having a not so very loving relationship. Not to mention his step mother is out for his head, and the politics that goes on in the palace means he always has to look out for his back. When you see it like that, it would be crazy for Nok not to fall for Kyungjoon whose loyalty is with him always. But also, it's very possible that he's mistaken his feelings for kj as romantic love when in reality he's just been needing a family all this time. Jaeshin would then be his first love, and he would also be his last </3
There were also some mentions in season one, that Jaeshin was bullied in the afterworld that he is a half human, and he was really sad that his mother died, so I'm happy that he grew up with a loving family. (Which made him to become a spoiled kid who plays with human life like nothing would happen. But it's nice to see that his family is always there for him, even in his punishment to live in the human world was probably out of care from his family)
As someone with a PHD on unrequited love... I get it. And I also get the frustration some people are having.
Mc never had greed for chaheon. Even if he's experienced lust before they put their hands on each other, it was very minimal, and he's always tried to suppress his feelings for ml, whether that be lust, love, or something else.
He's always drawn lines between ml and himself. "Ml is at the top of the foodchain; the spotlight follows him wherever he goes, etc." In a way it's idolization, putting someone on a pedestal. And when you look up at someone so much, you get used to holding your neck out. You stop being on the same playing level. Sometimes, that means a weak sense of self-worth.
Having a crush is something you do alone. Liking someone alone, having your heart broken on your own, sometimes (a lot of times) even by your own doing (although it's hard to admit). Mc is still very much in his own head. He's lived with the storyline he wrote in his mind for so long he thinks it's real life. I have a feeling it still hasn't fully occurred to him that ml is in this "relationship" as much as he is. He still holds the assumption that ml will reject him if he confesses his feelings. For Mc, it's still more comfortable being in the box he caged himself in, rather than this new territory he's exploring with ml. Surely doesn't help that ml has cryptic tendencies. This unexplored territory is scary for mc especially when he thinks he's doing it alone.
It's funny to me now but I sympathize with Mc. The pain he's experiencing now may just be due to some scenario he's made canon in his head, but the pain is all too familiar it might even be comfortable, so much so that, instead of asking ml for clarification, he's out here crying over his already broken heart.
You just described what I am like lol I can totally relate ╥﹏╥
*whispers* for people who can relate to this, look into gray sexual/romantic identities (asexual/aromantic and others) ㅎㅅㅎ
Oh </3 I'm sorry to hear that. I used to be the same too ╥﹏╥