It was so fucking cute
can you send the link for the raws?
Mc's masochistic tendencies root from his guilt from when ml got hurt in their childhood. Mc is still very much traumatized by that event and we know that bc of how he reacted in the tunnel.
Mc being clingy to ml to the point of being whiny is not an expression of love, but rather, of mc's worry about ml's physical well-being. Mc has expressed worry about ml when he kept going out for some period of time, and he was also in the know about the family business. He has also witnessed ml being violent with others, and ml getting into fights meant that he was putting himself in harm's way as well. I think, that bc the trauma is so big (to the point it is expressed as separation anxiety), it just trumps all the feist and the fight that mc used to have???
Or at least, that's how I'm convincing myself.
We can't deny that Mc holds an affection for ml given their long history, but also, to MC, ML now holds the punisher role, the thing he's been craving all this time, perhaps from ml himself, which is why ml has become that much more important to mc...is what I'm thinking.
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
But it's been a while since I finished the main story so I was confused about who was the third couple (for some reason I only remembered the couples in old korea) and then realized it was the ghost king and the modern day shaman. They were my favorite. Ah it's time. It took me some time to realize Sanggil was probably one of the ghosts too, lmao
I started reading from chapter 3 (don't ask why) and only read the beginning after I finished it and wow, it was so weird slowly realizing mc was a minor when I saw him graduating and telling ml he wants to get into uni.
Reading this really clarified something for me, and it's that you should expect noncon/Dubcon to be the norm in omegaverse. In the first chapter, when ml was like "your pheromones made the alphas attack you" was it for me. Can we call it victim-blaming? He was just stating facts of omegaverse. It's true that alphas lose their reason when they smell pheromones. They're like animals at that point. And that was the point I realized that omegaverse characters are sub-human. Humans should never lose reason the way they do in omegaverse, and it's fine to consume omegaverse as long as you have a grounded understanding of that.
Nevertheless I am still disgusted. I always strayed away from omegaverse for a reason that I didn't know until today. I thought it was just about the smut. But uh, it's the very nature of omegaverse that doesn't sit right with me. Regardless, it was good art.
Bc Heewon actually truly fell in love with Muyoung but he's just sick at the core that he can't really help it anymore. So it's not that he can't empathize, it's just that he hurts for Muyoung as well and it's eating him up that's why he thinks it's better to just get rid of his feelings so he can stay in his "fairy tale"
Muyoung is such a sorry case too, because even though he knows how much of a fuck-up Heewon is, he still holds on to the times when Heewon was kind to him, because he didn't have anything/anyone else...and Heewon is to blame for that.
It's amazing to me when the author writes the characters so that they reflect the "what-ifs" of a story. Heewon is still wearing a red stud because it's Muyoung's favorite color. His feelings for Muyoung haven't changed and it will be like that forever. Heewon really could have gotten the fairytale that he wanted with Muyoung if he just let things take its course, but instead of being just the main character in the fairytale, he just had to go ahead and be the writer too. :(
Like I'm sorry about the wording but I need him to accept ml's protection. He's been on his toes for far too long
Love a pretty top