As lovable as MC is, he really is wishy-washy. Someone like that is easily pushed around when he lets someone in his heart. I don’t mind the new guy but he’s far too overbearing, while that seems sexy, I hate his look of annoyance each time as if MC is some burden or a kid that needs to be lectured. I hate when he said “ So you get to make all the decisions?” As if all this time he hadn’t been making all decisions for MC. I think MC would have a much more equal relationship with the ex but that ship clearly sailed and now we’re aboard the Domineering & Arrogant CEO ship
I stopped at chapter 4. I’m so sick of these stories lately where the sister is always the villain trying to destroy MC out of jealousy. This trope seemed most common in Chinese webtoons but now they have started appearing in korean ones too.
It’s so degrading sometimes, it would be alright if the villain hated her sister for a valid reason but it’s always about 2 women fighting for the love of one man etc. Like we women have nothing else to do other than to ruin our own blood related family out of sheer hatred and spite
From what I've seen that us not how it's gonna go, apparently the sister trying to protect her
Really?? thank you for telling me before I completely dropped it, I was so sure it was going to follow the same trope
Yh, I saw some spoilers and damn it goes deeper than just a man, so maybe you should hang on a little more
Seeing all the happy satisfied comments, I’m gonna get downvoted to hell but does anyone else felt that this story was kinda.. Half assed? Or put more nicely, too fast paced. We get to find out that the seme had a “love at first sight” but how? Are you telling me he literally met a guy on the streets and within minutes decide to punch him in the gut and take him home? The author really couldn’t be bothered here.
What drew me to this story is the summary. A yakuza and male prostitute driven to sex industry due to crippling debt. My god a what a perfect dark psychological story.
I was not prepared to be hit in the face with this fluff. It almost feels like a parody of all “seriously yakuza BL’s. Which is also interesting! But the author clearly put more effort into sex scenes than then the plot.
Again it’s too fast paced! The uke is saved before I even get to blink.
They both find each other when they get kidnapped faster than the speed of light (￣∇￣")
Though I must say I really loved ukes one liners. They were really funny.
it definitely is but most bls are with the constraints they have in a volume and the author def does a good job in the scenes they focus on lol
Thanks, you summarized exactly my thoughts. Yeah it was cute, fluffy and all but sloppy and cliché, especially for a yakuza story. If you want to read a similar but good yakuza / prostitute trope read this one, I it yesterday and it was such a great story
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/itou_san_kuraka_sui/
That one was amazing! There was a lot of bitterness but the sweetness makes up for it at the end (⌒▽⌒) I jumped into this one thinking it’s itou-san nr 2 but boy felt like I got marshmallows shoved down my throat
Yeah Itou-San was an incredible story with so much emotions / feelings and love between the two MCs. It was dark and tragic but also beautiful.
This one is a pale and cheesy copy of Itou San.
Well, I’m gonna look for another yakuza / prostitute story.
Honestly I agree with you but I really love this story because it’s low-key like a breather from other mafia stories etc fun to read yk
Yessss that manga is so good
Homeboy wearing Gucci shoes and pretending to be all pitiful. It’s a wonder how MC is so study smart yet so slow-witted
It's a manhwa duh
Right, my bad for scrutinizing. Low effort on authors part or she’s just following the usual popular trope
God I feel so indignant on her behalf. She lived there for 16 years and had mere employees running her over, managing her like a 10 year old girl on the excuse of “she might be a spy”. The chapter where she is finally allowed to go out for a stroll left me bitter instead. I want punch that white haired employee so badly. Who does he think he is??? Is there no weight to someone titled a Duchess just because she’s a woman? But I guess I’m just as vexed with her as well. That she swallowed all of this instead of kicking up a fuss and threatening divorce
I'm really confused about this because it doesn't entirely make sense to me. Is this bad writing or is there some point I'm missing?
Nothing makes sense to me. Reading the comments before starting the story, I thought it would be a selfish protagonist who after dying once regrets her actions and decides to become better.
Turns out it’s a postpartum depression victim who was left to rot in the house not understood. Gahhh I’m so fucking mad at the scene where she apologizes to the duke! The only one she owes an apology to is her son as it wasn’t his fault. But that’s it!
They both owe each other an apology. They were not good partners to each other. She also mentioned it many times.
I think he holds far more responsibility. He seemed to have no awareness of all the issues she was battling with and didn’t even notice how stuffed up she was or the treatment of his trusted employees towards her. He didn’t reach out and left her to attend parties while holding resentment
The thing is that she already apologized in the town but she has to be the one that brings up apologies again just for him to say sorry too
I think there is no "holds far more responsibility" in a marriage. Isn't there supposed to be an equal footing. Also you mentioned, he was not aware of the issues she's battling. So is she. I think you keep forgetting the fact that ML went through a lot too. Imagine if we view it on ML's perspective: you lost your father, got married, went to war, your own relatives wants you dead, purged them yourself then became a father. Your wife went through depression but you don't know how to handle it. He got no one to ask or someone to guide him. He must have thought giving her as much freedom as she wants would be good. And he saw it as her, going to parties. His wife neglects their son and I bet he don't even how to be a father at that age. His wife went to depression and you got a whole duchy on his shoulder. You got to act like a single parent (tho its so far from being a good one) and his wife only cares about party. Of course, he won't know what to apologise for. In his pov, he's been doing his best while his wife never did. She also, didn't reached out. But yes of course, he got a lot of mistakes and he have to realize it before he apologize. If he says sorry now, but don't even understand what he did wrong. It will be so shallow, it's useless. So I like that the author didn't made him apologize just because MC apologies. I think it will hold more meaning if he understood first.
Anyways, what I'm saying is. I think they both hold equal responsibility as they both suffered during their marriage. I also think it's unfair to weigh who suffered more, expressed more or who apologies more.
I know we tend to understand MC more because we're seeing things in her perspective. We saw more of her suffering and understood her more. That's why we tend to ask ML to do more in this relationship. But I think that will be unfair. That's why I tried to see it in ML's pov too. Imagine being him as much as being her.
You know what, you’re absolutely right, I think I sympathize with her far more because we get the story from her perspective but ... I still can’t help but throw more shade at him. At LEAST he had freedom, he had a lot to bear on his shoulder but he didn’t suffer mental illness. Women at that time had enough to bear with, now add that with being treated as shallow and childish. But again, it is her fault as well I agree. She should’ve vocalized her sufferings, even throwing tantrums would’ve been better.
But he's not as free as he seemed to be. Remember, he suffered consequences after marriage because of political nonsense (seriously, for me, society and politics during during those time are the worst). A lot of people have expectations from him for being the head. But yes, he should have more patience and comforting for her. Because she had depression. How do I say this, depression doesn't really have to have reasons. It's just one day your so fed up, you don't know what to do. Anyway, it's complicated. And what is even more unfortunate is during those time they don't understand depression. Even now, a lot of people don't and brushes it as "weak person". And "Roles" still exist now a days and some jobs still don't accept women. Society during that time is just too cruel for women. Like they're just tools for marriage. Like. Wth.
I haven’t read this manga in forever and I just read today the recent chapter and I’m kinda chocked at how ...pretty Usagi looks. I know the authors art skills always improve over time but now he just looks too young, like a bishounen, not sure I love it but maybe that’s just me
We all agree that the seme is an asshole but the MC is.... 29?! I wish the author had given him more maturity character wise if she’s going to make him almost thirty.
Sometimes people with weak self-esteem or lack of a social battery stay that way when they're older, I don't really think it's our place to expect a certain behavior of a other person let alone a fictional one? No malicious intent or anything, just saying what I'm thinking (￣∇￣")
I get what you mean. MC has been mentally abused since childhood thus the problem with his condition and mental growth. But even though he has psychological shadows he’s still thirty. It doesn’t seem realistic and clearly the author made him that way to “fit” many similar BL’s.
Pairing someone who is so child-like and blunt together with that asshole is just bad taste as he will always be dragged according to seme’s whims. I’d be okay with his behavior if he was younger as he’s still growing but 30?? Yeah his personality has settled. We’ve seen so many tropes with relationship dynamics similar to this here in Mangago I’m sick of it and wish the authors would stop.
20 chapters waiting for them to bone each other and we get April fooled. So the author is okay with showing extreme violence and drugs, but sex is a no-no?
technically the top is a minor
You serious right now? Since when has age ever mattered in BL? The author might be too lazy to do the scenes
lmao you have a good point
I’m sorry but reading this now feels completely different knowing that the uke is 30 years old. I understand his home environment has shaped has childhood hence his personality but my annoyance goes through the roof because this is probably what the author was going for! Seeing the semes treatment of him, these earlier chapters are setting their relationship dynamic and it will probably not change. Really pisses me off. I don’t mind unequal relationships but this is a 30 YEAR OLD MAN. He deserves more respect and not be mocked and laughed at by this douchebag knowing he can get away with all of this and somehow the author thinks he can make up for it by taking him on a shopping round? I’m getting irrationally angry at this story.
For me at least with the shopping trip making it all better I think the authors just trying to show how easy it is to get the ukes forgiveness at this point of the story. Just gotta be a little nice to them and they'll like and forgive you again. But then again it could have also just been to make the plot go faster and not hung up on this part
That's what the author's doing what can we do...
Wait how old is the other guy??