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this was so rushed and very strange. and why were two of them minors for literally the entire story. middle schooler???? oh, hell naw. i kept reading expecting there to be a time skip for the middle schooler but nope he gets into high school and that's when they fuck. bruh. and the stepbrother-middle brother relationship development was so tacked on at the very end. at least he got into university first though, but the emphasis put on the middle schooler storyline was just really disturbing.
uhhhh the time spent on understanding and potentially defending abuser's point of view/motivations was really not it for me
like i get that some people are interested in that kind of psychology, the same way people watch true crime stories, and whatever but like. it wasn't just one page or even one storyline it was multiple, a repeating storyline of "he abused me because" or worse "he wouldn't have abused me if"
no. nope. noooope.
the mindset of an abuser doesn't matter anyone but a researcher (sure as fuck not the victim) bc it ultimately boils down to "i wanted to"
whatever the catalyst does. not. matter. bc there's always a hundred million other people suffering that trauma or that rage or that insecurity and they *chose* to hurt someone else when faced with those emotions and situations that are very common. it's their own goddamned fault no matter what.
this didn't even feel like a romance storyline by the time I DNF'd at shibuya's reappearance and we had yet another defending abusers conversation
pity bc this had potential but it aged like spoiled milk
should have read the comments
that 39 was a fucking jumpscare that the author did not need to leave to the very end cuz he looked no more than 25 at most
i am in my late 30s and neither myself nor anyone i know at my age could pass for early 20s
i know asians don't age til they're like 70 and then suddenly overnight it his them all at once (not meant as a racist statement i'm highkey jealous cuz white people age like milk unless you have money, leave us out for two hours and we already have that old people stink) but it more seems like this author didn't put any effort into actually showing his age cuz it was easier to sameface it. like damn put a lil eye wrinkle or something.
i literally stopped reading this to let it cook after the three solid chapters of rape at the end of s1 and i come back to check on it and all the comments are about the fucking rapist
can someone spoil me, does the 'main couple' even get any screentime in the last 25 chapters??? bc if this is just the Redhair Show then i'm not really all that interested in continuing
Well they do get screentime just not a lot and the redhead became a bottom so that’s why’s everyone talking about him
thanks for responding, and ugh
i felt this in s1 and nothing i'm seeing is dissuading me from the thought that redhead is the real main character bc the author clearly seems to favor him. Dochan got like 2 chapters in the entirety of s1 and mc seemed to be only there for redhead to torture, he had very little depth other than what was tied into redhead/redhead's family, and now that redhead doesn't have anything to do with them they're just. not in the story.
imma be honest i don't really care if he became a bottom, it actually kinda icks me out bc it's sort of feels like 'rapists can redeem themselves/be punished by taking it' (which is something I've definitely seen in other manhwa/manga)
what a shame. if redhead had been a throwaway evil character who left in the first ten chapters this would have been a great story.
Yeah u've summarized really well what's wrong with this story. Like at this point, I'm just reading to find out wth "arts manz" means, who the protagonist is, and tbh just wth is going on. And with this last ch, black hair guy expecting redhead to "realize i slept with him cuz i like him," like be fr. My fed upness is very quickly putmaneuvering my curiosity :/
yeaahhhh i think i'm gonna wait for it to finish and then read and skip all the chapters i even see a flash of red in lmao
i literally could not care less what that character does i just want him off my screen
completely feel u! i’m still reading this but i fucking hate the rapist and can’t get over how everything just works out for him and how everyone just ignores it now. i want more dan and dochan </3
Don't know about that. I prefer feisty couples over fluffy ones when it comes to fantasy. Second couple is fire
feisty is fine. i'm not at all saying everything has to be fluffy bc some of my favorite couples are enemies-to-lovers--when it's done well. i don't even care that redhead has a shit personality bc that's room for growth. but i draw the line at blackmailing/intimidating someone for sexual favors. i'm just not interested in a character who does that shit.
yup, all of this
Room to grow? He rape his best friend twice-
i mean a shit personality if it weren't for the rape
like if he was just a bastard who hadn't done that i wouldn't mind as much bc there's room for all kinds of characters. but i do absolutely draw the line at rape.
The redhead is definitely not the main character, it's just that this is the 2nd season so the 2nd couple gets more screentime but even then we have a lot of scenes and events happening in between with the main couple (first, Woojin stirring up jealousy in the couple, then the ex barging in and the whole backstory of his past relationship with ml, and now mc being part of the company's project plus this perverted ahjussi getting interested in him)...So Joohyuk (redhead) and his love story are indeed given more exposure, but he defo is not the protagonist.
I agree 100% and the rape scene was unnecessary because it literally made no sense and even in the authors note they were like “I didn’t want an actual villain in this story like my last series” like huhhh, you made a villain wdym??
They could’ve made redhead unlikeable and left it at that, I have no clue why they went that far bc it really added nothing to the story and then tried to do that ‘redemption’ arc where they had to save the MC or something
S1 felt like the author was tormenting the mc for giggles and his relationship was def on the back burner. And now s2 they’re developing but now we’re getting random exes and creepy old men PLUS the alternating story lines. Idk it makes the development feel redundant.
If I erase s1 from my memory I actually don’t mind the second couple, but I wish the author just added them in as a separate side story because continuously going couple to couple is so annoying
no for real at this point Anti-PT's blonde dude was *less* of a villain than redhair in this story and i just do not understand what the fuck the author was talking about with all that. i must have stared at the screen for like 5 minutes after reading that in the creator's note, just, short-circuited
blondie from Anti-PT may have been an asshole but at least mc slept with him willingly, even if he did end up regretting it (which does not equal rape/blackmail/literally any of the actual crimes redhair from this story committed repeatedly)
i legit cannot rectify how good Anti-PT was compared to this fucking dumpster fire
i don't generally mind the genre of "falling for the not-blood-related person who raised you" when it's done very carefully
this was not done carefully
oh well
Same
these freaky little cuties, loved every second of this
man...the first 10~ chapters of this made it a contender for bl of the year but
what the actual fuck is even happening
author must be stressed cuz this is just, nonsense now
the random jokes in the middle of being kidnapped and almost-raped? no honey. no.
i'm
not going to lie
this story is weird
like i'm having a real hard time following the whiplash of character actions and emotions. it all seems so wildly out of pocket and random at all times. it's not even that they're immature it's just disconnected, almost written like a random series of events rather than anything with any cohesion. i get what the author is trying to say but it's just not coming across.
Agreed
this was so freaking cute, what a great balm for my soul
a lil weird in places, and god help me but i kept reading uke's name as "emu" like the bird which was weird for me ngl
still a wonderful wholesome read tho