oh
no
he's not like his father
he's worse
where's the tragedy tag? let's be fr it's only a matter of time til the kidnapping and r@pe starts and then it's literally Even If You Don't Love Me
I really hope author-nim is just stringing us along and Jihwan hits rock bottom all on his own without any of all that happening and comes back with a genuine apology. Then I'd be willing to accept a romance.
I'm not holding out a lot of hope bc of the "while I'm still being nice" comment tho that legit made me go cold
I'm really hoping author-nim chooses to not make this as cliche as it could be. pleeeeeease do something unexpected with this story. it's good! but it constantly has me on edge TT__TT
Yes omg this is so real
I think his father's more level-head pyschopath. A 'would not dirty his hands but hire someone' type of man. Jihwan's more rash and immature.
Def had that kinda thought too, along the lines of: "he's worse bc he's younger, dad has that cold calculating maturity to him, Jihwan has teenage hormones" TT__TT
Well, his father successfully married his mother and kept her for almost 10 years. The mother can only escape through death TT
WHEW BOY THAT LAST PANEL
gawdam the art has leveled up (and it was already beautiful to begin with)
oh ugh another chapter incoming of redhair getting some ass he don't deserve blech. Dochan just had to be a gentleman and leave. I love him but I wanna slap him rn for being too innocent. don't leave those two alone. be great if fucking eunoh grew a spine and said no for once.
dochan trusts the mc and that’s y he left him there else he would have stayed coz the redhead is obvi sus. Dochan gets extra brownie points. All stories that release now r trash, like all mc are easily influenced, no sense of loyalty or self preservation.
YES HELLO THIS IS THE GENTLE GREEN FOREST ML
I feel like this is subtly omegaverse, you know? like it's "the first omega" and "the first alpha" or something like that (or it's just really really rare, more rare than in most omegaverse stories, doc even said "it's rare but does happen"), esp since iirc smells have come up a couple times. Omegaverse but they're not using the actual term.
so in that context if he didn't have Aiden's pheremones and he was pregnant, yea, by the general rules of most omegaverse worlds, he'd be really sick/in danger of miscarrying.
be interested to see how these next few chapters play out
Eeeerm you do know intersex people do exist in real life right
I wasn't gonna get into real life science bc it's just an illegal manga site but here we go. Yes, intersex people exist. Not only are any type of intersex people incredibly rare, most intersex people have either ambiguous genetalia or fully-formed reproductive organs of one kind and a partially-formed reproducitve organs of another kind, generally rendering them redundant or nonfunctional. To have both fully functional penis, testes, and a functional uterus and ovaries, enough to get pregnant (which probably wouldn't be possible anyway through anal sex if we're going by real science but we'll put that aside), I couldn't actually find any medical studies on it when i went digging for this comment. So in this case, going by real science, Seowon would be SO rare he'd have been part of medical studies his entire life (if only simply to monitor his growth, not saying they'd experiment on him). He'd be one of a kind, literally.
So let's say since this is fiction, he's that exact type of intersex person that we don't really see IRL. Sure, that's definitely a possibility. In that case it's interesting that some elements of omegaverse are "coincidentally" present (like getting wet, and I swear I saw Aiden comment on Seowon's smell at least once but I'm too lazy to reread to confirm)
honestly I could excuse the "being so sad he is at higher risk of miscarrying" as not being omegaverse related bc stress can 100% cause a person to get so sick they miscarry, esp in someone like Seowon who is already unhealthy.
it's just fun to theorycraft either way, and note the similarities
It would be so wild if real people could get pregnant from their colon-uterus (or however this is supposed to work lol). Seowon could probably reproduce asexually since he seems to have functioning male sex organs as well as the ability to become pregnant and give birth. If intersex people like that existed, it would be huge for science and our understanding of human reproduction.
lmao this is fucking ridiculous so far in the best way, can't wait for more
(commenting for the latest official chapter: I stopped reading the fan translation at ch33 so idk what happens after that)
this is one of the best omegaverse imo
it's got some cliche parts but it handles them pretty deftly and Shin is SUCH a fucking green forest I love him sm
ohhh myy ggawwddddd I'm so happy to have our buff puppies back
ready to get my heart broke again lmfao
...I'm confused
they keep talking about lust in the dialogue but I read the flashback and all he wanted to do was make money to free his stepfather from the horrors he was being subjected to as a whore? was that what was illegal? and they both got punished for it....? (boy that doesn't make sense either)
okay sure in the present time he is fucking his stepfather's body, but why exactly did the stepfather hate him so much? he kept calling him a dog and whatever in the flashbacks but what did the man do exactly?? he killed some men who were r@ping him
did I miss somethin?
I'm glad I'm not the only one confused!!
Maybe he believed the rumors about him trying to buy him a night orrr there's more to it, i think he almost called him cur- (Cursed).
Maybe he disliked Muyeon from the start. And there's so much plot missing, like, how he became Muyeon's stepfather living in a whorehouse?
was there a dash on "cur-"? bc "cur" is an old-style insult and this has that old fancy language lol
but yeah def agree with the missing backstory, where did Muyeon even come from
really????? i didn't know that, maybe i read to much into it
It wasn't illegal to buy his stepfather's freedom, that's even what old man said to Muyeon. If he wants his stepdad's freedom he has to do dirty work for old man. Muyeon saved all the money he got from the missions for that purpose, but his 'comrades' spread the rumour that he was saving money so he can buy his stepdad for sex. At some point those 'comrades' decided to rape his stepdad in order to mock Muyeon because despite collecting money they fked stepdad before him. While doing thise awful things to stepdad, they probably told him how Muyeon saved money to buy him and that he was just as gross and awful person.
Illegal part happened when Muyeon killed them all, since you should not kill because of mere whore. Your 'lust' should not make you commit crime again your owner I dare to say. Because that old man practically owned them all. And he was just playing with them and mocking their despair.
As for the part about lust. Yes, Muyeon lusted for his stepdad's body, every living grown man with enough hormones would. But he also loved his stepdad. Because the love was stronger than lust, he restrained himself and cherished stepdad's body. He was aware of lust, but oppressed it with his naive feelings of love.
Why he slept with immortal creature that is using his stepdad's body as vassal? Because he loved the person, he loved a soul, a gentle character of his stepdad. Now when that soul is gone, he cannot hurt it. Immortal creature (sorry, I forgot his name, that's why I'm calling him like that) doesn't know what love us, it's not his stepdad, that sweet and warm person from his memories, and also, that body now can endure pouring lust that was kept in chains for all those years. He's doing all those things he always wanted to do to the body, and since there's no soul he loves and respect so much in it, he can unleash the beast and lose his senses in the lust. That clearly portraits hiw different love is from lust. He doesn't love immortal creature, hejust want to feel warmth of the body whose soul he loved. It's his own despair.
Sorry for such long comment, hope this explains.
As for the backstory missing, I agree, we need explanation from where they came, how srepdad became prostitute, how Muyeon was in his care.
I also hope, if we get backstory, it won't be trope where stepdad hated Muyeon from the start and wasn't actually good person, so Muyeon's efforts were in vain even more and all that used as plot device to pair up him and immortal creature as lovers (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Love this, thank you!
You're welcome <3
ty for all this!! i must have missed something bc I don't remember seeing anything in the flashbacks about Muyeon himself wanting to do anything with his stepfather other than free him
oh well, it's a reason to reread haha
U are one of the few who actually got it the backstory of Muyeon and Stepdad will come in chapter 32 which is the final chapter of season 1
I really like this so far but why do I feel like there's gonna be a LOT of angst lmao
I didn’t find it angsty at all. More slow-burn than anything, cause they interact and have so many cute (and HOT) moments a lot before officially getting together, so the feeling was more like anticipation for me.
omg don't write about mental illness if you don't know the first thing about it
unless the psychiatrist is supposed to be fucking him over?? if that's the case there's no indication of it in the visuals.
from her perspective this guy literally thinks he's seeing angels and shadow creatures and is actually hearing voices which is *severe*, like, inpatient level severe. Meds would be frontline treatment alongside therapy for his trauma for someone like that (speaking from personal experience). And getting a "serious drug addiction" from psych meds what even is that??? fuck off....
I think she's doing that on purpose
I think she's doing that on purpose. She says she can't sympathize with other people but when she meet the mc she can relate what he's going through. 1. Maybe she wants to heal him with her own hands without being dependent on drugs 2. Maybe she wants him to stay like that ( she only want to observe him,not heal him) 3. Like his classmate, she has an special identity