dan is being so ridiculous about this whole thing and it’s pissing me off. i was wondering where the idea of a baby came from, but from seeing your friends niece is crazy a baby is a HUGE commitment, its not some random decision you make on a weekday, especially not when you’ve maintained the notion of not having kids and your partner doesn’t want kids either. a child is something both parents need to be 1010% on board with.
AND DAN YOU FOOL, FINISH UNIVERSITY HELLO?? its been a couple months since i read the main story, but isn’t jeongheon the one paying for dan’s education? sorry to say this, and don’t be fooled, i DO love dan, but this man has nothing remarkable or notable to his name besides the fact that he’s married to jeongheon. as far as i can remember, he doesn’t have a job either - the modelling is just a fun, little side gig - this man has no degree, no job, his husband paying for his studies which he hasn’t even finished, and he wants a kid? which he’ll support on his own, how exactly?? again, he’ll be relying on jeongheon. i know they’re married and love each other YES, but i’m just trying to point out how dan doesn’t have any ground to stand on to raise a child. THIS BRAH IS PISSING ME OFF OHMYGOD SOMEONE SMACK SOME SENSE INTO HIM WITH A BROOM IDK
they’re so funny ml is so obsessive, it’s borderline red-flag psycho, but mc is like “omg, my precious angel baby who can never do any wrong, hes so sweet and thoughtful i love him so much i wish i could do more for him” LMFAOOO RIDICULOUS THE BOTH OF THEM I LOVE THEM
also, the sister??? what is it her fucking business if her brother takes it up the ass tf. idc if she heard the convo, pretend? you? didnt??? don’t go around phoning someone’s cousin to confirm - that’s such an invasion of privacy
and urgh, i hate when family is homophobic in manhwas. yes yes, i know in real life, plenty of people are not accepting and korea is still pretty conservative but this is FICTION - LET THE PEOPLE CELEBRATE THE HOMOS, MAN COME ON AND GIVE ME A LA DEE DA HAPPY LAND WHERE THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE
in a normal manhwa without all of their weird traits, heonjae would be the cutest seme to read about. a big, clingy top that dotes oh so much on their uke
so i know everyone is upset that the assault wasn’t addressed properly here (i am too) but let’s not forget being hyper sexual after SA is a perfectly okay coping mechanism for some victims. with all of his anxieties building up, to being assaulted and then finally having yiyeon ease his worries and insecurities, it was like a fuse that had ran its course and was going to explode.
we can look at it that way, or it could just be another case of bl authors and their fetish for SA - but it wasn’t between main characters, so i doubt it in this instance - and as far as i remember, i don’t think yiyeon’s ever forced himself onto jin kang so based off of the main story, i don’t think (or at least i’d hope so) that the author was trying to be weird
i must say, the SA is something very real, though. if i’m gonna look at it from a ‘this is real life’ perspective, don’t asian people, especially korean people - mostly woman, get sexually assaulted in western countries because of their distinct asian/korean appearance because it’s a fetish - i know its not exactly unrelated but i just wanted to point it out
also, i don’t like that this assault was thrown in as a plot device for jin kang to reveal his insecurities to yiyeon. they could’ve just argued over dinner and then gone back to the hotel and talked it out
yeonjoo, my baby god please make haebeom and ho adopt him
and young baby haebeom, my angel
the baby nuzzling ho, ho with his eyes closed and a content smile on his face, how he cares for yeonjoo too, haebeom with that headscarf and taking his selfies like a lovesick fool OH MY SHAYLAS MY BABIES
i’ll still never understand why everyone loves yeonwoo as much as they do AND AH AH AH, let me speak before you downvote me and rush to defend him.
1. sexually assaulting hwibum in his sleep - you don’t just go around jacking yourself off on a sleeping person’s face WHAT THE FUCK. they weren’t even in a relationship at the time as well (not that that would’ve made it better unless they discussed it prior) but that made it EVEN worse
2. threatening to off himself - throughout the story, yeonwoo was incredibly manipulative, but the peak of it was truly when he flung himself off the construction site bc hwibum didnt wanna date him HELLO WHO DOES THAT????
3. coercive sex - it was a pattern at the start for yeonwoo to forcibly convince hwibum to have sex with him. sex should be a two way street, that is 110% consensual and enjoyable for all parties involved.
4. non consensual sex - again, yeonwoo forced hwibum. but the specific sex scene i’m talking about is when hwibum lied about meeting soohyuk so yeonwoo used hwibum as his personal sex doll, having incredibly rough sex that hwibum did not expect, and did not stop when hwibum continuously told him no and to stop multiple times. before anyone says that hwibum said he didn’t hate it the next day, be so fr. that man is weak for yeonwoo’s pretty face and puppy dog eyes, he’d drop his morals for him
i do feel bad for yeonwoo’s trauma, but that’s no excuse to manipulate someone into a relationship and then force yourself onto them. look at all of the consensual sex scenes, like the one at the end at the hotel - it was so nice and sexy. 100% consensual AND sexy, ik a lot of you guys are used to reading rapist trash like low tide in twilight and roses and champagne and thinking it’s a masterpiece, but i promise you, consensual sex is MUCH better than rape and sexual assault.
not to mention soohyuk. yeah, he was pissing me off by trying to get in between them even though he knew they were together, but the poor guy was just a stupid fool with a crush. honestly, if hwibum wasn’t such a fool himself, soohyuk would’ve been a great partner to him
idk anyways, glad they got their happy ending. let’s see how the side stories go - hopefully more with their families and some closure for soohyuk - I NEED HIM TO HAVE HIS OWN STORY BUT A WORKPLACE ROMANCE
i still don’t like jj, but i’m so happy for them they’re so idiotically cute together, LEO MY SHAYLA
how the hell did we even get to this point everything in this “end” side story is so wack and confusing honestly
soomin is so cute, bro esp his chibi MY BABY
also, is it just me or does the top low-key look/give off similar vibes as dooshik (pearl boy)
this gets worse and worse every week. i’ve genuinely only been reading it to see how it ends, but i just get more frustrated ALSO WHY ARE THEIR DICKS SO GODDAMN RED HAIBO
i only have three critiques:
1. why was there sexual assault thrown in, only for it not to be addressed? and for their first time to be directly after, and as a result of the SA (because sigmund got jealous and took it the wrong way, “if just anyone, then will i do” etc) was incredibly unnecessary. i’ll say it time and time again, but these bl authors LOVE to throw in SA/rape bc either they have a fetish, the readers have a fetish or both have a fetish for it
2. sigmund’s relationship with sigfried - definitely needed to be more fleshed out, and for them to have some more closure. this ties in with my third point, that it needs to be longer, but there definitely needs to be more chapters with brunhild bringing up sigfried’s insecurities and worries up to sigmund, who then should sit down sigfriend and ease his worries and doubts. i understand that sigmund also feels guilty and his own guilt and awkwardness makes it difficult for him to deal with sigfried, but shipping him off to a boarding school as well definitely doesn’t help. the two of them need to have an earnest heart to heart, and heal their wounds.
3. for sure, needed to be longer. this was a nice story, very cutesy, palate cleanser-esque. it definitely should’ve been a good fifty chapters to resolve everything. from the secondary couple getting together, brunhild’s father stop being an ass and letting them be a couple, telling us what happened to brunhild’s mother (is she dead? probably, since we’ve never seen her), sigmund addressing his sister and brother-in-laws deaths with brunhild, to brunhild becoming an official knight and just overall fluff between the mcs
overall, nice story
“one and only” okay satosugu
i’m ngl, i still don’t like ipsae. i didn’t like him at the start, and towards the last two (?) chapters, i started actually liking him, but eh not really
han-eum, that cutie pie. i love me a greenflag pathetic puppy top crybaby with a huge slong that can stab your heart - they’re the best type of top fr
can they just adopt yeonjoo already, he’s just a baby literally crying rn, i cant deal with the panel of him holding that picture HES A KID HES A BABY LET HO AND HAEBEOM BE HIS DADS MAN
also, their domesticity
only on chapter 19
but their hair colours aside (but i do feel like hosung bears a slight resemblance to till face wise), their personality dynamics with hosung being quick to get flustered, and lashing out at geumwoo, while geumwoo is all stupid smiles like an airhead, and being pathetic for hosung especially reminds me so much of a young till and ivan (though, ivan always remained stupid for till lmfao)
this really was such wasted potential. it’s clear the author was more interesting in writing sex, than fleshing out a good story.
we really waited until the very last chapter for them to get together, and that too, it ended up with sex. i expected the side stories to be some fluff, and fill in some gaps, but it was just MORE sex.
what about yi-hyun’s offer to study abroad? what about his mother, why do we never see her? does she even live with the kids? speaking of the siblings, yi-hyun’s younger brother shouldve ended up with seungwoo. also, making seungwoo pine after woojoo like that was low-key LOW-KEY very low-key weird of the author. like i know he’s 18 and everything, but why would you want to make a potential love interest be in high school while the mc is in university like? and the fact that they were childhood friends, but woojoo really couldnt gaf about seungwoo, GIVE SEUNGWOO A BREAK
also, making seungwoo a potential love interest was so dumb. woojoo went all the way to seoul for his crush, not seungwoo. shouldve just made woojoo do nothing while crush was away, and then he moves on right before the crush comes back from the military. that way, woojoo and yi-hyun still follow the events of the story, but in a timeline where the crush is discharged and when he comes back, it’ll create a bit of conflict when he bumps into woojoo again.
idk, it’s like you can just tell the author didnt put much thought into the actual story. no fluff, no domesticity, barely addressing yi-hyun’s ptsd - esp when he took the taxi to the hospital, oh my baby - like, why aren’t we focusing on plot?? i’m tired of bls only revolving around sex. if the author wanted to write smut so bad, write a short ten chapter porn story instead of writing this
mc is being so ridiculous. he can’t just maintain the narrative that he doesn’t want kids from the time from the time he met the ml , to suddenly changing his mind now. that’s something he needs to sit down and discuss with his husband, not randomly spring it onto him one day and DEMAND to have a kid, that’s not how that works. it wouldn’t just be mc’s child too, ml needs to be 210% on board with being a dad.
saying that driving is so dangerous that ml needs to give up his car keys is so stupid, my god. and ml coming and dumping all his keys PLS you can’t compare pregnancy, and all of its dangers, to freaking driving. and ml is so right too. mc is a recessive omega, mated and married to a dominant alpha. having a baby of a dominant alpha could do irreplaceable harm to him, if not killing him in the process - though, i very highly doubt the author would take this route.
and saying that starting a family is more important DONT FUCKING PISS ME OFF he went through so many grievances in the past, and finally went to uni only to want to drop out for a while to start and raise a family, fuck off. he already knows what it’s like to be an omega, and how horribly he gets treated, but sure. drop out of college to raise a baby, like an incompetent shithead
i love them both, they’re so ridiculous. joobin letting that man hold him casually, but getting upset at seeing yikyung TALKING to two girls and chilling w the ex is killing me THEYRE SUCH FOOLS also the shot of the ex and yikyung together OMDSSS
WOW.
i’m going to refer to pre-skar (all of the events before sasya met lord skar) and post-skar (after sasya met lord skar) in my review.
i had mixed feelings toward sasya pre-skar. coming from a world of nothing, having to fight to survive, i understand him not trusting karel blindly from the get-go and his apprehension. i feel for him, i get it. what i don’t understand is why he could be so indifferent toward karel sometimes despite them being in love and moving in together after karel caught up with sasya sitting at the bench outside the train station. i do think the events that transpired during the time they lived together was because of sasya’s disorder - besides mania (which was said in the later chapters), i do believe sasya had bipolar depression, taking into account his mood swings, inability to sleep, alcoholism, not being able to get out of bed etc. which, paired together with his rough background, let to him being so deeply dependent on karel and adding to his fear of being abandoned.
i understand that sasya was clearly mentally unstable, but it also frustrated me and hurt to see how he pushed away karel. i know i KNOW he wasn’t in a good mental capacity so i shouldn’t be complaining, but it was rough to witness how reciprocal love was coming off as one-sided with karel being hopelessly in love, and sasya made to seem as if he was being forced into it.
karel taking the hit for sasya’s crime, being locked up and forced to serve in the army, holy shit man. but the last thing i expected was sasya to leave karel while the poor guy was suffering with the only thing keeping him going was sasya’s love. that HURT. i really couldnt stand sasya at that point - like i didnt hate him or anything, but goodness me.
post-skar was low-key marvellous. karel still being in love with sasya, but behaving indifferently - giving him the cold shoulder, forcing sasya to feel what he’d felt for years. it was satisfying to see. and karel being a completely scarred up daddy OOOOH LAWD I LOVE ME A SCARRED MAN. HOWEVER, as nice as it was to see karel push back, he pushed back TOO MUCH. yes, sasya was terrible to him in the past every now and then, but that didn’t mean he could use gudin to sexually assault sasya. i haven’t seen anyone else mention this and it’s pissing me off. no because karel got jealous over lies gudin made, blindfolded sasya and almost let gudin almost have his way with sasya - ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT?? i also dislike how he locked sasya up, literally, and then not too long after that, he goes on to say he’s getting married and “bye bye sasya, you needa get a move on with your life” OH THAT HURT. like i see you karel, not only are you doing it for your plan, but you’re also low-key getting revenge for those years sasya hurt you, BUT YOURE ALSO HURTING ME SCAR DADDY. oh and also the piercing, NO NUMBING CREAM, NO WARNING, BRO JUST SHOVED THAT THANG INTO HIS EAR AND HIS NIPPLE I WAS CRINGING AWAY FROM MY SCREEN AND CLUTCHING MY PEARLS I WAS MORTIFIED
anyways, i liked how things wrapped up. low-key, i STILL don’t even understand how karel serving for austria ended up with him being a double agent, and sasya being taken into custody like yes, i grasped everything but idk if it’s just me but like it’s so unclear to me how exactly karel got to that point. i know he was in the army (or whatever the fuck it was), got promoted twenty trillion times, got captured and tortured and was made to choose a new life where he served as a double agent. i just don’t understand exactly why he was so immensely important, yk. and like, lord skar quite literally appeared out of thin air, how come no one questioned him and his nonexistent past further like? idk man, but all that matters is that they got their happy ending.
i do think their story was tragically beautiful, and i hope that the spin-off gets illustrated into side stories, where it’s just pure fluff and happiness with sasya and karel - just domesticity and pureness, and everything they’d wanted for in the past but couldnt have. oh, and them being daddies to cutie pie charles URGHHHH, and have a scene where sasya tells karel why charles is named charles. like ik there was a scene where karel low-key caught onto it, but i’d love to see full-blown confession from sasya, that would be amazing
also, i fucking hate that rat ass bitch miss ramwhateverthefuck. and no, I DONT CARE if anyone has to say she was manipulated by karel, forced into the marriage that NAUR FUCK THAT HOE. i didnt like her at the beginning when she was following karel around like some hopeless puppy and hating on sasya for no reason, bitch you were forced to marry that nasty ass duke/count/whatever the fuck so you out of anyone should know what sasya went through but noooo, you were resenting him for no reason and then wanting to jump karel’s bones and force sasya out of the picture FUCK YOU YOU DUMB STUPID CUNT and then when she was reintroduced later in the story HELL NAUR LET ME THROW HER OFF THE SHIP LET ME FLING THAT HOE TO THE SHARKS
hope my darling levin is happy. didnt expect her and julian to be a thing, i was honestly shipping julian and george from the time george was introduced. like julian and him hadn’t even met ever, but i wanted hashtag georgian to be a thing fr. ALSO GEORGE WHEN HIS HAIR IS NOT SLICKED BACK??? LIKE HE WAS HOT REGARDLESS BUT HAIR DOWN, HUBBA HUBBA IM PREGNANT WITH HIS BABIES
omg okay, here’s the end of my long, blubbering rant, i just needed to get everything off my chest. i love sasya, karel, julian, george, levin, and charles so much. they’re all babies, i hope they all live good lives together MY BABIES I MISS YOU ALREADY