when i tell you that first chapter especially had me in a chokehold. i looked at every panel for 5 minutes lmao. there’s just something about two dudes figuring out bdsm together. it’s so detailed. when he pulled his fingers out of his mouth to give him a chance to answer. testing the candle on himself. talking about the experience. asking for the safeword. ahh
first of all, how nice of the translator/s to include the info about the title.
second of all, what the fuck
mc is so pretty, i am dropping this with tears in my eyes. this is goodbye. it hurts knowing i'll never see his beautiful face again.
this started off strong but went downhill so fast. just imagine what you could have done with a revenge plot like this without including rape between the mcs in the first 10 chapters. enemies to lovers in a dramatic, emotional slow burn. mc wants to make stoic ml fall in love with him/seduce him but it takes sooo much time (ml doesn't let mc get close at all) and in that time they get to know each other, grow to like each other, understand that they're both people worth existing... even if it's hard to make a cold-blooded murderer likeable, if you'd put some brain juice into it, you could at least try to make him redeem himself as best as possible. you don't have to make him become a pitiful wimp, let him remain a stoic asshole for all i care. a stoic asshole who has come to his senses, who feels remorseful for the things he has done. then, after months of getting to know each other, after months of fleeting touches, meaningful looks, building trust, when ml finally has melted down so much that he lets mc get close, mc finds himself at a fork in the road. he's torn because his heart still wants revenge but his heart also wants ml to live. will he poison him? will he not? the big climax. ah, if only.
now, we have this. whatever it is. 2nd ml is obviously the lesser evil out of the two shitheads and at least mc seems to have actual feelings for him. but 2nd ml also is just a smidge too invested in his own agenda (fucking mc) for my liking. even if he's more gentle than ml, he crossed boundaries too (putting his fingers in unasked, just to name one). the only way to end this story to make it make sense is to kill that rapist bastard and make mc get with the 2nd ml, but i know letting the hot fuckass male lead win is more important than logic for these braindead authors.
somebody please tell me if this has rape/sa. i’m at chapter 10 and i looove it but i don’t wanna waste my time
oh huhhhhh that didn’t go so well buuuuuut… nice trope subversion. was kinda hoping blondie isn’t the real ML and that MC will find his happiness with someone else while trying to make blondie fall for him but i guess that’s not gonna be the case
at the end of this i was like “we got consent, height difference, great art AND a goal. i’m sold” and then i remembered that this is a one shot
i unlocked at least 3 new facial expressions while reading this
yeah well anyway i’m not feeling it between those two. give me more about the bartender instead
if this is only 1 volume then i understand why they’re speed running the “getting over” part but this really isn’t helping the authenticity
idk how i feel about this tbh. it doesn’t feel alright because he’s only 18 but it also doesn’t feel bad because he’s already 18… iykwim
author thought they were so smart for putting that “bdsm is all about respecting each other” in here
nah bruh he was gonna rape him. not gonna let that slide
how did ML go from a tipsy “when i’m with you, i feel calm. i don’t want to go home just yet” to “do you know what you’re suggesting?”. never mind that MC clearly did NOT know what he was “suggesting”. “you came onto me”, “no, i didn’t” - that was the perfect moment to clear up the misunderstanding or whatever you wanna call it, but it got brushed off. adding to this the constant hesitancy on MC’s part while they were having sex… even though this was not full on rape, this wasn’t two fully consenting guys having sex either.
wait he owns “this place”? as in, that store? how old is he actually???