
I read this in 2020 and noticed it was completed so i binged it over the weekend. No matter how much i wanted to give it a 5/5 (as i do with 99% of stories i read), it was a 4/5 for me. I actually made a list of reasons about my 4/5 because I felt so strongly about it lol.
1. Taesung was, imo, unreedem-ably toxic. I mean, almost everyone in the story was (lol) but he did so much to sooyoung… Then, conveniently, sooyoungs memory loss happened so taesung basically got a second chance (which he didnt intend to happen but worked out anyway for the sake of author wanting them to be endgame ig).
2. Sooyoung genuinely went through wayyy too much. I get that his character was made to have an unwavering human spirit but… wow. he was assaulted over and over again by everyone and drugged multiple times and i feel like he never had a genuine friend, because literally anyone he had more than 5 interactions with wanted to fuck him
3. This is prob the hottest take i have for this story, but… i dont think taesung deserved sooyoung. I actually liked min-hyuk a lot and i think min-hyuk drugging sooyoung during the shinjung construction arc was just the author finding a way to get the audience to dislike min-hyuk. And yall can disagree with me all you want but if anything, an even better man would be hansung LOL he seemed so pure and genuine.
At the end of the day the author did her best with giving Taesung reedemable qualities and a heart wrenching backstory so i’ll give her that. I liked the preg side story, that was funny and lighthearted and i admit i actually do like the sex scenes other than those unnecessary rape-y scenes… but… i digress ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭

so i let this marinate for a couple years and im back. I honestly thought this was really good, quite angsty but i was invested. One thing that caught me off guard though was how quickly ed caught feelings for glenn lol he confessed his love for him in chapter 30 and i wasnt expecting it. Another thing, youyo grew soo fast Σ(  ̄□ ̄||) o i swear he went from 12-19 in 10 chapters lol. It was clear he had feelings for ed and i lowkey kinda felt bad for him in a way?? i dont think he did anything necessarily wrong, unless i missed something ╥﹏╥ chang was a BITCH oh what couldve been if he wasnt a piece of shiz

i absolutely loved this masterpiece. The art and the storyline were amazing (and i love buff ukes and pretty seme). Honestly though, the author did a great job at testing my patience because of how much karlyle kept in his feelings throughout the story HAHHAAHA i understand though that his upbringing made him emotionally repressed. also, the scene when ash was in his rut? SO GOODDDDD i loved the dom/sub dynamic hehe will be rereading :3

so i did in fact let this story marinate and waited til it was completed to read because oh my god i was STRUGGLING to be patient in 2020/2021 ╥﹏╥ i didnt expect 40chaps to be dedicated on the side stories and honestly i wasn’t really interested in them. i wish they just used those chapters to show more moments of inseo and yi-hyeok!!! also does anyone else wish they showed more of yi-hyeoks masochistic side hehe
wow this was actually very beautiful. Was honestly a bit weirded out at first but pleasantly surprised about how it turned out (▰˘◡˘▰)