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ed (ml) is a piece of fucking work himself, but he's the only tolerable character here who i believe has a reasonable explanation to (some of) his actions. he only began reacting like a child who didn't wanna communicate after being denied 6283728 times, being silently rejected because mitch didn't bother clarifying his relationship with rick, etc. like he has actions that are bonkers too, but at least in the latter half, i felt like he had Reasonable explanation. the other characters though j feel too insufferable & wishy washy. mitch (mc) is the most wishy washy - he pushes & pulls, always needs time to think while being dragged left & right during the thinking period & never actually doing any thinking, j sweeping things under the rug while more things pile up that he never really addresses until it explodes in his face. he believes others so easily, but takes 266492 years to actually start wanting to listen to ed - & that was only after someone else told him to. like where in the world is your communication skills? you've been in other relationships before & it sounds like both of you were the problem atp. melissa (ml's friend) should've shut up in the beginning & her lack for tact is j? my god. she says she feels sorry too, but she only felt so after horrible damage has been done - which was frankly foreseeable if she actually knew & cared about ed as a best friend, instead of holding onto what she wished their trio still was. she makes me feel like she's the one who hasn't moved on from their trio friendship with jaee & wanted to hold onto it until it was practically destroying ed if she didn't. rick (2nd ml) is intolerable because he's fucking ugly & fucking pushy. mitch was weird because he j lets himself be pulled around by rick & allat, but it's j ridiculous to me how rick acted, knowing damn well mitch still liked ed - which, to me, would be so obvious if he actually cared about mitch instead of whatever idea he had about mitch. he's also intollerable because it's disappointing - he showed potential to j be the yearning best friend who confesses but wishes the best for mitch, but his character j became so dramatically bonkers in the latter half - which is crazy, because this manhwa is only 24 chapters. only good character i liked was jaee but that's because his entire story is being dead

yoon jigu's gonna go sulk & throw another tantrum first, isn't he... it's good yeowoon's starting to realise. i wonder if the author will explicitly say what specific sexuality they're portraying yeowoon as, or if they'll j generally say he's queer. i hope he won't be the "straight but you're an exception", especially since no woman has been shown to be a potential love interest in his eyes before too (i could be remembering incorrectly though, but either way, i really don't want it to go this route...) i've had too many manhwas pulling me left & right recently with their updates, i'm j terrified & worried for this one too, lol

i felt like the name meaning of sky glow was so obvious because isn't it j another way of saying "sunset"? lol, it's really funny how whipped the "tops" (?) are for their darlings

he's never thought of confessing himself either, IT'S SO FUNNYVWOCBSM

maybe it's because i'm finishing college soon myself, but if it's a story of progression from high school to college, i always prefer their college lives. i love seeing the characters develop more into themselves & their relationship throughout college. i j wish we could see more of that, even with the story being quite flat

i initially wrote long paragraphs, but i believe many dgaf anyways. basically: 2 grown ass adults in their 30s, 1 j more vanilla, agreed to the punishment arrangement, they fuck everyday, kinky sex has been progressively introduced to lyle throughout these 100+ chapters, when lyle really didn't like something, ash had stopped doing it after, lyle has shown he likes the rough & pushy sex with ash compared to gentle & soft ones, etc.

is ash the most shining bright, neon green flag with no flaws? absolutely not, but he isn't the glaring red flag, sexual assaulter, potential rapist that some of you want him to be. you're j infantilising lyle & treating him like he's a 3-year old. like bffr rn, ever since the v beginning, with the story-telling of this manhwa, we knew damn well in-depth communication about sex wasn't gonna be a thing here. to draw the line at buying sex toys is crazy

first of all, regarding the sniper - *SPOILERS HERE*, iirc a while ago, it was said they'll have their own story in a spin-off. source, trust me - because i don't remember where i saw this either. so with this in mind, i think this ending tied off leewon & ceasar's story specifically really well

if you only read the update alone + no further updates on the assassin situation, the ending frankly feels lackluster & as if it isn't tying up much. but frankly, if you remember how much their relationship has gone through, i think it's a really good ending that sums it all well

a lot of people will say many things about this work - but it's a more realistic/logical & reasonable approach on a relationship with a traumatised mafia boss. many also say there's no character development with caesar, but that's exactly why. it's said explicitly by leewon himself, even in this last chapter, that caesar has never been loved & does not understand how to go about it. he's learning - but he's an adult with many years of trauma to unlearn & unwind. the important thing about caesar is that he's trying, & will continue to try with leewon to be a better partner. not really a better person, but maybe he'll get there one day

i've seen discourse on tiktok & others saying leewon doesn't really love caesar & it's practically stockholm syndrome, but i think many aren't comprehending that leewon is an unreliable narrator + he's a male lawyer with an ego. snippets are seen when he says he loves looking down on caesar when he gives him a blowjob + his date idea with caesar & how pissed he was when caesar was j playing around with him. it's clear leewon wants to be equals with caesar, & frankly, it seems more out of pride & ego (as a fellow law student, i can definitely understand why). regarding him as an unreliable narrator, we see it when he got a text from caesar. he's cussing him out, but his father clearly sees that he's in a good mood & excited to see caesar. iirc, this happens a number of times too. & with how leewon basically shut his father down completely on the idea of breaking up with caesar - like come on y'all. thinking hats on. leewon's father is also an ex mafia boss & the lomonosov army aren't to be looked down upon, especially if caesar went to lomonosov when he was officially taking over his own... "team" (? i forgot the term for mafias, LOL). if leewon really didn't love caesar, he could leave - & if you bring up how caesar shot him before, leewon now knows & could leave in a more discreet manner. + even then, he wanted to tell caesar he was leaving. he didn't want to leave caesar alone - heck, he was leaving FOR their relationship too

their relationship has went through A LOT. they've developed so much as both individuals & in their relationships - with each other & others, though caesar doesn't exactly have "others" the way leewon does

with all of that, i think my ONLY gripe with this manhwa is that i wish they included all of the important moments of their relationship in a flashback in the final chapter. that inclusion would REALLY tie up their story properly. otherwise, i think it was a good, slow ending promising a good future together & the end of the drama surrounding their individual lives. i do wish we get more side stories of them j living their mundane lives though, or maybe one with caesar's pov instead of leewon's. that would be interesting

lovesick FOOL

that hitman for hire account is funny af

i wish we saw more of why exactly sota didn't accept wataru that day. i mean, i Might be able to piece together why - that it all happened in a rush, he was given only 2 extreme options & to make it hastily, so he couldn't possibly jump the gun, he didn't know what love was, etc. but the reasoning in the story of "he'll think i don't like him back", "if there was a heroine...", "i wonder if i made the right decision" & only going back once his storyboard was approved & praised... initially, i thought he didn't accept sota because they're both men & he's worried about how their relationship will go, especially as a shoujo mangaka who's only thought of straight romance before, but it didn't go that way. he mulled his decision over, but there was never a reason why explicitly. i wish we j got to see more of his reasoning