
and her request to take care of him after her death doesn't have you immediately flipping off the violent and annoying tsundere act and gets you to at least treat Dan like a human being... man, if next chapter you still pull the 'ooh i have anger issues so i'm gonna be caring while still verbally abusing you" schtick... you boutta catch these mfing hands...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDe5WLlvClq/?igsh=a2xzM2hnN3Fka3J6
You guyz have to see thins im deaddd aaaaaaaaa

it's kind of apparent that they messed up the power leveling in earlier chapters for the side characters. gotta justify labeling them an elite force for a massively OP Roman afterall.
now unfortunately, a story with little to no conflict is boring and it's a tight balance to keep when your series' main selling point is having an infallible, unbeatable protagonist.
their solution: nerf the side characters so we can queeze in some antagonists in the power levels somewhere between the subordinates and Roman. so the conflict can, once again, come from an OP MC persevering despite the inadequate man power and resources.

last i read his grandpa and brother got killed and thought at least that will prompt the MC to grow a pair and end it but... he doesn't seem like the MC now? just a side character along for the ride with the corniest depiction of a child sociopath?
glancing at chapters and..
ch88: i need... to grow stronger! (dramatic panel transition and shading, eye of the tiger sfx)
ch201: same weakass bullshit

hate sex might have worked a tiny bit with BJ Alex as a key turning point in their relationship but i'd throw hands if this mfer, who makes Jiwon look like Mother Theresa, gets the same route.
with angsty BLs there's often a ratio of 1:100 for it to even remotely be satisfying - i.e. for the amount of abuse and humiliation you put the MC through, you better fucking bring it in the chasing arc & make sure it's repaid a hundred fold by the groveling ML.
and with the amount of mistreatment (further magnified by MC's extremely passive and simpering personality) in season 1, this sex scene kinda leaves a lackluster impression in showing us MC is being 'cold'. even his lines are still rooted in his desire to mean more to ML and sounds more like a reproach rather than a rejection.
idk man. willing to read further in hopes that it will go further than this. we haven't reached kim dan's breaking point after all- which i assume is the impending passing of the only person that means anything to him- so i'm interested to see how he'll take ML's egotistic and ham-fisted approach in 'getting him back' when he's truly grieving.
his big baby googly eyes when getting scolded, his dumpling cheek getting smushed and tiny hands and content smile when rider hugs him AAAAAAAAHHHHH ❣❣❣❣❣❣❣
i can feel the deep and intense lovecraftian lore creeping in the edges of the story and it's making me heckin nervous but i am putting blinders on and enjoying happy (and sometimes naughty) mori