long rant incoming lol.
Whoever told me that the regret/redemption arc was upon us fucking scammed me lol. I just read 50 chapters of straight abuse, with genuinely no redeeming moments. I understand what the authors goal was, it seems to me like they saw the positive reception BJ Alex got when he was going through it/groveling and decided "I'll make a series based on that!" but they really, REALLY fumbled by making the negative too harsh. In BJ Alex, he was a dick but at the very least the MC was a willing partner and enjoyed the sex, plus Alex could put on a kind persona. It's taken like 30 chapters for Dan to even start actually getting pleasure out of what is the ONLY romantic aspect of their relationship. And Joo can't say a nice thing to save his life, genuinely.
It really pisses me off that I'm supposed to believe Dan has even a tiny crush on Mr. Joo, let alone an unrequited love. Why? Genuinely why would he? This man has manipulated him into a rough sexual relationship, and told him to shut the fuck up anywhere else outside the bedroom. He doesn't even respect him professionally, he constantly tells him to "just focus on doing your job" but won't take the bare medical advice he gives. This man is a medical therapist, before the sex that's what you hired him for, and yet you lash out when you're told to do the bare minimum and rest a pre-existing injury? I wish at least with this Dan would have a backbone if he won't grow one romantically, he's shown to genuinely take his work seriously and this would be a great place for him to put his foot down and have it still match his personality. It shows care towards the other partner.
It also bugged the hell out of me how much Dan sees the money as something Joo did out of the kindness of his heart? He didn't just do it as a charity case, he fucking bought you. He made sure you were in a state where you owe him, and you couldn't ignore his calls ever again now that you need to repay thousands of dollars with your labor. Supposedly he's nice to the grandma (once btw) but we walk in on the end of it and never actually see it. Joo can't even be bothered to be anything more than awful to his coworkers, dude doesn't even smile with the coaches he respects, and irl he would've been suspended much sooner than now for his disrespect. Genuinely no traumatic backstory, groveling, or whatever can redeem him at this point. The writers fumbled and made him too toxic for repair, and to make it worse gave him the biggest sub of all time.
I enjoy the side couple, this author has a habit of having their side couples be leagues better than the main one, and then barely dedicate chapters to them :(
Sorry for the long post, sound off in the replies though as I'm so full of rage I could go off more lol
Why are these comments so crazyyyyy damn. Have you forgotten the series you're reading? I love Cirrus and am rooting for his relationships to improve/resolve but let's not act like he didn't do some fucked up things. Why are you wishing on death on the characters who are trying to make things right once they've heard the whole story?
I was looking forward to seeing older Hyesung and Dojin so I'm a little disappointed. Looking forward to Byuls story though, I'm so impressed with the art improvements!
Am I crazy or was Cirrus behind him on the bus? Like he's following from afar?? Please, I'm begging they don't wait years to reconcile, I'll crash out if we have a time skip...
Nice, I'm glad we aren't just on an endless cruelty parade where the mc just keeps being traumatized and instead we're exploring how Shirayuki is fucked up even if he eliminates bad ppl
I'm kind of sticking with this story because I'm curious about what happened in their past, can someone spoil it for me? Was it actually Ido who was abusive or is it misleading us to think that? What happened and what's going on with Sejin's adoptive brother who was acting strange?
Even though there was some frustrating miscommunication in the later half this is still one of the best written and best looking series I've read! Definitely going in my all time favourites list, looking forward to the bonus stories <3
Novel readers have been warning us about this circus since it was first mentioned, idk if I'm mentally prepared lol
Wait, is this like the final end?? wtf?? RIGHT AFTER HER ABILITY WAS REVEALED? At least have her go to the dark side with the demon lord and become merciless towards all the misogynists (╬￣皿￣)凸
Bingsoo Cat Cafe team, thank you so much for your efforts up until now, you've honestly done a better job of translating and formatting than many official adaptations I've seen. I'll love you 5ever for introducing me to this wonderful story ┗( T﹏T )┛
Every chapter flip flops from "it's so over" to "we're so back" and I can't emotionally keep up please live a happy healing life together you two...
The art is amazing...the story not so much. I like psychological or fucked up characters but they felt a bit sloppily written here.
I wonder if this guy is just homophonic (unfortunately this is most likely) or just mad at them for queerbaitong which he assumes isn't genuine?
We got a full timeline and explanation laid out and I'm still confused lol. Screw my stupid brain
It's so good, I feel blessed by this series. Thank you BL gods, every chapter is better than the last lol
Why are people uploading over a group that's clearly taken on the translation, and has put in a lot of effort to make it good quality. It's just disrespectful, if people want to see more they can seek it out themselves considering these are just uploaded from another site. The quality of these just aren't great
This had such a strong beginning that I thought for sure it'd go in a more psychological route. There were small tastes of it, but overall ot ended pretty basic :P Kana obviously has some psycho undertones, I wish we'd played more into that...honestly it seems like Aoi would be a better match for Naho at this point lol
They literally look the exact same, act the exact same, and have the exact same name. Be so fr...why wouldn't they at least vary the design to make this a fraction of believable?