DeathTheKid

I can read smut even tho it does nothing for me, but maybe you found a kink or you needed it to be "fun/interesting" or conducive to the story somehow?

Actually, the opposite of the last part. I usually HATE when smut is like "part" of the storyline. Like omegaverse, where you have to go into heat, get extremely submissive, have sex, and now you're in a relationship. In fact, I hate when sex is what starts the relationship, hate when they do it every day, hate when they do it after an argument. I actually dropped a lot of bl in the past because of smut. That's why this is so surprising to me.

That's so awful. You got it tuff, actually. I hate omegaverse too tho, like why the hell is sex the actual plot. I literally say omegaverse worlds are based on smutty eugenics, it makes me so mad lol

God! Someone gets it! I had a phase where I really wanted to get into it, so I tried multiple, but I just got so irritated. Storylines where the main objective is just based around smut really isn't my cup of tea. Now, I like tension; I like when feelings are made clear. I just feel like there are many better ways to express it than throwing in 3 straight chapters of rawdogging in the first like 15 chapters, do these people even know each others names?

you know what's more triggering than that? When they start the first page of the first FREAKING chapter in bed. Then act like it's quirky with a "you're probably wondering why I'm in bed with this stranger" or "just a day in the life". Like, BRUH. A full assault on the eyes, just cuz you're hot does not mean I need ass shots to get me invested. I'm getting triggered all over again lol

Yes, thank you, my thoughts exactly. Also, the worldbuilding was severely lacking

Truly, every time they entered a dungeon, I would always physically prepare myself for absolute peak, but it was always really disappointing. They didn't explore different powers, levels, and the sort properly, I thought it was like that to give way for the romance but given the romance was also so underdeveloped, I truly dont understand. It was just amateurish, but I guess it would be "soo good" for people who are either not familiar with the trope or just dont read a lot of very fleshed out romance books.

Yeah as I was reading it I thought "Wow they are just getting right into this romance and skipping so many steps, someone's impatient". The romance stands on as shaky of a ground as the whole world it happens in lol

The reason the romance didn't work for me is because it had absolutely no progression up until MCs suicide attempt.

Every time seme started having an ounce of character development, he instantly backpedaled again. He showed zero signs of falling for MC throughout the entire story.

He only caught feelings in the very last five minutes, I can totally see the novel doing a way better job at showing the reader the seme falling for MC, but the manhwa did such a bad job there imo, and it kinda ruined the whole story for me because I couldn't take their romance seriously at all

And other aspects of the story haven't really been explored enough to distract you from the lack of romantic development, either

It was OK, but the ending really was what made me go "well that was underwhelming" in the end