It was cute enough. Relatively inoffensive; like pretty much every story that isn't just porn, it being so short hinders it pretty greatly. Still, it's pretty strong even with that weakness, it's like a solid three stars.
The plot is pretty simple; Hanjae tries to start smoking as to get closer to his coworker, Jinwoo, as Jinwoo smokes alone on their work breaks. However, Jinwoo is a taken man, and his girlfriend wants him to quit smoking—or else she'll break up with him.
Hanjae ends up confessing to Jinwoo, to which he is rejected. After the rejection, Hanjae ends up enlisting in the military, meanwhile, Jinwoo is unable to stop thinking about him & picks up his bad habit once more, leading his girlfriend to break up with him.
Once Hanjae comes back, Jinwoo admits he hasn't been able to stop thinking about it, and so says he'll date Hanjae for a month to see if Hanjae will be able to make him fall in love.
We then flash forward multiple years. There's a brief bit of conflict where Jinwoo's ex comes back and tries to get together, kisses him, Hanjae sees the kiss and thinks Jinwoo doesn't really want him. Hanjae chases after him though and reaffirms his feelings, making them officially a couple.
. . . It becomes a little messy. I really didn't like the flashforward at all; I mean, one, it's silly that they ended up dating for multiple years and didn't make it official. Like it's just stupid. But two, I really would have preferred to see the initial month Jinwoo gave him and have seen them fall in love. That would've been cute. Instead, we completely skip it, we don't actually see any development of Jinwoo's feelings whatsoever. He doesn't love him, and then he does, all in the span of like . . . A single panel. That's really underwhelming, especially since it was done to prioritize conflict that just felt incredibly unnecessary. It's only two chapters. We don't need conflict like that.
Still, I thought the first chapter and a half was incredibly strong for what it offered. It was cute to see Hanjae trying to get close to Jinwoo, it's a bit extreme but him getting into smoking purely because Jinwoo smokes was endearing to me. It was cute. He was also quite a jealous and desperate person; I mean, as soon as he heard that Jinwoo's girlfriend threatened to break up with him if he continued smoking, he pleaded with him to still smoke lmfao he was not subtle at all and I loved it
