back here after dropping it at chapter 91 three years ago to say this awful story still haunts me seriously it’s so ass i just had to come back and say something, i hate love triangles, wtaf is this step bro plot, taekyung should’ve won, and now this author is creating another ass love triangle manhwa only god can stop her at this point.
The way this was so good at first and then it crashed and burned in the final third. Two stars off for the Clueless (1995) ass ex-step-brother relationship and another taken off because Haesoo didn't end up with Taekyung. Gorgeous artstyle and juicy drama but 100+ agonizing chapters with zero payoff. I was so drawn in in the beginning because it had such interesting character dynamics and concepts, but then by the end I just got super pissed off. Taekyung (my favorite) was easily the most interesting character--one of the best I've ever read in a manhwa--and then he completely got thrown away at the end and all the focus went to Joowon. At first, I could see Haesoo ending up with either Joowon or Taekyung because he had equal chemistry with both of them. But then Joowon is hardly in it, and for a majority of the story we get fed mostly Taekyung and Haesoo scenes--so obviously I got super attached to them. In the end, they get ruthlessly torn away from us in the last 1o chapters!!! DIABOLICALLLLL. Taekyung just gets his heart horribly broken and we get literally one single scene of him after the random 3 year timeskip. Like I'm sorry, flashbacks with Haesoo and Joowon aren't enough to constitute them randomly realizing their love for each other and for Haesoo to abandon his BOYFRIEND. Like I get that Joowon and Haesoo have always been together and that they were their first loves, BUT DAMNNN MOVE ON. Like girl leave that damn high school relationship in the past! Especially when your relationship is toxic as hell and you used to be STEP-BROTHERS. This is what I get for reading a love triangle knowing damn well manhwa authors always choose the toxic ex for the MC to get with.
Read it years ago and decided to give it a second read because i remembered that i was hooked. It still holds relatively well, back then i tought haesoo was an expresionless-otherwise-angry depressed mf and i couldn't unserstand how the photographer fell for him just like that? but now i like him, maybe because now i'm a depressed mf myself now :,). Liked the angst as well, it was an interesting plot. wouldn't read it again tho
