The plot of it is rather simple—Cheon Ki-Joon is a vampire who's in love with Yoon Han, but Cheon refuses to suck his blood as the blood of the one you love is uniquely intoxicating, so Cheon doesn't trust his self-restraint.
It's a simple enough plot—it's something you find quite often in vampire stories, such as Twilight—and while inoffensive and good enough for what it is, it isn't special. It doesn't do anything. It's not memorable.
That's the biggest issue for me, it not being memorable. Sure, it technically didn't do anything wrong, but it certainly didn't excel at anything either. This is a story you read when you're bored and sure you don't regret it but you'll never think about it again.
Following the fact that it just doesn't really stand out from the sea of vampire lit, I also found it to lack any type of resolution. This is a simple story and so it should probably follow the path it's expected to take to at least be good for what it is—Yoon Han wants Cheon to suck his blood, Cheon refuses, they have an argument or get in their feelings by it, and then by the end of the story Cheon gives in and sucks his blood. But the story doesn't do that. Cheon admits that he loves him, but . . . That's it. They're not even dating, they're in this grey middle ground. Yoon Han doesn't say "I love you" back.
I don't really understand the point of creating such an unremarkable story just to not give what's expected and wanted by the end of it. If you're doing something so typical, you may as well at least give the people what they know they want from their expectations. That's a very direct conflict with a very direct resolution so I'm just lost at the fact that the author decided to steer clear of it for no reason. Just make him suck his fucking blood.
When it comes to their characters, again, just kind of 'meh.' I didn't care for either of these boys.
Cheon Ki-Joon was written in a way where I feel like there was meant to be this poetic air of melancholy around him, and while I usually love characters like that . . . It just didn't hit for me. I didn't care. He was battling these intense conflicting emotions, that he both loved Yoon & was attracted to his blood, but he didn't want to sentence Yoon to an early death by him essentially being sucked of his blood 24/7 and it's like . . . I love vampire angst. And this is very much that. But IDK. I didn't care. At all.
Yoon Han had the same issue of being written in a way that was clearly meant to be angsty and sad but it just didn't get to me. At all. He does have a bit more to him that makes his feelings more "real," but even with that benefit I still just didn't care in the slightest. While I liked his conflict in theory, the way he was desperate for Cheon to suck his blood and how that kind of thematically acted as him being desperate for Cheon's love, his character was otherwise so annoying that I didn't care. I just didn't care. I mean, one, he was a total fucking whore. Total slut uke. Unlovable whore uke. But I also didn't really understand his whorish behavior; I can make assumptions, but they're still assumptions. It's not me picking up context from the story and accurately filling in the gaps, it's . . . Just guessing. Maybe he was fucking other dudes because he was trying to make Cheon jealous, or maybe it was him filling the Cheon-shaped hole in his heart. Idfk. Also, didn't really get the rape. Why'd he go to such extremes? He could have just admitted he liked him. Or better yet, just ask to fuck.
In general, the cucking was something that really turned me off of the story. It wasn't done for a kink reason, which would have been enough of a turn-off but the fact that it's done merely because Yoon decided to act rather cruel just completely turned me off of these characters and their relationship.
One last negative thing and this is uniquely just to my personal taste, was that I didn't find the sex scenes hot. They were pretty underwhelming. This story is full of sex but it's not one I'd ever think of jerking off to. Sorry for the TMI.
This gets two stars though because, one: great art. Two: there is erotic blood play. Yoon ends up pouring blood over his thighs and makes Cheon lick it off of him which was admittedly really hot. I always hate when authors of vampire stories don't realize the pure eroticism vampire stories hold, so at least the author did that right.
