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(ML) Yoonsung - 10/10 on the yearning scale. Yoonsung 's love for the MC transcends everything - expectations, lies, obstacles placed by his family, gender. The financially desperate MC is hired by Yoonsung's father to deceive his grandfather by pretending to be a girl he knew back then. ML and MC meet under those conditions of deception, yet the love that blooms is real, deep, and painful...
Tropes:
- crossdressing MC
- amnesia
- desperately in love ML
- painful re-encouter
(MC) Yeonwu initially, then Taehwan (ML) - 9/10 on the yearnig scale. Yeonwu is a Korean student in the US who falls for Taehwan in high school. His crush is one sided, and just as both become closer, when Yeonwu kisses Taehwan while he's asleep, the ML is repulsed and wants nothing to do with the MC. 6 years later, with the yearning as fresh as ever, they meet again in college and complicated feelings resurface. A toxic situationship emerges, while Yeonwu yearns for a heart too distant...
(ML) Ian - 7.5/10 on the yearnig scale. He's been longing for Eunsan (MC) ever since they met on the ice rink under the coaching of MC's father. 12 years pass after Ian leaves for Canada, but the longing remains. Ian goes back to Korea despite having an outstanding career in Canada just to reunite with Eunsan. He's so infatuated with him that he even tattooed himself and created a ritual tied to the MC...
Tropes:
- jealousy/envy
- angry re-encouter
- down bad ML
(ML) Andrew - 8/10 on the yearning scale. Cold and aloof at first due to childhood trauma and resulting distrust from it, he turns all mushy, obsessive and super in love as Luke gains his trust. Andrew is infatuated with him and craves his presence. Can't stop thinking about him and is desperately attracted to him. Luke becomes his lighthouse...
Tropes:
- nerd × 'airhead'
- cold ML × warm, open hearted MC
- tough shell, soft core
- possessive ML
- bisexual awakening
(ML) Hayden, alpha - 9/10 on the yearning scale. Brett (MC) is his sexual partner during Hayden's dangerous, intense ruts. His painful pheromone episodes/ruts make his type of yearning more primal and physical at first, but it turns into an emotional bond as the story progresses, and his heart starts to yearn for Brett as well, not just his alpha instincts.
Tropes:
- alpha × alpha
- soft, introverted, yearning ML × cool, emotionally closed off MC
(ML) Injun, dominant alpha - 9/10 on the yearnig scale. On a cold Christmas night, as Saein (MC) is about to be hit by a truck, Injun and Jaekyung (antagonist alpha) jump in to save him. Jaekyung dies while Injun survives, but not in his own body - he's now in Jaekyung's one. Injun has always been in love with Saein and even after the MC was imprinted and taken advantage of by Jaekyung, his love persists. Injun wants to protect and care for Saein, no matter the circumstances.
(ML) Yohan - 7/10 on the yearning scale. He's rather shy and reserved, but very passionate in his love for the MC. He craves a deeper relationship with him as initially, the MC wants nothing but a physical relationship as sex partners. Yohan's earnest love however grows on the MC as he himself resolves trauma, and what blossoms is a passionate relationship.
Tropes:
- tough, cool MC × teddy bear ML
- MC with high sex drive, 'slut' reputation
- ML loves to please
Both the ML, dominant alpha (Kyungjoo) and the MC, recessive omega (Wooyoung) - 8/10 on the yearning scale. They're very in love with each other, have super intense, hot sex, miss each other greatly when apart... What can I say, it's a relationship full of yearning - especially cause there's imprinting involved.
Tropes:
- recessive omega × dominant alpha
- mpreg (with belly bump), dangerous
- jerk at first ML × chasing, persisent MC
- jealous ML
Both the MC (Soo-Young), and especially the ML (Tae-Seung) - 9/10 on the yearning scale. This manhwa is dark, twisted, and full of rough sex, obsessive, intense infatuation, and a build up to actual feelings of love. The yearning is especially present in the (outstandingly hot) sex scenes. The ML has a twisted type of yearning that goes to extreme lengths.
Tropes:
- dark romance
- tough indebted MC × criminal creditor ML
- hate --> love
- savior complex (ML)
- very possessive ML
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