I also read that tweet from Tan that explained that Soohyun doesn't have a lot of sexual desires but he really does have a weakness for "marking or controlling" Eunsung.
I personally like reverse couples, but I am also not against a character liking a specific sexual position, and continuing to use it every time they have sex (Rather, it should be considered a stereotype and sexism, that because one likes to be bottom, to think that he is being inferior or the substitute for a "woman"), if Soohyun decided to top Eunsung, it gives me the feeling that Eunsung wouldn´t object since he loves to see Soohyun wanting him physically (And to be Top , that's a must XD), and what Soohyun wants from Eunsung is his vulnerability, to make him lose control, and control him, and that he achieves more by being the bottom, so I don´t see a problem with their sexual positions (If the author specified that Eunsung is Top for being taller and more masculine (I honestly think that Eunsung is the most beautiful and elegant of the two XD), and Soohyun bottom for being shorter and feminine (I see him more handsome than cute but his attractiveness is in his personality and determination to "win" XDXD), then my opinion would change for the worse, but I really highly doubt that Tan will do that ╮(￣▽￣)╭).
And I love that Soohyun is enjoying sex with Eunsung in the future, I hope that helps them to be more honest with each other ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ .
I also read that tweet from Tan that explained that Soohyun doesn't have a lot of sexual desires but he really does have a weakness for "marking or controlling" Eunsung.
I personally like reverse couples, but I am also not against a character liking a specific sexual position, and continuing to use it every time they have sex (Rather, it should be considered a stereotype and sexism, that because One likes to be bottom, to think that they are being inferior or the substitute for a "woman"), if Soohyun decided to top Eunsung, it gives me the feeling that Eunsung would not object since he loves to see Soohyun wanting him physically (And to be Top , that's a must), and what Soohyun wants from Eunsung is his vulnerability, to make him lose control, and control him, and that he achieves more by being the bottom, so I do not see a problem with sexual positions (If the author specified that Eunsung is Top for being taller and more masculine (I honestly think that Eunsung is the most beautiful and elegant of the two), and Soohyun bottom for being shorter and feminine (I see him more handsome than cute but his attractiveness is in his personality and determination to "win"), then my opinion would change for the worse, but I really highly doubt that Tan will do that).
And I love that Soohyun is enjoying sex with Eunsung in the future, I hope that helps them to be more honest with each other.
great insight. i also think that top or bottom does not even matter in their relationship. what do think about chapter 52. when eunsung meet that senior reporter there are part when sohyun visualize the high school version of eunsung and they talk bout sohyun way of solving the problems?. not sure about that, even when im using the translator i can't really get what they talk about. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I've explained it in a comment above :)
I also hope that this manhwa has at least 3 reasons but I don't want the story to drag out as well....
Yes you're right. Eunsung's attitude is shifting from the munseop situation to his relationship with soohyun.. now the munseop situation to him isn't about his own career or his own problem with the old man, but rather to get all the other students and his friend shinhae out of there and get him exposed.
Which is a dynamic shift from how he was before he met soohyun again (he used to tell them that if they wanted to stop munseop from exploiting them, they should leave like he did) but maybe being with soohyun, he's become more sympathetic as well. And he truly wishes to solve this without anyone coming to any harm (especially soohyun, and of course shinhae)
I would simply love to see their story after this munseop situation but if the author will follow stalker games story development, it would end once they got in a relationship for real. I think tan-nim likes to leave it upto readers' imaginations ughhhh but I wanna see them for a long time. Checkmate is one my favourite BLs to have even been written~
I hope we get a whole season or maybe a new enemy after they get in a relationship hehehehe I want them working together on something that doesn't effect them somehow....which will be super interesting. Putting their genius heads together~••
Eunsung's face has been described by soohyun as "반반하니" which roughly means such a handsome perfect face that has no flaws. So yes he is SOOOOOOO beautiful~~ eunsung is an angel. He looks good in everything~
Soohyun has a darker beauty to him - I love glasses on characters hehe - and his loathing and scornful expressions are what eunsung finds adorable as well.
Soohyun always thinks it's disgusting (when eunsung penetrates him) but that's because he's sooooo embarrassed ahaha. In the car scene, he wanted eunsung to skip the part where he prepares him because he didn't like being so vulnerable and "shameful" in front of eunsung lol. His thorny beauty is even more pretty with every chapter~
The next time they have sex, his feelings are going to change again. Since the last time he's been hurt by eunsung by accident. He probably won't agree to have sex or it will be the opposite and he'll pounce on him like a lion lol.
Shizu-chan explained it, and I didn't understand it until she translated it for me.
"In the Korean fandom, we actually talked about this: soohyun at the start said how he knew exactly who eunsung is (always misinterpreting his words of worry as him looking down on him) but in the recent chapter he said that eunsung is like a problem book that he can't seem to get even one answer right - and he can't do it on his own. He can't understand him at all, and realizes that only eunsung himself can tell him about who he is - and he's someone who is very patient teacher and will tell him who he is step by step. "
Love it!
I love how their relationship evolves, and despite all the psychological twist, they also have sweet moments.ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
You are a genious!
I also want to see that <3.
Something we all love about Soohyun is that he is really unpredictable(≧∀≦).
I love all about this manhwa but what I love the most is that it starts with the impression of Soohyun chasing Eunsung but as it progresses, we realize that Eunsung is also chasing Soohun(▰˘◡˘▰).
The only thing that stands between them is Soohyun's mental problems, and whether Eunsung will be able to communicate properly with him (We have already specified that the rapist teacher is rather the current excuse to keep getting to know each other).
And this theorizing, I can be wrong or Tan will surprise us again.
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Hehehe it's a game of cat and mouse...
But I like this story because it's kind of relatable, like when people were kids in school, it was so easy to always idolize or admire the popular kids - like they're so perfect. (Everyone has moments where they envy someone who is virtually perfect and flawless)
But just because someone's life looks perfect from the outside - it doesn't mean it is.
That's something soohyun is starting to realize about eunsung - with the munseop situation ofc. He started off being really happy eunsung's life was going through terrible times - but he became really pissed off after he saw that eunsung had kind of given up trying to be perfect and didn't mind that his image was being tarnished (remember soohyun hated him because of the perfect image eunsung had that was in contrast to his own)
He detested eunsung being not himself - the perfect version in his eyes. He remarks many times that eunsung isn't acting dignified (when he sees how "perverted" he's become (hehehe soohyun, he's like that because you're his type) and how he isn't like how he pictured him back in school (and he hates it because now eunsung is a mystery - he calls him "indescribable")
An interesting development which has taken place is that when soohyun comes to eunsung's house (on the day of the deal when he got his fingers crushed) they didn't translate it accurately but soohyun tells eunsung "Don't try to teach me. I have no intentions of learning even how to breathe from you." When eunsung teases him that he'd teach him how to get used to having sex (with a man) (?) Hahaha but now in the latest chapters, he admits that he can't understand eunsung at all, and eunsung himself can only tell him/teach him who he really is and what goes on in his mind...(also fun fact: tan-nim said that soohyun's type is someone who is knowledgable and is good at communicating/teaching hehehehhee)
Even though soohyun is a bit extreme, but I really like him. Eunsung is right when he calls him honest and sensitive (though probably only eunsung can see that side to him while to others he seems like a crazy obsessive bastard)
I would also like Eunsung to empathize with Soohyung's condition, although it is more difficult to do so considering that of the two Soohyun is the mysterious one (We already have Eunsung's flashbacks, and reasons that have led him to the present, but the only thing that We have from Soohyung is the flashback of her high school days and his graduation) not to mention Soohyun's pride.
Although Soohyun has his perspective clouded with his inferiority complex, low self-esteem, and his idealization of Eunsung, ironically compared to the other characters, Soohyung is the one who best knows and accepts Eunsung in question on a personal level (In my opinion), which is contradictory at the same time XD.
And I am glad that Soohung's opinion is changing, even if it takes time and effort to change an opinion, as long as he is not closed to new possibilities, this will help him in the future as a person and his relationship with Eunsung.
Yes, you're right. Actually in the hotel chapter, he says to eunsung "Everyone surrounding you knows about your story, don't they? Then, why should I be the one to remain deliberately ignorant/unaware of it? Right now, more than anyone else, I should be the knows who knows the most. Be sure to tell me every single detail, don't even dare to leave anything out, if you want my cooperation."
I think to soohyun, jung eunsung of the high school days meant everything to him. Even now he has told eunsung (in the car before they had sex) that he's not having sex with him to make him feel better or out of the goodness of his heart for pitying him after getting punched and the terrible encounter with munseop, but rather because the desperate expression and actions of eunsung in the bathroom is the reason. And his current self makes him sick/ he can't stand it (his nonchalant face) He tells eunsung exactly this "Bring back that bastard. It's because of him, not because of a bastard like you." (To have sex)
Eunsung probably hasn't ever seen soohyun as inferior to him (he even tells off his "friends" who made fun of soohyun for getting second place in school (when he tore off sheets) saying how eunsung should let soohyun be first just once, don't you feel pity for him?" Eunsung told that guy: "Shut your mouth. Don't say things like that." But soohyun was sooooo angry that he didn't even hear it.
And also when soohyun saw him smiling and got mad that he was making fun of him on his own, and roughly bumped into his shoulder - his friends tried to aggravate the situation by calling him crazy and scary, and asked him to get back at him, but he just brushed it off as nothing. Soohyun didn't notice that either.
So he does understand him, but it was only in chapter 37 in the cafe he realizes that soohyun's complex has only gotten worse and he calls him out on it "What is a person like you and a person like me? What criteria are you using to set those standards? How the hell are you looking at me, Soohyun-ah?" This is when he actually realized the problem. But until then, he never thought there was any inferiority involved. He just thought he hated him because he was ridiculed in school because of him a lot.
I agree with you 100%, although I think there was another reason too many, a quite simple one, and that is that when someone is popular they get used to people going to talk to them and want things from them (Social things) but when It's the other way around, they don't know how to start a friendship with someone who clearly seems not to be interested in them or hates them (I have a friend who was popular at school but then she moved to another country and she wasn't popular there, she didn't know how make friends because she didn't know how to approach people on her own).
And thank you very much for the translation and information of the car scene<3.
hmmmm...I think they're recycling the censored version for the uncensored chapters..
it's kinda hmmm.
1. Soohyun doesn't call eunsung's friend "a dumbass" but rather 문외한, which means an outsider/3rd party, like he said in the last chapter "an idiot who has no idea what the situation really is..." (as in what happened between them at the hotel, and the deal he made with eunsung last time they met) - i.e. he said because a third party (his friend) was involved now or would interfere (?), he wouldn't keep the deal on anymore.
2. Eunsung doesn't say "I'm not exactly hankering to do it with you again. I didn't imagine you'd barge in like this" but instead says "I know I said that, but I don't have intention of doing it with you again so soon. I didn't know/think you were the promiscuous~ type." (Which is said in a teasing tone ofc, since soohyun's "first time" was the time at the hotel when they had sex earlier (eunsung is his first for all the things - first love, first kiss (which soohyun did in this chapter), and first time having sex) - (author has confirmed soohyun was a virgin, and has lower sexual desire than people his age so he isn't keen on having sex before - obviously that changed when he met eunsung again, who is the only person who manages to stir him up (since high school)) - (eunsung has done it a few times before, but he didn't sleep around. Soohyun thinks munseop had his way with eunsung at first (and was his first time) and is pissed - and that's why he violated him as well, since he learnt sex from that maniac. Eunsung doesn't deny it then, but apologizes for ruining his first time, which pisses off soohyun even more, because it implied he was hurt emotionally by that, which he didn't want to admit)
3. To which soohyun replies, "Whose fault do you think this whole situation is? When I think about that time, I start boiling with such rage that I can't even fall asleep. To relieve my built up rage, I need to do with you whatver I want at least once. I need to repay it, twice as hard. Shall we start with the first hit (lit. Translation) /first repayment?" (As in first of the two times he's going to defile him to repay him)
4.He says while holding his face, "It will be worth seeing such a handsome face (lit. A perfect face with no flaws) be covered in tears."
5.And when eunsung challenges him to start taking his revenge with a smirk like he knew he couldn't do it, soohyun doesn't say "Don't underestimate me." Before kissing him, But rather "He's looking down on me."
Which kinda is more consistent with how soohyun perceives himself in eunsung's eyes, that he's always so above him, that he's always looking down on him.
6. When soohyun asks him why he was kissing the other dude back them if they weren't lovers, eunsung actually holds his face and says, "By that logic, I kissed you too, and after having sex, is there something between us now? He kissed me first on his own (that dude from then) Are you jealous? It's kind of cute/ You're kind of acting cute/ you look a little adorable." (*cute squeal* eunsung-ah, my sunshine~ my vitamin~ )
I was kinda looking forward to the mature translations but they really gonna do this again huh...oh well. If they were gonna recycle the same shit, they shouldn't make people pay for it twice.