oh i really like the novel this is an adaptation of!

Can u share where u read the novel from? I can't find it

i don’t share links publicly so hold on let me dm it to you if you’re having trouble finding it! ^^ it goes by a different name for the novelisation (simmering heat) so that might be why it’s hard to locate

I’m having trouble finding it, may you please dm me the link?

sure! hold on

Can you dm me too

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btw for anyone going forward past this you can find the novel by searching for “simmering heat” on novelupdates and going forward with looking up the translator / site from there!

it was TLed before the manhwa came out so there’s a name mismatch, so try “simmering heat” instead of low temp burn ^^

could you give me spoilers? like does the ML treat him worse than this after this second confession? does he get jealous later when MC meets that sunbae? does ML get more girlfriends or hurt the mc sleeping with anyone else now? pls give me all the details you can to see if i read the novel or not (i love spoilers)

camping here as well :3

he says more harsh words for sure. He doesn't wanna hurt mc but he is an idiot. But dont worry, no other future gfs for the ml. He realizes his feelings and acts pathetic soon enough. We all want a loser ML who chases mc. I'm in 2/3 into finishing the novel and this adaptation is very lacking after I read one chapter.

i haven’t been keeping up with anything on mgg in months so i don’t know if the manhwa has covered any of this atp yet lol but the ML treats the MC VERY badly after confession point, they have a very nasty fight about it that pretty much destroys their relationship for a good chunk of the novel. no girlfriends are involved because he’s too busy sorting through his own feelings and issues. he does get very very jealous of the MC’s relationship with the sunbae as well and he is very put off by (what he correctly pinpoints as) the sunbae having feelings for the MC. which i agree with him on considering the implications the sunbae developed his crush when he was the MC’s teaching assistant in high school and he was like 22 when the MC was 17. yuck. personally i recommend the novel i like it a lot and i think it does a very good job of showcasing the lasting effects cruel behaviours can have on a person even if you didn’t intend for the consequences that occurred. like the ML has to work Very Very hard to make up for his fuckups and even after they become an item he still has to keep making up for it because in his repression + misplaced resentment towards the MC for developing feelings and “ruining” what he felt was a perfect friendship (little did he know…), he said some very cruel things. i don’t think the manhwa would be able to cover the nuance of that at the pacing i remember it going haha

thanks!!! last question: what cruel behavior and nasty things does ML do the MC?

Ohhh you just made me want to read this. Because the ML is actually trash. And I was thinking the story was going to treat it as if he was in the right for getting mad at a person he hurt avoiding him all those years. That kind of cliche pmo.

i recommend it!!! i read the novel over a year ago at this point so i’m definitely due for a refresher lol but i did sincerely quite like it. i remember it doing a good job of highlighting how badly the ML messed up and impacted their relationship for the worse, and how he took the friendship he tried to cling to as “perfect” for granted & in trying to shut down the MC’s feelings to keep that friendship he destroyed something that was cracked from the start. and then he realised he had feelings for the MC anyway so he fucked things up for himself for no reason and had to start from lower than 0 due to his own mistakes. the novel doesn’t ever, to my memory, do anything to justify him or his behaviour LOL

Think from a straight guy’s perspective. The thought of being attracted to a guy never crossed your mind but your life changed just because your best friend since childhood ghosted you and even told you he likes you. Imagine the betrayal because he was living his life just fine until his expectations got shattered by the person he considered his precious friend then ghosted him. Of course he wouldn’t understand the MC’s unrequited feelings because he was straight. But the MC, he just doesn’t take the hint. He thought he fix him, that overconfidence lead to a painful outcome due to his naïveté. I wouldnt blame the ML for the things he’s done to MC because in reality, you can’t force someone else’s sexuality to change. But we’re talking about fiction, so it’s not surprising they got together after their messy situation

Except the MC simply having feelings and confessing them (yes, keeping them to yourself is a far better option but it doesn't even fulfill the most basic criteria to make it a betrayal. But there's a reason to that as well why the MC confessed no?) is not betrayal. Dismissing them as if they're trivial however and expecting someone to remain your friend despite that is , because now the MC has to not ONLY suppress his feelings but also pretend that the ML hurting him doesn't hurt in order to keep the precious ML's feelings from being hurt. Which, according to the ML, is the only thing that actually hurts. So no I have no sympathy for the ML.

Imagine your friend who you cherished for years started ghosting you for a long time then suddenly they wanna get closer to you and wants to act like nothing happened? How would you feel if you were in the ML’s shoes? Right after that they’d confessed to you and told you the reason why he ghosted you was because he liked you? You’d be dumbfounded. The friend who you felt you platonic says they want to date you? That’s coming from a straight person who was never exposed to same sex relationships. Imagine the feeling of being that person, of course he’d refused to have romantic relationship with him, and the way he thought that relationships only work out temporarily because of his experiences and the way he thinks the MC wanted to ruin their friendship and become “temporary” lovers and then separate was absurd and he couldn’t believe the idea, so to him it was betrayal. Imagine seeing the person who you don’t see that way relieve himself in your own space, id be disgusted cuz its absurd.

You have to understand why he couldn’t process the feelings of his friend and the feeling of destroying his current relationship with him because the MC either wants to date him, or become strangers. In real life, you wouldnt want to cut ties with your one and only best friend because they started like you, but it’s also unfair to the other person so I understand both characters’ feelings.

The ML is cruel (yes) with the way he played along with MC making bold moves (kissing) even though he’s gonna reject him later. But the MC was too naive, that falling for a straight guy and declaring he’s gonna attempt to seduce him but he just doesn’t realize it’s not gonna yield results which is why he got his heart broken but I think he doesn’t deserve this. To me both characters have their own flaws and I dont think either should be blamed for getting into this kind of setup.

I forgot to say im only saying this about the MC chasing ML arc era, since people have commented badly about ML up that point but I dont blame them. I believe ML is an ass past the point

listen. i am very willing to acknowledge the MC has flaws and he did very much mess up early on. the root of his ghosting is from the other perspective unfair and he does push boundaries at first in ways that i can and did sympathise with re: the ML and i even went back and re-read the novel after an entire year to make sure i was remembering things right. the ML's perspective at one point early on even says that the MC's feelings don't justify his behaviour, which i agree with regarding this early on. but all of my references to the guy being cruel are in how he handles it after finding out, moreso due to his feelings on love and romance and his desire to cling to their friendship knowing what he now knows than anything else. especially also with the background context of how flippantly he treated their friendship during their younger years despite his own (at the time perceived platonic) desires to possess the MC and hold their relationship as unending and special forever. i can understand how overwhelming it is, but he also chooses to be cruel at every chance he takes because of his own belief system.

the MC wanting to end their friendship is because he feels like the seven years he's loved the ML are being stomped on and, which they ARE through the ML's dismissal of them as "fleeting" and his later attempts to end them. sure, he has his own perspectives on love and romance, but they’re his own to dissect. he literally asks the MC to "try and seduce him and see if it works," thinking it'll fail. he wants him to try so he can break his heart and hope things "can go back to normal" from there. he presses on the line he tried to draw himself constantly, asking things like if the MC moved on from him solely because he got jealous witnessing the MC interacting on a friendly level with another gay man, and doing shit like lashing out because you're upset that your friend has other people he talks about fondly, and kicking the back of his seat on the bus to vent because he's sitting next to that guy and speaking to him warmly (and then getting genuinely upset when the two of them end up switching seats because of you kicking your friend's), and tripping your friend because he was discussing going drinking with this guy, and challenging your friend who is in love with you to find you a guy to hook up with and then telling him that the idea of gay sex is disgusting because you resent your own budding attraction to him and you self-admittedly want to hurt him for acting so warmly with other men in your line of sight is cruel behaviour even if your desire for things to return back to how you remember them as is understandable, and it makes the MC genuinely self conscious and hesitant about having sex with him down the line after they get together. a large chunk of the novel is him trying to repent for how badly he handled things during the early-mid arc (chapters 9-13 or so?), and while the MC did not handle things particularly well himself at first and things did start off quite badly through his missteps, the ML handled things much worse and the story not pulling any punches about how badly he messed up in his pursuit to keep their friendship as how he remembered it is why i liked it. he is very much at fault for a lot in the narrative and the narrative acknowledges this. there is nuance to the beginning of their tale, but the entire middle and the ending of it circles back to him, and it takes so long for the MC to accept his feelings during the ML's pursuit because his own were shredded so cruelly and dismissively during HIS attempts prior. "keep being an asshole," he'd said once, early on in the chasing arc. "it's easier [for me to move on] this way."

Taeun may be naive, yes, but naïveté and cruelty are two very different things with very different weights to them (discounting the nuance of when naïveté spins cruel). Jinhyun actively encourages his desperate naïveté at multiple points and then lashes out in his own turmoil over responding to it because he can’t accept he’s attracted to him, because he think love is fleeting. the novel pretty much spells this out and paints him as the person with far more to make up for multiple times.