tysm art was too gorgeous my brain had to turn off to understand anything
i agree with everything except i’m pretty sure Old Guy asked Isuke for story ideas since he was only selling to old people recently and was feeling bad about it and Isuke told him about Kazami’s story idea in the form of a “dream” he had, and Old Guy wrote a story based off the “dream”. So he does write his story but it wasn’t his idea. Isuke never submitted Kazami’s story at all, tho he told Kazami that he did and that his story don’t place. Old Guy was mad that he plagiarized someone “without even knowing it” bc he had been so proud of himself for finally writing a banger with the young folx, only to get a video message from some rando he doesn’t know of his editor taking a dildo up the ass begging for his forgiveness in 4k revealing the truth. so Old Guy assumed that Kazami was targeting him and sent Isuke as an opp to ruin his reputation and bring him down or something? Or wait i reread what you said and I see how that convo is referring not to his reputation in the public’s eye but as Kazami using the situation to impact Isuke’s opinion/relationship with him. but yeah he already knew Isuke wouldn’t be toooo against it bc he knew Isuke liked his secret book and obviously he had a video confirming it, but he didn’t realize how much of his consent was fueled by deep set guilt and that he would need to pump the brakes himself.
i was def confused reading this story tho. i got it by the time it was over but the first read through was confusing for me too lol
Basically, I had to reread this three times to understand it.
From what I'm getting we have three main characters Seme - Kazami, Uke - Ikuse, and Old Guy.
Ikuse is a fan of Old Guy's stories.
At the start, Kazami finds Ikuse hot and starts a friendship with him. They become close friends.
Kazami find Ikuse's book written by Old Guy, I'm assuming, teases him about it but gets turned on by Isuke so he re-enacts a scene from the book (I think). And then boom, they end up having a friends with benefits Dom/Sub relationship where they both like each other but are too pussy to confess their feelings.
But thennn, Kazami's parents, who are creepy control freaks, starts adding some surveillance on Kazami forcing him to distance himself from Isuke in fear that their relationship gets find out.
Isuke gets sad about getting ignored tho, so on the day that Kazami was gonna go explain why he was ignoring Isuke, Isuke lies and tells Kazami that he found a new partner and they should just stay strangers.
Okay, past over. Present time next.
Kazami wrote a book, contacts publishing company and wants Ikuse to be his editor.
Isuke is also Old Guy's editor and Old Guy's stories is just selling enough to be kept afloat in the publishing house.
Isuke finds that Kazami has similar prose as Old Guy and decides to submit Kazami's story under Old Guy's name. Ikuse keeps it a secret and doesn't tell Kazami and Old Guy that he did that.
Kazami finds out tho when the story gets published and punishes Isuke through the bdsm.
Now Old Guy also didn't like that Isuke published Kazami's story under his name, so when we see Old Guy show Isuke the video Kazami sent him he gets kinda pissed and decides to punish Isuke as well.
Isuke thinks he deserves it because of what he did with the story. That's why we see the water torture and whipping while he's tied up in the rope. Because Isuke thinks he deserves this, he lets Old Guy do whatever he wants with him. Old Guy knows when to stop though when he finds that Isuke genuinely doesn't have a limit (the cigarette tongue scene) and starts to untie him and give him some aftercare. And then Old Guy subtly tells Isuke about how Kazami probably has feelings for him.
Chapter 5 and the rest are pretty self explanatory. End.