Pandemic saw a rise in good KOR bls and this ran alongside POTN and KS if I remember correctly. I’m not saying this is a lot milder in comparison, but that I’ve got fond memories reading this when it was in the rise, mostly of Taehyuk and the dragon’s relationship. Their dynamic to me was: Taehyuk having his first bout to love and, making the widowed dragon, who thought his heart died alongside his lover, believe in love again. Cute, fluff, and a bit of angst here and there. It’s a good feel type of read, like soaking in a warm bath after a long day.
As a fan though, I can say that it did go to the father and son route— unfortunately. It’s also been addressed multiple times in the story (whether it was the mc’s protest or a sexual innuendo), eventually the author turned it into a rut just to ease the idea of having sex with the child you’ve cared for 10 years (the sense of responsibility for a hormonal teen kind). That’s why it shouldn’t have gone to a childcare route. It is already a well pieced together story, that had no patches or holes to fix by making the mc Un’s guardian as well as his mate. Rn the backstory could do a 180 and no one would question it— that’s how unnecessary it was. The dragon’s coming to birth, why even as a dragon he walked amongst humans, and what made him become so distrustful of humans— were all so put together— just not what came after with the mc. There are hundreds of scenarios where the author could’ve avoided slander without ebbing the dragon’s suffering. Like, the mcs are already lovely characters as is— why go there? Just my piece.
Pandemic saw a rise in good KOR bls and this ran alongside POTN and KS if I remember correctly. I’m not saying this is a lot milder in comparison, but that I’ve got fond memories reading this when it was in the rise, mostly of Taehyuk and the dragon’s relationship. Their dynamic to me was: Taehyuk having his first bout to love and, making the widowed dragon, who thought his heart died alongside his lover, believe in love again. Cute, fluff, and a bit of angst here and there. It’s a good feel type of read, like soaking in a warm bath after a long day.
As a fan though, I can say that it did go to the father and son route— unfortunately. It’s also been addressed multiple times in the story (whether it was the mc’s protest or a sexual innuendo), eventually the author turned it into a rut just to ease the idea of having sex with the child you’ve cared for 10 years (the sense of responsibility for a hormonal teen kind). That’s why it shouldn’t have gone to a childcare route. It is already a well pieced together story, that had no patches or holes to fix by making the mc Un’s guardian as well as his mate. Rn the backstory could do a 180 and no one would question it— that’s how unnecessary it was. The dragon’s coming to birth, why even as a dragon he walked amongst humans, and what made him become so distrustful of humans— were all so put together— just not what came after with the mc. There are hundreds of scenarios where the author could’ve avoided slander without ebbing the dragon’s suffering. Like, the mcs are already lovely characters as is— why go there? Just my piece.