Right in cases where the seme is the one who loved the uke for a long like like backlight, he still sleep around. There's many more semes who love uke for a long time that do that. Yet when it's the uke turn, they always somehow SOMEHOW A VIRGIN. even if they go so broke they barely make a living yet suddenly they threw away their dirty when the seme is the one offering for fuck buddy despite refusing the others because according to the story uke is still has dignity??? YEY ACCEPT IT WHEN IT WAS SEME WHO FUCKS AROUND. I Hate korean bls
Exactly. That's the double standard that pisses me off. When the seme has been "in love for years," he still sleeps with half the damn city, and the story brushes it off. But when it's the uke who's loved the seme for years, he's somehow always a fucking virgin.
Even when the uke is broke as hell and barely surviving, he rejects everyone else because the story says he has "too much dignity," yet the moment the seme offers a friends-with-benefits arrangement, suddenly that dignity disappears. It's such a lazy, overused trope. Why can't the uke move on, date other people, or have his own experiences too? Korean BLs really need to stop recycling this bullshit.
I really believe its a internalized misogyny honestly noticed how the receiver is the one virgin? And it's sad that the one who made these kind of stories are mostly women, like whaaat? Why they always romantize this
Same. It genuinely feels like so many authors are copying the exact same formula instead of trying something new. It's always the same experienced manwhore top, the innocent virgin bottom, the same misunderstandings, the same redemption arc, over and over again. At this point, the creativity has gone completely out the fucking window. I just want authors to break the mold instead of recycling the same tired-ass tropes every damn time.
Right. The plot is always the same. It's so sad that even the readers still eat it up despite how it just the same, but just in different art, names, situation.
Isn’t it also because of their age difference? I think I read somewhere that he didn’t whore around, that he genuinely entered relationships because having a crush on someone way younger than him was weird to him. But I agree, one too many stories all share the same trope “experienced top and a virgin bottom”
Theres also story similar to this but the top whos younger is the one whos sleeping around instead
I read the spoliers he was fucking anyone he met not genuine relationship most likely the first girlfriend was due to the attraction but after that he fucked around till now he joined sex parties and explored kinks and all and after meeting the mc at airport HE Fell for him after he became adult but he only see him as a sex partner no feelings involved till almost end of novel
It's always the biggest manwhore who ends up with the virgin bottom. Yeah, you can argue it was his choice to sleep around, but what, some fucking miracle happened the moment he saw the MC again after years? His whole damn brain just rewired?
He fucked dozens of people and never caught feelings for any of them, but suddenly it's the innocent virgin bottom? I'm so fucking sick of this cliché.
Honestly, it would've been so much better if, after getting rejected, the MC had said, "Fuck this," moved on, dated other people, and actually lived his life. Then, when the ML finally realized his feelings, he'd have to earn that relationship instead of the MC just waiting around like a backup option. That would've made the romance feel a hell of a lot more satisfying instead of the same recycled bullshit trope.