Responses
You’re right about the missing contexts. Wish to have those answer but at the same time, it is like open a can of worms
Plot convenience my friend. It even went into hiatus at the start because the author scrapped their previous idea because they didn’t know what to with this characters.
I appreciate as well this don’t being lengthy and the fact there wasn’t a lot of rape just for the sake of it (although there was some of that).
Overall I liked io
I'm glad the story is shorter than Pearl Boy, and I'm glad KinGin didn't put a lot of rape scenes in here like she did in Pearl Boy. You don't need 100 chapters to tell a story.
Though as much as I liked the characters and the story, so much more could have been done to flesh it out even more. My main gripe is the speech. I like to think I have good reading comprehension skills and can read between the lines, but the whole narrative of the story pretty much did a lot of that. It's up to the audience to fill in the gap. Now the problem lies in the fact that she didn't give us enough context to piece things together. And the way Yuta and Seunghun think is cryptic. So you have to keep guessing what they're trying to say almost every single time.
Not to mention we didn't find out what that promise was between Yuta and Tetsu, or how Yuta became head of the household, what his previous marriage was like? How Seunghyun just conveniently forgot Yuta (even tho he says he's in denial about it all, it still didn't make much sense).
A lot of the plot leaves something to be desired. I also wish we could've explored more of Yuta healing from the trauma because it's not so simple and easy, even when you're together with your anchor.
With all that said, I'm glad this is over and Yuta isn't suffering anymore. I really liked him. Half of me was expecting he would be dead or dying towards the end but KinGin couldn't quite commit ahaha, and I'm ok with that.
Happy to have read this