I wouldn't necessarily reread it again however I did enjoy reading this manhwa, Surprised to find out it's first published in 2000, but I can kinda see the character design inspiration based out of late 1990's Japanese BL
The story is complex and the characters have a bit of depth and the story does not make an attempt to smooth over the character's flaws but rather uses it to build up and the lack of detailed smutty scenes actually made it more enjoyable to read as it allowed to focus more on characters and story itself
But I didn't enjoy the confinement trope. To me it felt like it's inserted just for the sake of inducing angst rather than being part of story. Perhaps it's to show the readers that Taeyul is not really that great of that guy and showing his dark, sordid side would put perspective of what he did in his previous relation and to show that he isn't the perfect man the story upto this point built him up nevertheless, it didn't sit right with me (but the manhwa spared us mental distress by not showing it in detail unlike modern stories)
And as for Taeyul himself, just like Soohan, I didn't like the character at first but he grew on me, he's confident, talented and decisive and he's your typical high-spec man but he's also obsessive, possessive and can become violent when his emotions took over and looking at how he was delving at how his previous relation ended, pretty sure his life upto that point were easy going and he got his way with everything and that's how I feel with his relation with Soohan, sure he does love him but to me it felt like Taeyul got his way with Soohan and succeeded in his conquest. I mean he literally said "I'm a hunter, when something slips and escapes me, It drives my desire to conquer it"
But the most important thing is, We didn't get to see Soohan's backstory or his thoughts, like sure we know that he was traumatized by his high school love interest and he ended up in USA and got tangled up with Sungjoon but beyond that, we didnt get much of his thought process just like how we were able to see Taeyul and Sungjoon like only certain parts of his past were selected to be represented to drive the story and not build up his character and we were only getting to know about him from other characters and not himself
And as for side stories, I do agree that Sungjoon's part should have included in the middle of main story and I would have preferred to see Taeyul and Soohan communicating and Taeyul being regretful of his actions towards Soohan when he confined and harmed him. This is not something that should be chalked up as "Oh, he's just a go-lucky guy and probably forgot it", If the high school incident traumatized him then Taeyul's action should have also traumatized him but here we are in the side stories, it's all treated as nothing. Perhaps the author didn't want to delve into this as it would deviate the vibe, but I wished this should have been included as Taeyul is depicted as someone trying his best to rectify the past and omitting this doesn't make much sense
I wouldn't necessarily reread it again however I did enjoy reading this manhwa, Surprised to find out it's first published in 2000, but I can kinda see the character design inspiration based out of late 1990's Japanese BL
The story is complex and the characters have a bit of depth and the story does not make an attempt to smooth over the character's flaws but rather uses it to build up and the lack of detailed smutty scenes actually made it more enjoyable to read as it allowed to focus more on characters and story itself
But I didn't enjoy the confinement trope. To me it felt like it's inserted just for the sake of inducing angst rather than being part of story. Perhaps it's to show the readers that Taeyul is not really that great of that guy and showing his dark, sordid side would put perspective of what he did in his previous relation and to show that he isn't the perfect man the story upto this point built him up nevertheless, it didn't sit right with me (but the manhwa spared us mental distress by not showing it in detail unlike modern stories)
And as for Taeyul himself, just like Soohan, I didn't like the character at first but he grew on me, he's confident, talented and decisive and he's your typical high-spec man but he's also obsessive, possessive and can become violent when his emotions took over and looking at how he was delving at how his previous relation ended, pretty sure his life upto that point were easy going and he got his way with everything and that's how I feel with his relation with Soohan, sure he does love him but to me it felt like Taeyul got his way with Soohan and succeeded in his conquest. I mean he literally said "I'm a hunter, when something slips and escapes me, It drives my desire to conquer it"
But the most important thing is, We didn't get to see Soohan's backstory or his thoughts, like sure we know that he was traumatized by his high school love interest and he ended up in USA and got tangled up with Sungjoon but beyond that, we didnt get much of his thought process just like how we were able to see Taeyul and Sungjoon like only certain parts of his past were selected to be represented to drive the story and not build up his character and we were only getting to know about him from other characters and not himself
And as for side stories, I do agree that Sungjoon's part should have included in the middle of main story and I would have preferred to see Taeyul and Soohan communicating and Taeyul being regretful of his actions towards Soohan when he confined and harmed him. This is not something that should be chalked up as "Oh, he's just a go-lucky guy and probably forgot it", If the high school incident traumatized him then Taeyul's action should have also traumatized him but here we are in the side stories, it's all treated as nothing. Perhaps the author didn't want to delve into this as it would deviate the vibe, but I wished this should have been included as Taeyul is depicted as someone trying his best to rectify the past and omitting this doesn't make much sense