Is that sometimes it's a little bit too obvious that the story is being milked.
There is development, no doubt, but the plot devices used are really repetitive. Readers have to endure misunderstanding after misunderstanding and lack of communication just for a crumb of "character development". 60 chapters in and no potential plotlines have actually unfold (Inhun's plan, Min's plan, Seungho's past) except for the kidnapping (which the author spent a lot of chapter building up only to let it spiral into YET another misunderstanding and potential rape). The art is great, but if we're really honest with ourselves and strip it bare, the story is progressing at an incredibly slow pace and some chapters are just gratuitous filler sex.
I understand that this is kinda in a feudal setting so to the lowborn Nakyum, practically anyone is to be feared, but if this is reallyyyy a feudal setting, Nakyum would have been killed a long time ago. For him to live this long is obviously because this is a love story, but whether it's going in the direction of BJ Alex (seme was cruel at first but then had major character development) or Killing Stalking (full-on horror), it's kinda starting to lose its edge. It could not even be categorized as psychological, because aside from Seungho's seem-to-be interesting past, there's nothing particularly thought-provoking about the characters and their dynamics.
The story is angsty, but it's your run of the mill angst with a lot of rape stemmed from misunderstanding and frustration. If this story has more than 100 chapters (which seems to be the average length of a popular boylove manhwa), imagine the rush to wrap up all the plotlines that could have come in place of filler sex chapters.
Is that sometimes it's a little bit too obvious that the story is being milked.
There is development, no doubt, but the plot devices used are really repetitive. Readers have to endure misunderstanding after misunderstanding and lack of communication just for a crumb of "character development". 60 chapters in and no potential plotlines have actually unfold (Inhun's plan, Min's plan, Seungho's past) except for the kidnapping (which the author spent a lot of chapter building up only to let it spiral into YET another misunderstanding and potential rape). The art is great, but if we're really honest with ourselves and strip it bare, the story is progressing at an incredibly slow pace and some chapters are just gratuitous filler sex.
I understand that this is kinda in a feudal setting so to the lowborn Nakyum, practically anyone is to be feared, but if this is reallyyyy a feudal setting, Nakyum would have been killed a long time ago. For him to live this long is obviously because this is a love story, but whether it's going in the direction of BJ Alex (seme was cruel at first but then had major character development) or Killing Stalking (full-on horror), it's kinda starting to lose its edge. It could not even be categorized as psychological, because aside from Seungho's seem-to-be interesting past, there's nothing particularly thought-provoking about the characters and their dynamics.
The story is angsty, but it's your run of the mill angst with a lot of rape stemmed from misunderstanding and frustration. If this story has more than 100 chapters (which seems to be the average length of a popular boylove manhwa), imagine the rush to wrap up all the plotlines that could have come in place of filler sex chapters.