The way that not a single one of these comments is even exaggerating, Like that thang is glorious
This is literally just gay Y/N. It's full of clichés, but honestly, that's whatever clichés exist because they work. That's not even my issue.
My problem is... this man is SO TOXIC.
I honestly feel like I'm being gaslit by the amount of positive comments I'm seeing here and all over social media. Like... are we reading the same thing???
It also feels like everyone is only focusing on the seme's money. I get it we're in the middle of a recession, and financial stability is probably one of the most desirable traits in a partner right now. Everyone wants to live comfortably.
But y'all keep saying he's "spoiling" the uke... honey, he isn't spoiling him. He's conditioning him. There is such a huge power imbalance here.
He's incredibly insensitive, manipulative, immature, and controlling. Even the sex scenes are hard to get through I ended up skipping them because I couldn't stand how rough he was with him. Chapters 23-24 were especially bad. He literally assaulted him while he was passed out and drunk.
I'm not against reading about a toxic top who eventually grows as a character. That's a pretty common trope, and it's why I kept reading, hoping things would get better. But it's been 50+ chapters, and he's still a walking scarlet-red flag.
Totally agree.
Ml will have to lose him before he realize the backbone of steel this young man has.
Way too many comments are seeing this through rose-colored glasses.
I feel like I'm missing something? lucian seems to care way too much about the FL after having barely any interactions with her whatsover??. Like they met ONCE or maybe twice in person at the mansion. At the beggining he didn't even like her. I guess it's because now he knows she has no ill intention but like??? He acts like they're already really close friends and even jealouse of the other kid. Also, I REALLY hope he's not the ML
From the novel's cover he seems to be the ml
Let me hold your hand when I say this...
Just from what we've seen so far, it gives vibes that he's going to be the ML. She had that "it's like we've always known each other" moment with Lucian and nothing like that with Benjamin, who seems to have one sided feelings for her.
As far as why Lucian is so close to her suddenly, he said that when he saw her he sensed the overwhelming death energy coming from her, so bad that it made him instinctively reach out his hand and grab her when she went to leave. So it started out as probably pity to a dying child. He mentions a child shouldn't have eyes like they've completely given up. From there it's a matter of just falling in love with both her beauty and her character. It's been made clear how cute she is, people swoon when she smiles at them. He's also lived at solitary life, she's the only one who talks to him, or that he can talk to.
"as I look through each moment we shared one by one...maybe I'll find you at my side again"
I'm such a fucking mess right now...
The fact that people still complain about Yayima being "too nonchalant" is honestly hilarious when he's the one doing 90% of the work in their relationship.
The reason they work so well is because they're both confident and cocky. But if you actually pay attention, Yayima is the one constantly planning dates and taking the initiative. He even took Torikai to his favorite restaurant a place he'd never taken anyone else before. Unlike his shitty ex, his ego doesn't stop him from celebrating Torikai's achievements. He's the one who made the first official date invitation, gave up his house key first, and is always asking about Torikai's past and the little things that matter to him. Most importantly, he never hesitates to show affection.
And the whole "he never said 'I love you' to the uke" argument feels especially weak now because we know that wouldn't have changed anything. Torikai (and I say this as someone who loves him) seems to enter relationships expecting them to end. Not IF they'll end, but WHEN. That's the kind of mindset that can kill a good thing before it even has the chance to grow.
It hurts to see Torikai's behavior because I feel so called out. I trust that the author will ket us see Torikai grow out of this pessimistic mindset.
I've said before how much I love how layered both Lirica and Lydia (Lili's mother) are, while still understanding why some readers dislike Lydia. Recently, I watched a long video essay arguing that the reason Lydia gets so much hate is because she's a woman, and the more I thought about it, the more I agreed.
In most manhwa, it's usually the father who neglects, abuses, imprisons, or even kills the protagonist in their previous life. Yet readers rarely direct the same level of hatred toward those fathers. It's apparently easier to forgive a handsome deadbeat dad while holding mothers to a much higher moral standard. Many of these fathers don't even have particularly tragic backstories.
What's more, in those stories the regressed protagonist is usually the one forced to change. They have to act far beyond their age and do all the emotional labor so the father can finally start acting like a parent. If they had remained an ordinary child, nothing would have changed.
That's why Lydia stands out. She's the one who chooses to be better.
Lydia was neglected and abused by her mother, inappropriately desired by her father, and married off at just fifteen to an older man who used, degraded, and abandoned her. Left alone with a newborn and overwhelming debt, she had no friends, family, or support system. She turned to alcohol to cope, only to be manipulated by nobles who used her for their political schemes and discarded her when she was no longer useful.
And yet after all of that she never dismisses or justify her own wrong doings. She's fully self aware and constantly reflects and admonishes those actions.
I couldn't agree more. Male characters are given far more grace because to many female readers, they are attracted to them. They will go far and beyond to gush how cute they are now, and how the father is trying and he changed.
But when it comes to Lydia? Suddenly all this compassion and understanding is gone.
This is exactly what I was thinking, readers have no issue forgiving useless fathers who only show change cause their regressed kid now has some superpower or is super smart and doing stuff that adults should be dealing with, lydia changed and realized her mistake in her past life and took full responsibility the second she returned to past and has been doing so much more for the mc and yeah rarely any of those fathers have a tragic story, like I don’t think I’ve ever seen them have any other trauma than a strict or absent father/mother and they treat mc who’s a literal child like shit and only start loving them cause the child now benefits them in some way, they don’t even ask for forgiveness most of the time cause duh they don’t remember their past lives but readers only need a hot good looking father and rest is forgiven.
I don’t think it’s just because she’s a woman. A lot of it is because manhwa readers aren’t used to any shade of grey and Lydia is clearly written as having mental illnesses. Readers expect her to be magically cured and perfect with her regression like the vast majority of villainess regressions which usually aren’t real villainesses at all, but someone who was “misunderstood” in their first life.
This will 100% ruin most BL's for me, they've set the bar WAY TOO high. They're so perfect it's physically painful...
They are tooo greeen I cant take it! Smut? Yes. Communication? Yesx2. Respect? Yessssx1000. Even their struggles are so well handled...
dude...When they mentioned having their own lives aside from each other I was like..
:O
Perfect life other one can be the extrovert and other one the introvert they are.. and with Jaegys job taking him away for long times, makes perfect sense.