Darling's Favorite

I really love Sooyeon and Beom's ship.
So I tend to only read their chapters. So if anyone is like me. Here are the chapters (and if not. I'm just keeping that for me here)

First life
12 + 14 + 16 + 17 + 20 + 21 + 24 + 25 + 26 + 27 + 28 + 29 + 30 + 31
(start of ghost life) 37 + 43 + 44 + 45 + 46 + 47 + 48 + 49

Second life
59 + 60 + 61 + 62 + 63 + 65 + 66 + 76 + 77 + 78 + 79 + 80 + 82 + 83 + side 3

Third life
Fullboom 1 + 3 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 10

“an excuse that I made to myself to hide the fact that I need suffocating love more than the freedom to breathe” …yeah…i gotta go

I read the novel and each chapter was very long. It's 18 chapters including sides but Im not sure if that's all the chapters. It was a good slowburn novel. Yunseong lines were so loving and beautiful.

I dont want to tell the entire story how they know this and that but they got together without Hakyung telling Yunseong the truth. It was only when YS's brother took Hakyung that YS said that his memories came back. Turn out YS's memories came back to him little by little the time they started cohabiting and a big chunk of his memories was when they went back to the villa to pack and clean. It was also revealed later that YS already know that HK is a man by the time they went on a date and I think the reason why on the manwha the focus was on HK's body was bec YS said during that time he was already curious of what HK's body looks like(meaning he has no probs HK is a man and ifykwim). They are having good times together and when HK is abt to tell YS his name and etc, YS got a call that grandpa's condition was very serious and when they are going to the hosp they had an accident. HK woke up first and YS injuries were very serious. He was handed money and asked obvi to disappear and was not allowed to see YS even for last time. YS woke up eventually and the question he asked was i think "is the MAN with me in the car okay?" So the fam was shocked that even if YS know HK is a man they already see him having feelings for HK and he protected him during the accident risking his life. They wanted HK out for good so sis in law came up with an idea to tell YS that HK died in the accident. He didnt believe this so he conducted his own investigation but looks like being fabricated by the fam. Btw, he doesnt have mem loss at this time, his 2nd accident caused this when he went back to the villa against doc's orders. There was also a struggle part in the fam but in the end they accepted them and Geonwoo even became YS's dad's favorite. HK also ended up working for Taewoon grp under YS's dad. I reco you read this. Because even if it is romance it also is a good family story and HK is very sympathetic towards YS's family. YS is also very kind specially towards HK. I smiled alot and cried specially when YS is expressing his love his words were soo beautiful

I love how most readers hate Jaeha and paint Eunho as this angelic being that got fucked over and is too good for him - as if Eunho didn't come back second season to harass him, shame him, and intentionally make sex painful. Yes, Jaeha's character is the farthest thing from perfect and healthy and he's self-destructive, hurting the people around him because he fears getting hurt himself. The man needs a therapist for his depression and trauma in general. No one that falls in love with him is going to have an amazing time of it. He broke Eunho's heart. He didnt even attempt to salvage his marriage. He was in a sex relationship with someone he knew was in love with him. He was selfish. His mother also abandoned him with a drunk, abusive father, who also eventually abandoned him for being what he was. His first love also fucked him over, and his past haunted him even into his marriage with his wife. He's stuck in a cycle of pessimism and he thinks him being unhappy is a undeniable conclusion because he's not good enough for people to actually love and accept his baggage and insecurities. He takes sleeping pills to rest at night. His lover's parents were the closest thing he had to actual parents, and he felt guilt for bringing their son into his cycle of unhappiness. His lover's sister begged him to leave Eunho alone. So he left him cruelly, cut almost all ties, but of course he still liked him so he continued to wear the ring and he didn't change the name of his shop because he's human. So Eunho is now disillusioned by being dragged around by an older lover that cruelly dumped him, he tracks him down when he finds evidence that this cruel ex of his is still attached. He meets him, obviously notices that he's not even mentally stable, but instead of doing the healthy thing and walking away (in the case that he doesnt intend to have an actual healthy discourse), he wants to punish him further. He hears Jaeha talk about how he was pathetically still attached after cruelly dumping him, hears him say while half weeping into his hands that "he doesnt deserve to regret", knows that the man is dependent on pills to sleep at night, is told "I'll do whatever you want" which shows the man isnt even hanging on to his self respect, but he decides the best thing to do is A) punish him for leaving and B) make him realize that he 'can't escape' through sex lmfao. So he initiated sex at his workplace, shames him for actually being willing to do it, when they do have sex, he refuses to use protection or lube, is told it hurts, keeps going bc why tf not, shames him for having a dildo, etc etc etc - basically the same type of toxic shit that happens in other yaoi but I guess its acceptable because he got his heart broken? He used to be innocent, Jaeha acted like trash and ruined that innocence, so Eunho comes back and does this shit, but I see comments like "yeaaaah cruel Eunho. Jaeha doesnt deserve nice treatment" or "cruel Eunho is cool" . i disliked Jaeha too for what he did to Eunho, and Eunho deserved better even if Jaeha's issues could be explained by his experiences. Honestly, I wanted Eunho, the ex wife, the lover to all move on while Jaeha dealt with his issues. After all, theyre not obligated to stay and endure his self-destructiveness. But thats not what happened.

I honestly think the story is beautiful, and there are realistic moments, people understandably dislike Jaeha, but Im amazed at how few people saw an issue with Eunho's actions. Im not really even trying to hate on Eunho exactly because the sex, though fucked up, was consensual, and their relationship and what happened is between him and Jaeha, but its kinda irksome for the naysayers of Jaeha to complain about his issues and preach about Eunho's awesome personality and forgiveness or whatever.

But then again, when I reread this, I skimmed, so Im probably wrong about something or other. I might just be annoyed that Jaeha gets so much hate without acknowledgement of the shit he had to go through.

Somebody please tell me every smut chapter in this Manhwa please

these are the chapters that focus on their storyline: 13-20, 23-48 (42-46!!), 51-53!!!, 58-65 (61-63!!), 67-79 (73-75!!), 84, 89-90, 98, special 5-8

all chapters in parentheses & marked with exclamation marks are spicy chaps, enjoy! (& lmk if i’m missing any hehe)

commenting so i can keep track of all the smexy scenes

4 5 12 15 16 17 21 22 23 30

I JUST FINISHED BINGED READING THE NOVEL (using automated translate its so painful) AND ITS SO GOOD OMG OMG AAAAAA [SPOILER BUT NOT REALLY] but OMG SANGWOO ??? after reading the novel im like is this really sangwoo ?? he became a different person towards the end its so sweet IM CRYING

replacement of Stranger Than Friends Chapter 1 http://imgur.com/a/uhpRv6f
Chapter 2 http://imgur.com/a/H9Aan3f
Chapter 3 http://imgur.com/a/Zg8wSVM
Chapter 4 http://imgur.com/a/k82wePr
Chapter 5 http://imgur.com/a/15wm9Eo
Chapter 6 http://imgur.com/a/H13yfNh
Chapter 7 http://imgur.com/a/CRQwmHp

https://newtoki45.com/webtoon/488855?toon=BL%2FGL some extra (づ￣ ³￣)づ

First of all I barely ever see any negativity in the comments, there might be people "fighting" about ships, but like anywhere someone posts their favorite pairing, someone will say why they prefer a different one... which is kind of the point of discussion.

And in a drama/mature manga general discussion might be a little more negative when main themes of the story are things like extreme jealousy/violence/abuse/murder/rape... but from what I've seen in this particular manga people don't really care about that kinda stuff and are more like "Omg did you see his hair when he was beating the shit out of the MC? Omg he looks so good I hope they end up together uwu"

And it's just silly trying to tell people "If you didn't like it don't rate it or comment!" People should be allowed to have their own opinions and express them. Just because someone doesn't like something that I personally enjoy doesn't mean I think they should not be allowed to say anything about it. But over 90% of people have given this 4 or 5 stars so a very very very large majority obviously really like this story anyway.

THIS IS NOT MINE, BUT [[[[[doxies]]]]]

I've posted before about this without spoiling, and it physically HURTs me that people are
giving out wrong spoilers based off some google translate thing they didn't even bother to
cross reference. A lot of spoilers are out of context of the whole story and omits SO MUCH
so i'm going to explain it as best as I can, referring to my previous post. These spoilers
are coming from the novel version btw, and whether or not JAXX choses to adapt them
will be another issue altogether. But anyway, here goes.
There are several major factors and characters I shall address.
1. Ryan (Blonde dude from earlier in the series)
He has a much bigger role in the books than in t he webtoon thus far, but idk how big his
role might be ahead because he has a major role to play in the latter half of the series. As
far as I know, he is NOT a love rival or anything of that sort. There has never been and
isn't going to be anything romantic between him and McQueen at all. He harbours certain
hatred McQueen for reasons, blames him for a lot of his ongoing issues and he has a lot .
He has a son, with a prostitute and he also seems to have drug issues and is generally
pretty messed up. In the novels, he and Ed live together, and McQueen and Ed have
meals with Ryan and his son Cecil, even helping to take care of his son because Ryan isn't
really the best parent.
He is actually the main reason why Ed and McQueen break up. But more on that in a bit.
2. Ed and McQueen
In the books McQue en is seen doing a lot more porn that in the webtoon to begin with;
here he seems like he does more of the background work like directing etc. But in any
case, novel McQueen and Ed BOTH continue to film porn with other partners, although Ed
only ever bottoms for McQueen after. In the novels, there's no confession at the train
station. They get together, but there's no actual verbalisation of the "I love you"s till
much later. So although they're making porn with other people, they're also not
exclusively together in the books at this point. I believe McQueen initially hoped to kind of
do couples porn with Ed, but at some point after they do both stop doing porn anyway.
But in any case, obviously the webtoon should differ from that.
Third parties are never a major major issue in the books for our main pair. They do love
each other, although it takes a much longer time for McQueen to verbalise it there. Yes
there is a 'love triangle' of sorts with Chang, but the feelings of the main pair never
wavers for each other, although circumstances in the later parts do drive a wedge
between them. The McEd pairing is actually quite fluffy in the books as well.
A major plot point in the novels. revolves around McQueen's writing of the movie's script.
A journalist basically finds out that McQueen is the director of that movie, and it makes
the news. Its huge news, and it goes on broadcast that a pornstar directed a religious
movie. The website is being overloaded by views – and the site Ed's audition film with
McQueen (for a DVD) is on there. The next day he goes to work, its obvious that all his
coworkers know about his doing porn. Ed is asked to resign from his job as a security
officer due to security reasons.
Upset, Ed then tries to contact McQueen, but he is unable to call through to him. This is
because McQueen was being hounded by journalists at the time and he explains it to Ed.
They then talk about plans for the future, like going on a cruise and stuff. Ed gets a little
drunk, and confesses he watched a porno with McQueen and Ryan. More context on this
is that Ryan and McQueen did something like a 'non-consensual' kink play? It's not
actually non-consensual and its not rape for sure, but Ryan apparently has a history of
sexual assault prior and told Ed before that McQueen exploits vulnerable men for money
i.e. something like he basically did the shoot because he was in a vulnerable position
(drug issues money issues etc.). Ed watched the porno, and then tell McQueen he agrees
with Ryan that what happened was rape. McQueen is livid to think that Ed could think
something like that of him, and says something along the lines of "I can't believe I was
falling in love with you". They break up and don't contact each other for weeks after that.
Ed gets a job at the airport, but its not very stable. Prior to this, Ed had already stopped
doing porn was also working for Chang doing some security, but he stopped that too after
the porn reveal and hasn't contacted Chang since.
Lancer contacts Ed who is now in high demand because of the porn reveal, and asks him
to do escort/prostitution work with him (He gave him an Escort card way earlier in the
novels I think as an invitation already). Ed wonders if McQueen will find out, and then
decides that he "doesn't care" and so on New Years Day, Lancer tells him that he's got
this client and that Lancer raised the price on him (because of his high demand); Ed
doesn't know who he is, but he turns up anyway. The client is Chang.
3. Chang
Chang ha sn't met Ed since the porn reveal, New Years Day is the first time they're
meeting after the reveal. Chang doesn't believe at first that Ed actually came, and Ed tries
to walk away after realising its Chang. But Chang physically grabs him and tells him he
paid for him, showing him the escort card he took from Ed's apartment (given by Lancer
earlier). Chang offers to make Ed's debt disappear – if he stays beside him for a year. Ed
considers and then refuses thinking this guy is the one who even ruined his life by
saddling him with this debt in the first place. They argue, Chang makes jibes about Ed
doing sex work and Ed, fed up, asks him if he wants to be fucked. Ed pulls down Chang's
zipper to prove a point.
Then Chang pushes Ed onto the bed and starts getting physical with him. At several
points, Ed says it hurts, and that he wants it to stop. Chang mocks him, bites him, and
continues anyway. Ed tries to punch him to get away from him, saying he's changed his
mind and telling him to stop. He grabs his clothes and tries to escape several times but
fails. Chang r*pes Ed. In this interim, Ed realises that Chang has had feelings for him all
along, and that he's just been trying to ignore it the whole time; after the deed is done,
he asks Chang if he likes him – and Chang doesn't confirm or deny it. Ed tells him it
doesn't matter because Chang is dead to him anyway, and tells Chang he wants to ruin
him, like Chang ruined Ed.
He walks out (Chang is still there), to run into McQueen – Ed wondered previously if
McQueen was going to find out about him doing escort/prostitution work so he clearly did
– McQueen tells Ed he didn't want to break up with Ed in the first place, tells him that he
loves him, and that he wants to get back together. Ed wants to say yes, but he just had
sex with (was raped by) Chang, so he doesn't respond, just leaves both men without
saying anything. McQueen and Chang fight, and Ed sees McQueen again the next day;
McQueen tells him he doesn't care about the whole Chang thing, and they get back
together.
McQueen tells him he's quitting porn for him and selling the company, and tells Ed to
check his bank account – $500, 000, which is the amount he owes Chang. Chang actually
confesses his feelings to Ed after this, and Ed tells him he doesn't care and to check his
bank account, that's his answer. Essentially he pays off his debt, and from there he's
saying that they no longer will have any ties to each other.
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So essentially I wanted to clarify a few things.
Ed didn't lose his bodyguard job because of McQueen but the journalist actually, and
McQueen didn't abandon him because of the reveal at all. He had a huge debt to Chang –
but McQueen didn't pay it off probably because $500, 000 is kind of not pocket change??
He sold his company and paid off Ed's debts. McQueen is not the cause of Ed doing
escorting; that's Ed's choice. Their break up was NOT caused by Ed not wanting to do an
adult movie with McQueen.
McQueen and Ed's relationship is complex, and ultimately human. They make mistakes
and there's miscommunication and there's arguments of course, but there's also reasons
why certain things unfold the way they do. The novels are way longer than the webtoons,
and lots of things have been and will be taken out. So bear in mind that too.
I hope this helped in some way and if anyone else is going to bullshit about the 'spoiler'
without knowing what they're talking about again i'm going to hit the roof.

I've posted before about this without spoiling, and it physically HURTs me that people are giving out wrong spoilers based off some google translate thing they didn't even bother to cross reference. A lot of spoilers are out of context of the whole story and omits SO MUCH so i'm going to explain it as best as I can, referring to my previous post. These spoilers are coming from the novel version btw, and whether or not JAXX choses to adapt them will be another issue altogether. But anyway, here goes.

There are several major factors and characters I shall address.

1. Ryan (Blonde dude from earlier in the series)
He has a much bigger role in the books than in the webtoon thus far, but idk how big his role might be ahead because he has a major role to play in the latter half of the series. As far as I know, he is NOT a love rival or anything of that sort. There has never been and isn't going to be anything romantic between him and McQueen at all. He harbours certain hatred McQueen for reasons, blames him for a lot of his ongoing issues and he has a lot . He has a son, with a prostitute and he also seems to have drug issues and is generally pretty messed up. In the novels, he and Ed live together, and McQueen and Ed have meals with Ryan and his son Cecil, even helping to take care of his son because Ryan isn't really the best parent.

He is actually the main reason why Ed and McQueen break up. But more on that in a bit.

2. Ed and McQueen
In the books McQueen is seen doing a lot more porn that in the webtoon to begin with; here he seems like he does more of the background work like directing etc. But in any case, novel McQueen and Ed BOTH continue to film porn with other partners, although Ed only ever bottoms for McQueen after. In the novels, there's no confession at the train station. They get together, but there's no actual verbalisation of the "I love you"s till much later. So although they're making porn with other people, they're also not exclusively together in the books at this point. I believe McQueen initially hoped to kind of do couples porn with Ed, but at some point after they do both stop doing porn anyway. But in any case, obviously the webtoon should differ from that.

Third parties are never a major major issue in the books for our main pair. They do love each other, although it takes a much longer time for McQueen to verbalise it there. Yes there is a 'love triangle' of sorts with Chang, but the feelings of the main pair never wavers for each other, although circumstances in the later parts do drive a wedge between them. The McEd pairing is actually quite fluffy in the books as well.

A major plot point in the novels. revolves around McQueen's writing of the movie's script. A journalist basically finds out that McQueen is the director of that movie, and it makes the news. Its huge news, and it goes on broadcast that a pornstar directed a religious movie. The website is being overloaded by views – and the site Ed's audition film with McQueen (for a DVD) is on there. The next day he goes to work, its obvious that all his coworkers know about his doing porn. Ed is asked to resign from his job as a security officer due to security reasons.

Upset, Ed then tries to contact McQueen, but he is unable to call through to him. This is because McQueen was being hounded by journalists at the time and he explains it to Ed. They then talk about plans for the future, like going on a cruise and stuff. Ed gets a little drunk, and confesses he watched a porno with McQueen and Ryan. More context on this is that Ryan and McQueen did something like a 'non-consensual' kink play? It's not actually non-consensual and its not rape for sure, but Ryan apparently has a history of sexual assault prior and told Ed before that McQueen exploits vulnerable men for money i.e. something like he basically did the shoot because he was in a vulnerable position (drug issues money issues etc.). Ed watched the porno, and then tell McQueen he agrees with Ryan that what happened was rape. McQueen is livid to think that Ed could think something like that of him, and says something along the lines of "I can't believe I was falling in love with you". They break up and don't contact each other for weeks after that.

Ed gets a job at the airport, but its not very stable. Prior to this, Ed had already stopped doing porn was also working for Chang doing some security, but he stopped that too after the porn reveal and hasn't contacted Chang since.

Lancer contacts Ed who is now in high demand because of the porn reveal, and asks him to do escort/prostitution work with him (He gave him an Escort card way earlier in the novels I think as an invitation already). Ed wonders if McQueen will find out, and then decides that he "doesn't care" and so on New Years Day, Lancer tells him that he's got this client and that Lancer raised the price on him (because of his high demand); Ed doesn't know who he is, but he turns up anyway. The client is Chang.


3. Chang
Chang hasn't met Ed since the porn reveal, New Years Day is the first time they're meeting after the reveal. Chang doesn't believe at first that Ed actually came, and Ed tries to walk away after realising its Chang. But Chang physically grabs him and tells him he paid for him, showing him the escort card he took from Ed's apartment (given by Lancer earlier). Chang offers to make Ed's debt disappear – if he stays beside him for a year. Ed considers and then refuses thinking this guy is the one who even ruined his life by saddling him with this debt in the first place. They argue, Chang makes jibes about Ed doing sex work and Ed, fed up, asks him if he wants to be fucked. Ed pulls down Chang's zipper to prove a point.

Then Chang pushes Ed onto the bed and starts getting physical with him. At several points, Ed says it hurts, and that he wants it to stop. Chang mocks him, bites him, and continues anyway. Ed tries to punch him to get away from him, saying he's changed his mind and telling him to stop. He grabs his clothes and tries to escape several times but fails. Chang r*pes Ed. In this interim, Ed realises that Chang has had feelings for him all along, and that he's just been trying to ignore it the whole time; after the deed is done, he asks Chang if he likes him – and Chang doesn't confirm or deny it. Ed tells him it doesn't matter because Chang is dead to him anyway, and tells Chang he wants to ruin him, like Chang ruined Ed.

He walks out (Chang is still there), to run into McQueen – Ed wondered previously if McQueen was going to find out about him doing escort/prostitution work so he clearly did – McQueen tells Ed he didn't want to break up with Ed in the first place, tells him that he loves him, and that he wants to get back together. Ed wants to say yes, but he just had sex with (was raped by) Chang, so he doesn't respond, just leaves both men without saying anything. McQueen and Chang fight, and Ed sees McQueen again the next day; McQueen tells him he doesn't care about the whole Chang thing, and they get back together.

McQueen tells him he's quitting porn for him and selling the company, and tells Ed to check his bank account – $500,000, which is the amount he owes Chang. Chang actually confesses his feelings to Ed after this, and Ed tells him he doesn't care and to check his bank account, that's his answer. Essentially he pays off his debt, and from there he's saying that they no longer will have any ties to each other.

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/
/

So essentially I wanted to clarify a few things.

Ed didn't lose his bodyguard job because of McQueen but the journalist actually, and McQueen didn't abandon him because of the reveal at all. He had a huge debt to Chang – but McQueen didn't pay it off probably because $500,000 is kind of not pocket change?? He sold his company and paid off Ed's debts. McQueen is not the cause of Ed doing escorting; that's Ed's choice. Their break up was NOT caused by Ed not wanting to do an adult movie with McQueen.

McQueen and Ed's relationship is complex, and ultimately human. They make mistakes and there's miscommunication and there's arguments of course, but there's also reasons why certain things unfold the way they do. The novels are way longer than the webtoons, and lots of things have been and will be taken out. So bear in mind that too.

I hope this helped in some way and if anyone else is going to bullshit about the 'spoiler' without knowing what they're talking about again i'm going to hit the roof.