SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!
The start of this was really nice, and I liked how they communicated well. The problem is that by chapter 70, I'm not really rooting for them to get together or grow. At the end of the story, I am not happy or satisfied with the conclusion. It's honestly frustrating.
Maybe it's because of personal preference, but I hate stories where one party has to make the other party like them. It's annoying because if it were a genuine relationship, or if not, the parties mutually wanted to be together, it would work. In this, however, that's not the case.
I don't think Si-eon is an asshole or immature; he's quite the opposite. He communicated well, was patient, and he made it very clear that he doesn't like Namwoo like that. Namwoon started wanting more and wasn't satisfied with the relationship when he realised that Si-eon wasn't going to force it or lie to him; they broke up. When Si-eon explained that this happening was common for him and that Namwoo isn't much different from his exes. Now Namwoo is desperate to keep up the appearance that he is different from them.
Namwoo’s naivety is apparent and leads him to do some pretty embarrassing things. He is young, so it's okay. I just wish that the story followed its own advice and Namwooj found someone who truly liked him, where he didn't need to feel the insecurity that he felt with Si-eon. Towards the end, he is even trying to find reasons as to why someone would like him, and it's sad but understandable. In the moment he feels comforted by Si-eon, but in the long run, he almost realises that he can find better.
This story isn’t bad per se, but seeing how Si-eon is as a character and Namwoo as well, their relationship overall and dynamic don't work out. I live for a good yearning story, and that is maybe what the author is trying to convey, but it just doesn't come off that way. It just seems like I'm reading about a guy who is trying to make a relationship work when it doesn't. They just don't seem right for eachother.
To clarify, I did not hate this! I really enjoyed the writing and the way the author depicted some topics. The problem is, I like the MC’s and characters, just not as a couple!
I also want to clarify, I DID NOT HATE THIS!!! It was objectively very well written. I loved the way the author depicted some topics, and I would read some of their other works as well. I just don't think that Si-eon and Namwoon are a couple by the end that I could say “Im so happy they worked it out,” instead, all I thought was “At least he's running those pockets.” Namwoo is young nd naive, and it shows. His naivety leads him to pester the relationship into happening instead of naturally letting it fall into place or finding someone who would like him for him. After reading, I realised that he was just desperate for love: his parents didn't like him, and he hadn't dated anyone to prove in his mind that he is a likable person. It's relatable and realistic. I just feel bad that he ended up with Si-eon, someone who clearly struggles with forming and upholding lasting attachments. That's a him problem, not something Namwoo can fix. The story does talk about this, but instead of following its own advice, it goes ahead and has Si-eon and Namwoo stay together.
TLDR; I like them as characters, just not as a couple
Exactly this!!! I'm not done with the story yet, but the lack of self respect Namwoo has for himself sometimes gets quite annoying in the story! He is young yes, but I especially dislike the part where he kept mentioning how he was different from Si-eon's exes and came off as extremely desperate. It just makes my heart really cringe seeing how he keeps chasing Si-eon in the parts of the story where he clearly cannot give him the love he wanted.. But oh well!!!
It's definitely unfortunate because Namwoo was no different. Si-eon has a type, but not the emotional capacity to go beyond a surface-level relationship. Namwoo wants more, but settles for Si-eon in the end, which really sucks because there is the college friend who admits he liked Namwoo, and I honestly think they could've worked out. The story says that they wouldn't, but everything I have seen of them, they would've done fine if not better. I think the author realised towards the end that they weren't that great together, and instead of deviating and giving them an appropriate ending, the relationship is forced. It just felt like it was shutting down other possibilities so that they could work.
This comment makes me feel sad for the mc, damn he should have left and find himself a better man. It sucks…
Honestly, I feel like that's where it was going to go, but then it did a whole shift where Namwoo goes out of his way and comfort zone to make Si-eon like him.
So at the end sieon didn’t reciprocate the love?
He did, but it felt disconnected from the story and his character overall. His feelings for Namwoo were only ever superficial
He's going to leave Taejeong for me, so serious like I would NEVA leave Eunsung feeling needy, angry, frustrated. Pure bliss, they will break up and Eunsung will come with a real playa. Buy a house? Nah I BUILT a house for Eunsung, brick by brick. I'll be damned if I let some wimp like the 2 pump chump Taejeong anywhere near my omega-kase.
My aura will send ghost on there way and away from Eungsung because I will protect him and communicate with him, unlike Taejeong. I'm going to take his bitch and have stronger aura than him. Furthermore my strap is bigger than his, poor Eunsung been stuck with losers .
I see why everybody want him I do too, let me have him brotato
If you can't tell by my desperate need for my omega this is gas
I'm getting Yujin's dad and Aaron's granddad knocked up. They are fine asf, ik they suck but I'm tryna suck on smth too
You freak. Me too
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You know it's bad when the keyboard warriors are in the comments pulling it the classic “you just don't get it because you just don't understand his character”. Be so fr its ass, admit it. I remember when this was coming out, and sure the art is good but everything else is not. You can make complex characters, fucked up ppl, and hell even rape in these but the way this story pushes it as though it is justifiable. The terrible things that do happen don't really push the story along and just feel as though they are put there because they need to fill more space. No one is saying that you can't feel bad for him because his backstory is “sad” however the author is pushing it as though it should justify his actions when it's not. There's a difference between “flawed characters” and just had writing. Unfortunately in this case it's just bad writing.
we didn’t even finish the backstory relax
we aren’t even halfway thru the story let’s relax… and everyone has their own interpretation ofc but I really don’t think the author is tryin to justify his actions by giving him a boohoo backstory
Justify how? The author is just showing us the back story? You can understand why someone ended up the way the ML did and at the same time still think his actions are wrong. Understanding is not justifying. If there's no true remorse, healing, and proper resolution when the story goes back to the present THEN you can complain about the author justifying his actions
This is interesting but it's inconsistent. The character's motives and values change consistently and so do their actions, particularly with the the ml. It's hard to try and figure out what's going on, especially in the first 30 chapters the ML is weird and the MC is an idiot. The story struggles with the “show don't tell” concept, it tells us what a character thinks rather than showing. The MC should pick a different career and takes the ML’s actions as being an asshole when really the MC should've never passed the law exam. He wants to keep up moral high ground but won't be able to defend a client who he doesn't have the same views as. It's clear the career isn't for him and the narrative pushes it as though he is a good lawyer when he just isn't. This could be good but its writing is too distracting to focus on where it can be good.
I'm sorry, but I think you are misunderstanding a lot of aspects of this manhwa. I do agree the manhwa sometimes may feel a bit rushed, that's because it obviously cannot show everything the novel has. Even so, your review seems a bit one dimensional. The MC isn't incompetent as a lawyer, simply his priorities are not commercial/business law, whereas the ML specializes in business law and mergers.
The ML has questionable means to collect data, which the MC hates at first, but later tries to 'think' like the ML in order to stay in the farm, because he has to. Otherwise he will be in danger because of his brother-in-law. And even though at first, that's what ML wanted, later he really wants the MC to retain his idealistic view of the world and law, because that's just who the MC is, and that's who the ML loves.
I know everything comes down to personal preference, and I don't usually write such comments, it's just I really liked the novel. It was so well written , plot driven and a true novel. Not some smutty bl drama. So that's what I think. I hope you can read the novel in future and come to like it as well!
I agree with what OP above has said and what I'll personally recommend is to read the novel! The manhwa doesn't always translate well, in the novel things are more detailed and has more narration. Yoonshin does change or adapt his strats in regards to being a lawyer even if he doesn't agree to it. In the future, even Seheon notices this and says that he wants him to maintain that idealistic view coz he balances/grounds him
First off the debate over her body proportions is long dry. Her body proportions are bad, but I believe that distracts some if us from the fact her character is worse than her proportions. Honestly, this could've ended after 20 chapters. Every chapter feels like filler for a climax but the only climax is during smut scenes. There's no build-up or plot, and no character development. It's clear the author wants to have smut here and there with plot but that only works if you're actually moving the story along. The smut is good if you want to draw smut of weirdly proportion women and hot guys do that but there's only so much smut you can put before it gets boring. The fl and ml are bland and redundant the only saving grace is the ml’s pretty face.
bruh I’m just waiting for the revenge part, the romance is good and idc about smut I just want her ex to see them and for a fight to happen
This!! People hyped this manhwa all over my FYPs so I went ahead and finally gave it a read and I still don't undestand why it's as popular as it is. The plot.. is so weak. Even worse, it feels like the author tried to fix it by making the ML apart of some twisted rich family which lowkey, didn't save it for me. It feels as if I'm reading a wattpad mafia story from 2018 where the writer is using every cliche of that era. It tries too hard to be pwp but honestly.. it would've been better if it was just one or the other. I'm only sticking around for the revenge of the ex, I wont sleep easy until I know he's been tossed and thrown like the garbage he is. Then again, he's the only interesting thing about this story.
Which one be proportion again, nah real life. If you don't like it then keep it to yourself
If they didn't spend so much time fucking, the story would've ended 80 chapters earlier. Deadass, they screw so much, I got bored by season 2. STOP FUCKING. I get it's to move the relationship; at first, it was plot-relevant, but now it's just too much. I believe the dick for brains got to the characters and the author. They might've lost sight of what was going on and realised by 90 they needed to get shit moving. Unfortunately, what was set up for the ending, foreshadowing, and plot points was lwk abandoned because they spent too much time drawing dick up the ass. It was too late, however, because I got bored.
There were new characters introduced, but the way it could've gone that made sense just didn't happen. I was left confused and honestly wondering how they reached that conclusion. Suddenly, Si-eon, a criminal, doesn't work with the cops, does because Je-oh said so??? The new nice character sees all the good in people, and just so happens to be the love interest for the sick fuck that is Si-eon. Get that “teach me how to love” bullshit out of here. I could see how both characters could be useful to the story, but by the end, or the point I got up to, they were just useless. They literally did nothing and served 0 purpose to the story. Tbh, no one did during the last season.
My main problem is that the story lost sight of what it was supposed to be doing. In the beginning, I was into it and wanted to see where it would go. It left motives vague, possibly so the author could use them as they pleased. That's fine, but contradicting crucial things and reconning them the next season like I didn't just read it, is what pisses me off.
The most disappointing character by far is Hee-seong, it's obvious her plan would've worked out if she wasn't a woman in a man's story. Everyone is enticed by Je-oh and does what he says, yet he's naive, temperamental, and impulsive but his plan works out fine. There are no true stakes and I don't feel like the characters are in any true danger because the story gives Hee seong 0 agency. She has all this power but can't just get Je-oh killed like she wants. I get that she just orders people around rather than doing it herself, the story tries to tell us it's bad, but IT'S SMART???? What she does makes sense. It makes us believe that she doesn't truly care for Seong-rok and only uses him to escape only to reveal later that she does love and want to create a life with him. So everything that led to Seong-rok’s doubt was unwarranted. It just makes me feel bad for her and that the plot is making her seem reckless and stupid when it's just not true. She's smart as hell and deserves better.
I did not hate this, obviously if I got this far. I just think it starts off really good and interesting but by the last season nothing makes sense and the characters that once had a genuine threat to them suddenly don't. If Hee-Sung were written differently or hell if she and Je-Oh weren't so similar in motive and personality, I would feel different. Unfortunately, they are two sides of the same coin, one just got lucky enough to be a man.
To give you answers on what I've understood of the story is- Si-eon was never a bad person. Everyone around him fell to their knees and said they loved him whenever he showered his money on them. Ji-Oh was the only one who didn't. And that made him feel like he could finally find a person who could love him regardless of the fact if he had money or not. Like he said, "Wildflower in the greenhouse." But he saw Han-gyeol then, the new nice character who seemed to like him and so he took him as the 'substitute' of Ji-oh. But guess what? Han-gyeol didn't grovel in front of him either when Si-eon was willing to give him money. The only person who believed in Si-eon was Han-gyeol. Ji-Oh told Si-eon that, "You treated him as my substitute yet he was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. He believed you were a good person". All Si-eon wanted was to be truly loved- it was obvious ever since his entry in the story. Especially his backstory. And sometimes people understand their feelings when others spell it out for them and just what happened with Si-eon.
And now about why everyone seemed to listen to Ji-oh. His character is one hell of a smart one. Ever since the beginning he had proved himself that he was smart. Worked with Seong-rok, totalled Seong-rok's car to get rid of the evidence. Found evidence against everyone because of the work he did, met all sorts of people. Hee-seong was the problem since the beginning. She used Ji-oh to get some sort of freedom back in her days of being a prostitute. She gave Ji-oh the knife, yeah, she didn't expect him to actually do it but she had hoped for it. Her intention behind giving Ji-oh the knife was so he would end up taking all the attention away and she would play the 'nice' part. She even admitted to it in the story. And that's when we get to know that her character is actually an evil one. And the fact that she really loved Seong- rok? That's where the problem comes. She believes she loves Seong-rok in her own twisted definition of love. All she wanted was to be free and grow a family with him. But where was she when he was taken into custody? Where was she when he was rotting in his cold house calling her day and night? She was with Ji-ho, the chief of police. That's where she was. Exactly why Seong-rok started having doubts. If her entire plan was that, she could have told Seong-rok about it. But she didn't. She didnt tell Seong-rok that she was planning on marrying Ji-ho, she kept him in the dark and that's where his faith in her completely faded. Before, he had his doubts, since he had back-up since the beginning. Seong-rok didn't like when people didn't keep their promise and that's what Hee-seong did, the only one who kept his promise when it came to Seong-rok was Ji-oh. She never loved Seong-rok, she just liked that Seong-rok was an innocent guy with no one to turn to and she could exploit him. And the reason why she dreamt of having a family with him was precisely because she knew how much he had loved her and not the other way around. And the reason why she can't get Ji-oh killed is because he's always a step ahead of her. When he knew she was going to kill him? He got a position of chief in the new area where he meets Han-gyeol. Gets a duplicate phone. It was all him. His idea. He was the brain of this entire revenge plan. Meanwhile, all Hee-seong did was order around without getting her hands dirty. Anyway, and eventually I did feel bad for her. She too had been a prostitute how was she any different from Ji-oh? Well, that too gets answered when Ji-oh sees Han-gyeol in a similar situation as him, he smashes the glass bottle on the head of the man trying to assault Han-gyeol. And what does Hee-seong does? Gives Ji-oh a knife in hopes he would stab one of the person and take most of clients so she could be free.
And had her entire plan on getting revenge only been limited to the people who actually exploited her, maybe things would have been different. But her obsession with Seong-rok was so bad she was willing to get Ji-oh killed just because Seong-rok and Ji-oh fell in love. She didn't even love Seong-rok, she just hated that a 21-year-old managed to take her puppet away from her.
I agree, the last season was lowkey ass compared to the earlier ones and both jeoh and heeseung were nerfed tbh.
Jeoh randomly pushing seungrok away cause he's sCarEd tO bE lOveD erased that single-minded manic obsession that made him so interesting and was the key to winning over seungrok and stealing him away from heeseung. I expect that from generic MC from any mid BL, not je oh who was crawling all over someone he witnessed kill a guy in cold blood lmao.
And youre so right about the nice guy foreign nepo baby who pours money into literal brothels and tried to rape jeoh is shocked by how poorly prostitutes are treated? And all he needed to become a stand up citizen who snitches to the cops was a speech from his boy lover about true love? They were playing in our faces with that one smh. And don't even get me started on the cop guy's brother who got evidence on heeseung by hiding outside their place and recording through their open window LMFAO
And unless I missed something, heeseung whole plot line didn't even make sense, no serious politician in korea is going to knowingly wife a prostitute, they didn't really expect that to stay buried for long did they? Even without jeoh and seungrok gunning for her, any political adversary would sound the alarm and ruin his reputation before his campaign was even over. Would've made more sense to be sleeping with him and feeding him information to destroy the red light district and secretly having his baby to control him behind the scenes while he married a "regular" woman with a clean background.
Idk what else to say, I walked away from this manhwa feeling like my girlies were done wrong, both hee seung and je oh deserved a more worthy final battle of wits than what we got.