notyourfriend's Manga

great bl fix in less than 10 chapters. sweet!

(s1c41) oh… that’s not good,,
(s2c9) oh my god… he’s got to feel bad for him…
(s2c21) i get that there are no more genuine feelings of affection from seung-eon to ji-wook. but he himself must not know what he wants. i think when he was thrown aside by ji-wook, seung-eon had wanted to believe ji-wook was doing well without him so he had a reason to hate the betrayer of his feelings. fueled by this mixture of hate and vengeance, seung-eon met him again in rough ways. but ji-wook wasn’t doing well. seung-eon still cared, but not in the same pure way as when they were young. right now this feeling manifests in the form of lust, because there’s no room in his heart right now to revoke those memories. what’s left is carnal desire that the body remembers instinctively. seung-eon subconsciously still yearns for those days and wishes ji-wook would be the same. when ji-wook suggests payment for sex, then seung-eon feels his heart is betrayed once more - the past memories he so desperately wanted to return to is dragged further away. and how could it feel, to see the person you like whoring himself for money? to see him lose all respect for himself? // from ji-wook’s pov, it’s clear that he’s just so tired of everything. his poverty and debt and misfortune weighed him down all his life. there’s even less room for lust, much less love. he said himself that he’d rather be pitied. i’m surprised he hasn’t made any suicide attempts yet, as grim as it sounds. the factory harassment, his re-encounter with seung-eon. it does look like, to him, that seung-eon is only as entitled as ever, and never trying to understand what he’s been through. his mental state, his heart… reading that was painful.
(s2c22) i was right. watch them air out that dirty laundry.
(s2c29) ji-wook is now feeling guilty. after harbouring so much hate, he’s able to let it go now. and he’s thinking, what can i do for him? i’ve abandoned him twice, and he still likes me. i’ll get treatment so i can be better around him. i’ll let him do what he wants because i don’t have anything else to give him. and the fact that ji-wook believes that he will have to leave seung-eon eventually is so sad. he’s thinking that he will at least be leaving with a smile on his face. // wow, the author is doing a great job. after the rosy day, ji-wook is overwhelmed with depression again. the portrayal is great.

(s2c30) now seung-eon is blaming himself for the pain and misfortune ji-wook experienced.

26.02.24 - dropping after season 2, i don’t wanna go on with this argh

25.02.24 - i’ve never read a dom-sub verse manga before. it’s usually omegaverse. also kinda cool i guess? i thought the way they feel for each other was kind of brushed over though. how did they even start to like each other? ok but i did finish this in one sitting and the angst has gotten to me. it was an ok read.

interesting!! ch.22, their first kiss after switching back uwu it’s a beautiful kissing scene uwu;; and ch.40 hiii

CH.27 and 28, the confession.

Jinyoung’s aloof and unfazed personality is awesome. The fact that he can be so self-aware and mentally strong and even dealing with his feelings in such a way… I would want to meet someone like that as well.

Like Bomi, I could be shaken up with a variety of new emotions caused by a new ripple in life. That could be a person or an experience.

Choosing to end my read here, because I want to end on a high. And this was plenty cute enough.

죽겨 해야지~

it’s CRAZY. i like it.