THE MASSAGE WHILE HE WAS WORKING AND THE OVERALL DOMESTICITY IN THIS CHAPTER AAAAAA
seojoon and joo-an i'm gonna miss you my babies T—T come back sooner please
i actually liked the 3 revised lines bc it's how i personally see them talking
fun fact the artist actually fought for this we literally wouldn't have gotten them being intimate in the main story if they hadn't insisted on it like IMAGINE heck i would've been devastated
RESEARCH MY ASS the last panel says otherwise shin jooeon
last time i was this emotional over a scene was in reunion T—T pure first time intimacy / love-making after surviving a slowburn always gets me yk
THEM FINALLY GETTING RID OF THE 10 SECONDS RULE HIRANO INITIATING THE BACK HUG "OH MY GOD MY HEART FEELS SO WARM" BEST CHAPTER EVER FUCK
i love both couples so much i don't really mind mirye and kyungbin appearing more often because i adore them just as much as yugun and ian. they're literally my sons
i love this so much. beom-jin and yoon-jae are absolutely adorable and i love how the story actually revolved around the plot without unnecessary angst or forced conflict in their relationship.
but oh my god, yeom-ra and yeom-oh. their backstory had me so so invested. i love how complex their relationship was. yeom-ra’s feelings toward yeom-oh felt like obsession while yeom-oh’s felt more like pity, but tbh i think their dynamic could also be read as romantic (even though i know it’s actually not since i’ve read the author’s note) and it works so well through that lens too especially with all the tension in the earlier chapters for both the present and flashbacks.
and the way their story concluded actually broke my heart like yes, yeom-oh finally found the courage to do the one thing he’d been hesitating to do since the very beginning. the thing he should’ve done before yeom-ra reached that point, and the only way to stop him in the present.
yeom-ra though… fuck, i know he’s the villain and all but i genuinely empathized with him because he’s such a complex character. he was just so lonely :*) but at the same time, the consequences of his actions were far too grave so i understand why his fate had to end the way it did. still hurts though because part of me was hoping he’d actually be redeemable.
anyway, i know i talked about the side characters way too much but i swear i love the main couple too. they’re still my absolute favorites. i just got carried away because it’s been such a long time since i’ve read a complex relationship (even if not romantic) that was written and handled this well.
all in all this instantly climbed its way into one of my favorite manhwas.
the way the rape here wasn't even properly addressed or handled i hate that bitch daewoo and i heard the side story's about him and joon so i'm not even gonna bother touching that because i don't like their pairing. i would've if it was with the ceo rather than that rapist but it's not so. anyway i only care about the main couple's pairing here to be honest. rare moments where i dislike a second couple this much
context for the signature because joo-an is actually so crazy for that, placements aside (because i know they’re questionable places lol). it’s the “de” in de J that gets me. i’m gonna add the context i had from where i was reading this chapter back then:
On the cuff and inside the fly of Seojoon’s pants, “de J” is written. In French, the preposition “de” denotes ownership (i.e. whose?), implying that Seojoon belongs entirely to Joo-an. (i google translated this explanation from russian to english so might not be that accurate but oh well)
AND HE DECIDED TO DO ALL THIS WHILE BEING COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS I CANT LMFAO also in the raws after calling himself out for the signature placement, he calls himself 지독한 놈, which basically means “vile guy” / “vicious bastard” i guess from what i’ve seen. the english translation left it out but anyway i don’t disagree with him on that because WHO does that to someone they supposedly only see as a friend
there’s so many typos thank god the plot and characters are interesting though so i kinda just let it slide
OH FUCK OFF THAT WAS SO DISGUSTING WHAT THW FUXK IM SO MAD WHAT IS THIS SHIT WHAT WENT WRONG HUH