basically once season 2 started everything gets rushed and the couple becomes so cringy LOL also i was mad disappointed in the “sisters” ending i thought they lw give her a happy ending in a way but i was not expecting her to actually be dead
how is this man said to be a green flag forest LOLOLOL i think yall for real do not know what the color difference between red and green is. BTW NO HATE but come on yall use to these terrible extremely fuvked up bl/yaoi that yall think this is good when is totally morally wrong to fuck someone lie to them while being their complete stalker and manipulating them into a “relationship” with you while keeping all these secrets, like okay i understand his intentions are somewhat good but it’s still so so wrong and my last straw is chapter 26 when the ml literally assaulted mc in his sleep.. i am dropping goodbye
The bl standards have stooped so low, that readers have started to think that if ml doesn't hit or rpe mc then he is green flag lol
They don't even know what green flag even looks like
so cute u could’ve read their story till adulthood but they ended it well for a short story
i dont see anyone commenting on not the age gap specifically but that as a child they look deadass 9/10 but they’re suppose to be about 15 when they fall in love with jung and hyun and more questioahbly joon made move for years and prior and there a questionable scene where hyun asks he age and he says dont worry about it hinting that basically my interpretation is that it was when yoon wasn’t EVEN 18 yet and i find it weird BUT what made me drop this show is like TWICE between sua and jung i believe they both said once each that sua was not a adult yet like …………. can we take that in because its so weird their both adults but its clearly showing us that even the characters themselves do not see themselves as two adults having romantic relations plus sua is clearly portrayed very childlike. ANYWAYs im disappointed and will be dropping
this was a cute story and i loved the twist on the typical stereotypes for this genre BUT gosh i wish it was such a light read i craved more into the depth of the emotional turbulence of being forced to be a gender you weren’t born as but not your choice but a parents i wanted to see both leads show emotions and their thoughts on how they feel inside and how they would choose to identify or to simply not label themselves but show the raw emotions of what it feels like being in their positions especially crystal we got that very very brief i wanted to be called crystal and to me i wasn’t sure if that meant she’s liked to be address as she/her or is that’s just the name she was given so it feels right to her i wish it went into details on how they felt inside to get to that point of being what they are comfortable with themselves. same with illian they had a lot of resentment for their father making them swap genders and be put through so much. we got moments of where illian only addressed themselves as a woman in certain moment to their benefit but being address in he/him pronouns plus them having to his their identities to outside world had they keep up appearances anyways maybe im just reading to in depth and not just taking the subtle ways it was put in but i feel like it need more clarification personally bc it’s all sunshine and rainbows and we didn’t get to see a lot of the emotional side of their gender identification my interpretation is that they are both gender neutral
not a hater at all! i love that you're looking at this more critically. imo this is one of the more "progressive" historical romance stories in that it challenges gender & its stereotypes, but because it falls under shoujo, i think this is all we're gonna get. any more expounding would bring the story to josei, with a different appeal and audience (i.e. for a shoujo this is good, but if placed beside josei as is, this would be mid af LOL)
that said, i do agree and wish there would have been more depth on their own reflections & experiences! navigating one's gender at an era where being cisgender in a patriarchal society IS the norm, and choosing to live as opposite of your own, would be really difficult and pose a lottt of internal-external conflicts—that i wish were explained! i agree it would have been really more compelling to read all the unspoken details. their happy ending—while a good thing—feels kinda superficial, like a "here u go" ending than one that felt more ... deserved & satisfactory (after having overcome challenges etc.) since they glossed over the more serious parts of gender identity & expression.
overall i liked the story also, and didn't think much of it until i saw your comment! it fr got me thinking. like you, i should engage with the media i consume more
yes ur right i definitely didnt think about the target audience when overall analyzing the story and thats very true and now im
ike okay duh haha makes sense to get not as deep into those heavy topics but the ending was definitely rushed and so so boring i do absolutely love the not common characters being the leads as it’s a great way to positively spread almost like awareness to this genre audience also thank you, i just had such excitement to read this story because it wasn’t cisgendered and i tend to over analysis and love really dark angst but happy ending and those are always the best reads to me i like be submerged into the story and feel the emotions of the characters
i finished reading it.
And 100% completly agree with you, I know they tried to make it light hearted and fluffy. But I want more in-depth. More emotions. More angst.
I did like the fact that even after knowing each other gender they did not suddenly started wearing clothes which are usually associated with there gender.
So I feel like both character have some sort of association as LGBTQ+ community.
And as a asexual that makes me happy.
I also feel like that both character have some sort of Androgyny in them as well.
Once again I loved the manhwa the only thing which they could have done to make it better was add more 20-30 chapter and show us what they really feel inside on more deeper level
i think i jsut crave more mature reads now and thats okay it’s just my preference i wish there was more great quality josei historical manhwas and this is not that and it’s okay it’s a good read and very unique
I feel you! There is a story that tackles the angst of being forced into a different role. It‘s called Osora on webtoon :) You might like it!
just bawled so hard i’m now feeling lost, it was a beautiful but a very sad ending that was worse than i assumed
the ending was very anticlimactic when she came back to her world and then made her comeback i felt like the will you marry me question and it ending i was left standing like oh that’s it? idk wasn’t bad but it didn’t have me emotional at all bc the quick wrap up
omg my gosh this was so beautiful i was nervous the story would feel cut too short since i was less than 80 chs but it ended perfectly although i could eat up some side stories this is one of the best reads i’ve had in a long time
the message of losing a child was portrayed very beautifully. i can definitely see where this story could have gone in depth with other aspects n it would have been even better but this was pretty good
ugh i wish they had their own story omg i was hoping there were going to give us more than they did but i devoured every scene of them lol