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Won't rate since it's literally just porn. Good porn though, good enough to jerk off too lmao was kinda crazy. Dude got pissed in and everything. I will say the scenes felt kinda quick? So much happened back to back but the scenes themselves didn't last long

Always love a good ghost story.

This story is pretty straightforward; Jiwoo is haunted by a ghost. Everything about the ghost is an enigma to him—he doesn't know why he's being haunted, what (if anything) connects him to the ghost, or even as much as the ghost's name. All he knows is that for some reason, the ghost just . . . Really wants to fuck him. Bad.

I fucking love that. It's such a simple concept but it kind of hits in all the ways you want it to; I'm a sucker for supernatural stories so that off the bat has it going for it, it has a good draw with the mystery of why this ghost is so attached to him, it can be kind of tense in the earlier chapters considering the whole haunting element, and it's also quite sexy. This is a very handsy, up-front, and quite shameless ghost.

The execution of the story is something I'm quite fifty-fifty on, though. I didn't dislike it, in fact I liked it quite a lot, but . . . It just feels a bit lacking in certain elements. Sadly, the mystery is something I thought to be a little weak, at least in the way it developed.

The initial pull the story makes is great; Jiwoo has no idea why this ghost is so attached to him and so you're left to wonder just what exactly is the ghost's deal. Did Jiwoo do something careless, so careless that he can't even remember it, that led to his death? Is Jiwoo a man who somehow made such a strong lasting impression on this man that it's made him unable to move on? We know something's happened between them, but we, and Jiwoo, don't know what.

. . . And then in chapter six it's revealed Jiwoo has amnesia . . . And that's just kind of insane to me?

Personally, if I had amnesia and a ghost suddenly appeared to me, making it known that he has some mysterious ties to me, I'd instantly connect that to the fact that I can't remember half my fucking life. Even if he doesn't make the connection that this dead man is directly tied to his amnesia, he should at least go, "Oh, this is probably the ghost of someone I used to know before my memory went to shit." But he doesn't. He's just dumbfounded the whole time. And like . . . That's stupid, right?

What I don't get is that being upfront about the fact that Jiwoo has amnesia wouldn't ruin the mystery at all. Him having amnesia still lends to the mystery since he still wouldn't be able to actually remember for himself who the ghost is. So writing it like that, it sounds like a nonissue, since it doesn't affect the mystery too drastically. But dropping that in the middle of the story completely recontextualizes it in a negative way, especially since I don't think Jiwoo having amnesia was meant to be a plot twist. You go from "What could Jiwoo's ties to this ghost be considering he can't even remember him?" to "What were they to each other?" And with that, you can then instantly assume what they were.

They were dating. The ghost ends up being his classmate, Hyeon Joo Eon, that he was dating.

One thing this story has going against it is the chapter count. There are only ten chapters, and they don't feel very long. Most of the story is obviously about the haunting, and because of that, the backstory between Jiwoo and Hyeon is . . . Well, just backstory. It's brief. You don't spend much time on it, and I think that's quite a shame because I actually really liked it. They were cute. It has this Shakespearean tragedy to it since Hyeon died during their first date. It was over before it began, young love cut short.

Another thing that's probably hindered by the short chapter count is the progress of Hyeon's character. As a ghost, he ends up pulling away from Jiwoo randomly near the end of the story. And when I say randomly, I mean randomly. I can't remember there actually being a given reason, which is a shame because that trope—of the ghost leaving once the other personally finally starts enjoying having them around—is something I'm a sucker for. Again, Shakespearean tragedy.

This feels quite negative despite the fact that I enjoyed it, so let me finish with some quick things I liked:

The ghost. Just . . . As a whole. I loved him. This is kind of unfair since it kinda comes with the territory, but you could really feel the deep-rooted desire within Hyeon for Jiwoo. It was burning, it was desperate. I loved it.

Jiwoo is . . . Maybe not necessarily smart, but he is quite resourceful. He doesn't just sit there and take the ghost's advances, he actually looks for—and finds—something that physically wards the ghost off of him. Which leads to another thing I really liked.

When Jiwoo wards the ghost off of his body, Hyeon . . . Just starts getting really fucking petty. Throws a little hissyfit. He can't touch Jiwoo, but he is still able to be around him, so he follows Jiwoo to work. When he's at work, the ghost starts doing typical haunting shit; locks doors, makes noises, and throws shit off the counter. It's silly and it's petty and for me, it just endeared me so fucking much to him. The ghost is kind of a shell of who he once was, so this was really nice, really subtle characterization that I liked quite a bit.

The instructor accidentally slams into Jung Jiho chest-first and that man wastes no time in just instantly motorboating that shit. If that's not real IDK what is.

However, at only four chapters, this is a story with a lot of potential but not much meat. I loved it for what it was, but what it was wasn't much. The dynamic was great, the set-up was quite unique, and the art style was another highlight for me . . . But that praise is judged off of such a tiny amount of content that it almost feels silly.

I'm not going to judge this story too harshly or treat it too seriously, since short stories like this typically only exist for the smut, but it's just very disappointing to me since the first two chapters were just so promising.

The story begins with Jung Jiho moving into a shitty new apartment complex and having "The Instructor" bump into him. Instantly Jiho is smitten with him, finding him incredibly attractive and alluring, so he keeps trying to flirt and make moves on him. However, this partially goes over the neighbor's head—he thinks Jiho is just a regular pervert and he has no idea why he's being targeted. So, he ends up going to a fortune teller to try and see what's going on . . . Why he goes to a fortune teller instead of the police, I don't know. But it's unique and I personally find this story beat quite fun so I'm not complaining.

Instantly the fortune teller is able to clock the situation and is basically like, "He's trying to lay pipe and you're so much of a pushover that you're just going to let him, so keep your distance." Anyways, obviously the distance is not kept, though that's not to say there wasn't an attempt made. There was. They just have a silly habit of running into each other and being at the right place at the wrong time. Because what ends up happening is that they're both on a street, and the instructor almost gets run over by a motorbike, but Jiho is there and pulls him out of the way in time.

In the rush of the moment, Jiho asks the instructor out and he just blurts out "Yes." So they end up going to a drive-in theatre.

Except the movie ends up being porn.

So they fuck.

Then the instructor gets sick after, so Jiho ends up visiting to look after him. Very quickly falls into a very domestic routine. It's cute.

And then they fuck again.

And now Jiho is sick.

And that's how the story ends.

As I mentioned, I found the dynamic between the two men to be really cute. It's the obvious and intended highlight of the story and it really shines through the whole thing even during the more explicit moments. It's an opposites attract type of dynamic—Jiho is quite perverted, he's very straightforward and blunt, and he's quite punk, for lack of a better word. He has a messy rocker mullet that'd look hideous in real life but looks amazing on him. And his personality is in contrast to the instructor, who is very proper for lack of a better word; the easiest way to describe the type of character he is is that for their first date, which ended up being at a drive-in theatre, he wore a whole suit. Man slicked his hair back and put on his best tie. He treated it so . . . Seriously, in such a cute way. He's also incredibly easy to fluster, so paired with Jiho's very shameless ways, their whole dynamic was just great.

If you're reading this though, you'd have to have noticed I've only ever called that one character "the instructor" . . . That's because he wasn't given a fucking name. And that kind of perfectly encapsulates my issues with the length, it's so short it can't even give a name to one of the two characters it focuses on. That's kinda crazy.

I don't regret reading this tho. It's really cute, and the sex scenes are pretty hot. It's just a story that would've been better if told through a longer period of chapters, even just like three more.

This is a story that leaves me feeling quite conflicted. While I did enjoy the story for what it ended up being, the initial dynamic established gives an impression of something almost entirely different, to the point I could easily see it being a point of contention for other readers. It brings a sense of tonal inconsistency to this story that I thought was hard to ignore.

Stressed by the possibility of a stalker, Tatsuki goes to a bar with the intention of hopefully unwinding a bit. Upon a chance encounter with Miyako, a classmate who's rumored to be poor and whoring himself for money, Tatsuki remembers something a friend had told him—sleeping with a man gives a power trip like no other—and decides to drag Miyako into the bathroom for a quickie.

Only it turns out Miyako isn't as meek and submissive as Tatsuki thought. He ends up blackmailing Tatsuki and from there, a hectic, morally questionable relationship begins.

As you could probably tell from the premise, it turns out Miyako is the stalker Tatsuki had. The story isn't super explicit about it until the very end but it's essentially an open secret between the story and the reader. And that's not just why I called the relationship "morally questionable." When the switch in dynamic happens and Miyako reveals he's actually quite a dominant, sadistic man, the relationship between him & Tasuki is then built on incredibly blurred lines when it comes to sexual consent. I personally wouldn't call it rape, but I'm not shocked that seemingly most people do.

It also turns out Miyako orchestrated everything to make it so that he and Tatsuki cross paths. He spread rumors of himself being a poor whore, it's implied he influenced Tatsuki's friend to say the comment about "guys being a power trip," and he manufactured all ties so that when Tatsuki inevitably goes looking into his information, he's fed the information Miyako wants him to know.

I'm mentioning that upfront because it's the biggest issue I have, and coming off of the story, it's the thought at the front of my mind. The first few chapters have an unhealthy, toxic dynamic, but once Tatsuki realizes Miyako is probably doing all this just because he has a crush on him, it suddenly feels like it's being handled in a different manner. The story ends very cute, let's just put it like that, and I personally didn't like it.

The thing that makes that all an issue for me is that Miyako's actions just . . . Don't really make sense.

Everything started years before the story takes place, when Miyako has a chance encounter with Tatsuki and instantly becomes enamored by Tatsuki's arrogance and cockiness. I guess he just likes a confident man, which I get. Because of his crush, that leads to events that take place during the story—he stalks Tatsuki, gaslights him, rapes him, and ends up making sure they're coworkers.

That last part . . . Them being coworkers . . . That puts a pin in everything. If he made it so that they'd be coworkers . . . Why bother with everything that he did? He gets what he wanted. They're coworkers. Their paths are gonna cross. It would've been incredibly easy to start some type of relationship from that connection, it just ends up making all of his efforts seem silly and quite pointless.

Lastly, for the critiques, I thought Miyako's actions when compared to his reasoning was a bit uneven. I love a classic case of a yandere, someone who's super intense to an almost scary degree purely because they're in love . . . But Miyako wasn't even really aware of his feelings. Which, while understandable, it does leave me feeling a little like his actions aren't really proportionate to how he feels.

However, with everything I've said, that's not to say I didn't like the story. I did! It's just that my lasting impression isn't the greatest. It left me kind of unsatisfied, but not enough to where I regret reading this story or wouldn't recommend it. I thought Miyako was a fun character to read, and the dynamic between the two main characters was quite great. I love exchanges and struggles of power, which is obviously present with these men

I saw an ad for this all the fucking time on Twitter, it was borderline inescapable, so I finally gave in and read it—and I'm so thankful I didn't just brush past that ad like I've done so many others.

This story begins with Kaoru, a high schooler who gets his thrills through fights, falling in love at first sight with the new student, Shun, having witnessed his fighting capabilities and instantly becoming enamored by it. By his own words, it was more than just love or admiration, but more like worship, as though Shun was a God. He had never seen a fight that brutal, a man that strong; it drew Kaoru in like a wave that had washed over him and brought him back into the sea. It was instant and intense.

Having fallen for him instantly, he also decides to confess instantly. At first, Shun turns him down, but after they end up kissing—which was Kaoru's first kiss—Shun walks back on what he said and ends up accepting Kaoru's proposal. The story then follows their relationship; at its core, it's a story of a new relationship between two young boys who jumped headfirst into something they hadn't properly prepared for. Which sounds angsty, yet in subversion of that, I found this story to actually be both really cute and quite sexy.

I thought this story was a breath of fresh air for the topics it loosely tackles. Shun is the first man Kaoru has had a crush on, he had never thought about men in any type of romantic or sexual context before meeting Shun and in the story, Kaoru acknowledges that, accepts it, and just moves on. It's not made into a whole "thing," there's no contrived angst about him having to come to terms with the fact that he's gay, there's no conflict amongst his friends. He accepts it as soon as he realizes it and I'm thankful for that; stories like that have their place but I do think quite a lot of authors make this an internal issue for these characters when it simply doesn't need to be. It's refreshing to see a man realize he's gay and not really question or agonize over it.

Kaoru and Shun are fucking great characters. I loved them. What I loved the most about them is probably that they both have this intensity to them, an intensity that shows itself in different ways between the two, yet connects them so perfectly.

In a way to explain it, Kaoru is a very bright character; he's loud, a man who isn't afraid to make noise and finds an almost puppy-like glee in fights. He's also someone who wears his emotions on his sleeve unapologetically and follows with his heart rather than his brain. He's a meathead. Shun on the other hand is a more dim character; he isn't very expressive, and he seems like the type of man who's quiet and calculating. It's a recurring joke that he knows things he's never been told. He's the type of man who takes what he wants when he wants it with a cold stare, yet he comes alive in a fight. Emotions seem almost foreign to him, I get the impression that his relationship and the feelings he has towards Kaoru are all new. Nothing shows the difference between them better than their eyes; Kaoru's eyes are so bright they sparkle, while Shun's are so dark they're an abyss.

As mentioned before, this story is mostly about Kaoru and Shun navigating their relationship, especially in the context of them diving head first into it despite really still being strangers to each other. That specific aspect mainly comes in during the last two to three chapters (out of five), with Kaoru realizing that he doesn't really know much about Shun. Shun seems to know so much about him and yet Kaoru doesn't know as much as what he likes and dislikes. It ignites feelings of jealousy and insecurity, which is only exasperated upon overhearing Shun talk about how he's not the relationship type. I have mixed feelings on that aspect of the plot, which I'll talk about in a minute, but the first few chapters were great. It's just the typical exploration that comes with a relationship—PDA, first times, etc. There are a few times when Kaoru is just so obnoxiously happy over Shun, it's tooth-rottingly sweet and I loved it.

. . . However, with what I mentioned before. I'm very torn. My biggest issue is that Kaoru has very valid insecurities, yet it's talked about and addressed in the middle of sex. I just hate that trope. I get it makes the sex scenes important and it's not OOC or anything, but I just don't like it conceptually regardless of the context. It's sex. It's porn. I wish Kaoru's insecurities were talked about more head-on either in an entirely different scene or after they fucked.

However, that did lead to the quote, "I want to see more. So pathetically cute . . . He should only let that little head of his be filled with thoughts and concerns about me." Which FUCKS. So it's not all bad.

Another thing, and this is purely just my personal opinion, is that I wish Shun had more focus. Just a little bit. For example, Shun knows so much about Kaoru despite never being told, and that's eventually something that flames Kaoru's insecurities. I wish we saw more with Shun & that aspect of his character considering it ends up actually affecting the plot. It implies he's an obsessive character yet we only get tiny glimpses of his obsessive personality and that's a huge shame imo. He's kind of creepy and I fucking love creepy men, so if there was more of a focus on that, this would've so easily been like a 10 / 10

"Maybe I've endured everything so far just to cross paths with this person..."

While the prose was beautifully written, with the story having so many sentences that jumped out at me as something you could easily imagine posted onto a pretty photo or grunge picture and posted on Tumblr, the way those sentences came together to form a story was just incredibly poor.

Having been framed for the rape and murder of a six-year-old child, Ichiro Akitaka has lost everything. No longer a priest and having to constantly go from job to job due to his supposed past routinely coming around to the ears of his coworkers, Ichiro can only imagine one thing to do: kill himself. He happens to drunkenly find a beach, and decides there and then would finally be the time he hangs himself. With the noose around his neck, constricting around his throat, he thinks this is the end—except someone ends up saving him just in time, a priest by the name of Kyosuke Kiba.

Instantly, Ichiro grows attached to Kyosuke. He doesn't know him for long and yet feels this overwhelming warmth from him; Kyosuke is what offers him salvation, he is the one person in the world who still sees him for the person he is, not the monster he's painted as.

However, it turns out Kyosuke isn't a stranger.

Kyosuke is the man who framed him.

I personally find that to be an incredibly strong premise, and when put on paper, the entire story sounds like something that could've been incredibly strong. It had so much potential to be a great slow burn psychological story but it ultimately just couldn't live up to said potential because the biggest flaw this story had was its pacing, which is in part due to its short chapter count of only six and is present almost immediately.

After Kyosuke takes him in, Ichiro trusts him basically straight off of their first interaction, and talks about him as if they have a deep connection. Kyosuke being what saves him from falling into the deepest end is something that has an almost poetic element to it I like, the story does that incredibly well—it has this ability to phrase things in a way that feels like beautiful, poetic musings . . . But after only one chapter Ichiro is saying things like "Maybe, just maybe, my life's winding path has been just to encounter this person." It's very romanticized language, which I love; in a vacuum, that quote is great . . . But that is about a man he's known for, like, two days. We haven't seen any development there for quotes like that and the supposed connection they have to feel all that authentic.

I'm also quite conflicted on my stance towards the way Ichiro gets attached to Kyosuke. On one hand, I totally understand how after being hated all the time and having to exist in constant fear of this allegation being revealed to new people he meets, he'd obviously find solace in a man like Kyosuke who says he hears him and believes him when he says he's innocent . . . But, he still lived an incredibly rough life for a while there. To constantly be barraged with people calling you a pedophile, to be stripped of your job, serve time, constantly have to move—that would jade you. Ichiro should be a jaded man. And yet he's not. I get he's desperate for the comfort of a safe space but I found his acceptance of it too quick, he didn't have any walls that needed to be torn down when realistically I feel like he would have.

Kyosuke as a character also just fucking sucks. Like to be blunt, he's fucking ass. He murdered *and then* raped a six-year-old. The story did try to redeem him, which I'm actually not against, but . . . Its tries were very low effort. It felt more focused on explaining his past, which while appreciated and shows a clear reason as to why he acted the way he had, there's a difference between focusing on his past and focusing on his character. Like, congrats I guess, we learn the child rapist got raped as a child. So what? You didn't actually develop him in any meaningful way outside of his trauma, so it unfortunately ended up feeling shlocky and like low-quality shock bait.

One thing too is that this story is structured in a way that it feels like the intention is to be a slow burn, but . . . It's just not a long enough story to actually be slow in any way. It has multiple "plot twists" and reveals, but the thing is that since there are only six chapters, there isn't any real plot established to actually twist. It plays these like huge reveals, but . . . No, they're really not. They're plot beats, not plot twists, and I thought the execution of it was really underwhelming because of it. This story would have shined if it was longer, if it could further establish mystery and some tense unsettling dread behind who Kyosuke is before revealing that he's the one who set Ichiro up. But no, it just goes from plot A to plot B to plot C every like two chapters.

To end on a positive, the art is great. Stunning, even. And as I've mentioned, and even highlighted, the prose of this story is phenomenal. The author really knows how to write in a way that is incredibly pretty. Lastly, I liked seeing a suicidal uke. We need more ukes who try killing themselves

(This is who volumes; I believe the second volume isn't out, despite the chapters being marked as volume one and volume two—there only being three chapters for a volume seems a little odd—however I have no intention of reading volume two, if it makes its way on here. Maybe if I'm bored, I guess).

This story is something that leaves a kind of bitter taste in my mouth because it's so, so close to being good—great, even—but there's one thing that rather dramatically weighs it down.

Having accidentally bumped into Shiraki—a popular, seemingly rich classmate of his—bloodied and running away from who he later finds out is one of Shiraki's "clients," Kuro impulsively decides to run away with him in order to shield him from the dangerous life he was living. They'd be getting a fresh start together, with promises of seeing the sunrise together and a better future. But after running into the police, their whirlwind romance is brought to an end after three days. They end up losing contact and going their separate ways once brought back home.

That is until years later, when they end up reuniting by chance. And when they reunite, their feelings—both known and unknown—end up rising back to the surface.

I personally felt like the post-time skip was rather stronger than the first half of the story when they were running away together. While the first half of the story had this romanticized filter painted over it, which I loved, I felt the emotions once they reunited were more interesting to me, and felt more understanding and digestible as a reader.

After they end up going their separate ways, Kuro gradually forgets about Shiraki and the three days they shared. That is until he walks into a bar and sees Shiraki is a bartender, and everything comes rushing back to him. And when the memories of everything come back, so does a new feeling form—guilt. Guilt over the fact that he didn't fight for him, that he let that distance grow between them until they were strangers again, that there was so much he could have done to help that he just didn't do. He could have said something, did something. He could have stayed. But he didn't. And that eats at him, it washes over him and is something he ends up dealing with in a way that makes him have to do it head-on.

Shiraki was also an incredibly good character. He was a character that was inherently sad; everything about him was shadowed by a depression. He was a prostitute who was sold off by his mother, forced into it because they were poor. And there was one scene I don't think I'll ever forget where Kuro says he smiles a lot, and Shiraki apologizes and says it's just out of habit now, because his clients would treat him better if he had a smile. So he had just gotten used to constantly smiling. And small things like that build his character, he is a man built of bittersweetness and sorrow. And I really fucking love characters like that. He's something that feels almost Shakespearean in how his character is almost a tragedy.

However, I did say there was one major thing keeping this story down . . . And sadly, it is the act of them actually running away together. I just didn't buy it. I felt there was no reason for them to run away together because I didn't feel like there was any instant connection between them, there was nothing there that'd warrant Kuro taking Shiraki's hand and just abandoning everything to keep him safe. It's so intensely romantic in theory, yet in execution, it just felt rash and silly. I usually don't like instalove but I think a story like this needs that instant moment where time slows down the first time they look at each other and you can just see that there's something pulling these two men together. Because in this story, there's just nothing, and when your whole story hinges on this, there being nothing is bad. Like, really bad.

The lack of connection is also why I like post-time skip more than the time they ran away, because the lack of connection does fall almost entirely on Kuro. He's the main character during the first three chapters, so the lack of connection only really impacts him. After finding out Shiraki is being whored out by his mother, you can easily understand why he'd take Kuro's hand and be swept away, and you easily understand why he fell in love and stayed in love for all these years after. You don't have that with Kuro, though.

To end on a positive, I will say that I thought the art was pretty great, and the writing itself—the prose—was quite beautiful.

Giving it 2 stars but it's more like 2.5

Dude, this story was so fucking shit, literally just do not read this ever. If you're drawn in by the fat tits, trust me there is better—anything is better. Open up MRM and literally everything under the 'huge breasts' tag blows this out of the water. There's genuinely nothing redeeming to this for me.

The art—the fat tits especially—was a big draw, and that was almost enough for me to say that this story had at least one redeeming quality. But the art seemed to be really inconsistent, and the proportions were just some of the worst I've ever seen. The tits were huge, which I loved, and so the rest of Oroks body was huge too to be proportionate to that, even with the exaggeration of the breasts . . . Except for his head, which at times looked distractingly small. It was just bad. This was bad art.

Another thing that was just straight-up bad, which also impacted the overall story, was the translation. It was very evident that the translator either wasn't fluent in English, or they were using a machine translation and just didn't bother to clean it up; I'm going to assume it's the former, because for whatever reason that's just really common. People that can't speak English for some reason love translating shit to English . . . Don't do that. You ruin the story. Stick to your own language. If you can't differentiate between 'you're' and 'your,' what business do you have translating shit to English. Bitch you can't even speak English.

The biggest issue for me though is that the story just . . . Wasn't good. It just wasn't. I can't tell how much of that can be attributed to the poor translation, but even with that, the basic story is just poor. The structure and flow of it was terrible. There are only thirteen chapters, and it's a love triangle . . . Except the second love interest isn't introduced until, like, five chapters in, and it's mainly just porn, so the sudden inclusion of legitimate feelings from the two love interests just felt very . . . Well, sudden. It wasn't well built. There was no foundation there. All they did was fuck, we didn't actually see any of these three men fall in love, so Karrian and Cornnell trying to make him choose between them at the end just felt stupid and unearned rather than engaging and intense. Why would he pick either of y'all when you're just glorified dildos?

Cho mama those lips are botched, and those puffy cheeks too girl you might want a refund

This is only three chapters and is, needless to say, a story that exists as basically nothing but porn. Because of that, I'm not rating it nor am I looking at it very critically. It doesn't need that effort or scrutiny.

Myung Chung-Hee and Cho Ha-Hyun are best friends who accidentally started a silly, lighthearted tradition of gifting each other gag presents for their birthdays. However, it turns out Myung's gifts towards Cho had all been sexual in nature.

After getting a pair of cat ears and a tail butt plug, Cho confronts him about it. It was an earnest mistake, Myung just gifted him stuff he thought was stupid and hadn't realized everything had been sexual, but talking about it created a kind of charged atmosphere.

Obviously, considering they were talking about sex toys and kinky getup, one thing led to another and they fucked. And it's . . . Alright. It's not particularly hot but that's not to say it's bad or anything. I just feel like the story, considering the context of all the sex toys and whatnot, had set up something rather kinky and intense . . . And it's just not. It felt like a rather plain story.

One thing I didn't like at all was Cho's design. Like I said, he looks botched. The most horrendous uke eyes I've ever seen and some inflated pornstar lips. I hate when authors try to do a "pretty boy" because it's a fine line and so many don't seem to realize that. You have him looking botched. He's been the surgeon a few too many times.

. . . Meh.

This isn't bad, it's actually quite cute, but it just doesn't really have much to offer. It's only three chapters and two of them just exist as the setup for porn, so I'm leaving this unrated.

This story is about a daily vlogger called Cha-yeon who goes on a trip, with the plan of doing some fake date segment with his travel partner assigned to him by his travel agency. It's kind of a unique plot, and I think there's a lot of potential in it. Fake dating is cute, and the first chapter kind of implied the fake dating would actually be more like a dating gameshow—which it ended up not being, and that was disappointing.

Unable to create content that Yeon is satisfied with, Hangyeol—his travel partner—suggested they get some skinship so that it looks more authentic when they flirt on camera. That then leads to the final chapter where they fuck. It's whatever.

Again, it's just kind of . . . Whatever. It's a cute story, small enough to be an inoffensive nice read but not long enough to be something that there's much to say or think about. A longer story that actually details them fake dating, especially if it's the gameshow-type format, would've been fun.