THIS IS SO GOOD
LIKE, I DIDN'T EXPECT IT TO BE THIS GOOD. I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE CLICHE AND A TRASHY READ AND IT IS CLICHE, JUST A LITTLE BIT,
but it's also so poetic and so beautiful and so human and ughhhhhh i love it i love it I LOVE IT I'M fEELING SO MUCH
Like, it's working with cliche concepts yet the way it's all framed and put together makes it artful? THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, WHEN I SAY "If you're gonna make it cliche, at least do it well". This manhwa knocked it out of the park!
And, these passages adapted from the novel (haven't actually read it, but the translator included passages at the end of some chapters) are absolutely gorgeous. So beautifully worded, and absolutely emotional to read.
As well, even though Jaehan is a piece of trash, somehow the way this all plays out makes me pity him too. The monologues and dialogues and looks into his head somehow make it, so that despite being frustrated with how he was dealing with his feelings with Heegyeom, it's still impossible to hate him--it's the author's (of the novel) absolute mastery of emotions. Like, wow. He's supposed to be an asshole, but I didn't come out of this with my first thought being that he is an asshole.
AND THE ART TOO!!! Wow, the art is perfect. Like, the characters aren't particularly expression savvy, yet somehow minute changes and little quirks here and there, a slightly lifted lip, barely upturned eyes, convey so much. Even when the eye is just a black blob with a dot, somehow deep emotions/expressions can still be conveyed?
I'm absolutely living my best life holy shit waiting patiently for updates updates updates
Also guys... whoever be tagging the author... gotta stop. This fruit-ga-go site is ILLEGAL and should not be splashed all over social media. Please use your heads.
ALSO TO THE TRANSLATOR??? YOU ARE DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB!!!!!!
makes sense why the emperor treats him well this life, given how Jins are inhumane as a whole, but he lived on and off with the MC and experienced the mundane life for eight years, along with the MC's continued life lessons and moral value preaching.
i mean, we see it in the latest chapter, the emperor himself directly admits "i didn't realize humans could die so easily" in the flashback of seeing the dead villagers from the drought. Jins can go a whole month without eating, so their own standards are vastly different from that of a humans. It probably didn't even occur to the emperor, in his past life, just how fragile humans could really be because the MC was so used to taking his abuse.
Stilll makes me wonder why the emperor was so shit last life, though, like, what he did was far beyond simple "ignorant, rough handling"... is there gonna be a plot twist? hmm
Btw, I'm not justifying the emperor or standing on his side. I don't support the MC being together with the emperor at all, and if it was me I'd be like "nah I'm moving to a diff country" or sum, but as most manhwas go, i had expected it anyways. Rule of thumb: the more often an MC says "I'll never see him again!", the more likely you know the opposite will happen.
well, i like seeing character development at least. shit's rare.
Also, in the MC's defense, it's really hard to escape your abuser, especially when you love or have once deeply loved them. Those feelings don't just disappear into thin air, sadly. I mean in his previous life, despite everything, he'd still been willing to give up his life to save the emperor. Also, the MC doesn't particularly seem like the "strong-willed, fuck-all" type, either.
i don't like how smoothly, and sudden that confession went. hm. what he playin at?
I think he's trying to do what the camera man said, date Jihoon :)
i hope at least half his heart is in it, even if not his whole heart ╥﹏╥
bc woojin is fuuuuuuckin' with Haegyung's mind and i don't like it
but if this is what the author wants to go for, then props to her, this is interesting. woojin is a tried and true asshole but at least this manhwa ain't tryna hide it.
if this is the genre, i.e. yandere style relationship, then go go go! not all fictional relationships are healthy anyways
OHHH YOON SEUL AfTER ALL THE TIME I'VE SPEND TRYING TO DEfEND YOU... AND fOR WHAT??? YOU GO AND SPOUT THAT SHIT???? BROOOO I'VE BEEN TYPING PARAGRAPHHHHS TRYING TO HELP YOU OUT BC YOU ACC HAD JUSTIfICATION BEfORE BUT NOW???? NOW YOU'RE BEING TOXIC. fOR REAL.
ughhh all my efforts have gone down the drain. Yoon Seul is truly being toxic now. He wasn't an asshole before, because struggling to come to terms with the fact that you're gay, and unintentionally hurting another in the process, is not assholery. But now? "He shouldn't be happy, we haven't worked things out yet"??? BITCH. fIGHT ME. YOU DIDN'T JUST SAY THAT YOU DIDN'T. fUCK YOU YOON SEUL I'M NEVER DEfENDING YOU AGAIN
author-nim why u do me like that. it doesn't even make sense how Yoon Seul even jumped to that conclusion. Couldn't Kangjoon have been happy because Yoon Seul has been giving him gifts? Why did Yoon Seul immediately think the worst of Kang Joon???
Really wasn't it,
That's it. That's the verdict. They're both stupid. Misunderstandings are fun until the misunderstanding is the only thing carrying the plot along--it isn't even adding anything to the story either.
Also... why does it always circle back to rape? Couldn't they just have had a screaming match before working things out? Switch the rape out for screaming, and I doubt anything would've changed.
It's as well moments like these, if the author even considered how readers are spending currency to buy the chapters with the story being cute and building up nicely, before slapping said readers in the face with an abrupt and frankly, unecessary rape episode. Sheesh.
Yeah Yoon Seul hurt Kang Joon, but sometimes humans do that. Sometimes we hurt people we don't wish to hurt, and that's just how things may happen.
What matters is that we later own up to our actions, and apologize for them, as Yoon Seul is attempting to do. Rejection happens all the time. Rejection is a completely normal thing--and for a bystander to be disappointed in someone for not returning another's feelings isn't very appropiate.
If I hadn't known better, and took the comments at face value without reading the manhwa, I'd have thought that Yoon Seul was a asshole piece of shit character who deserves everything he gets--because that's what several of you seem to imply. However, in actuality, Yoon Seul had simply been friendly to someone he liked hanging out with, did something stupid while drunk, and rejected someone. People do stupid things while drunk. People are sometimes too friendly. People reject other people. These are normal human things.
Consider an alternate scenario: what if Yoon Seul hadn't later realized that he liked Kang Joon? Suppose that, in order to spare Kang Joon's feelings, he decided to lead Kang Joon on despite not being sure (or having realized at the time) he felt that way. Many of you are making it seem like he should've done that, but that'd just have hurt Kang Joon even more.
I feel it important to note that 1. They weren't even dating at the beginning,
and 2. It isn't easy for a man who's been straight his whole life, to come to terms with the fact that he may be gay.
Sexuality isn't a 1-2-3 type of gig. Some people accept it easily, while for others it may be a long journey. The thought of him liking another man was preposterous not because he was homophobic, but simply because it had never happened before. It's not as easy as "Oh I kissed a man I must be gay". Life isn't that simple.
To us readers, it's obvious that Yoon Seul liked Kang Joon a lot from the beginning. But that's us. We're not him. We get to see the bigger picture, while the characters in the story don't.
Yoon Seul had thought at the time, that it'd be impossible to kiss or hug Kang Joon, and that's just how it was. He thought his feelings were simply that of a friend's. You guys are making him look like an asshole when he wasn't. Maybe he did have a feeling that Kang Joon liked him, maybe he didn't--but regardless, it was never "Oh Kang Joon likes me. Let's play with his feelings!" He just did what he thought was right.
He believed he'd made a drunken mistake, and said it as such. He didn't lead the other on, and he was just being honest with what he had believed was true at the time. We often forget that thoughts and beliefs can change with circumstances. Later, he realized that yes, he did in fact want Kang Joon to himself, and actually liked the other. The moment he realized that, he dropped his pride and tried to get Kang Joon back.
The world isn't black and white, and god forbid people continue seeing it that way.
YES thank you! It really hurts to read these comments that straight up diss Yoon Seul as if humans don't make mistakes. As someone who is straight and has also been raised in an environment where being anything other than straight is the worst thing possible, if I had been in the same situation as Yoon Seul where I kissed a girl, I would probably act the same way because I believe and have believed for my entire life that I don't swing that way at all. So yea, I hope people would try to be a little more open-minded with Yoon Seul's character instead of flat out calling him an asshole.
my thoughts exactly ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
season 2 is the guilty pleasure kink story
You have the raw?
Thank youu
I mean i’d be pissed too, if someone i was putting my effort into and wanted to be close to ignored only me and not others... but buddy... going all out, destroying his life, raping him (?) and etc. etc.?? Get your head checked out please... you need a therapist and jail.