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I will literally bet a kidney and a lung on kinosaki being endgame

I just finished reading the novel yesterday and imagine my surprise to see that it was being adapted into a manhwa. I was so happy and though yay people get to see this great piece of work! Until I saw the comments and read the first 20 chapters. WHY DID THEY ADD ALL THOSE EXPLICIT SCENES AND UNNECESSARY GENERIC BL DUBCON SLOP?????? The novel was a story of two people coming to terms with their respective traumas by eventually finding comfort with someone they were forced to be with. All the serious scenes like the MC having a panic attack or the MC risking his life to save the other esper was treated with the emotional respect that it deserved. There is no fix by panic attack make-out or fix by reverse guiding sex bs. There is just pure human to human comfort, you really get the feeling of how they find companionship, friendship and eventually family in one another before anything sexual or romantic.

The MCs love for the ML was portrayed as pure, respectful and unconditional. whilst he did fawn over the ML’s perfect features, it felt more of a point from a fan because he truly never expected anything from the ML. He often wished for the ML’s Hyung to come back just so that he can be happy, he’d never secretly jack of to the ML or mysteriously pop boners. In the novel the only explicit moment in the story was when the MC had see with the ML to save him after the ML faced off with the main antagonist which admittedly I was not a fan because of dubcon but at least it sort of made sense and the scene was short with the Mc never taking any pleasure in it. But in general they don’t kiss until after they get together and the mc never does anything physical like kissing with any other character.

The MLs Tsundere nature was also more subtle since it was told through the MCs perspective and the MLs care for the mc was subtly portrayed through him opening up about his past and him encouraging the MC to open up and wanting the MC to stop risking his life. It came off as really sweet and much healthier rather than cloyingly childish and the MLs development was also great.


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Also what the heck MC gets raped by the antagonist in the Raws?? That scene is completely unnecessary and completely added and it just comes off as fetishy?? Baby boy does not have to go through all that man.







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Read in isolation it’s not that bad, probably the kind of BL I would turn off my brain to read once then banish it to the back of my mind. But reading this after reading the novel, story fresh in my head, was painful. If you like it then more power to you, everyone is entitled to their own opinions.


TLDR: please read the novel, translations are on novelupdates. The manhwa, imo, doesn’t do the novel justice. The novel, a story about two people overcoming their trauma whilst finding companionship in the other, was turned into more of the generic guideverse BL in the Manhwa with the focus being more on their romantic and sexual relationship and whether or not they get together.

Like imagine we’re reading from Juheon’s perspective, he’s been betrayed by both his mum and aunt in love before so he already has major trust issues. Dohu comes around and keeps pestering Juheon, then Juheon chooses to open himself up one more time to love before realising that Dohu has been using him for book inspiration this whole time. Maybe Juheon should have tried to hear Dohu out more but mind you unlike us as the reader Juheon can’t see dohu’s thoughts in nice little thought bubbles and Dohu’s obv not the most expressive. When they break up Dohu doesn’t even cry or anything (because Dohu takes a longer time to process his feelings) and since Juheon’s already been traumatised by his mum and aunt, he’ll assume it’s a pattern and that he’s just being used in love again.

Juheon also shortly after being heavily affected by his breakup gets threatened by his aunt. Breaking down again, he goes to look for Dohu which to him would’ve just seemed unresponsive because again, unlike us, Dohu seems unresponsive when he’s hugging him and crying and obviously he doesn’t see that Dohu eventually chasing after him.

And then flash forward to now, Juheon has the right to think Dohu got the job because of him because mind you Dohu had showed up multiple times at juheon’s agency before and got dragged to the police because of it (mentioned on ch. 69). But Juheon just tries to pretend not to know Dohu because they’ve broken up bro!! And not on really amicable terms either… why would he suddenly cling to Dohu again and beg for them to get back together? Realistically, Juheon’s not going to know how to properly process those feelings because he himself is very emotionally unstable due to his abandonment trauma.

I see many commenters bashing Juheon for telling Dohu to leave his job but I still think this is reasonable because Juheon would just’ve just continued to pretend he didn’t know Dohu and they would’ve probably kept to a professional relationship if it weren’t for Dohu provoking Juheon into facing him with that hot water thing. Juheon also only said hurtful things to Dohu more of as a reactionary thing just so that Dohu could leave him alone because again, Juheon is very traumatised and would rather push away Dohu then let himself be vulnerable and get hurt again.

Juheon also wouldn’t trust Dohu saying that he likes him and would question whether Dohu is being genuine because Juheon can’t read minds and with Dohu being as expressionless as he is, it would be extra difficult to tell. Additionally, his aunt also kinda those the same thing when she wants Juheon to play a good grandson for his grandfather so this distrust is reasonable.

Istg if this was another BL where Juheon was the pov we were reading from and the bottom, Dohu would be labeled as the red flag cold, pushy top who stalks Juheon. Not that I’m saying Dohu is bad either, I can probably write another essay arguing for Dohu as well lmao. Baseline is neither of them are in the complete wrong and neither of them deserves to grovel to get the other back in the stereotypical yaoi chasing arc. They’re both flawed, the circumstances just put them in a rough position and we just have to see how they can not only heal their relationship but also past traumas with each other.

I think we just expect too much out of Juheon because in an ideal love Juheon would be the exceptional one to understand Dohu even without Dohu really saying anything but it just don’t work like that sometimes.

After the time skip is seems Jong woo is taller than Chang deok since our boy is quite a bit taller than his friend now (in chap. 21) who’s supposed to be 181cm and Chang deok is 185cm ლ(´ڡ`ლ)

Sorry little guy their gonna make out not make up

I just read a bit of the novel and the ML really isn’t that bad, he’s irritatingly pushy at the start but he gets better and his intentions are actually pretty interesting

I thought my standards for him were low and I already thought he was bad but ML is beating my expectations by going even lower every chapter

I went to look at the raw and it does not in fact say vagina. The speech bubble says “这家伙又舔了我的逆鳞。” this translates to “this guy is licking my reverse scale again”

Idk how “逆鳞” (Nì lín) got translated as vagina.

Reverse scale is supposed to be be the weak point of a dragon at a dragon’s neck

I WAS WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS TO GET TRANSLATED!!! IM SO HAPPY ITS HERE AHAHAHHAAHHAHA