Avora's activites

I don't think the author or the translator knows what a dowry is.... it's what the family pays the future husband for marrying the woman, not what they get paid..... parents provided a dowry to the future husbands to help fund their daughters future lives. "acting like a lady to raise the dowry" makes no sense, the family pays the dowry to the future husband so her standing wouldn't change anything to what the family can afford to pay. Anyway, little information dump for chapter 32 that kind of annoyed me.

Enjoying it so far but did guess the situation as soon as he asked "are you so afraid of the phantom"

Interested to see where it goes from here. Just had to vent about the dowry thing....

Am I too old to understand why every hates the term sigma? The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.... like alpha and omega are the 1st and last of it... Where enigma means riddle and isn't a letter? So sigma makes more sense than enigma to be involved in abo worlds or am I way overthinking it?

Yeah I'm too old and not a tiktok user to make sense of this shit

I've read chapter 1 - why is she yelling at him over what his dad did? Why jumping to ok eff me? This is so weird... she's not even sad about her father just upset it's affected her life 'how could you do this to ME' I mean i guess she's unstable and is in an awful place but still it's weird. Especially since he's paid for you to not be a slave... at least hear him out? He was your fiancé? Weird. Maybe a pacing thing? I presume he's going to eff her now when he shouldn't but... we'll see. People saying g he's a rapist in the comments so I can see how this is going to go wrong.

Some of that anatomy of his is just wrong... what is going on with his hips/legs? I'm too distracted! Anyone else feel too close too? Something off about it!

Literally, 'you make me feel so loved' where? How?

Yeah the author made him too unlikeable to start.... I can only have the feeling of 'well they both want it so... ok' rather than being happy for them yano? Cba to read again too see if a full seating read would make it better either, it's so damn long. Mid except the art which is fantastic

This is good. Well done mr joo. Doing the right thing. Maybe could have said thank you to Dan for everything, but I guess he didn't want to start talking in case anything slipped or he couldn't follow through. Letting him go is a big deal, it's a strong gesture.

Sad side being dan doesn't realise he's letting him go so he doesn't get hurt more and that he's fully regretful of all the shit he's put him through, and all he can do to attone is to let him go. Dan just thinks he doesn't care and is happy to see him gone.

I guess jk also thinks Dan wouldn't want to stay with him after everything. He's always been open about leaving when the time comes and not seeming upset about it.

Miscommunication all round but I do think this is a big gesture from jk, even if it's full extent isn't felt by Dan.

Oh boo hoo Garam - that was my gut response. Boo freaking hoo. Maybe it's too harsh but geez... so it's all about your fear of being outed and people hating you for it? Fair enough I guess it's a valid fear, but don't take it out on your boyfriend just because he wouldn't care if it happened to him. You're doing that exact betrayal to jaehyuk right now that you said is the worst thing. Cowardly. Deserves to be sad right now. I'm so sick of sob stories!!

Yes this is all very mean - not a lot of compassion for him but my gosh he's being very woe is me about it all. Have the conversation and ask for more processing time - thinking dan and phil style.... I'm not saying he should get over it and just be openly gay when he's not ready, just that jaehyuk deserves a chance to fall step with you, not be cut off. I know it won't end here, it's not real and is just for the drama but it's also incredibly boring knowing they're just going to get back together eventually anyway so what is the point in this outside of padding? I'm bored, get on with it guys, what even is this story about anymore! There's no good ending that will be believable to me unless Garam goes to therapy at this point. Is this really the story we want to put grand discussions of homophobia and trauma in? Really??

Got a bit away from me there but geeeeez this one pissed me off for some reason.

"Do you want to live at the bottom while working like a dog? Or come under me to pay off your d...

Haesoo and Joowon, whose parents' remarriage meant that they must never be in a romantic relati...

Yeo Eui Joon, who works at a convenience store frequented by gangsters, wants to quit as soon as pos...

Yiyoung is building a startup with his college friends. They get a chance to present their proposal ...

I just think in a reasonable relationship, you'd say something like 'i am so happy you're comfortable enough to come out, that's lovely but I'm not ready. I don't know if I'll ever be, but i do know I want to be with you, so can we please come up with a story together that makes sense and has no holes so we don't get caught out again for now.' Garams need for privacy is more important than jaehyuks need to be out - for now.

Then Garam could possibly address his worries that jaehyuk is going to lose out on things he doesn't necessarily have to because he could be more bi than gay. I guess they are valid fears and valid that you're scared to stay longer, fall more, just for him to change his mind, but that's any and all relationships! Plenty of hetero people have the same fears and that does happen unfortunately- people change their minds. Trusting someone to love you forever is hard, but constantly expecting them to leave is more likely to cause them to leave! Being with someone that insecure is exhausting. Therapy is needed or something serious talking and introspection for both of them.

I think they're old enough to know better, but maybe I'm wrong?

Kim Euihyun has decided he doesn’t want to live. He feels nothing anymore. He has no future to...

Why can't he just ask him to stay? Any can't he just man up, prove your strength, by telling Dan how you feel!!! Have him with you, resolve the conflict and then win. It's so stupid, the lesson has still not been learnt. Face your emotions and deal with them dude!!!!

Though thinking about it I'd be sad too if I bought rings and my partner said that... but I'd be sad and embarrassed not angry. I think J is being dramatic but he kind of always is. And Garam is being too repressed - as he often is too. I hope they can actually talk it out. Garam seems to not actually believe in J which is sad.

Isn't Garam just sad because he already bought rings and didn't have the courage to give him them? I know it's silly but I do think jaehyuk should have held it in more - it was still his birthday.... a calmer questioning might have yielded better results. I also think Garam is being too blase and it's making jaehyuk think he doesn't care. Just talk dammit! Calmly!

Also just realised I wasted so much time here on shounen-ai....

Cute but slow. Very slow burn. I see the ml and mc together, I also do see Taera and mc being cute but I like the ml. I think mc could push him more and get away with anything. Ml is using the mechanics to manipulate mc which isn't great, but for some reason doesn't bother me too much right now.

what I'd like to see is what he'd actually do if mc held his ground past the aroused negative state. I want to see him refuse to give in, be reduced to a mess and for ml to give in first because of course he does actually like mc and doesn't really want to hurt or upset him.

I've likened these negative states to an alpha pheromone drench making an omega go into heat or the frozen fear state - no idea if that's what the author is going for though.