I tried so hard to love this because everyone does apparently but it's proving to be difficult. I did take a loooong break at aroung chapter 70 and then binged the rest just today. But still, I have zero clue what is happening. Why is any of this spy shit important? Who is double-crossing who? Why is everyone acting like Jake has some genius plan?? Rolfe was acting like it was Jake who master manipulated her into going to his side, but I don't get it. Was she corrupt before? If he was taken off the mission, why does he still want to go through with it alone? Can't they just get someone else from the agents to do it?
Also, it's been so long and I still cannot find Jake hot. One, because of his fuckass haircut and the yaoi hands, but two because he's a CIA agent. I know it's glorified in media and here they're treating him like some super cool spy but all I can think is ACAB and that includes the CIA. The uniforms are sexy though.
I enjoy their sexual dynamic and how the manhwa is not afraid to show Shin grabbing Jakes ass, pecs and dominating him ლ(´ڡ`ლ) The sex scenes still aren't attractive to me but at least they're original.
Lastly, will we ever see Jake begging screaming crying throwing himself at Shin's feet without being a manipulator about it? I hope so
U lowkey brave for saying this
Wait my emoji is gone :( imagine a laughing emoji after this
I know most of the comments talking about this aren't recent, but I just want to remind everyone that the bird is a magic familiar made of Aura or something. It's not a real animal. (=・ω・=)
I wish we got to see Dimitry die a miserable and lonely death while getting shot for Caesar ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
Hate him the most, but all the Mafioso people suck ass. Papa was the best of them, since he changed for the better.
To be honest I love a mutual toxic romance, and we certainly got glimpses of that here, what with Lee Won making them have a Battle Royale with real weapons. And individually, in a vacuum, I like Caesars character a lot. He's pretty complex and I understand where his actions come from. If this was an action manhwa with him as the MC I'd eat it up.
However, I like Lee Won more, and because of that I hate Caesar for how he treats him. He never listens to "no" or "stop", doesn't tell him shit even when he is directly involved, and lies to him. When I read that the novel is different from the manhwa, I had a little hope that maybe in the novel Caesar actually dies and we get a tragic ending. Never bothered to find out though.
Anyway, I'm glad this story ended when it did. At this ending point their relationship seemed to have hope for improvement, and I can just imagine a happy ever after where Caesar gains basic respect for human beings.
Fluffy, kinda boring. It's an okay read if you're looking for something that scratches the itch for BL clichés.
I really disliked the side couple from the beginning and their plan to "distract" the MC by deceiving him into a relationship. Yeah it was innocent and quick, and mostly done for plot, but that plan would've gone so horribly if MC actually fell in love with Etzel (or what his name was). Blondie did not seem to consider the emotional hurt MC (his supposed best friend) could've felt when the fake relationship inevitably went to shit.
This is all just hypothticals of course, but I generally hate tropes like that where the friends interfere in the MCs life like that with no thought for repercussions.
Only extremely tangentially related, the Fireworks Island storyquest in Infinity Nikki executed this same trope very well imo ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
I also hate the trope of the main couple only getting together because someone felt jealous. Couldn't he just realize and confess on his own?
right??? It feels like despite being "romance" stories, most of the time the characters aren't allowed to naturally progress their feelings from affection to love, and they aren't allowed any agency either! There always has to be some outside influence for them to get together ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
Guys I think the sister was just a figment of Naos' imagination due to his guilt. She didn't really have any of her own opinions and just reflected Naos' state of mind and the questions and dilemmas plagueing him.
Also, I really want Logan to become involved in the freak. He's just my type (hot and kind of shady) ლ(´ڡ`ლ)
being with these two elves alone in a dungeon calls for trouble
This is the kind of manhwa an actually good female protagonist would be reincarnated into and complain about all the choices the author made. Then she would get revenge on the royal family (mostly the emperor) and run off into the sunset with Lucas ( =.=)~
Sadly this is poorly written garbage and unless one of us gets isekai'd it will stay that way (u-u )
This is god awful piece of shit, but I love god awful pieces of shit and I hate myself for that, sadly I will continue reading
lmao it's okay, don't hate yourself! We all have our guilty pleasures ╮(￣▽￣)╭ (mine is also shitty manhwa, but only with a hot male mc I can drool over)
Mine are shapeshifters, I’ve read almost all shapeshifting historical romance, and I am on the hunt for more, got any reccs?
Oh I like shapeshifters too ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶
sadly there's barely any good manhwas with shapeshifters, so you might know them already, but my recs are:
I've become a crow
Don't mess with the puppy (modern, if you like BL)
To your eternity (manga, not really romance but so good)
I was reincarnated as a baby fox god (tbh I don't remember much about this one)
Carrier falcon princess
I can see your stats! (BL again)
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This was so good right until Jay became a rapist. Just why. What a waste of great potential. And the revenge plot was basically just Yohan saying "Ugh I hate that guy", never accomplishing anything, and Jay serving the bad guys up on a silver platter.
Now that the main story is done I don't know if I wanna read the sides. People said that it would show more of the couple being together and stuff, but does Jay ever face the consequences of being a psychopathic bitch or is it never adressed?
Jay rapist when??
Is it wrong of me that I somewhat agree. I mean Yohan nearly did any work as an actor to achieve his revenge, this somewhat made me think the name of the title and plot really didn’t go well with each other. There were some good philosophical questions and answers here and there, but overall the whole fundamental of the story was for him to get his revenge. I just felt like the revenge wasn’t too strong enough to impact some character development.
Bruh. I keep trying to figure out why this BL has such a high rating because it’s genuinely so boring. I stopped reading after Jay sexually assaulted him too tbh, and it never really got interesting after that. If u don’t mind could u spoil the ending, what is the “revenge”?
Revenge doesn't always have to be violence though? I think too many people were expecting Yohan to literally kill him or something? Because i think his revenge was very befitting him.
The “revenge” was basically just handed to him rather from hardwork, which was the whole point of it because he joined the entertainment industry. Ch 94 literally showcases this disappointment.
Because the whole point of this story was to see how Yoohan learned to accept that he deserved good things in life. Boring might be your opinion but it was rather a philosophical type of manhwa I would like to say. Yoohan was technically suicidal because he had no reason to live. And Jay eventually became his reason to live.
Also the revenge was basically that the myung-shin dude gets blacklisted from the entertainment company, and then he features in a porn video and basically that's it.
I can agree with your point not every revenge pinpoints violence, but in this case scenario I was expecting more of a phycological viewpoint in this revenge. Which was not greatly given. Again this whole comment was just my opinion, you don’t exactly have to align with it, I just simply didn’t like it.
I actually agree with he psychological part !
I wanted myung-shin to break more mentally and suffer but I think Yoohan is just not capable of doing that because I feel he is too soft-hearted for it. Otherwise i do think it was a bit poorly executed
thank god someone said it finally
I totally agree! The whole „relationship“ between those two just consisted of Jay assaulting the mc every second chapter. I had really high hopes for the mc since he isn’t the spineless crybaby type we usually get but was so disappointed when he fell for that psycho in the span of two chapters, like where is the development??
I really hope this doesn't go the way of them being apart for like 10 years and meeting again later as adults and getting back together happily ever after. Every second toxic school story does this and I'm so tired of this trope.
The reveal of Rosalyns identity to Ricardis (or rather the reveal that he knows about her) was so sudden and anti-climactic.
Then the entirety of Diez' scene felt so weird. My issue isn't with him betraying her, that's a nice plot twist. But his motives and position are so strange. I get he wants revenge, but why is he playing Hakkabs lapdog??
After he only stabbed Rosalyn and SEES Macaron giving her holy water to help and KNOWS the prince and everyone will do everything they can to heal her, why does he just leave?? Like a stab is ever gonna be enough to take out Rosalyn...
Also, this is just a nitpick but I really hated how Macaron said "That's not the prince, that's..." or something like that. It's such a stupid thing to say. He's been prince Diez since he was young, lived as the prince for most of his life. For way longer than Rosalyn was Rosalyn and everyone who knows still accepts her as "Rosalyn". So what do you mean "That's not the prince".
Lastly, this is probably just same-face-syndrome in this manhwa, but Hakkabs underling looked so much like Raymong in that last panel lol
(apparently) unpopular opinion but I actually like the MC. She's a bit selfish and is neither a genius villainess nor a pure wallflower. It makes sense for her to be so attached to the ML since he was one of the first people she met and takes great care of her.
In the recent chapters you can also see how her character develops and she learns from her mistakes. She's not perfect but she tries her best to be good to people.
To me she feels relatable and human, because of her flaws.
The same goes for the ML. I really appreciate how he's not the stereotypical aloof dark emperor. He acknowledges his own feelings and seems to be emotionally immature, which makes me think he ascended the throne at a young age and while he can be a good ruler, this is his first time experiencing this personal closeness with someone.
All of the characters in this seem to be in their twenties at most, based on their characterisation, and still figuring shit out (I cannot remember if we got their actual ages). This makes them already so much more likeable to me than some characters in other manhwa.
Currently Abel is my favourite. He's the hilarious voice of reason needed in these troubling times.
Anyways, that doesn't mean this story is perfect. It is super fast paced, has some writing flaws (imo) and isn't that original. But it's also not as bad as some comments make it seem. ╮(￣▽￣)╭