I want to like this so bad because BL is so starved of actual plots, but the utter power imbalance and inappropriateness of their relationship just reads as daddy issues with extra steps.
Well that just escalated. I mean the art is gorgeous but I see no reason for them to hook up immediately as they have, there’s tension sure, but there’s no rational if that makes sense.
Curious that now that this is over, does the ML develop? I read a couple chapters initially and dropped it because I couldn’t stand his shitty personality. Is it one of those cases of he’s marginally nicer to the MC only after they’re fucking? I just want to know if it’s worth it, or if this just wouldn’t be my taste overall given my initial dislike.
When everyone on this forum was saying oh look how cute the second couple is, oh look it’s an alpha bottoming for a beta, oh the ex deserves to be dicked down for his transgressions. Did he deserved be RAPED as we just witnessed? I fucking loath pretty tops for this exact reason they represent the halo effect of bad behavior and pretty privilege. I fucking loath the ex being brought back as a side couple for this reason other than lazy writing. I fucking loath omegaverses where alphas bottoming w/o acknowledging the metaphor of hypermasculinity and its intersectionality of toxic masculinity/ misogyny/ and subjugation. I am not remotely surprised we got the chapter we got because you learn to just see the patterns in what a genre prioritizes if you read enough of it. This genre prioritizes titillating sex no matter how we got there.
Most BL authors do not have the nuance to write well written queer men without including every trope I’ve listed with a healthy sprinkle of sexual violence. I know everyone is welcome to their take in how they engage, interpret, and consume media. But BL as a whole in Southeast/ East Asian ( Japan, china, South Korea, Thailand) has really started to just sour for me, as you genuinely cannot escape chapters like 49 without a hundred other people who will fight you tooth and nail to excuse, romanticize, and rationalize a man not ready to be fully intimate with his new partner could be treated by a partner like this who “loves” him. Fucking disgusting. And this post is for those who will come into this story simply reading the other many posts that will herald this as welcomed fiction and not in any way provide an accurate depiction for naive readers weeding into the unknown. And I know this is an issue surrounding the romance genre as a whole. But when an entire genre is simply known for its less than favorable attributes, at some point you have to acknowledge the stench.
I’m honestly curious are there any newer plots with delinquent tops actually? At this point it’s almost guaranteed delinquent tropes always exclusively the bottom.
I get that it’s for the sake of the plot, but I genuinely dislike stupid people.
Firstly given who the author is, it’s in everyone’s best interest this title make a disappearance. I admittedly read some of the plot and while it does seem interesting it’s certainly not worth the headache. Secondly, I’d genuinely like for once I mean truly for once to have a virgin x virgin plot where there isn’t a strict uke/seme dynamic. Why is there is NEVER seke when neither party has any sexual experience thus has every opportunity to to test what they actually like sexually with a willing partner is so apparently beyond the scope of women written BL in the year 2026 that it’s just baffling.
What’s even the point of this? If you’ve even watched even one Korean drama you know the grandpa doing all this heinous shit will be ultimately forgiven. I have never seen even one Korean made drama that actually commits to no contact or punishing domestic abuse within family dynamics. It’s a cultural thing I understand given the unyielding maintenance of upholding the status quo and deference to age hierarchy, but I’ll eat my hat if we see any realistic response to a homophobic abusive man terrorizing his own grandson and daughter by extension see any long standing consequences.
Does MC ever get any better because I’m genuinely baffled he’s genuinely an awful person. There is absolutely nothing redeemable about him. I mean the way he even speaks to his mother my god.
Given that info from the young heirs does this mean Kai has slept with them too? Because he’s written as an adult with a sex life but if this is going to just be your typical pairing of the overtly mature player coupled with the naive but quirky virgin then this is just a pig with lipstick plot that’s been written a hundred times just with a young master veneer. Because what makes the mc special compared Kai’s other conquests if they have similar backgrounds other than Kai gets to shape Jyuri to his specific liking given his circumstances.
So um some drunk rape to start things off. Got it.
So the plot is in the 1st chapter MC gets assaulted by some creep, his brother is kidnapped for simply defending himself in response. Then he is coerced by the first guy he sees where his brother is being held hostage, a man who intends to rape his brother but will now rape MC instead and will be the ML going forward…. And they say romance is dead.
I know this is fantasy but there’s no fucking way I’d get in a relationship let alone ONE CHAPTER in consider “getting with” some random guy I walked in on having raw public sex in a dirty bathroom. I’m all for sex positivity but that is fucking disgusting. Let alone this cliched pairing of your virgin and neighborly slut being peak romance. Have some fucking self respect, god.
What I don’t even understand with the Alpha x alpha or omega x omega pairings is that isn’t a whole aspect of the society that they are affected by pheromones. Wouldn’t the very fact that two alphas or two omegas being together wouldn’t work simply due to biological repulsion? Shouldn’t that be the elephant in the room more than anything? At least that’s being explored in a story like “love is an illusion-superstar!” despite its less than stellar writing. In that manwha it at least adheres to an aspect of the omegaverse genre that’s been bothering me when authors write same 2nd gender pairing that’s just simply ignored dependent on the author but still follows every other arbitrary rule of the defined universe.
Even if he’s not your real biological “son”, that is your son you raised since he was 3yrs old. The fact that he accepts his adoptive son’s romantic feelings and even goes as far as having sex with him on a whim is just wow I know this is a considerably older BL but this is fucked up in all sense of the word and this genre really just doesn’t give a fuck pseudo incest be damned.
I can see why they’re not together despite still being very much in love. They lack basic communication even before the year long disappearance act, and the baby face detective is very immature and insecure and his love language is clearly “if I were a worm would you still love me”.
Man based on the description alone I know this is going to suck but the art is gorgeous. Such a waste.
I just started this and am on chapter 9 but does Dajeong’ s cousin the brown haired guy ever get better because he’s such an asshole for like no reason and I just don’t get it. And secondly seula noona isn’t beholdened to like Haneul but she pisses me off fully knowing he’s just simply showing his direct like/ interest in her and won’t be direct and say she’s no interested. I mean he’s being overbearing because he’s not a mind reader for the most part he’s perfectly respected boundaries and is just being kind. She’s leading him on by being silent while accepting his gifts and tokens of affections. Then foisting the responsibility of confronting the situation on someone else is just shitty. I don’t like her.