yeonwoo on his priv twt: increasing my kimchi intake just to get my throat tighter for haesol's stra
my poor baby yeseul... i just want her happy but i can't blame jinwoo if that hug really is just an 'i like you, but only as my best friend' i've always rooted for her but we haven't had substantial progress between them all throughout the manhwa itself, jinwoo's only just gotten over haesol and yeseul... time's working against her. i would've waited for jinwoo to finally see her as an option but his sudden move pressured her so :((( i love these characters to death fawk i feel so helpless reading their struggles
SOMEONE SAVE CALIGO'S ASS LITTLE BRO'S GETTING HIMSELF SCAMMED (AGAIN) GRAND DUKE PLEASE NOW'S YOUR CHANCE FOR QUALITY BONDING TIME ,"?,",",$(*# anyway i Cannot wait for season 2 this manhwa keeps me alive and hopeful
this is why we treat pets with love and strive to abolish animal cruelty guys... for coco and chloe and the ardos family... also why grand duke kinda giving me red flags. caligo come reel in ur big bro plz
it's kind of symbolic how haesol and haesoo both got their clean breaks differently; haesoo by leaving with a bang, retaliating before he broke free and haesol... quietly, in comparison. both parents terrorized both children in different ways. it's not like either twin took it lying down, but the past chapters show how trauma affects people in a multitude of ways: haesoo being plagued by the memories and turning to substances, haesol shutting down both memory and emotion.
the same can be said for every one of the cast and their friend group, though comparison can't be perfectly made since trauma, abuse and their effects will always vary.
i think it's especially interesting to me that yeonwoo's parents are such a sharp contrast to the twins', not to mention where the kids get their trauma from. yeonwoo's home life isn't perfect but honestly? they+ junhyeok are relatively model. the twins were fucked over from the start they're better than me tho idk what i'd do if i were in their place.
it's so hard to point fingers in yeonwoo's place, aside from the obvious villains. the twins, however, had no one on their side and even worse, they were separated early on. it feels easier to point fingers at *everyone,* when you look at things from their perspective. i truly believe they embody children failed by the adults in their life.
this last chapter with their mom showing up feels neither anticlimactic nor... conclusive. over time, it surely will and from a reader's perspective this feels like the perfect break to their ties but i personally feel helpless, just as i always do reading this this beautiful story shsnhdjdjd yeonwoo's innocence truly is about making do with the cards you've been dealt. it's not easy and at worst, not even gratifying but what can we do but to move on? i'm only grateful they've found their happiness and hope
it's kind of symbolic how haesol and haesoo both got their clean breaks differently; haesoo by leaving with a bang, retaliating before he broke free and haesol... quietly, in comparison. both parents terrorized both children in different ways. it's not like either twin took it lying down, but the past chapters show how trauma affects people in a multitude of ways: haesoo being plagued by the memories and turning to substances, haesol shutting down both memory and emotion.
the same can be said for every one of the cast and their friend group, though comparison can't be perfectly made since trauma, abuse and their effects will always vary.
i think it's especially interesting to me that yeonwoo's parents are such a sharp contrast to the twins', not to mention where the kids get their trauma from. yeonwoo's home life isn't perfect but honestly? they+ junhyeok are relatively model. the twins were fucked over from the start they're better than me tho idk what i'd do if i were in their place.
it's so hard to point fingers in yeonwoo's place, aside from the obvious villains. the twins, however, had no one on their side and even worse, they were separated early on. it feels easier to point fingers at *everyone,* when you look at things from their perspective. i truly believe they embody children failed by the adults in their life.
this last chapter with their mom showing up feels neither anticlimactic nor... conclusive. over time, it surely will and from a reader's perspective this feels like the perfect break to their ties but i personally feel helpless, just as i always do reading this this beautiful story shsnhdjdjd yeonwoo's innocence truly is about making do with the cards you've been dealt. it's not easy and at worst, not even gratifying but what can we do but to move on? i'm only grateful they've found their happiness and hope
the fact that ALL of them are a diff character archetype like kohaku is tan + blonde (struggle to call her gyaru) and hagi's closed-eye but not sly at all also the tsundere switched from hagi to kohaku halfway through LMFAO fuji is perfect rep of femdom fujo otaku but rarely do we get such a sweetheart like asagi to match with them, even better since fuji's a little taller and they have as much sexual tension as they are wholesome. tokiwa's the closest to normal we're gonna get but suo... they're so adorable to me bc they're like haruhi and tamaki but reverse. these three you'd NEVER expect to see in one room but against all odds... they're so precious to me . my het couples but in a gay way
i always noticed every time i read (modern) manhwa . Every time they show a bed, there's only ever ONE pillow and even then the pillow is practically decoration cuz it goes unused while sleeping sometimes it's not even just a smut thing im so confused bsbaisjdhmsbfkfb
sounds crazy but i'm at ch 359 and the one on a/o3 disappeared, i think they privated a few hours ago. does anyone have pdf or smth of the full novel or any updates on the translator :((
let the sides marinate for four weeks now im crying in the club. totally forgot how angsty this is i was blindsided by the sweet, sickeningly adorable new cover but now i'm just sick and in tears . fluffy yeonsol but at WHAT COST $^#*&#*@(*#?#??#?
next chapter yeonwoo's showing up pregnant trust. or we finally get side couple progression. ESOL COME THRU PLS WE KNOW HAESOL'S EIGHT INCHES DEEP IN YEONWOO's heart
(might do this with each new chapter? not a translation, just a summary of smth I wish they adapted)
Cha Euijae and Lee Sayoung run over to Jung Bin and the others at the golem's appearance.
When they arrive, Hong Yeseong groans that they're saved in relief. Yoon Gaeul screams for Euijae and Sayoung to watch out, seeing the golem reach for them. LSY moves to grab CEJ, only for his hand to push LSY away in the direction of HYS's shield.
The last thing he saw of CEJ was of him smiling.
When he lands, HYS tells *YGL to bring LSY inside. When LSY gets up on his feet after, a *black snare pulls his wrist back in - LSY tells them to let him go, but Gaeul makes an example of Jung Bin, passed out and in tatters after fighting the golem.
(is YGE or YGU better for Yoon Gaeul? + the black snare might've been Jung Bin's shackles, there was no detail saying the snare was one Yeseong made either)
i will single-handedly keep the comments alive each chapter UUUURRRRGGGG COCO IM GONNA EAT U WHOLE... unironically i need beliph in a side couple. With who? Me duh im kidding unless. if beliph's lived so long in isolation, so much so that coco understanding him scares him this much... :((( PLZ GIFT THIS MAN A PARTNER... a super energetic and equally intelligent lover who makes this beautiful man more tired than he already is but also Happier...
got hooked just from the synopsis. been binging other short bl for the heck of it last couple days but this blows them all out of the water so far; renai kanjouron is a fresh balance of beautiful story and art.
was shocked to see other readers didn't feel as emotionally connected as i did but it makes sense considering my personal background (i digress) but to someone who isn't all too familiar with psychology terms and, to some extent, philosophy, i can see why this story may seem a tad convoluted since jargon's shoved into your face from the start.
in spite of that, the writing, characterization, pacing are all BRILLIANT to me. if you can keep up, things just fall into place; why characters are the way they are, subtleties that further humanize them. it's so rare for me to feel so in touch with the cast within such a short manga.
to be fair, there wasn't a 'villain' in this story which made it equally easy and hard in execution; yuka and asaba (our only supporting characters) are fleshed out enough with wholesome dynamics to both ryouma and nodoka. at the same time, it's a man vs self conflict for both mcs themselves, making things all the more complicated.
i don't claim to be a professional but ryouma clearly exhibits black and white thinking + people pleasing tendencies (i want to say he's bpd but i may be biased) though he doesn't explicitly state that he acts and speaks primarily to elicit positive reactions from both clients and otherwise, including nodoka at the start. things like this, you notice when you read between the lines albeit made a tad harder due to some purple prose (use of metaphors, quotes from real psychologists) but i do believe certain red flags can be garnered anyway through reading. of course, that isn't to say ryouma's personality is fake or curated to please, but that's what makes his relationship with nodoka special, both ways–
from the beginning, ryouma and nodoka understand each other on a higher level than their peers and other people in their life do. this is a shock to both of them: nodoka who's made it a point to withhold his emotions from showing as well as (perhaps subconsciously) refusing to look into his own emotions, and ryouma of whom is used to doing the seeing and observing than to be observed. likewise, they're unable to come to terms with the need to overcome their 'flaws (for lack of better term)' and when they do, the struggle is a lot. still, it's precisely because they're able to understand each other better than others that they're patient, seeing through their blunders and accepting them as part of themselves, as part of the person they love.
their growth was so neatly written, the progression so natural due in part to the mangaka's script writing, further enhanced by their own understanding of psychology and the way people work.
this is getting too long i honestly could yap more but this is way out of hand already i'll end it here just know that this is a work that will stay with me and ratiorine is everywhere for those with the eyes to see
