i first read this 6 years ago vividly recalling it as a cute story, but after rereading it again... holy shit seme is EVIL for socially outcasting uke & manipulating him to be helpless without him
i thought there was going to be an interesting twist like woojin was manipulating Haewon into loving him to avenge the dead guy ,.. but tbh the real story seems to be going in a less interesting direction
how did past life herdin react to her past life death/assassination?
I understand that (spoiler): he is the one who reverses time obv after he discovers shes dead but how did he react in detail?
I assume it might have been similar to how his father reacted when his mother died due to the “curse”/condition his family has
his siblings are out to kill him and his uncle believes they would never do such a thing... i can already foresee the story being MC
going through nothing but hardship and suffering
Right (╯°Д °)╯╧╧ he already knew to side.
throughout the story i thought that the top was really dedicated to the bottom and only had eyes for him, but after that last chapter my perception of what was originally a sweet puppy-love story dissipated in an instant. I mean yea they weren't official so no 'obligations' but the story lost all its charm and im left with a bad aftertaste esp since top said "i was acc thinking of u while fucking another dude" same thing cheaters say to try to rectify their relationship...
and now im thinking about how bottom noticed top got better in bed despite his inexperience but he had no clue at the time that it was partially bc he slept with other guys.. haha. and the top said "i dont want to see anyone else"??? but failed to mention he already technically had?????? idk.. if i was the bottom, that alone, wouldve made me question the sincerity in his words and make me doubtful of the relationship entirely. the way he said it insinuated he hasnt and will not be seeing anyone and i would be shocked too (shocked is an understatement) if i learned it was a "lie" and he did in fact see someone else
I think they needed a separation because no one can save you besides yourself so i'm not complaining about the ending in that sense. BUT. nothing was resolved before leaving each other to work on themselves. Did Yoojoon know Jiho was being assaulted and was stuck in an abusive relationship? Did he know he has abandonment issues because of his dead mom and being abused by his dad? He did not understand the depth of Jiho's suffering and probably holds some resentment because he does not know. They probably have side stories lined up but it still pisses me off that authors use side stories to resolve issues brought over from the main story. What does side story mean to you?? I've never reacted so viscerally to a manhwa where my hands were shaking and i couldn't eat bc of the story contents. The poorly executed ending was the cherry on top to piss me off. I'm writing this long ahh paragraph just to cope with how much i'm tweaking right now.
RIGHT IM SO FUCKING MADD, THEY SHOULD AT LEAST HAVE A RECONCILIATION LIKE A REAL ADULT. THEY NEED TO TALK OF WHAT THINGS THEY MISSED W EACH OTHER
FR. & they glossed over his self harm wayyy too fast. it was seen once and never addressed again. If the side stories are just purely fucking and barely any talking i'm going to write the full government name of the fucker who rec me this bs manhwa in the death note
RIGHTT?? LESS FUCKING AND MORE TAMING PLS. i hate men fucking so muchhh, PLS FUCKING TALK LIKE A REAL ADULT
i regret reading the novel ... it was just like reading a horror story where mc never escapes and is doomed forever. They "love" each other but it certainly doesnt feel that way.
Give me spoilerssss pleaseeeee
detailed spoilers:
He feels resentful that his gift was only an afterthought from preparing wedding gifts and feels like a fool for thinking he meant more to the ML.
So, a few days before the ML's official wedding day, he plans an elaborate scheme to escape and lay low in a remote hut to hide out for a few months before planning to reuniting with his father (who will retreat to a country-side residence due to his declining health) away from the main house where the ML will live with his new wife, since he can't bear to stand the humiliation of being a toy to someone he loves who 'does not love him back'. He spikes the meal of a servant ML brought to monitor MC with the help of his attendant and slips away without being caught. He runs away with his attendant, sells important belongings that could identify him, and disguises himself as a monk all in order to shake off trail of ML, who after discovering his disappearance, personally searches for MC himself with bounty hunters. After almost getting caught but narrowly escaping, he set up a house in the mountains close to a village.
ML appears out of the blue and captures his attendant who went to the mountains to collect mushrooms and threatens him to expose MC's whereabouts. MC was not in the house at the time bc he was worriedly searching for the attendant when he did not return before sunset, and came back in time to witness the scene of ML interrogating his attendant. He attempts to run into the mountains to evade ML, but ML ofc notices and chases after him. He gets caught and dragged back to the mountain house where he gets thoroughly punished (18+). ML is super mad and threatens to lock up MC if he dares to run away again and forces MC to promise that he will stay forever with him. After punishment, ML promises that he will never get with anyone except MC bc he realized that MC loved him when he found a box hidden in MC's room containing documents that exposed ML's family was guilty of treason and were executed, which MC could have used to have ML be executed, but MC purposely did not betray ML despite "hating" him. ML thinks MC ran away to get the ML to call off the wedding to chase MC. MC reacted with "???"
They return back to the house where both get scolded by the father, ML gets scolded for calling off the wedding to search for MC and ruining potential boost of family standing, while MC gets scolded for running away without notice and not taking studies seriously.
ML appeases father's fury by promising that he will tutor MC to pass exams to be scholar in 3 years time and father agrees. After father leaves to the country-side, ML promises to MC that he will love him in place of MC's dead mother and father's absence and swears to become MC's right hand man so MC can be the household lead. ML allegedly becomes more gentle-- except for when he's tutoring-- towards MC. The end. (They don't depict much happy relationship stuff afterwards)
(sorry it's so long, hi if you read till the end)
Hi!!! Lol thanks so much!!!!
Hey thats actually better than i thought he’s actually going to take a step back for mc
Thank you for the spoilers! Tbh, this could've worked better as a shorter story with this kind of plot
Idk if you read the comments above
I think someone said the original was only 8 chapters but was expanded later, but even so, the novel is quite short--only 40 chapters iirc. So far the manhwa is following the novel faithfully per chapter, so I presume there are only 11 chapters left.
haha its for sure not the worst case scenario for ending .. the bar is so low for these kinds of stories
i was anticipating this chapter release to see how Guwon would react to teach getting beaten by his hounds, but he genuinely dgaf ... ill come back in a year to see if this is worth continuing .
they got a happy ending... but why don't I feel happy too
bad execution of ending the suspense was too much for the ending to be too short
I agree
tbh i don't feel comfortable w mc being with either of them now that it's revealed he has a dead doppleganger who was heavily involved in both ml lives. idek y the author even added that in.. it would've felt less weird if the two mls got reincarnated considering they keep hinting ab how old they are despite being in hs ??. best ending is him returning home and getting his lottery ticket money