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While in New York, Yujin, a talented young photographer, is captivated by Hanjoon, a renowned fashio...

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out of consideration??? really?? after they double doozied in the car??

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ahh so happy sohno finally has the space to love someone as deeply as he loves. and it's beautiful how yeegyung's love allows him the space to do so while staying a grounding presence for him. love seeing them retain and grow in their individuality while, as sohno put it, their colors bled into each other. it gives me butterflies, the way sohno recounts their relationship years later with even conflict and reconciliation all wrapped in tenderness. i love how the story didn't rush their personal journeys, really taking us along for the painful ride and making it feel more believable and emotionally lived-in. this is how you wrap up such an emotional journey with warmth and peace, allowing even us readers space to heal alongside the characters. a beautiful way to let these two go ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ ₊˚⊹♡

Spring of 1995 at Korea University. In a liberal arts class, business student and sloppy handwriting...

i'm actually glad i gave this a chance. dropped it around ch 20 the first time because the pacing was too slow for me and the discomfort from jiho being a minor throughout that buildup didn't help. but before i tackle the elephant in the room, i want to give praise where it's due. looking at the story on its own terms, i ended up appreciating how well the characters were written given their individual circumstances. this is a story about two abused, traumatized people meeting at very different points in their lives. so naturally, they have different needs and an inherently skewed power dynamic. i enjoyed how the story portrayed how they're each able to fill gaps in each other's lives despite those differences, while also slowly confronting the limits of their own power, like woojung ultimately being blindsided by the choices jiho makes despite everything he's done for him or jiho's father still finding him despite the good choices he's been making since meeting woojung. i think the story does a good job of making both of them behave like products of their circumstances, with woojun not being 100% what we expect a responsible adult to be and jiho being at the very least young dumb and broke as an average teen.

most of the story is told from jiho's pov, so we get to see how his age, trauma and lack of emotional experience shape his thought process. his decisions were frustrating at some point, but they never feel out of character, and i really can't bring myself to hate him. it's also interesting that we experience woojung entirely through jiho's perspective, so he's just as unreadable to us as he is to jiho and we're naturally left rooting for jiho while expecting more from woojung as the adult in the relationship.

the art was also really pretty and only got better as the story went on. you can tell the artist put a lot of love into this work and these characters.