Those aren't YOU he is talking to!!!!
It's your robots, again.
Now I hope the chasing and especially groveling arc is long and painful for ML...
He wasn't even there when he could have been.
When the groveling arc is over, if it deserves to be over, ML better not be the one keeping one foot in every door.
He was still partially thinking of company image/outside image, even if he would claim it to be damage control to show Pilsang the news about marriage isn't true.
I sure hope Pilsang manages to build a life for himself and his own self-esteem before ML meets him again, because MC needs something to stand his ground.
Despite that still a good modern story. And makes me remember how far Japanese BL has come. There were similar shounen-ai stories before while yaoi was in its rape arc in Japan, but nothing like this.
I love it how most of it has balanced out, and we can get now boring and realistic yaoi slice-of-life relationship stories. And the relationship problems isn't about just them being gay, but all the normal problems about age and relationships in the past.
Still, this shiet is too boring for me, but I'm just not into this much basic slice-of-life stuff... Doesn't matter what genre the story is.
I just have to stop reading until chasing and groveling arc starts... If that even comes.
I'm starting to think this is just a trick to pull readers along and then nothing really happens. This much anticipation usually ends with a flop and disappointment.
Nobody has promised the readers those things anyway... We just hope and cope.
It was FLs father, right? At the moment they didn't show his face I started suspect and then soon after we hear the full story about how her father was a painter.
i wish i didn't read this LOL but you're on to something
I did but the spoiler tab on this, and it worked when I posted the comment, but not working now?
Ofcourse, not really a spoiler, because I don't really know but still I remember this having the spoiler thing just incase.
no there's a spoiler tag but my curiosity got ahead of me lololol ur good. i think this plot point would tie together the main characters nicely <3
If I was there I would have screamed SHE IS WEARING HIS COLORS IN THE BALL!!!!!
To be honest, the art and prince's remarks wasn't so subtle about it. I love how they did it without outright saying it.
And next ball he is wearing her colors.
Usually this kinda thing doesn't get me, but I think because in all the other series it's loudly spelled out in writing that they wear the colors.
It's too obnoxious for me at those time.
Wait... This one ended? I got annoyed because it took forever for ML to find out FLs identity, so I drop this years ago and now this series ended... I heard that ML just figured it out who she was.
It took like whole series for ML to figure it out? Was it good decision of me to drop this because I would have stayed annoyed almost the full series?
I'm going to still say it:
Chapter 39 read like abusive relationship. It wasn't cute. ML didn't really give any real explanation why he didn't tell about the blind date. Just something so in the situation MC would just let it go pass... Like IRL this would be full on He is cheating, of course the series probably tries to make it more complicated, but ML is manipulation MC like a full on abusive partner.
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And I know this probably get downvoted because people here are really young and gotten use to rape in BL manhwa and stuff, so they probably can't see any social/emotional manipulation signs... But ML has suddenly become major red flag. He is controlling the relationship and is clearly lying.
Even the idea of penetration sex doesn't feel like anymore as MC's idea, now it starts to feel like that ML manipulated and guided MC into more thinking of that - because MLs behavior changed so much. Is he waiting for MC ask to be raped? (Because no way it's going to be switch.)
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This whole series suddenly went really dark... I can't think of anything actually good coming from ML's behavior now. Well he did clearly skip school so he would be there at the same time as MC... So he does have some Yandere tendencies, but this point, I start to think he is full on Yandere and MC going to end up in some kinda cage, while ML is free to roam.
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ML feels so unnervingly iffy right now that it's scary. It feels like series slowly might turn into horror story.
Yeah nah ur totally right. The moment he stopped and acted all sweet again gave me an ick. Like dude u can’t just erase the literal attempted rape u were about to do five minutes ago lmao
That's not ridiculous to say, it's actually something that irked me since earlier chapters because he (the ml) always had some like, manipulativeness in him.
And like, if he truly did love mc in a sincere way I think he would try to talk to him about their feelings yk, like a normal and healthy person. Even if that meant receiving a rejection.
ALSO, rape and sa culture it's becoming really normalized in the bl community right now it's actually concerning
Like jinx becoming supper popular or roses and champagne getting a rape scene out of nowhere
It's absolute dookie smh
The communication thing, not asking about feelings... I kinda would get that part if they would still be barely adults, in high-school or something. They are young, but not that young anymore to have that conversation. Especially when ML have shown that he is socially intelligent enough.
I have said it before... When manga was on it's BL rape arc, worse introduction to yaoi we then got was Viewfinder - and it was the time when Japanese BL had the rape beak. Younger generations are introduced to BL manhwa is something like Killing Talking.
Btw... Manhwa wasn't like that with BL from the start. They violently devolved backwards while manga kept evolving upwards.
I still hold on to the theory that women in South Korea are so badly abused by men that this is their only outlet, getting men rape and abuse men.
When BL was shown bad light in manga, it felt more like it being a rule that you can't show BL in a good light culturally, it was taboo - it never went to level that clearly start to feel like some kinda grudge or revenge.
Or it didn't feel some cases something people have gotten use to being normal relationship, especially controlling and manipulation parts. Now especially those parts feels like that is how manhwa authors and their readers see the dating etc. relationships are.
RIGHT? Like their age and their behavior doesn't match at all, it makes them look stupid
It makes sense, but it's still so unhealthy in many ways because it's causing effects in young queer people outside Korea.
Because of translation and all of that, it's a really complex and sad thing honestly
Yep. At least Japan got better. Not perfect, but at least the media about queer stuff is way better.
I don't see much hope for the manhwa, especially because manhwa actually used to be so much better at first with queer things. (I'm thinking of Les Bijoux as one example, it's basically kinda trans story.)
I totally agree, it was very diverse too, like their approach to relationships and problem solving
But now it's kinda... Idk
Trashy? Kinda trashy I would say
It's oversaturated with terrible plot and communication and a lot of sa ;-;
You guys should check the year this was made before getting confused or mad why the story is this way.
Basically this was it shounen-ai/yaoi wise in that time. There was some weird rule, either unspoken or actual censorship, that gay relationship shouldn't be shown too good of a a light in Japanese manga at that time.
You can see it when you read these mangas from 90's early 00's, but slowly it changes in 00's to better, and the change kept going from 2010 to this day. There were some rare cute low-key shounen-ai stories that theme was struggle of being gay, but most were something like this or something like Viewfinder.
And even this has kinda underlying theme about being gay is okay, but it's not been allowed to be the actual main focus, the loudest parts are about someone being faggot and gayness being forced or otherwise bad. The real message is there, but most of it had to be hidden.
At least mangas evolved and leveled up when it comes to gay things while Manhwa are going backwards into every BL being just rape.
It's mean that everyone just all the time think and act like FL is an idiot... She isn't an idiot. NOBODY tells her ANYTHING. Not when she was a child, not in the family she married into, and definitely not ML. Everyone just have decided what she is supposed to know without telling her. ARGH!
All the people around her are idiots because they keep relearning the fact that she hasn't grown up in same environment as they are, so she has different knowledge. At this point THEY should know that she doesn't know these things.
This is horrible and crazy, but somehow I keep reading and the only actual thing what is bothering me is the huge age difference. Why it can't be "just" 10 years?
......... How broken I am that is THE ONLY thing that really keeps bothering me? What this did to my brain? .... Help me. ;___;
Edit: I think I figured out what it is... I have already gotten use to that so many BL manhwas should be in horror genre that I'm just accepting that it's horror world.
Yep lmaooo
Heh. For me your comment is extra funny, but not helpful.
Because right now I have 13 upvotes and 7 downvotes, and I'm just way more confused cause I don't know what parts people disagree with me and what they agree with... I think I played myself. xD