Come onnnnnn, they gave him freaking schizophrenia instead of staying on the path of flipping the yandere genre on its head??? Man that suckssss, it’s now convoluted as fuck
In a lot of yaoi that has an abusive and obsessive seme, they make it seem like all these guys needed was the power of “love” to get over being abusive pieces of shit. Like sure he did an insane amount of crazy and abusive things, even physically hurt the Joe, but the guy had a hard life and sure he’s a psychopath but only for special Joe when special uke pleads or fights back does psychopath uke back down or make space etc etc. in reality this behaviour is horrific and scary and the use would 100% be dead or maimed. And that’s kind of what s1 showed right? It was like a horror manga, there was no romanticisation of what was going on, there was no, “oh the psycho is just a little traumatised by his past, he just needs special uke to calm down, and oh seem is still psychotic towards everyone else but special uke” it was just horrific and it seemed to end in the uke actually being, as is what would happen. I think that was the more interesting story.
This author is comfortable with weird age gaps so disclaimer, also it’s been 10 chapters jfc, let the author cook, they’ve only served up bangers till now (Hate Mate in particular is gorgeous) and our mc is young and is experiencing her first heartbreak and betrayal, she’s not going to have perfect reactions
Him leaning into the kiss is messed up but the only way to stop her from kissing him is literally to physically pry her face off of him. What did you guys want, him to shove her face off of his or just let her one sidedly keep kissing him, like sit there and take it, or just keep shoving her off???????? I get that she’s drunk but that doesn’t mean you can get a free pass to sit on someone’s lap, harass them and then non consensually kiss someone.
I’m on ch 4 and this seems generic af????? Why doesn’t she try the other dude who is actually River Ross???????? I know she doesn’t know him but she doesn’t really know either of these dudes and all this weird kissing stuff also seems contrived. Also why not have an affair with your friend instead?? If he’s willing? Why value your friend’s reputation more over the gardener’s nephew? You said you didn’t want causalities but your plan has one baked in, though I suppose neither of these men will bear the consequence like you will.
LMAOOOOOO right in his mouth!!!!!! This is going so bad for her and he’s so evil for calling HIM of all ppl to pick her up lolololooooooolllllll also more evidence she’s an unreliable narrator, now that it’s not her perspective solely (we aren’t in her head) we can see that she doesn’t entirely always think she’s ugly garbage.
ALSO GUYS, WE DONT KNOW WHAT WE DONT KNOW, we don’t know if that kiss was legit or something comedic was going or if it is some illicit weird stuff, based on the author’s other works it could go either way. The title seems to be a play on the title of Hate Mate which is another work by the author. It was also hilarious, devastating, beautiful, and dealt specifically with young unrequited love. I’ve also read most of the other stuff the author has written and the author writes beautiful nuanced stories, they are not typical and their comedic timing is impeccable, let’s see where this goes!!!!








I actually do want to see her kiss him for exactly the same reason she wants to kiss him, which is to see him weak and vulnerable and to wipe that smug face off of him. Also I still hate the stepmother.