The character development and redemption are almost on a par with those of my boy Zuko. 10/10
In my head I decided that the side story is just different manhwa.
Good grief, this is painful to read. Although I feel bad for Mokyeon and his childhood experiences broke my heart, he deserves the shitstorm from Nanjo (although not the beating - any kind of violence = bad).
Having a hard life is not an excuse for making other people's lives harder or for not working on becoming a decent person.He has already met some good people and is able to recognise admirable traits in others. So technically, the groundwork is laid.
Sometimes I do genuinely think the best ending for many manhwas would be mcs and mls to die (that might be since I don't perceive death as something terrible but rather as a neutral experience given its inevitability and I also understand that many people see it as something horrible). I don't see how one can delude themselves into thinking all that was okay, come back from this treatment and continue to live with and cherish someone who has caused all their misfortune and tragedy (shout out to Steel Under Silk). No(t every) miserable mc should 'heal and forgive' and still end up with their abusers.
So we have two mls in "dumb and dumber" style - bad and worse. (︶︿︶)＝凸
Must mc choose between them? Staying single is also a choice.
That was my first ever yaoi and I love it so much. I'm so thankful that I was blessed with good start with this genre.
How tf is this normal? Imagine you have two childhood friends who you'd trust with your life and they are constantly RAPING you the moment you get drunk without any REMORSE!!! and as if THE SHITTY PLOT were not enough it's even written in a COMICAL tone.
Why is this fuckshittery normalised??
This manhwa is healing something in my heart's bl compartment, it did not break.
Could someone please make an enquiry specifically for Korean BL authors, asking only one question: Do you hate gay men?
The art is beautiful and the storyline is relatively good, but the uncontrollable and explicit r*pe scenes make it unreadable. They are not depicted as disgusting or dangerous. It's straight-up romanticisation of domestic violence in its most brutal form.
(I, at this point, have developed my own conspiracy theory as to why so many stories romanticise abusive relationships.)
P.S. stop sending these crazy mfs to Germany, send them to mental health facilities or even better, to jail.
I don't remember what my expectations were when I came here, but raising awareness about class consciousness was certainly not on my bingo card.
It was a gut-wrenching read, and the fact that similar or even worse things really happen in our world made it an even worse reading experience for me. 10/10
Well, if it's not a story of a local man (kitty sunbae) learning basic empathy and meaning of boundaries. Good for him I guess.
Happy for doggo to get to live his own life.
Ah the audacity of the sister asking Jitae to forgive her dusty ass brother for the sake of her insecure ass.
Guys stop hating on Jerkyung. I can't like everything.
<DELIBERATELY HAVING A CHILD WITH A R*PIST MAKES YOU A BAD PARENT>
Mind you I'm not victim blaming. Eunhyun could not done anything in his first r*pe pregnancy and he did not even want to keep the child. I would not condemned him if he wanted to keep it. HOWEVER, after all the disrespect, physical, sexual, verbal, financial, mental and emotional abuse still to choose your pimp/creditor/abuser/r*pist, who failed as a trustworthy partner several times, as a father of your child is beyond my understanding. Are korean manhwa authors OK??
I could never imagine to say that, but in comparison with Taeju jinx's Jerkyung is a saint incarnated and I'm saying this as a person who hates his guts.
Boy, did this story piss me off. So much lost potential...