When I flipped to the next chapter and it turned out to be over I said out loud THATS IT?? So good so cute. Nothing too crazy or groundbreaking but pure smut fluff
Don't wanna yuck your yum or anything but I couldn't finish this. YIKES. Love a devoted sweet seme but why the uke bordering on a child/family. The line is a lil to blurry for me on this one boys.
You Are So Lovely (I think it's called) does this kinda concept better. Not saying it's completely unproblematic but much easier to stomach if this is ya thing. This one so heavily leans on the father part way too hard.
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Another one where I dunno if I love it or hate it. Love a pathetic puppy seme but damn is he dumb or stupid or dumb? Like the strat was NOT IT. Dunno how he thought that was gonna work out ???
Possessive, pathetic, (all the p's) puppy seme's have me in a chokehold though so I'm still on board unfortunately
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Dunno if I love it or hate it. Overall enjoyed it but I am a bit weak for that neighbor. Justice for the neighbor
I love conveniently ignoring anything bad about a bl and putting it in my favorites anyway. Once I've decided I've liked it even if you make valid points against it I'm looking the other way completely. That being said..
This one's in the favorites. Completely unrelated.
My take on this is that he's normally quite bright and USUALLY doesn't stand for disrespect. HOWEVER I do think he's a bit foolish for not realizing just how terribly he's been treated by seme until now.
But at the same time he's never had any experience with relationships and he didn't have a good upbringing with examples of how people are supposed to treat you. The seme is also a scheming bastard and was successfully hiding a certain percentage of his dickness.
I think it's a bit frustrating but forgivable how the uke was unable to see the signs when this is technically the best he had been treated even if the treatment was still bad. A vulnerable person was manipulated and it does feel a bit victim blamey to call him stupid for that? At the end of the day when he DID realize the full scope of the situation he got himself outta there.
Just my two cents. I definitely understand where everyone's coming from though. Not tryna police your opinions.
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considering his struggling childhood it does make sense that he’d be susceptible to growing attachment to people very easily. I do think that being able to outrun loan sharks and such for years is very admirable. Uke doesn’t seem to mull over past mistakes and would rather look to the future. So, I think the fact he is able to immediately think of an opportunity to leave, very intelligent
Also, meeting the seme everywhere like that, would make anyone feel like it's destiny or something lol.
And uke knew that the seme didn't love him, and because of his past he might have been overconfident, thinking that he could handle it. "I have endured up till now, so no reason something like that would hurt me, when he is good to me otherwise". At least, I think that's the mentality I would have in his situation.
Yeah he's very clever and quick to survey his surroundings and come up with a solution accordingly
Exactly. I don't wanna say he's not emotionally intelligent since he's pretty mature beyond his years given how much he's been through but he's.. inexperienced I suppose. When your inexperienced like that it's easy to lean into tropes like fate. Using what you get exposed to in media instead of real life experience. But with experience you can identify red flags much more easily and know what they lead to.
This story is fine I suppose but be warned it's like 95% heartache. Fluff is few and far between. Not worth it for ME but if you like a really sad dramatic love(?) story with a decent amount of character development and a short but somewhat happy ending this is for you I guess.
I'm still hurting for Cain though to be honest. That was pretty rough to read. I may or may not have sobbed..
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Y'know what, the more I think about it the more I'm mourning the hours I spent on this story. The whole reincarnation arc felt kinda pointless and outta left field. Just kinda depressing
The reincarnation arc could have been its own story ngl... Cain is the epitome of wasted potential.
We see him feeling out of place and detached even in his family, having this manipulative strike to him while believing wholeheartedly that Jooin would approve of his actions. Everything points to him still stuck in his past life AND mentality, having the moral code of a wolf.
But author said yeah fuck that, why explore this aspect in detail when the classic formula of bad guy with a sob story is soo much more appreciated. It's tragic, really.
No really!! It felt like they were trying to verge two very different and unrelated stories to me.
I'd like it more if they had focused on Cain more than the other guy. And have the MC remember their past lives too. As it stands for all we know it could just be in his head. I feel like they didn't establish well enough whether they're really connected like that because all we have to go on is his word alone.
Why have this dramatic story about their souls being intertwined like that if they were gonna be no contact in the end anyway? I'd like it if they did end up together but have the MC help Cain become his own independent person as a team. Becoming better people for each other and themselves.
He just seemed better in every aspect and was more interesting! But to be fair I'm a sucker for a puppy seme.
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You're onto something! It would have been interesting if Cain really was making up their past and actually had another motive, or was hallucinating. Also, Cain himself could serve as a metaphor for Jooin's self-love journey (the more he's with Cain, the clearer he sees thru Yahwi's BS) or mental health deterioration? Haha idk. Many times I feel like characters in stories represent parts of the MC.
I agree, but the problem is that authors whose focus is on creating superficial fiction for the masses will only put energy into moving the protagonist's progress forward, while treating side characters as tools, rather than people. One hetero story I can think of, where the codependent 2nd ML kinda becomes their own person at the end is Secret Alliance (peak story overall).
Based on how much more fleshed out Cain's backstory was, I think the writer was more fond of him than Yahwi, but again, anything to please the masses ╮(￣▽￣)╭ Btw fun fact, Yahwi is like a lovechild of A Guy Like You's (first story of author) ML and the villain, while the supernatural aspect seems to be a hyperfixation of theirs lol.
What in the freaky shit