i genuinely cannot put my feeelings for this manhwa into words, but i'll try. it's been 6 years since i've first read dark heaven, i grew up, the world has changed but the impact this manhwa left on me hasn't. the storytelling and character building comes second to none and is just so captivating. with the rise of right wing ideology the topics covered in the story are as prevelant as ever. if you haven't read it yet, dark heaven has to be one of the best bl stories i've ever read and tells a beautiful yet heartbreaking story of love in a world full of hate.
guys major unpopular opinion but i really like mincheol (as a character)
i will never understand how people think the cheater is the "most complex" just because they are the villain. Obviously it seems like that cause he's the main antagonist and antagonists are supposed to move the story along. that doesn't make him the most complex and i know there are a lot of people reading this for their cheating kink so mincheol has a lot of fans and im gonna get hate but idc that's my truth
never said he's hotter than taeha, bbg i be camping here looking at Taeha daddy and Jayyyyyyy but I am clearly not blind. Mincheol is objectively an attractive man. which is why he gets away w the shit that he pulls, which is why that lady he had a fling w fell for his charms, which is also why Na Haesoo herself fell for him. like girl. damn.
Its more like ive read probably thousands of stories and usually the villain has rarely made me feel like “wtf is this real how does a person change like that. What went wrong. I need to understand this because I would devastate me if my partner changed like that”
And then you reflect about his circumstances and how his debt and everything leaving his wife being the only thing he thought he could control. But controlling another person especially your partner never results in anything great. Its understandable but not excused.
Hes a pathetic piece of shit with a lot of depth and reality to his character instead of for example caligo from another story i recently read whos bad just cuz and like thats it and i fucking HATE that bitch too.









man their family dynamic really reminds me of that one poem even though it’s meaning doesn’t translate one to one. the one about the father and the daughter looking down on the mother, exchanging meaningful glances agreeing she cannot reason as they do isn’t as bright as they are etc.