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The end of chapter 30 is breathtaking in terms of that transition and how murky reality and the memory become. I hope people just appreciated it at lesst since I haven't seen anyone mention it yet but it had me stop in my tracks to just reread that smoothness.

I love manhwa artists that take advantage of the visual medium like that, idk I feel almost more obsessed with how beautiful that presentation was than the ending of the season but it's also a pretty neat season ending too

Ngl I don't know what is putting me through this series because generally speaking this situation where one is pushing so hard while the other is pulling so hard isn't my cup of tea, but I'm starting to understand. It's because in this case it's unstoppable sword meeting unbreakable shield so they're both the same amount of stubborn. And it's also because they're both just two broken people trying their best in a way?

It's not like they let their pasts overtly make them act one way or another, it's super subconscious and subtle. Idk I just like this because they're super flawed but it feels weirdly believable with how those flaws come out and I love them for it

Honestly maybe I just have bad taste, but this is a manhwa I wait for every monday, like I read so many manhwa with a lot being romance specifically so how'd this series become the one I'm always looking forward to, why's it so comfy

With the way this plot is going I'm sure the duke is gonna do something that I'm going to hate him even more for so when that happens I really hope we get to see the prince kill him on screen

I really like this story so far, the localizing is phenomenal, really puts you in the setting, and the set up of the powers that be in the nobility is interesting. But on an emotional level I'm just angry with this darn prince, I hate it when lovers are torn apart and I was rooting for childhood friend

Hoping that we get to see circumstances extraordinary enough to break up this whole engagement and get childhood friend his lover. I agree it's probably going to happen because of a deal between luce and ayle

I'm kind of dying to know why he's like this and just what the circumstances actually are because it feels like og iheon is going to be significant (bro spends all day comparing ml and his namesake). I also like how blasé and unbothered he is, it makes the scenes between mc and the ml feel very fresh when it's just our boy being exasperated or playing cute with him.

MY GUY COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY MORE SUSPICIOUS AS HE KIDNAPS A WOMAN, THIS ISN'T DOING YOU ANY FAVORS IN HER BOOKS BRO SHE ALREADY HATES YOU

He's so cringe I can't look away, imagine just hovering there menacingly, floating a woman up to you and then fleeing, this is like that one scene from the future arc of sailor moon where a villain kidnaps her, it's 2 am and I'm just snickering at the audacity of this man

Bro if my friend were bro I'd be telling him his bf is a little sus. I know he's probably harmless but man is he doing a lot of psuedo-kidnapping

Bro's just this one singular green flag of a man surrounded by red, get him a third choice. He's too good of a guy to deserve this

I feel so giddy reading this, it's everything I've ever wanted from this trope. None of the yearning for womanly things and she doesn't even really hide that she is one, I love that she loves the weight training and everything that she's built for herself instead of thinking that it's this big burden on her to act like this. I can't wait for next chapter

This wasn't the perfect manga ngl, I stuck through for the setting and art, but I'm super glad I did. This is... surprisingly well-written

I like that the misunderstanding stems from a failure in communication but the ml still knows the mc well enough to understand that he loves the ml, the issue was more their insecurities. The first few chapters were frustrating because I couldn't understand why the ml was somehow both great at understanding the mc yet misunderstood the mc's intentions for getting a job but it clicked after reading the last chapter from the male lead's pov. The issue was a combo between the mc's inability to communicate and the ml's insecurity so he couldn't see that the mc's was thinking more in a "self-determination" way with his manga instead of a "how to save up money to skedaddle" kind of way. The mc is good at expressing emotions nonverbally, so the ml knows that he's loved but there are some things that need to be communicated verbally such as intentions and actions.

Actually what got my heart the most was the way the author constantly showed us why the ml feels so loved, and it's right under our noses until the last chapter. We see the mc's pages filled with sketches of him, we see him take care of the ml's needs, and we see how the ml appreciates all of these things.

The mc is honestly a more unreliable narrator than I thought was possible for manga because we see what he's doing but ngl he fools us into thinking he's not that great too until that last chapter where we learn how the ml fell in love with him and it's because the mc being able to see past his facade and how considerate he is even when he has no idea how to make curry lol

Actually lastly I really liked the little disconnect between how the mc felt his world kind of shatter learning that his manga was discontinued and how the ml reacted to the mc being proactive. I feel like that kind of dissonance between what happens in our minds and how we react does cause similar misunderstandings where someone may like the resulting action but it doesn't come out of a good place mentally. And the manga artist friend was fantastic at giving tough love advice from a gentle place because of how she acknowledged that it felt sh*tty for the mc but he's living a pretty nice life and can keep at it once he's gotten through the sadness.

Sorry for the long comment this was just a really neatly-packaged story for being a random 6 chapter bl manga and I wanted to talk about it. I also have a hard time speaking and try to show love with actions because I want to make up for it (tho obviously not at this bad of a level).