they are moving so fast!!! i didn’t get to see kang hyun dicked enough for them to be breaking up already
Couldn’t stop rereading when it first came out.. let it marinate around the time we found out about Yong-taek, came back, cried when Yong-taek gave up…. Amazing AMAZING twist. It’s just so good.
wouldn’t jaeha eventually die since he’s mortal? i could imagine this would almost be like reverse tgcf where the god is mourning his believer and waiting for him to be reincarnated
manager gu turning out different to how howon used to believe in him was soo sad to read. finding out your superior who you looked up to was sexualising you and was actively orchestrating opportunities to take advantage of you is crazy. they look so hot together so yk what hell yeah
I was liking how their dynamic developed after never being able to make it past the first few chapters when I started this. I’m not so sure anymore..
I haven’t read the original manhwa in a long time, so I forgot this was a spin off of Producer Lee and his first romance, but I was getting intense deja vu while reading the first few chapters (esp when Jonghan said someone told him he looked handsome with his hair up).
I seriously rooted for him in The King of Home Cooking. He was so funny and a great second lead; he made my heart flutter a lot from his moments with the MC of that manhwa and won me over with their kiss on the rooftop. Him being a genius in highschool is also charming because of how silly and carefree he acts as a producer. I’m excited to see the rest of the story and I empathise with his love interest significantly. I love that his first love was detached and cold by first impression/soft at heart when Jonghan is extroverted and falsely nice (literal bystander of bullying). They’re a great match for each other.
i think their fizzled out relationship is completely realistic, and her inability to leave is even more understandable. they were married, she was pregnant, they were both happy and ready to grow as a family.
the grief from her miscarriage would have affected both enormously, mincheol’s disassociation and mc’s self blaming must’ve put a bigger toll on their relationship. his selfish withdrawal of money under their names while they were married, and her working tirelessly to rid of it estranged them even further.
to be honest, seeing mincheol imagine his life with her and their daughter as a family made me sad for what they could’ve been. nevertheless, it does not excuse what this author has decided to characterise him as. a bad person. he is resentful of what they are now, and has made himself believe his miserableness now is a product of her inability. he doesn’t realise how much she is actively doing for him, but im sure he will come to with immense regret.
mc on the other hand, has selflessly accustomised herself to this drudgery everyday. she believes bitterly things will revert back to what they once were, knowing mincheol changed because of their current circumstances, which further drives her to work, and drives her to remarry to experience the happiness she used to have with him in their youth.
i think her indulging in an act of selfishness for the first time in a long time (buying a singular rose) spurring “warmth” in mincheol’s heart is so interesting. we as the audience, and possibly even him, want her to be more selfish and love herself a little more. she’s a shell of who she once was, tired by the circumstances of their relationship. mincheol may cling to her desperately after she’s grown a spine, maybe because he loved her that vibrant way before her miscarriage, or he’s afraid of who he’ll be without her, but she’d only be able to remain that way without him.
yeowoon is not hangover… we KNOW what he’s doing with his alpha bestie
I’m guessing they go back to Jinha’s apartment and are accidentally caught by his friend the kitchen making coffee.
you think his ex also wore glasses and looks like haesoo?
I didn’t read it until the end because I couldn’t find a quality English translation that is completed yet but Chrysanthemum Garden does a great job at accurately translating the original novel. Anyhow, they’ve done up to the second arc and SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
The reveal of Shenya as Pshik Bogdanov blew my mind. Taekjoo’s inner monologue as he comprehends Shenya’s facade ached my heart to read. It was great, I wanted to save him myself. However, the very in detail rape after that was not pleasant to read. I’m aware we can click off as soon as we aren’t interested, but it was particularly vulgar and disgusting.
Seme’s name Youngwon means eternity in Korean, symbolic of how he never stops regressing to protect the MC in each and every life they have together in this damned zombie apocalypse.
I wish the prof would put a cloth over his mouth to shut him up lol I can’t stand him
Sighhhhhh… Can’t believe the ML quite literally stole MC’s future as famous actor. Interested in how the author could possibly turn his character around. I hope they don’t use his obsession with the MC and the MC falling for him as an excuse to not hold him accountable for his borderline psychotic attachment and actions.
What really triggered Doha to gain awareness? Bada witnessed him murdering a villager, acted differently towards him in the next round, and Doha sussed him out.
Bada realises Doha has a broken moral compass after the torture route, and no longer thinks of him as the brave, righteous character trope for barricading the door, checking the car when the killer is still loose, etc. Doha takes those risks because he says himself it was the “rational” thing to do.
Perhaps Doha is what he always was programmed as in the game? He’s still “the authority figure who strives to solve every situation”. On an extreme side of the spectrum, maybe this enables him to do exactly what he does - kill and murder to protect, to survive. Maybe his NPC programming has been pushed to its limits after dozens and dozens of rounds, and Doha’s ‘trope’ is only part of who he is, now conscious. In episode one, when we saw Doha kill the villager, maybe that was the only solution he could come up with. Is an innocent, nearby villager really innocent? To him, at that moment, it was the rational solution.
If we apply this to Hyungshin, the “good-natured idiot” who we’ve seen subconsciously dodging flags, this could be an extremed version of his character trope?
The group suggests going out to the abandoned house and he strongly denies it, without even thinking. Jaeseob, who wants to trek back alone, is stopped by him and convinced into going together. Hyungshin is so paranoid, so good-natured, his assigned character role, at its extremity, makes him an anomaly to the game. He can avoid death, just like Doha is not meant to be able to kill the killer.
If we think of Bada, we don’t really know if he is a playable character, or if he was an NPC who gained awareness like Doha and Hyungshin seem to be doing. If he was a character, then what was his trope?
We’re told at the start that Bada’s name literally translates to blood bath. If we take his name seriously, what could this suggest about his NPC programming in the game? Does Bada orchestrate the massacre of all his friends? How could this be possible, if the Bada of the game suggests the killer was actually a family member of the one who was murdered 20 years ago?
I’m not quite sure about Bada yet, but this manhwa really is interesting… I can’t to see where the author goes with this and the origins of the game.