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While the story isn’t perfect, it’s annoying how so many people online trash this story cause Iseop is a “manchild” and argue Junseop is a better lead when that’s the POINT of the story. Like do people not read the prologue??? He’s flawed and annoying and supposed to be different than your “typical male lead”; that’s the charm. I get if it doesn’t appeal to some. But don’t start a series that explicitly tells you what it’s about in the prologue and then get mad that it follows through.

I’m not talking about people who criticize the story cause of its writing flaws. I’m talking about people who criticize it for its literal premise.

The prologue literally states “this is the story of a man perfectly defeated by the most perfect man”.

Just caught up to the latest chapter (101), and Minato is definitely the best written character by a mile. Sure, he's not the most likable compared to the other mc's but he's got so much depth and development. Really impressed with his writing. Definitely my favorite so far.

I’m not too great with words so hopefully what I’m saying makes sense. And if someone who feels the same can word it better that would be even better.

As someone who read all of the chapters at once, I like the story, but it frustrates me a little because somehow Mi-Ae’s feelings compared to Cheol’s feels kind of unbalanced. Which doesn’t make sense cause she likes him just as much but it feels unbalanced for some reason. That’s why I’m wondering if it’s the execution of a lot of their conflicts?

I think if you read the story all at once Cheol is constantly made to be jealous. While Mi-Ae only has small moments of it and anytime she does, it’s quickly balanced by him being made to feel jealous again. Also the guys who make Cheol jealous are important characters who have faces and names while the girl who made Mi-Ae jealous doesn’t even have a face or a name.

It just feels a little one-sided in regards to which main character is getting tortured and constantly having to prove their feelings.

They both have their pride but Mi-Ae is usually able to keep her intact and have the upper hand during most of their conflicts I feel like. So it feels a little one-sided.

Personally don’t like a lot of romances in action for the sole reason that I feel like they are heavily dependent on the female character’s feelings. Like even now it feels like the female characters (jiyoung and gestella) are more into their male counterparts than they are. And it’ll probably stay like that until the end.

For gestella, I kind of get since she’s a newer character so there’s room for development. But based on the development of the main couple, I have even less hope for gestella and Kayden cause Kayden is even less in touch with those types of emotions than the mc. So if the mc still feels underdeveloped, it’ll feel even more so with Kayden.

I get that Minyoung being the bottom is one of the aspects that makes this story interesting. And I’m not saying Cheol needs to be the bottom instead, but I’ve always been intrigued my switching dynamics for the sole fact that it’s rare. And I feel like this is the perfect story to explore that. Not cause Minyoung is more dominant cause “power bottoms” have always been a thing. But because of 2 things:

Minyoung mostly tops but is bottoming for cheol cause he knows Cheol hates to bottom. And Cheol anlmost threw up once trying to bottom.

I feel like those reason songs make it feel less like a preference thing and more like some sort of psychological issue Cheol has considering he does seem to have a bit of internalized homophobia as well. So it would be interesting to explore why he doesn’t want to and if it really is just preference.

I read this manhwa on different sites because the update timing is a little inconsistent. And while slow pacing has been a complaint on most sites, the visceral hatred people seem to have towards Amy even when she’s not the focus of the chapter is only present in this site lol. It’s a little weird.

Most people on other sites have moved on and grown to like her or if they can’t they just drop it, except this site it seems.

Like she’s grown past that and she’s not even the focus in a lot of recent arcs so why are 90% of the comments about her instead of what’s currently happening in the story

Honestly, I’m confused why people are so upset at him leaving. Ever since his boss mentioned his financial dependence on the ml, I think it was an obvious foreshadowing that there would come a point where he needs to be able to sustain himself and be independent for their relationship to feel equal.

The mc would always feel “lesser than” and remain insecure because of the unbalance over the give-and-take and who’s in control of the relationship. Even if the ml tried not to make it feel that way it doesn’t chance the reality.

While the way it happened was tough, I think him leaving and maybe becoming financially independent will give them a chance to have a much more balanced relationship.

Also, I don’t think the mc overreacted because I think the hyung’s words weren’t the only reason he left. I think ever since the boss mentioned his financial dependence the mc has been dwelling on that for a while now. This SA incident and the ml’s words were just the breaking point, not the only reason for him leaving.

I feel like Mincheol’s hesitance is deeper than him fearing they would break up. I’m still thinking about the purple haired girl bringing up the incident in high school which caused hanuel to wear that wristband. And the biggest question is if the backstory is so traumatic why does Hanuel seem unphased or traumatized? Like it’s srs enough for the purple haired girl to appear out of nowhere and know how to guilt trip Mincheol using it. And it’s srs enough for Mincheol to keep getting ptsd over it. How come Hanel has no thoughts about it? Are we being kept out of her thoughts or did she block it out from trauma and has amnesia or something?

There’s also the question of why did Mincheol drop sports/ baseball. I remember when their friend from middle school met with them he instantly assumed Mincheol was in the physical education department and was shocked he wasn’t. And Mincheol kept dodging his questions when he asked him why.

There was also a scene in season 1 where Mincheol was going on a morning run and he complained about his shoulder or knee getting sore again which reminds me of people who complain about phantom pain flaring up in surgery sites even after it’s healed. Like how does all of this relate?

I just reread the story and remembered he’s still drugged in this chapter. I’m really hoping this will be a rare dark romance that’ll actually address the rape eventually. But considering the author’s trying to explore femdom relationships, I’m guessing it’ll more than likely be romanticized or pushed under the rug like most other ones. They do this in a lot of BLs as well, but it is what it is ig.

Its always tempting to drop it, but the concept’s fun and the art’s pretty and I’m really curious about the ml’s whole backstory after getting bits and pieces so there’s still something to look forward to.

People on TikTok were calling the ml disgusting and cheering for the 2nd ml which made me curios making me read it. Tell me why the ml not only is the biggest victim in the story but is literally the most interesting part of the story???? Like why are people shitting on him even after getting all of that backstory about him being whored out against his will cause he’s in debt?

In contrast, the 2nd ml is your typical hot rich playboy ml you can find it plenty other manhwa. The ml feels like an interesting play on dynamics. He takes the more typical fl role in dark romances while she seems to take the red/ black flag ml role . Which is refreshing to see (not excusing her actions she’s just as guilty as those red flag mls).