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I assume by the abrupt ending that the author either was forced to end it prematurely because of a lack of support from readers, or didn't want to continue the story any longer and went out of her way to end it (but judging by all the potential plot lines she had laid out throughout the story, I'm inclined to think she was forced or at least at odds with the publisher). A lot of unpopular manhwas are forced to end when a lot of plot lines have yet to unfold like this one.

Seungho is a psychopath and as of now they are stuck in a toxic relationship. But if Nakyum leaves his side he will fall into the hands of the likes of Min. There's really no win for Nakyum at this point. He didn't even get himself in this situation, bitches just won't leave him be. We can only wait for the (assumed) character development of Seungho. Or Nakyum could run away for good and everyone has their own ending, but I doubt the author is that ground breaking.

Out of the three couples, Dojin and Hyesung have the most "unromantic" dynamic. The fruition of their "mutual love" feels extremely immature (the chapter where Hyesung suddenly confessed and got lovey-dovey with Dojin because he's jealous and insecure, it's a typical plot device but since Hyesung's character just kinda turned upside down for the sake of having him mutually love Dojin the whole situation seems rush without proper build-up). They don't even seem like "character" anymore but more or less a hightened version of a bunch of stereotypes slapped together because "cuteeee".

It's funny that they are the couple who has the most time in the story but has the least character development and the most poorly-executed relationship dynamic.

At this point I wonder how Seungho can redeem himself. What can he do, since he gone and done everything to torture Nakyum physically and psychologically. Like what kind of romanticized Stockholm syndrome can the author pull to actually justify this "love story"? They have never actually talk or share anything with each other on a deeper, more emotional level. The love between them as of now is only obssession for Seungho and sexual pleasure for Nakyum. If the story is goin to progress like this, it would be a really shallow love story, where readers have to convince themselves the characters are in mad love because they happen to be main characters in a love story.

Is that sometimes it's a little bit too obvious that the story is being milked.

There is development, no doubt, but the plot devices used are really repetitive. Readers have to endure misunderstanding after misunderstanding and lack of communication just for a crumb of "character development". 60 chapters in and no potential plotlines have actually unfold (Inhun's plan, Min's plan, Seungho's past) except for the kidnapping (which the author spent a lot of chapter building up only to let it spiral into YET another misunderstanding and potential rape). The art is great, but if we're really honest with ourselves and strip it bare, the story is progressing at an incredibly slow pace and some chapters are just gratuitous filler sex.

I understand that this is kinda in a feudal setting so to the lowborn Nakyum, practically anyone is to be feared, but if this is reallyyyy a feudal setting, Nakyum would have been killed a long time ago. For him to live this long is obviously because this is a love story, but whether it's going in the direction of BJ Alex (seme was cruel at first but then had major character development) or Killing Stalking (full-on horror), it's kinda starting to lose its edge. It could not even be categorized as psychological, because aside from Seungho's seem-to-be interesting past, there's nothing particularly thought-provoking about the characters and their dynamics.

The story is angsty, but it's your run of the mill angst with a lot of rape stemmed from misunderstanding and frustration. If this story has more than 100 chapters (which seems to be the average length of a popular boylove manhwa), imagine the rush to wrap up all the plotlines that could have come in place of filler sex chapters.

I think Chowon apologizing is a sign he wants to be a better person for Kyungsoo. Since Kyungsoo "won't see him like this", Chowon knows he has to step up and make amends for all his wrongdoings. Only when he has come to terms with all the things that need fixing can he start to fix them.

He's just sick. It would be weird to build a whole ass story wherein they been through a lot to be with each other, and then kill off one of them in the side story (because of cancer, no less). It would create humongous backlash. No one wants to buy the goods of a love story where one of the lover dies such a painful and not to mention young death.

Getting Chowon to accept his feelings might not be as hard as getting him to accept the fact that Kyungsoo is somehow (indirectly) related to Dojun. The real shit storm is when Chowon finds out about Kyungsoo's relationship with Hyesung and the Park family.

This must be (one of) the author's first work. This is an overused conflict, but the author makes it more unbearable because the conflict has no "real" reason, so readers can't really get behind the characters' decisions and instead only feel frustrated. It would be understandable if the uke has some sort of trauma that makes him hate sex but he is afraid to tell the seme cuz it hurts him so much, but instead we have this half-ass excuse for a conflict just for the sake of conflict. The author tried too hard to follow the conflict-solving-make up sex route, but she forgot to flesh out her characters to make them look like human, instead of carbon copies of some formula.

Why does Cole want to keep Brad as a second option if he claims to love Alex so much? Does he love Alex or does he not, because this kinda thought seems to be unnecessarily calculative from someone who is obsessively in love. I don't know but the train of thoughts is really weird here like nothing adds up on Cole's part.