I was pleasantly surprised with this. More so because of major positives of the series: I loved the writing, the art and the characters. They had a depth and Hyesung especially had character growth. It had an interesting premise that was more so kind of well executed. All in all, I really enjoyed this series and it actually never bored me, I wanted to keep reading and finish it. It's the author-nim's debut first work so apart from small minor gripes I have about the series I find the story to be quite solid in many areas/aspects. The author really knew how to set a scene.
The art: The art was so good!!!! The smut scenes were very well drawn. I have to say, I way preffered how their art was at the start of the series. Artstyle of season 1 was unique (as was the artstyle when the series ended) but I really loved the first few chapter's of the artstyle. Hyesung had bigger eyes, distict black eyelashes. Towards the end of the series I thought they almost looked rather almost same face wise. Love both of the artsyles though. Just I felt like the first season 1 art was more expressive too.
The characters: I feel like Seung-chan character type changed in the later of the series? (Positive change)
He was more cute puppy type at the start, more naive and innoncent. His body language and face expression also gave more away (for example naive worry) but towards the end he was more direct, straightforward and more 'seme' like. More matured I think! Which is funny to say since hes like 26/27 at the start of the series. The almost scary type of cold seme type is what he almost reminded me of. (side note: they also somehow reminded me of the seme in the author-nim's next series: Shadow Realm. I think its his face expression).
I kind of wish there wasn't so much smut, but the author is really really good at them and it seems like they really liked including them so I cannot fault them too much when they are SO good at drawing sex scenes.
Some spoiler related comments:
About the new hired employee
To be honest, I kind of found Jaebin to be an almost random inclusion in season 2. His only role seemed to be a minor role, since he didn't actually had an impact on their relationship nor the story. I'm going to say though rather he was a nice inclusion, since I do enjoy when stories introduces a third party character that gets in the way of the relationship and makes one of the partners jelous. Jaebin was a cute character though. I enjoyed his character design and how cute he was. He was almost so random since he never appeared again after Seung-chan told him off
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About Jihyuk
I assume because he had such a nasty shitty personality even back 6+ years ago compared to his deceased brother is the only reason why he resented and hated Hyesung so much. Because in a normal situation, you can't really blame Hyesung for your brother dying because he ran after him and pushed Hyesung out of the way so that he doesn't get hit by a car His ending was satisfactory because it is implied he is going to jail for abusing Hyesung all those years and for sexually asaulting him and breaking his hand a few chapters before the series ended. Found it nice that Seung-chan would ask his parents for help to get Jihyuk locked up. I almost wanted to say that I wish the assault had actually happened way sooner because I was like ok how is this guy going to appear all of a sudden again I though he was gone, we hadn't seen him in so many chapters and I though the couple would experience happinness only. But I think the assault happened at the story timeline that it needed to happen....because the horrible incident affirmed the doubts in their relationship and actually solidified that they have grown both as individuals and as a couple compared to the start of the serious. And now they can completely put his abusive partner in the past and past trauma of the brother dying because of him
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Ending and Side Stories
I am happy it was a happy ending and they got rid of the ex-abusive partner. My one issue though is I kind of wish we got other type of side stories and not just a random Sex Toy side story. Wish they had met Heung-chan's parents or something. Although I guess the uke meeting the semes friends was sufficient for me enough
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