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Ngl, I don't know how to describe how I feel about this, especially the first story. It was so heavy and sad, and by the time you finally unpack all the trauma, the author hits you with a ''the end'' and gives you 2 chapters of a somewhat fluffy story.
This was well-written because I'm still shook and I can't really process what I've just read, but at the same time, I feel like the heaviness was maybe a tad too much and not rightly resolved? Idk, feels like I've just read about someone decade-long trauma being brushed off as a ''still waiting for you to save me'' kind of plot.
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Oh my lord this is so GOOD! Their chemistry is *chef's kiss*
This is such a refreshing read. The character's personalities are well-constructed and their interactions are so respectful and realistic for once. No bullshit, no unnecessary drama, decisions that actually make sense... I'm eating this shit up. Plz give me more.
Damn, this story had all the elements to be something great : hot and interesting characters, great angst potential, power bottom, great sexual tension, nice plotline ... and somehow, the author managed to use all those elements in the weirdest way possible to waste it all.
This could've been the next great ennemies-to-lovers spy x mafia story to redeem the debacle that was Roses and Champagne. But no. Instead, we got a confusing plot (sorry but all the spy elements make no sense whatsoever), weird sexual tension moments (like wtf was this train arc with the mc just watching is comrade having sex with random girls next to him???), an awful sex scene (honestly, all of that waiting for the culmination to be the mc getting raped while drugged is awful beyond words) and a very predictable plot twist (like sorry author-nim but it was so OBVIOUS from the beginning that he was the bad guy all along).
Idk if it's just the manwha that weirdly adapted the novel, but this is such a disappointment...