STORY (4/10)
"Junghyun has a unsociable personality. He shows a strong passion for art in the workshop where he‘s first introduced to a man named Park Ho. One day when he wasn’t the only one, he could feel a burning gaze..."
Starts off promising, an anti-social Junghyun faced with a positive and colourful character that Ho is, Ho is intially quite an extroverted man and as soon as he lays eyes on Junghyun, he is already interested in his personality and body physique I suppose. I, at first, enjoyed how, for lack of better wording, clingy Ho was for Junghyun but the cuteness quickly dispersed as during one fateful evening and Junghyun was drunk, knowing this, Ho took him back to his house and had sex with him, no doubt without his consent, at least in Junghyun's right mind. It is glossed over so quickly as if it is nothing which I find horrible. Of course he will find a way to apologise or make it up to him? Nope! Instead, he just keeps on manipulating him to have sex with him.
Anyway, if we do look past that, the main characters quickly fall in love yet it feels nothing like that at all. Their relationship and "love" seems so forced. Ho's affection was already very sudden and quick for a guy he just met but whatever. But then I cannot fathom what made Junghyun fall for him so quickly! They lacked interactions that could lead to affection outside of sex, yet Junghyun fell head over heals for Ho. I felt no chemistry between them, other than Ho saying "you're cute". No doubt since they are dating, I hope more affectionate scenes will come out but the author did quite poorely to show the reasons behind such strong feelings for one another.
ART (6/10)
Overall artstyle is not my taste. Sometimes the head seems too big for the body and the proportions are discomforting. The character designs are pretty cute though, especially the colour palettes. But, the blush just looks weird in the first chapters and sometimes the author replaces the pink blush with a yellowy one, which is not at all visually appealing for me. That being said, sometimes the art is beautiful actually, the drawing of the hair is probably my favourite part, the eyes aren't bad either but the art quality is very inconsistant so I will settle with slightly above mediocre.
CHARACTERS (4/10)
Junghyun (uke) - He has an anti-social and nervous demeanor, just as the sypnosis described, I find him quite cute the majority of the time but he suffers from the naive uke trope, often letting the seme force himself on him without a complaint except for weak little "st- stop..". I have no idea where he pulled out his sudden strong love for the seme, there were no meaningful scenes that could lead to the affection he has, or why he is so easily trusting the seme when he clearly shows problems with that, hence his small breakdown during the toilet scene.
Park Ho (seme) - I believe his affection for Junghyun is geniune, but that doesn't excuse previous behaviour. He forced himself on him more than one time, in fact, thats where the majority of his interactions with the uke is, dropping that trash line that I despise with all my heart "...but your body says otherwise" as if looking at a natural reaction is any way consent. Plus, it is even noted in the manhwa that he shows no reflection for his previous actions. Of course, I love a good possesive and energetic seme, but not to this extent.
OVERALL (4/10)
If this was a shounen ai, I would have already dropped this a long time ago, but the smut is actually quite nice so I'm staying for that I guess, but the manhwa in terms of character and plot is lacking significantly. Feelings seem unrealistic and progressed too fast. Seme forced himself on the uke while uke was drunk and clearly not able to give consent, but judging by the chapters followed shortly after, that situation won't be addressed nor will the seme reflect on his actions.
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