Reading (read chapter 55) (bear with the shitty translations until chapter 3 (utter crap) because it’s gets NORMAL BY C04). 4 sex scenes (first time c11 (starts sexy time at c10) in hotel bed in bathrobes from behind but.. WHAT THE FUCK THEY DON’T SHOW ANYTHING THIS IS NOT EVEN CENSORED BUT IMPLIED WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BL?!!); 2nd c32 in bed missionary naked but how would I know SINCE THEY DON’T SHOW ANYTHING!; 3rd c33 from the back but again not down and 1 panel but counted it as it’s not like anything is shown ANYWAY DAMN IT; 4th c49 both naked I think missionary in bed but again nothing shown but at least more of an idea of what’s happening after fingering and bj from seme to uke; First kiss c09). We’re June 16, 2024 and I haven’t started a new BL manga in a bit but I’m actually very intrigued by the first skimmed chapter hmm!! WHAT THE FCK IS THIS THEY DON’T SHOW ANYTHING WHATSOEVER THE SEX IS ONLY IMPLIED EITHH ABSOLUTELY NO NUDITY BELOW THE WAIST IN FACT THEY DARKEN IT WHAT’S THE USE OF HAVING SEX IF YOU WON’T SHOW IT WHAT THE FCKKK!! This went from 5/5 to 4/5 due to NOTHING SHOWING!! Aside from that MAJOR LETDOWN, it’s a fun read that kept me going and also got me to chuckle and LOL a few times from uke’s antics or something Seme did. I love how Seme is the my pace dumb but smitten boyfriend who’s completely oblivious to being smitten and uke is the feisty short-tempered girlfriend who has to reign in her stupid airhead boyfriend lol!
NOTES: WHAT SHIT IS THIS THAT THEY DON’T SHOW THE SEX SCENE AT ALL!! JUST THEIR FACES GRUNTING AND HAVE NO IDEA IF SEME IS FINGERING UKE OR WHAT HE’S DOING DOWN THERE LIKE WHAT THE FUCKKKKK!!!
C04: All misunderstandings between them get cleared up after uke drunkenly admits to being gay and to keep it a secret. Uke jumped to conclusions about seme as he’s not homophobic and doesn’t hate uke. He’s just a normal straight guy so can’t relate. Also uke admits Seme’s cold and unresponsive demeanour makes uke uncomfortable so seme starts to be more easygoing and free even telling uke he can stay outside if Uke wants to have fun and bring home guys to fool around with. Seme had broken up with his girlfriend so was alone and hates being alone so asks uke to stay with him until he has to meet with his brother in Barcelona in a few days. Their unpleasant companionship becomes awkward fun after that.
[cont] IT STARTS!! STRAIGHT SEME THINKS UKE IS CUTE!
C06: OMG Seme who was ambivalent to uke in the past and completely uninterested now finds uke REALLY cute haha! Seme is the kind of guy who’s actually nice and chill once you get to know him or at least become close to him. Seme uninterested with others he doesn’t care about but becomes nice if he cares, basically is actually a soft guy and shows his true self with ones who know him otherwise is cold and blunt. I love that uke who when he had a crush on seme wanted to be close to seme and would get so happy but now that he wants to keep his distance, seme is the one who seems to want to close the gap! SO SEXY!
C08: Love that seme follows uke when they run into each other by chance again haha. By now seme really likes uke’s company and finds him really cute (due to his contrast between innocent and having a temper) but in a I wanna keep hanging out with him and the fact that he’s gay isn’t a problem. I can’t wait for seme to find uke cute and want to make him his! They’re at a club and seme is going off with women but laughs at uke’s antics.
C09: OMG SEME KISSES UKE THINKING HE REALLY IS CUTE AND WONDERS IF HE’S BISEXUAL and propositions uke!!
C28: (Flashback) AWWW UKE MADE ME TEAR UP crying after a bad experience where he almost got gang-raped and relaying sadly how lonely he feels as a gay guy and his friend hyung listens and also confesses he’s gay. I LOVE UKE FRIENDSHIP WITH HIS SENPAI HYUNG YOON DAWOOL (a department and 3 years older) who’s also gay but has a bad sour personality so doesn’t have any friends.
C29: I cried here!! Dawool hyung and uke’s friendship is truly sweet! Hyung apologises for snapping at Uke via an anonymous letter on radio save IT WAS SO TOUCHING I CRIED AWWWW!!
C30: Personally I’m not a fan of uke’s confessing first but it did fit. Now I want seme to go crazy for Uke!!
C38: (Flashback sent Childhood): Explains why seme hates being alone and why he’s never serious about anyone. Defence mechanism. Enter Seme’s grandma even he started getting used to being all by himself in America dealing with shitty racist bullies who shut up once he knew how to deal with them. C39: Grandma showed him warmth and at first he hated it it was awkward as he was used to being alone but then he got used to it and needed her so when she died a few years later he was heartbroken and hated being alone. C40: Seme count take the pain of losing the only one who was so close to him so he Never cared for people deeply so as not to feel pain as everyone leaves as it’s just a natural part of life and there’s no point in caring too deeply.
C42: FINALLY FIRST HINTS OF JEALOUS SEME!! AND POSSESSIVE SEME!! It’s subtle but there’s 3 obvious instances: 1) when uke is horsing around on his dear Dawool hyung’s back seme just stares and then subtly tugs uke’s shirt saying uke is probably tiring his hyung our (subtle call to get off and away); 2) When uke is walking with seme and hyung in the middle, Seme possessively cuts in to hyung’s path to be close and dote on uke & 3) When seme’s bad boy seme-type best friend Eden Lee kissed uke as a greeting in their first meet, surprised seme pulls him back and while dlesnt act upset, the vicious grip Seme grabs his friend Eden by was PRETTY HOT!!!
C44: I LOVE HOW OBLIVIOUS SEME is to how much he’s into uke. So so far it was clear Uke was head over heels but seme was lukewarm, like sure he likes Uke but mainly that he serves the purpose that seme believes Uke wouldn’t leave him as his biggest fear is being alone, aside from the fact that he really finds Uke cute and does genuinely like him. So even though uke is visibly more into Seme then seme is into uke, it’s hilarious that he’s the one who can’t stop thinking about uke when they have to separate rooms to accommodate seme’s seme-type best friend wild bad boy Eden Lee (who is clearly gonna have his own romance with uke’s beloved Dawool hyung who’s gonna be Uke in this case (he was at first seme coded)), seme doesn’t mind being in separate rims rooms and while he finds it cute that uke is sad about it and pouty, he doesn’t understand what the fuss is about thinking they’re gonna spend time together anyways it’s just at bedtime they have to separate. Also that he’d be fine since he’ll be with friends whereas uke wants to be with him. Uke realises he’s the only one who feels like it’s a big deal (in earlier chapters Seme also doesn’t get why it was a big deal to uke that seme is still friends with his ex girlfriends). That said, Seme can’t stop thinking about uke constantly even when he’s with his close friends and supposedly wouldn’t be lonely even if it’s just to think how silly but cute how Uke is being to be so clingy making a big deal out of this situation and laughing about uke’s antics yet is totally oblivious to his ALWAYS THINKING about uke and even thinking uke loves chicken when they eat it with seme’s friends. It feeds seme’s ego so there’s a sense of superiority in that “he’s so cute for being like that but I don’t really get it” way. YET. Seme is the one who ends up going to uke’s new temporary room when it’s been ZERO DAYS since they moved rooms HAHAHA. Seme down bad and doesn’t even realise it LOL. Also oblivious to his own jealousy in c42 LOL.
C45: SEME BEING SO DOWN BAD BECAUSE uke which was kinda annoyed that seme didn’t miss him when he came to give the fried chicken is shocked when seme who’s a little drunk came over and over and over to give him things like beer and snacks and just random excuses to keep seeing uke HAHAHA!!
C46: First serious lovers quarrel: Our Baka Couple have another fight over stupid seme’s obliviousness of being unaware if his own actions. He’s said before that he keeps getting dumped because he’s too open-minded and laid back about his relationships and this time when uke is angry at seme for agreeing to spend alone time with a girl who clearly wants to get with him, uke storms away and seme is annoyed with uke for always being upset with him without telling him why and wonders if they’ll break up and thinks maybe it will happen since there’s no chemistry between them but his heart throbs painfully at the idea and doesn’t understand why (boy you’re in love and don’t want to break up duh!).
[cont] For the first time in his life, seme is pissed at someone (uke). Because he’s bewildered as to why uke is pissed with him (read above para), that uke won’t tell him and it shows and his seme-type best friend Eden comments how surprising it is as seme never gets annoyed when seme tells him he’s annoyed with a friend, saying that’s never happened as seme never talks bad about anyone since he doesn’t consider humans lol so if someone is problematic seme cuts them out with a nonchalant sigh rather than annoyance. Eden says Seme doesn’t care enough about people to be upset with them once telling Eden there’s no reason to. Eden rightly concludes it’s about seme’s roommate (uke) and accidentally sends a text seme was thought was too harsh to send but wrote in the heat if his annoyance: “Woojin, you’re too sensitive.”
C47: WHOA CHAPTER OF HARD TRUTHS. Seme and Uke talk about the fight when uke confronts seme (read since paragraph) and while Seme didn’t mean to send that text, he doesn’t get why uke makes such a big deal about seme’s going out with a girl for a meal. Turns out seme is into open relationships and doesn’t rule out the possibility of meeting someone new. That said, he wouldn’t do it without the partner’s consent as he doesn’t outright cheat but he’s into polyamory. Seme says he wouldn’t make a fuss about all the things uke is making a fuss about it if the tables were turned. And that if something asks him out, he’d ask uke before going out with them (to which uke vehemently days he’d never agree) but that ultimately he’d go wherever his heart took him. When uke asks seme if he likes uke at all, Seme admits he only likes those who like him, it’s the same with uke now, that even if Seme finds him adorable, he likes Uke because uke likes him (I wouldn’t necessarily agree there Seme hehe I think the poor guy is deluding himself as he got interested in Uke before he was sure uke was interested in him lol but for now let’s just mourn uke who believes seme’s own denial). Seme asks if it’s a deal breaker if Uke wants them to break up and uke tells him while he’s not ok with this he doesn’t want to break up. Uke loves Seme too much to lose him even if it hurts him that seme might start dating someone else, he wants to stay by seme’s side. Nooo uke, have some self respect! But I kinda hey right now he can’t think of letting seme go as seme is his first everything even if uke is just another in a line of so many for Seme. Uke just accepts that he’s the one who’ll lose in this relationship because he’s the one who’s in love in this relationship. Seme is special to him even if uke is not to seme. NOOOO! DAMN YOU SEME I HOPE YOU FALL DESPERATELY IN LOVE WITH UKE ANY UKE BREAKS *YOUR* HEART!!! GRRRR!!!
C48: Even though seme said all the above, it doesn’t get past his Seme-type best friend Eden that seme is acting like he’s gonna spend the rest of his life with uke. Eden knows they’re dating as he caught them holding hands and being lovey dovey and says he’s weird now because he’s acting in a way he never acted before and asks seme what would happen if they break up and seme freezes. Seme is unceremoniously kicking out Eden just because uke is gonna move back in. Seme assures his friend nothing’s changed this is just like any of his past relationships so Eden asks him to come out to pick up girls which seme hesitates.
C49: SEME WHO IS SO IN LOVE AND TOTALLY IN DENIAL AND OBLIVIOUS TO HUS OWN FEELINGS. After what his friend said, seme can’t stop watching uke and thinking he’s so pretty, like THE WHOLE TIME STARING AND every body part thinking uke is pretty everywhere and seme is impatient in bed and sucking odd uke which he’s never done before and seme is so totally smitten thinking uke is beautiful while fcking him and still staring after uke falls asleep thinking he wants to see uke more even though uke is right there. SMITTEN SEME. SEMESOINLOVE!
C50: UTTERLY BESOTTED COMPLETELY SMITTEN SEME WHO CAN’T STOP STARING AT UKE REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY ARE OUBLIC OR PRIVATE BECAUSE HE THINKS UKE IS TOO CUTE OR BEAUTIFUL OR PRETTY OR HANDSOME OR COOL. Now uke knows seme is only going out with him because uke likes him and vows to like him more to remove any possibility of anyone stealing him away yet when seme acts utterly besotted and smitten like that, it makes uke believes seme is so much more in love with uke than uke is.
C50: Love how annoyed seme gets from being away from his uke. For the first time he’s annoyed he’s not getting time with uke as uke suddenly gets super busy. Seme wonders if he actually misses uke or if it’s just his usual loneliness kicking in. Boy YOU DOWN BAD YOU NEED YOUR UKE! It’s clear by the next chapter which of the two it is fufufu!
C52: Seme best friend Eden takes seme out to a club to the hopes of breaking up his relationship with uke (just so he can move in with seme because he hates his current roommate, the ever anal strict and bad personality Yoon Dawool (uke’s dear close hyung friend in the same department)) and seme knows uke will get upset but tries to justify that he already told uke what he’s like (that he won’t stop others from being with him as he’s into open relationships) yet for the first time EVER, where before he would be happy to be with other people, NOW HE IS BORED AND DOESN’T GET WHY! Even his friend comments on how normally seme would happily be flirting with other girls together and is puzzled as to why seme seems so down and not into wanting to hit on other girls, lol. SEME YOU DOWN SO BAD FOR UKE YOU MISS HIM TERRIBLY!! Eden tries to distract him by giving seme a girl’s phone who has asked for his number just when uke barges into the club fuming that seme is doing this again but when seme sees uke is suddenly beams with utter happiness calling it uke’s name, much to Eden’s shock and disgust haha! Eden your tactics won’t work your friend is too much in love HE DOWN BAD!!
C54: GOT BUTTERFLIES IN MY BELLY FROM STUPID OBLIVIOUS UNAWARE OF HIS OWN FEELINGS SEME’S JEALOUSY. After uke says he needs time to think when they talk about the fact that seme yet again hurt uke with his open minded free Love thinking (meeting his friend Eden at the singles bar/ club), seme thinks it might be the sign that uke wants to break up because that’s what his previous girlfriends used to team him before it was over. Even though he thinks it’s inevitable as he sent to a place he knew would upset uke, he wasn’t even having fun until uke showed up, he didn’t go out with anyone or flirt so he doesn’t think he actually did anything wrong. That said, the thought of breaking up makes his chest throb and doesn’t understand why. When uke tells his Dawool hyung the truth about his relationship with seme, hyung goes batshit crazy as there’s one thing he doesn’t forgive and that’s cheating as he was cheated on by his ex-boyfriend (even though seme hasn’t technically cheated), and stomps his way to uke’s boyfriend furious and ready to beat him with a baseball bat lol and uke tries to stop him. JEALOUS SEME whose chest hurts and feels betrayed seeing uke hold his hyung by the waist thinking after uke said he needed time to think yet is supposedly having fun with someone else (he’s not he’s trying to stop the man from beating his boyfriend lol). Seme was clear about being in an open relationship, that would also apply to uke yet being hurt by that for some reason and completely oblivious to the fact that it’s hyung is about to beat him haha. Seme gets a taste of his own medicine btch, you wanted an open relationship right? That also applies to uke you get, then why feel so betrayed when uke does it eh? He realises he doesn’t have a choice but to accept the situation but finds it unpleasant! HA HA! Seme stupidly asks if uke and his hyung are dating in his hurt jealousy and uke uppercuts him from rage hahaha!
C55: SEME WHO IS OVER THERE MOON LIKE A SPOILED HAPPY PUPPY SEME JUST BECAUSE UKE DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING WITH HIS HYUNG. Uke asks if seme doesn’t care that uke would get with other people (thinking seme would never get jealous as he doesn’t care about uke the way uke loves seme) but seme days as long as they’re not the reason behind their breakup he has to accept it (but seme has a hard time saying those words as clearly he doesn’t realise he hates the idea lol). UTTERLY INFATUATED SEME. TOTALLY SMITTEN SEME who acts sorry lovey Dovey and spoiled to uke aww!
[cont] SEMESOINLOVE YET INDENIAL HAHA BUT SAYS HE ALWAYS ACTS LIKE A FOOL AROUND UKE, he does insane and his feelings are all over the place, that he feels strange and he says this while acting like a spoiled baby to uke wanting his attention and touch and UTTERLY THE MOST IN LOVE MAN EVER LOL.
C56: UTTERLY IN LOVE INFATUATED SEME WHO MISSES UKE SO MUCH WHEN UKE LEAVES FOR HOME HE LIES ON UKE’S BED AND SNIFFS HIS SMELL ON THE SHEETS!
C58-59: it goes from seme missing uke LIKE CRAZY and refusing to break up with him (58) when his friend Eden tells him to as there’s plenty of fish in the sea (Eden just doesn’t want to live with his hardass roommate (uke’s close hyung friend) because he got too personal about his past failed career as a prodigal rookie violinist) and Eden is shocked that seme has indeed changed so much. SEMESOINLOVE.
C59: BREAK UP!! Uke has a horrible day hearing his disgusting broadcast station Club problematic senior talk shit about him (how he’s brawn no brain etc) and sees seme be given a gift by a woman (seme was anxiously waiting for uke to come back missing him terribly and the woman who likes him just approached him on her own) so he breaks up with seme being overly sensitive and sad saying he can’t do this anymore that he was in over his head. Seme’s heart is also breaking but he’s scared of the pain he felt losing his grandmother so agrees reluctantly to the break up thinking everyone eventually leaves anyway…
Uke/SemePOV (c04 onwards alternates but c16-17 almost totally SemePOV). Seung-Hyuk x Cha Woo-Jin. University students. Reunion. Chance Meeting on a trip (Europe). Light brown hair x dark brown hair. Broadcasting department x physical education department (sports major). Broadcasting station announcer (university extra curricular) x club member. ?? x 21. Straight x gay. Experienced x virgin. Player x innocent. Unrequited love (uke). Falling out of love (uke). Gorgeous x bland (but he’s cute though). Cherry popper x cherry popped. Handsome seme. Prince like seme. Cool seme. Under lip mole seme (left). Chin mole seme. Popular seme (ladies (c03)). Sexy body seme (c02). Unresponsive seme (misunderstood). Expressionless seme. Pokerface seme. Unbothered seme. Blunt seme. Disinterested seme. Pushover seme who can’t refuse others despite not caring. Uke says he’s an annoying kind of yes man who pisses you off but will agree haha. Fluent in Spanish seme (he’s been to Spain countless times). Nice body seme (manly and muscular but not overboard) (c02). Muscular seme (c02). Abs seme. Broad shoulders seme (c02). Smoker seme (c01). Chin mole seme. Womaniser seme. Ladies man seme. Seme for whom sex is no big deal. Rich seme. Puppy like seme. Super clingy seme. Wanko seme. Super touchy feely seme. Seme is the type who’s hates being alone and is super clingy in new friendships but drops them like flies once he gets a girlfriend (he’s lost many friends due to this bad habit). Utterly Smitten seme (later especially c49). Totally infatuated seme. Puppy like uke. Seems uke had love at first sight due to seemed handsome face but it ended soon after joining the university broadcasting station club after he was recruited by seme (c02 Uke overhead some guys from that club including seme talking shit about uke how he’s probably gay and has the hots for seme and at first says he doesn’t care but when they say uke could jump Seme as he’s in sports seme says that would be a problem as he’s not into gay people). Turns out it was a misunderstanding and seme doesn’t hate gays, he’s just straight and so can’t relate but uke jumped to conclusions after drunkenly confessing he’s gay and pleading with seme to keep it secret, seme says he’s not the kind of person who’d do that and is disappointed that uke thought so little of him, all misunderstandings clear up after uke also says he’s uncomfortable with seme as seme is so unresponsive (seme wanted uke to let him k ow if there was anything else uke doesn’t like) (c04). Big dick seme (c09 seme admitting he is on the bigger side). Painful first time (c11). Condom sex (c11). Post-sex pain (c12). Erection Seme implied (c17 seme recalls sex with uke and gets hard but we don’t see it as they never show anything just he’s crossing his legs to hide his hard-on). More erection Seme not explicitly shown (c20 seme gets hard looking at uke and gets a stiffy and tells uke he wants to do it again). Uke confesses first (c30). Dating (c31-32 onwards). Jealous seme (c42 (FINALLY!!) when uke is touchy feely with his dear Dawool hyung and horsing around jumping on his back, Seme tugs uke’s shirt saying uke is tiring his hyung out (so subtly get off and away from him)) and then most notably when semes seme-type best friend kisses uke when meeting uke for the first time, Seme grabs his friend’s arm in a vice like grip even though he didn’t act especially visibly upset other than surprised). Possessive seme (c42 Seme cuts into uke’s hyung’s side to crowd uke away from said hyung friend). Seme who keeps thinking uke is so pretty during sex (c49). Jealous seme who’s hurt by his own choices (c54 seme gets a taste of his own medicine when he sees uke being close to his hyung holding him when uke said he needed time to think and realises uke is allowed to have his own side fun if seme is one who said open relationship). Slapped seme (c54 more like punched haha because uke got angry he said something stupid like if uke is dating his dear Dawool hyung).
Basically, uke who’s a sports major had a fast crush for this handsome broadcasting major guy and joined his club after being recruited on the first day. Uke acted like a wanko with a puppy love crush around seme so others got sus. Seme is a so-called “yes man” who can’t refuse others despite his Pokerface and nonchalant and uninterested demeanour. Uke’s crush quickly ends when he overhears some broadcasting club members talk shit about him saying he’s creepy and gay for acting lovesick around seme and seme says he doesn’t care (in a whatever way) until they say uke being a sports major can pounce seme and seme says that would be a problem as he’s not into gay people. Uke goes on a solo trip to Europe for the first time to forget and have fun and have a nice gay fling with a nice foreigner but he mistakenly didn’t reserve his hotel booking properly and so is stuck homeless for the night on a rainy day. Imagine the WTF moment when out of nowhere his university crush just HAPPENS to be at that very hotel (what are the crazy odds eh lol BL gods) also in this random European country and city at the same time as uke lol. Uke asks if he can crash with him for the night and seme says yes. Seme still acts completely disinterested and says he doesn’t care when uke tries to thank him. Seems seme got robbed and lost everything so asks uke to help him out. Turns out uke got the wrong idea about seme and they clear up the misunderstanding of seme being homophobic and hating uke for being gay after uke drunkenly confesses he’s gay and to keep it a secret (c04). I love that seme thinks uke is cute but in a this guy is actually pretty fun and wants to be friends with him. I like that because I love to see when “man this guy’s kinda cute he’s hilarious and fun” to “man this guy is cute I want to make him mine” lol! AND HONESTLY, I’m a sucker for stories with uke’s falling out of love and wanting to keep their distance but the seme is now the one who wants to close the gap!
I love how seme once he realises how much he enjoys uke’s company because uke‘a antics are entertaining and hilarious, seme starts clinging to uke more and more until he’s so touchy feely all the time with uke. Also, sex is no big deal to uke and he separates that with his regular life, seme lost his virginity very young so that’s why it’s like eating. For seme sex isn’t equal to feelings or love so the fact that uke takes it so seriously baffles him, he can still see uke as a friend after that. Also after the one night stand with uke abroad though, seme becomes more into uke as in seeks him out but also because their paths keep crossing somehow. They become roommates. After Seme and uke start dating from c31 Uke I’d very clearly smitten with Seme but seme doesn’t get it. Seme’s frivolous and never felt deeply about anyone due to his loneliness and what he had to deal as a kids always being left alone.
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