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[sinallday]

Reading the Love History Caused by Willful Negligence novel right now, and yeah. The slow burn plus delusion denial (on both their parts) is 🤌🤌🤌. The manhwa was peak. Like beyond peak, but the novel? The novel is even more.

It feels unfair that there are so few licensed/official English translations of Korean BL novels, cause fuuuck me. This shit is good. Like brain chemistry changing type of good. Like addiction levels of good.

Between this and Diamond Dust (which I finished right before this one), I may be ruined for anything else (other than C.S. Pacat 😅) for months. Hello new hyperfixation.

[sinallday]

The fact that Wooyeon Lee is so much more of a unhinged psychopath in the Love History novel than he is in the manhwa (or is it just in the Deliberate Design volumes?) is really an achievement 😂

I think normally I wouldn't like a character like him. I mean, don't get me wrong. I like yandares with empathy issues, but usually ones that are a little less psycho than he is. Or maybe it's more refined and controlled than he is (IE, someone like Heeryang who is not really a psychopath, just someone who is amoral for the most part).

I think his character manages to work for me because he is so pathetically down bad for Inseob. So completely whipped. So totally and wholly owned, that I find his behavior entertaining instead of a source of disgust. Even when he is being a crude brute he is endearing. Truly a magical character 😅

[sinallday]

More thoughts on books. I've been reading the Love History Caused by Willful Negligence novel on Manta and am currently on vol 6. I think post vol 4, it is technically a new novel called Love History Caused by Deliberate Design?

Either way, it is a continuation of Wooyeon and Inseob's story post their happy (more like hopeful) ending in vol 4.

I am not sure what I expected. I think maybe I thought the author would glaze Wooyeon a bit, chill him out and make him less toxic (which is what tends to happen in side stories with similar characters in manhwa), but yeah. They did not do that at all 😂

It is so interesting, because Wooyeon is absolutely toxic and remains toxic with no sign that he will ever be anything else. Inseob also had his own problems. He's severely codependent, and is obsessive in his own way. They both desperately need psychological help 😂

This of course makes the whole relationship toxic. It feels impossible that it could ever be anything else.

At the the same time, it is clear that Wooyeon does truly care for/love Inseob, or at least what passes for love to someone with antisocial personality disorder who, for the most part, lacks empathy and also seems to have strong psychopathic tendencies (just to be clear, not everyone with ASP has this).

His inner thoughts and feelings when it comes to Inseob are so disturbing at times. His desires and motivations are just as disturbing. But then he'll hold back on his worst impulses because he truly does not want to hurt Inseob.

Anyways, I am not sure what my point is, other than that their relationship remains toxic, but somehow I still root for them...even though Inseob 100% would be better off free of Wooyeon 😂 (itsmy guilty pleasure read, ig lol). I honestly cannot imagine a true happy ending for them, but I think that's ok. It would feel dishonest of the author to give them that.