Love Is an Illusion!

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This is for professional Omegaverse readers only, the type of persons who are specifically looking for the 5 stages of grief and 100 stages of hormone therapy PLUS a pacemaker to assist with your dying heart becasue after you've read this you will be nearly dead with so much happiness that you will feel like you were the one dating the omega.
So kudos to you if you've started this, and best of luck in your endeavors to completing this.


Is the story unique? If it was predictable, did you enjoy it anyway because you like this genre/set-up?
Yes the story is very unique, unpredictable, adventurous ... and the genre is specific to the culture its based off and very on point.

Do you think the art style is fitting for the story?
Started off black and white then got into a webtoon kinda feel with opened up a can of whoohaa!

Were the characters well-rounded? Did they have flaws and strengths, or were they unusually strong/smart/stupid?
Characters are very human like, if you can you understand they are very detailed created and don't lack any thereof. so each person will continue to carry out their role in the story.

Did the characters react to situations and events in a realistic way?
Very. Very. Reactive.

Do you think others will enjoy/dislike this series, even if you didn't? Why?
I think it depends on how mature you are with reading manga/webtoons/stories. I've been in this for like more than a decade now and I can honestly say I've read a lot of risky stories and it really depends on how open you want your mind to be.

I always advise readers to be openminded and don't take what isn't real and apply it to reality, just enjoy the fun and don't take things too seriously.

I had to drop this series mostly because I just can't stand how toxic the relationship is. It's basically a relationship between someone who is constantly verbally abusive and takes advantage of their partner, never being honest with themselves and taking every opportunity to get out of apologizing and someone who is overly forgiving.

No matter how bad it gets Dojin forgives Hye-Sung for literally everything. It honestly just pisses me off.

If you can get past that part of the character design then go for it. The story has great detail and their journey would be cute if there was some character development, but I made ... it halfway through and they're still exactly the same, just living a different lifestyle.

The sex scenes are hot though, and the art is really well done. Sometimes in color, sometimes not.

If you're looking for a story that doesn't delve into any of the conflicts it presents, then you're in the right place.

Kim Hye-sung is a “fierceful” omega; and by that, I mean, he's really just a tsundere. So, he's actually aware of the problematic situations he gets himself in and even calls someone out when the victim blames him in a misfortune. This happens a few times: he verbally recognizes how messed up something is and then he gets "ignored"; the conversation soon diverting into something safe that puts the blame in him. And It Is Never Brought Up Again.
At first, I thought this certain ... trait of him was actually gonna be developed along and within other characters, but no; since the problematic actions others do to him are never actually addressed, there's no redemptions arcs.

Up until now, I feel you could, somehow, still end up liking this. Who knows. But then, Park Dojin happens. And he's the most bland romantic interest. He literally doesn't have a personality. There's not much you can say about him other than that.

In the beginning, I felt like there could actually happen an interesting “enemies” to lovers kind of narrative — given Park Dojin's newfound interest in Kim Hye-sung and the latter's refusal —, but… to put it simply: Park Dojin's feelings morphing into love are actually so abrupt it just feels like a switch was pulled. It's impossible to find out what got Park Dojin into loving Kim Hye-sung, and even he himself says that he doesn't know why he loves him (lmao). There is not a single romantic scene between them that feels like they have chemistry together. There's not even romantic scenes. //(Worst part is, the side couple have the exact same dynamic going on and it's torturous.)

In fact, the only time I felt like they could actually have a deeper relationship… ended up in them having sex. All of a sudden. Abruptly breaking the "understanding" atmosphere it had going on. Which is also a common trope in this story: conflict happens, they fuck, it's solved. God forbid actually communicating to each other how they feel without one of the characters playing it off as a joke or the blame being put into others. There's no consequences, lol.

So, even if you felt like you could enjoy this story despite its inability in handling conflicts, you'll definitely have a hard time liking the protagonists and their relationships. Bland is the word that summarizes it for me. Nothing and no one is really likeable, I nearly dropped it a lot earlier because of how annoying one of the characters was, and their insufferable personality is never really acknowledged. But well, if you like lemon scenes, go ahead, there's plenty of that.

My expectations were low for this one, and I was still disappointed. If you stop reading in chapter 15 or 50, it's not gonna make that much of a difference, since the first few chapters already let you know how the story's gonna go.