well he did like his face from day one but liking his face was not enough for him to give up years of misguided persistence, although it shook him deeply from the first meeting. It’s important to note that called cool in the hotel probably effected him much more than anything that might have happened in the bed.

Mr. Secretary wants a normal life and for the characters to finish the plot smoothly, yet he keeps swaying in front of the bad guy like he is afraid he might get missed by the pe*vert. He thinks he knows everything about him but does not take any measures to be less of a target despite very obvious overtures from the villain. To confirm that the plot is off track he also goes to the villain to confirm than the og!protagonist. That makes more sense my a**! A conversation with Jin-ha scoping out whether anyone has been annoying him lately would be much more natural considering their long term acquaintance. Instead the MC goes to the villain’s company to provoke him again. To be fair, his plan to cause a chance encounter between the villain and the protagonist would have worked if only the villain held any legitimate interest toward omega and had not made the plan to disrupt the og!protagonists with ulterior motives. Mr. Secretary is unaware the villain usually prefers betas over omegas due to knowing the plot from the perspective of the og!protagonist.

I am truly annoyed by this development and I’ll need to let chapters stockpile for a bit before I try reading again. However, I also recognize that his actions stem from a deep misunderstanding of the og!protagonist and his suitors. Mr. Secretary presumes that Jin-Ha never considered the ‘perfect’ sub-ML or the scheming villains due to having a “heart that can only hold Min-hyuk”. What he has failed to consider is that the og!male lead may have been the only suitor of Jin-Ha that was sincere to him. The others, including his CEO, were not actually that into him despite going to greater lengths in their pursuits than the boyfriend he actually accepts. Mr. CEO was moved by Jin-Ha, but he was more moved by a potential future he imagined of them together than by the actual person. JH is, somewhat tragically, a placeholder that fit his ideal spouse. He was moved specifically by the undivided attention he received over a bowl of ramen. He did like Jin-Ha, but he did not love him. Mr. CEO has his reasons and I admit I find it hilarious that the second male lead has what can only be called second male lead syndrome. He holds a deep desire to be prioritized by someone, because he is used to never being the one prioritized by anyone. He feels he is not the protagonist in his own life so he gives up easily on emotional attachments. One thing I respect about him is that never does anything to actually force Jin-Ha or anyone else to meet his unusually strong expectations. He gets rejected a lot and not just by the og!protagonist. It’s literally the title of the book. He accepts these rejections with grace. He is aware of his shortcomings and does want to be loved, but he also will not drag someone unwillingly into the mire even to save himself who is on the verge of drowning.

and ironically, despite looking like 2 dimensional normal green flag ML, this is his most personal (2nd ML syndrome) problem: he's not the 'main character' in his own 'life'.

I'd say I applaud the heat scene because the non-penetration lol Idk if the viewer read it, and it also one of few novel with forced bed scene but different solution.... by calling the doctor. Yes, the heat scene ended up with doctor, medicine, and hospital. The bl**job is non-con? Probably in our world. But I think the bar in omegaverse world is lower. It's non-con but preventive measure :p

About the sentence and structure.. idk I read it just fine?

Characters' personality were unknown?? It's shown? Tho initially looks bland, but they're progressively did have personality?? And they did have expression and body language! It's just MC trying to stay low so he's expresioneless. His small reaction was the point of ML's pov and how he started to realize his love.

And no he did not fallen in love wih him during heat. HE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH HIM AT THE MOMENT MC INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS HIS ASSISTANT 3 YEARS AGO.

He 'loves' oriMC because how he treated him in the past and how he want to be loved and thinks someone like oriMC is perfect.

In reality all present he gave to oriMC were adjusted to MC's features/liking. OriMC is the victim lol but good thing he's stay with plot and oriML. This actually made ML who realize later feels bad to MC (he actually did not care) because MC once said to him that the gifting a present is like giving a part of your heart. Up till 68, ML still feel sooo damn bad lol

Shin Tae-oh tried to give the heat suppressant medicine that Ahn Se-Hyun brought with him first, but Se-hyun's body was rejecting it because he was already in heat, thus leading to the necessary s*xual act to relieve Se-hyun's body before the doctor could come with stronger medicine

I have only seen the first instance of handjob, and while it wasn't too bad, it did feel entirely unnecessary. I don't really think it added anything to the story in any case.