After the sudden suicide of his mother, Kwon Hee-seo has lived his life searching for answers. Placed in an abusive foster home, he finds himself repeatedly asking the same questions: What triggered his mother's decision to end her life? Who was the enigmatic man who saved his? Could this mysterious figure be the same secretive benefactor who has been supporting Hee-seo from the shadows all along? Feeling rootless and desperate for clarity, Hee-seo sets his family’s house on fire, hoping it will lure the man out of hiding. But this reckless act in pursuit of understanding might bring more consequences than he anticipated… Can a tree without roots ever reach for the sun? Or is it doomed to wither away in darkness?
Original Webtoon: Lezhin, Bomtoon
Official Translations: English, Spanish, German, French, Thai, T.Chinese
Japanese: Beltoon, Lezhin
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For a debut work this has been really good so far! It has some heavy themes (e.g. suicide attempts, confinement) and an obsessive, very possessive seme. Features a younger seme (blond) x an older uke (black haired guy). The chapters are well done: perspective/composition of scenes,the dialogue between characters, the main characters inner thoughts/narration. Excellent storytelling, excellent writing.
The first chapter really was good because we the readers are told that
The first two chapters:
The first chapter is SUCH an attention grabbing one that makes you want to read more. You ask yourself: why is trying to jump off the building? Who is this mysterious older man? What are the connection between the two main characters? Etcetera. Really good art, good character designs, excellent usage of introducing the two main characters mentioning a possible past connection but giving the readers just the right amount of details to leave the actual story mysterious and then actually slowly unraveling the core details throughout the consequential chapters of the first season. Even the title of the work is very attention grabbing (A tree without roots....)
Webtoon adaptions such as Payback (by Fujoking&SamK ? ) could maybe take note on how you execute the first/second chapter of a series and overall narration/storytelling throughout the rest of the series.
Yeah, so the black-haired guy saves the blond when the blond was a child and basically lives to regret it. All I could think was that meme: 'god wanted me dead and now you get to find out why' regarding life debts. Blond definitely takes it that way.
Typical snowflake behavior. Please educate yourselves before you whine and blame the people who made a wonderful presentation in Paris.