I have a Naver account so I can see the chapters list and it says there's 108 chapters total (15 chapters seem to be side story) It didn't indicate which chapters are part of what volume tho, just looking at them from the list without purchasing them I can't tell, ridi also does that so unless you buy the volumes I have no way of knowing :/
i think the translator on readhive splits the chapters up into sections. so we might be on chapter 4 part 9??? i did buy a volume on ridi for a different story and it contained five very long chapters lmfao. i wanna say we're 1/3 into the entire story
Oh, that's nice to know
ah okay, yeah redhive tends to split up chapters to make it more manageable to translate and release what they've done already (makes translating easier, I've done split chapter translations before instead of stressing over an entire chapter at once) idk if redhive does it but ik some other groups will tell you the end of the volume once it's complete but other then that it's just a quessing game at this point
caught up to all the available chapters on readhive so far (4.9) and wanted to share some spoilers for those cautious about picking this up:
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there is absolutely ZERO plot development. so for those waiting for revelations about military politics, the company, and the organization they're chasing, sorry... yeoun has only stepped outside geonhyuk's apartment once to get a check up at the hospital for his stutter. every aspect of the story is solely dependent on character and relationship development so far. geonhyuk draws up a contract that legally prohibits him to touch/hurt yeoun--not because he needs it to restrain himself--but to make yeoun feel more comfortable while he stays in the apartment. he also finally communicates the situation, apologizes for his failure to oversee his men, and takes responsibility for it by keeping yeoun alive despite orders to kill him. it's at this point that yeoun understands that geonhyuk won't hurt him. and geonhyuk asks for consent to touch yeoun EVERY SINGLE TIME so far. the only time he touched yeoun without consent was when he grabbed his arm thinking he was going to fall. he immediately let go and apologized.
one of my favorite moments so far is when yeoun is taking a shower for too long, geonhyuk assumes that yeoun is trying to harm himself again, and breaks the bathroom door lmfao. when geonhyuk is trying to fix the bathroom door while yeoun is eating dinner out in the dining room, the power drill makes yeoun flinch. geonhyuk notices, apologizes, and yeoun notes that the sound of the power drill stops but the door is still fixed. he's very accommodating lol
as their relationship develops they begin to bicker lol. it's pretty cute. geonhyuk is deadass laughing in every single chapter bc he can't stop teasing yeoun. definitely not the impression you get from the manhwa LMFAO. anyway geonhyuk sets up cctv cameras around the apartment (he tells yeoun this) bc yeoun tried to commit suicide by jumping out the window quite early in the story. after they become semi comfortable with each other yeoun requests that geonhyuk take the cameras down, but geonhyuk meets him in the middle and takes down half of them. when geonhyuk is at work, yeoun is cleaning geonhyuk's room when he realizes that his bed is too small for him (geonhyuk gave him the master bedroom while he sleeps in a twin bed). yeoun spreads his arms to measure it, geonhyuk watches him through the cctv, and when he comes home, he asks, "were you dancing for me? :)" and yeoun's like "tf. no?" and geonhyuk goes "oh :(" (not the actual text dialogue but that was the vibe.)
for some reason yeoun begins to believe geonhyuk is only one year older than him bc he looked at his wallet so he convinces geonhyuk to let him use informal speech with him LMFAOO geonhyuk starts to get REALLY into it like he won't even respond if yeoun doesn't refer to him as "geonhyuk-ah". doc almost needed a doc when he witnessed that shit fr. anyway eventually yeoun discovers that geonhyuk is in fact 9 years older than him but is too used to informal speech to stop so he just continues?? HAHA
there's also a moment when geonhyuk bought some video games to play with yeoun but he actually really fucking sucks so yeoun looked at him straight in the eye and said "just do as i tell you"
tldr it's obvious the author's trying really hard to even out the power dynamics between the two. imo it's pretty efficient but at the expense of plot development as i said before. i'm not sure how far into the story this is since ridi only sells this novel in volumes instead of chapters and readhive doesn't indicate which volume we're in :/ you'd like this if you were interested in this story for the dynamics between the two characters (like me) but you're going to be heavily disappointed if you were interested in the plot or worldbuilding.
so far... it's clear they don't see each other as romantic or sexual partners (yet?). every single moment can be read as platonic. they just seem like very close companions (not exactly friends?) at this moment. almost all of it has been focused on yeoun's mental and psychological healing.
hope that clears up some questions any of you had!