It started out so promising and crashed. The ending was definitely rushed. I wonder if the mangaka felt burnt or was told they had to tie it up after x number of chapters.
I thought that they would have a reveal that Beomjoon wasn't actually a gangster but was actually an undercover detective trying to investigate a drug ring or human trafficking. And that being a gangster was just part of his cover. That Jeong Hui-jae would find out he was actually a good guy with heavy-handed tactics. I thought that the subplot with the classmate was leading in that direction. I thought the classmate was unknowingly in league with a crime figure that Beomjoon was trying to bust, and Beomjoon would bust that the crime figure in the process of saving Jeong Hui-jae and the classmate.
We never really understand who Beomjoon actually was or why his real name was such a closely guarded secret. It would have made sense of he was actually a notorious gangster or an undercover detective, and the way it ended, it just seemed like he was a gangster.
In one of the chapters, Jeong Hui-jae finds a tortured man trapped in a room that Beomjoon forbid him from entering. We never learned why. So in the way it ends, it seems like Beomjoon was just a ruthless gangster torturing someone. This is what causes Jeong Hui-jae to be afraid of Beomjoon, but it's never addressed again. I wish that subplot had been resolved. I wish Jeong Hui-jae was given answers. I wish we were given answers. It would have been nice to learn what happened to Jeong Hui-jae's father, who abandoned his own son to escape loan sharks. I thought the father would make an appearance again, and Jeong Hui-jae would either confront him, or Beomjoon would intervene on his behalf. SO. MANY. UNANSWERED. QUESTIONS. AND. HANGING. PLOT. THREADS.
It started out so promising and crashed. The ending was definitely rushed. I wonder if the mangaka felt burnt or was told they had to tie it up after x number of chapters.
I thought that they would have a reveal that Beomjoon wasn't actually a gangster but was actually an undercover detective trying to investigate a drug ring or human trafficking. And that being a gangster was just part of his cover. That Jeong Hui-jae would find out he was actually a good guy with heavy-handed tactics. I thought that the subplot with the classmate was leading in that direction. I thought the classmate was unknowingly in league with a crime figure that Beomjoon was trying to bust, and Beomjoon would bust that the crime figure in the process of saving Jeong Hui-jae and the classmate.
We never really understand who Beomjoon actually was or why his real name was such a closely guarded secret. It would have made sense of he was actually a notorious gangster or an undercover detective, and the way it ended, it just seemed like he was a gangster.
In one of the chapters, Jeong Hui-jae finds a tortured man trapped in a room that Beomjoon forbid him from entering. We never learned why. So in the way it ends, it seems like Beomjoon was just a ruthless gangster torturing someone. This is what causes Jeong Hui-jae to be afraid of Beomjoon, but it's never addressed again. I wish that subplot had been resolved. I wish Jeong Hui-jae was given answers. I wish we were given answers. It would have been nice to learn what happened to Jeong Hui-jae's father, who abandoned his own son to escape loan sharks. I thought the father would make an appearance again, and Jeong Hui-jae would either confront him, or Beomjoon would intervene on his behalf. SO. MANY. UNANSWERED. QUESTIONS. AND. HANGING. PLOT. THREADS.
Instead, we get a kind of abrupt ending.