so many of the comments here are completely insane. i truly do wish life was as simple as some of you seem to see it, but for your sakes, i hope none of you are ever put in the position hyeonji and haebom would have been in because i know me and my mother had been and i know what it's like to stew in such bottomless grief. watching a family member waste away in both body and mind didn't do anything but leave my mother in a gaping financial hole and leave the both of us with long lasting trauma.
should hyeonji have still been given a chance to have a say? perhaps. but let's not sit here and pretend like haebom's father is some awful and evil person for not wanting to force someone he loved to watch him suffer and wither while she was helpless to do anything for him. he left without a word because he knew she would have followed him otherwise, regardless of what he said. a 40 year battle to full recovery is not a miniscule amount of time spent, no matter who you are, and the struggle would have been the same with or without hyeonji and haebom there, yet the misery would have been tripled if they had been present. no one has to like it, and even haebom's father is still saddled with immense guilt, but he made a decision many people would have and currently do make to spare the people they love of suffering any further than strictly necessary. that's not cruelty; that's kindness.
Frrr, cause people really don't understand that watching your loved one slowly die or slowly forgetting you and what you went through together is devastating. How could they think he was SELFISH when he decided to go through all that alone without the woman he loved to spare her the sorrow. Not that what he did was good, but it wasn't because of his "selfishness", at least that's what I think
my thoughts exactly. his actions were antithetical to selfishness because he decided he would rather be detested by her than make her witness a slow death of someone she holds dear. the takes i've seen on why he did what he did are beyond any scope of comprehension and needlessly bad faith.
THANK. YOU. SO. FUCKING. MUCH. Some people here acting like its a very simple decision to make but i get him, if you are on the verge of dying, you will think about every possibility and i think you are allowed to be selfish at that moment, especially when you know it's the end for you. (But i still dont think his actions were selfish, i just think he is allowed to be selfish despite what some people say)
exactly! like if it were me, i would want to do something similar because i'd hate to spend my potential last months of life watching my loved ones cry over me every day, only for me to miraculously survive it but i spend the majority of the rest of my life not remembering who anyone is. it's truly a situation where nobody wins.
they're soooo cute together agh i prayed for times like this and always knew maihama liked him before they started having sex
the life incheol is living is so humiliating to the point of being unbearable but it's because he has such a strained way of living that i'm really anticipating how pyeonghwa might be the catalyst for change for him, and how he might change pyeonghwa. the chemistry they have is literally so crazy, and it seems a little like they're both already in a state where they can't really get the other off their mind and they can't detach from each other easily anymore either. i feel like if they come to love each other, it won't happen gently, not when it's already this intense
THIS!!
i hate his father so much i hope that bitch dies and his mom sucks too, they can both go to hell idc anymore LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!!!!!
ugh i love them, they're gonna be together forever and ever
just..wait… and.. be..prepared..
what do you mean by this.....
..heh.
Omfg no I need spoilers tell me now I’m stressed
everyone saying "well, he means well and is just trying to protect him!" is completely off their damn rockers. for starters, being well-meaning has meant very little in the face of the actual outcome since the dawn of time itself. the road to hell is paved with good intentions, not to mention that his brother is acting like an uncivilized dickhead to a complete stranger. and second off, he's encroaching on seunghyun's agency and infantilizing him by telling him to start packing his things and that he's here to make things right, and that he "let" him live his life up until now.
now, is it likely he's overcompensating for his guilt over how his parents mistreated seunghyun in favor of him, and that he experienced an intense amount of pressure from their parents himself? yes, very. in fact, i'd be really shocked if this weren't the case. he's still an asshole and needs to move the fuck around, though. he's thinking that he's being a good brother by "taking care" of seunghyun, but at this rate, he won't be any better than their parents were if he doesn't start acting like he's got some sense.
anyway chaejun and seunghyun are sooooo cute, i've always loved how naturally they fell into step with each other. it's really sweet that chaejun prioritizes seunghyun and shows him that he cares. they're def one of those couples who would never break up
this is in the top 2 greatest bl manhwas ever and it is not #2 i can tell you that much. jibung where have you been this whole time when you were packing heat like this. nearly every manhwa i've read before this pales in comparison that it's embarrassing for some authors to have the audacity to call their manhwas stories, full shade. you get derived of well-written, heartfelt, funny, and in-depth stories in bl so frequently that one like this can feel like coming across in an oasis in a desert. jibung has studied the blade and mastered the sword arts because they actually gave a fuck. i sincerely hope this manhwa, when it receives official translations for these chapters (and huge huge HUGE thank you to the translators who picked this up and updated it so quickly), becomes so popular that it inspires other authors to stop making garbage and start writing real stories that are actually good
btw, this isn't to say i think everyone can write this well. writing is hard, and writing *well* is even harder. i just personally feel like if a story is what you want to tell, then you should at least try to tell a good one (once again, full shade). i will truly hate to see this one end when it does.
it's so fucked because for a moment, i was quite proud of jinhyeong for standing up for himself when songrik approached him in that alleyway, but he really just had to say something else..... now they really are both in the wrong. i'm personally quite vengeful and a strong believer in "an eye for an eye" rhetoric, but never when it's done like this. jinhyeong didn't even feel good about saying any of that and regretted it immediately once songrik started crying. genuinely how could he say that to him like god, it makes sense why he would want to because he thought it was fair but who or what did that even help. i am going to cross the ocean with my bare feet and the author better be ready for me when i show up at their door .
luke is actually out of his damn mind bro as an optimist, i understand wanting to give people a chance and assume the best rather than the worst of them, but when you keep having to make excuses for another person's bad behavior, it makes YOU look stupid and untrustworthy ☹ you can't call a person's consistent sabotage of you a mistake, even more so when you literally know that he's doing everything he's done to you with intention because that makes it even worse lmao. being overly suspicious and skeptical is also not a good way to approach others, which is why balance needs to be struck and why luke and andrew are foils to one another. that being said, i would really really really hate for luke to have to find out the hard way that not everyone is deserving of his trust just because they've been friendly to him previously, and i would hope that bruno would reconsider his behavior but his continuing to hide the chip from luke doesn't instill much faith in me lmao. if this turns out the way i think it's about to turn out, this isn't about to end well for anyone involved
Here’s my perspective. Luke’s stance is more neutral than full blown forgiveness. His stance on good people having bad moments isn’t to let go of the “mistakes” but to leave room for “redemption” or from Andrew’s perspective danger. I’ve known a lot of good people who got to very low points (addiction, abusive relationships, etc) in their lives that weren’t very good to me at those times. Actually put me in dangerous positions. Some picked themselves up and made amends and some I had to let go. But never have I regretted being there for a friend when they were obviously battling something. If Luke’s not ready to let go of the relationship and wants to give Bruno the chance to prove his faith in his good nature wasn’t misplaced allow him. He knows now what Bruno has been up to and should at least have his guard up with him but Andrew harping on about the rest of his friends sounds like just a push to isolate him. Andrew may want only Luke but Luke has a thriving social circle and connections outside of Andrew that are just as important to him and he has to come to terms with that.
i don't disagree entirely (what i do disagree with is the notion that andrew is actively trying to isolate luke from All of his friends; i think andrew is just not expressing himself very well in this regard, and his skepticism over bruno in conjuction with his attachment to luke is making it look like he's telling luke that all of his friends are out to get him when he's really just saying he himself doesn't need anyone but luke despite luke's efforts to integrate him with his friend group, but i digress), but i'm still really stuck on luke claiming bruno's actions were "one or two mistakes." i can't truly view that as anything but naivety, especially in this situation where the risk isn't only applied to him, but to people around him, too, for continuing to give a known untrustworthy person a chance if bruno will lock him in a storage room and make him memorise an impossible number of scripts on purpose, what else is he willing to do and how much farther is he willing to go? in the end, he still didn't come clean about that picture when he had the opportunity.
now, luke can't be aware of this, but i think he isn't lending enough credence to andrew's concerns and it's a little unfair because he's already seen evidence of bruno sabotaging him i don't think andrew has been perfect in all of this, and even andrew knows he hasn't had the healthiest approach to his clinginess, so to speak, but luke is simply too trusting here. he doesn't need to go full nuclear or anything, but i didn't really see an indication that he would be more cautious around bruno after this, which is lending to my, and i imagine others', frustration with him in this chapter. but all we can do now is wait to see what happens next, so i won't make too many snap judgements and maybe he'll prove me wrong.