Everyone who wants TJ and Ian as endgame definitely parade on toxic sexual relationships and care little about Ian’s freedom and individuality which he got from Jo. I’d rather him not end up with anybody and take the time to focus on himself, but if he has to end up with someone, the healthiest option is Jo. Like I love TJ, but him and Ian are just never meant to be. They find each other just to fill in their own mental voids and then developed some sort of traumatic dependency on each other sexually, leasing TJ to have this limiting possessiveness over Ian, and a lot of the times it fogs Ian’s mind and he ends up indulging in TJs manipulative behavior. TJ needs to heal too, and he can’t with Ian.
He’s lucky he had the coach, like human to human, yet I feel bad for what he went through as a child, and everyone ends up different. My sibling and I got the same treatment from our parents and were only 1 year apart but we act and deal with trauma completely different. So I wouldn’t compare with Dan who went through similar tragedies even to this day as JJK. Definitely can’t ever use these past stories to excuse and cancel out what JJK did to Dan from the first season, because in the end it was his decision to deal with his trauma or jinx the way he did. But it’s a good time to understand what led him to be the person he is. Understanding isn’t accepting, however. Can’t justify abuse even if they come with pity stories like these. I honestly don’t know what to expect from now on, I’m just reading this for curiosity. I do see JJK changing ever so slightly, but idk at what cost.
I think Sunhwa for Nanjo was just a source of validation for his own self worth, I don’t think Nanjo has any sort of romantic attachment towards him, Sunhwa seems to be just an extension of Nanjo’s psyche that he wants to replace with his “worthiness” as a person. We may need like a backstory of Nanjo, given he’s from a big family, his feelings could’ve been disregarded or he probably grew up with an emotional gap, as we can see in how proper he is. He’s basically using Sunhwa just like Sunhwa is using him, but he doesn’t know this himself. Meokyeon’s definitely aware of it though, he’s really good at reading people. At the end of this chapter when we see Nanjo apologizing, I feel like he wasn’t apologizing to Sunhwa specifically because of what happened, but in a way he mentally proves himself to be unworthy because he couldn’t fulfill the expectations he set for himself through being with Sunhwa. Or rather the relationship ended before he could prove himself or his worth. So he’s farewelling to the hopes of that. But I believe in the next season, Meokyeon may be able to help Nanjo with that, but in a much more different way.
I hesitated sooo long to open this seeing it was the last chapter of the season. But I like it lmao, knocking that twink out, just a little unsatisfied because I’ve been wanting to know what’s inside Nanjo’s head, however, we’re probably gonna get that next season. I’m just so thirsty over this, this manhwa puts me on edge like no other, and Meokyeon’s obsession is so valid or rather understandable given how addicting Nanjo can be. I’m thinking the next season Nanjo will start to crave, as he already started, Meokyeon’s touch, and won’t like him yet romantically until the middle of the next season when Meokyeon’s shows how much he wants to take care of Nanjo and give him love rather than just sex.








He’s an airhead but we love the top lol