Before people defend Yoonkang, the panel after she introduces Yoonkang as her boyfriend, we see a listless So-Eun. Her eyes are listless and red rimmed, dark clothes, hair is flat, background muted. She says “ I’m going to marry Yoonkang. I’m going to live a happy life with him.”
That’s not the face of a happy bride/fiance. That is the face of a sad, resigned soul going to the gallows. And THEN we see the panel with Soyeon appearing with Jian and a welcoming EXPECTANT Yoonkang with a pregnant So-Eun watching.
So-Eun and Yoonkang were not a shy happy couple. So-Eun did not want Yoonkang as a husband. She was resigned to it. He did something, he trapped her. And it obviously had to do with money. She had a bodyguard as a child. She was happy and loved and treasured.
I’m assuming the hand at the end is Hajoon’s.
In the panel where Hajoon receives the address from Jitae, we see a glimpse of a blue long sleeve peek out from under his jacket’s sleeve just like that bloody hand.
It’s such a small detail and it’s only shown in one panel….
Everything we had a problem with, as readers, wasn’t a problem to the bottom….? (That’s what I’m taking from this convo?)
I can see why it was the bottom who caused their strife: bottom pulled away from their relationship during the top’s time of need. Bottom is embarrassed he is now having mixed feelings about his VERY stable relationship. Bottom lost his couple ring and feels even more embarrassed and less inclined to communicate with his lover. All these negative feelings are aggravated by the top ditching the funeral early to check in on him and by the top forgiving him for his actions/losing the ring. Add on to this, bottom is later hurt by realizing the top had experience when he actually had none. I can see where bottom’s pride/embarrassment got in the way of their relationship. It was bottom who originally pulled away and everything snowballed from there.
But, the readers and myself included, were displeased with the top’s response to this strife. I guess the bottom was okay with how his lover responded?
I do think the top forgave the bottom a lot. He forgave him from pulling away when he was hurting. The bottom wasn’t there for him when he lost an important family member which was really left field of the bottom to do. I think it’s important to note the bottom really messed with the top’s psychology when he did this. This is shown by the top making an awful decision to LITERALLY LEAVE the funeral early to check in on the bottom. Their relationship was so HEALTHY before he left, it became toxic in that one moment. Top also forgave him for losing his ring during this time. I would be heartbroken and sulky for awhile about it but he literally doesn’t act that way. He also continues to wear the ring.
This strife should have been shown from both sides. I think as readers we would have been a bit more forgiving to the top if we say his internal turmoil during this time. Unfortunately, we’re really displeased with the top after the park incident. This scene was really the pint of no return for us readers. He was really green flag coded at some point. The park scene should have been angry schmex between two equals/a couple, not one sided. If this scene was revised as such, I think we could have followed with the whole “let’s talk this out in the same place where we were both pissed off with each other.”
Jung woo is a bully. J is bullying/isolating Taesan because he likes him and doesn’t know how to deal with his own feelings. J is extremely violent against T, he’s hot and cold. (J hates T because he likes him but also J wants T all to himself). J is very delulu, obsessesive and possessive. What we are seeing/hearing of J and T is weird and is all based on the whims of J. Any “promises” T made to J were 100% coerced thru violence. Most of their interactions will continue to happen off screen.
Enjoying the MC being twisted…. Not everyone is inherently kind, but some of us learned to be kind instead.
Low key tired of altruistic mc’s being matched with twisted effers. Red flags shouldn’t get saints all the time, it’s over done.
We all saw J in chapter 1 with a different hair color: light ashy brown. I’m disappointed the artist didn’t switch his hair color back to the light brown when they did the fragment images, because that’s supposed to be J’s original hair color. Light ashy brown hair, a plain mask and blue eyes (because of a skill activation) are J’s signature look!
Also, SaYoung, iirc, is supposed to be in a house in the fragment where he’s calling out for J/hyung. He looks like he’s surrounded by destruction. The house setting is important because it plays a role in future chapters, but I digress.
This story has so many nuances that I understand the artist can’t do everything. But I’m disappointed by the hair color not switching. Hopefully the readers over there say something about it.
Okay J's signature look. （￣へ￣）
But you know that MC doesn't want anyone to recognise him as J because his tired of it all?
Regardless of a different HAIRCOLOR, his still J.
Maybe the author is trying to make him appear a lil different than J because even J himself doesn't want to be annoyed by the higher ups to call him back for wrk?Σ( ￣□￣||)
(If he looked exactly as the previous old J, the higher ups and everyone will recognise him as J who dissapeared, nomatter what MC tries to tell or lie about it).
He clearly stated in the beginning of the chapters that he doesn't want to be bothered and wants to live a peaceful life like an ordinary citizen this time.(￣∇￣")
ah they mean the hair in the fragmented world/the memory of the future. everyone there know who's J so he didn't need to duisguise himself. now it's said, I just noticed it too! good memory novel reader. i think the artist should have drawn it more carefully if the hair and house are important. but i heard the novel is long winded so the artist probably missed it or just trying to make the pace fit better by annexing some stuff. i will still be disappointed tho
Novel reader here! His hair turned ashy due to the West Sea Rift. The artist did not make a mistake with his hair colour in the vision. Take that info as you wish!
I thought his hair was OG ashy, but I’ll re-read! It’s such a long novel and I read it quickly. Spoilers below
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The reason I was certain his hair was OG ashy is because it’s inconsistent otherwise. The story mentions the hair dying process a lot, Bee’s unknowingly convenient hair dye gift to Eui-Jae for becoming a hunter, the hangover soup granny recognized J on sight (weird she knew if the only similarity is his clothes), Eui Jae stops doing his hair dye when he resumes his role as J, when J returns there’s no mention of J changing his look with ashy brown hair in the news.
I think it’s weird author would make the hair dyeing process part of Eui Jae’s character and not J’s. If J was to return, J dying his hair would fit the character better, not Eui Jae who was intent on hiding. This honestly feels like a major story plot hole to me now.
@Jasper: it’s exactly as Coco said. I’m talking about the hair color of J in the fragment piece. From my understanding, J’s hair was OG ashy, so fragment J should also have ashy hair. but I’m going to re-read novel and see if I misunderstood. Xavier mentioned J’s hair turned ashy from the WSR.
EuiJae dying his hair was mentioned often in the novel, also it later signaled a turning point for EuiJae. It seems like a character development plot hole to me if his hair wasn’t og ashy. It would make sense if those scenes in relation don’t make it to the comic if hair wasn’t OG ashy.
@Coco: low key scared they’ll delete the house scene… not everything can be brought over, but I’ll be so disappointed if they don’t include it.
No, J didn’t have ash hair in world 1 and world 2, his hair turned ashy in world 3
i dont onow what you mean by world 1 and 2, at least in this webtoon when he first returned to the earth his hair is ashy tho? he also seen dying his hair, so what's up with that?
i will believe it if it's plot hole from author (novel) like samsamaon said
and it still doesn't make sense even if it's the case of time travelling, except if he time travelled and forgot his memory then he became the current mc who dyed his hair brown/black to hide his identity
Spoiler if you haven’t read the novel -
It is not a plot hole. We know of three timelines in the novel. I call them worlds because they technically are different worlds. In timeline one, lee sayoung dies and cha euijae turns back time. In timeline 2, cha euijae dies and lee sayoung turns back time. timeline 3 is the current one they live in right now. The one we see here in the novel right now .
in this one, a.k.a timeline 3, cha euijae got stuck in that rift right? that rift is connected to timeline 2 (because when Lee sayoung turned time back, timeline 2 and 3 didn’t successfully merge together.) cha euijae has been endlessly fighting for years in there and his hair turned white inside that rift . Then he came back from the rift.
Now you’re wondering why in this thing he’s looking at, why he doesn’t have black hair right? Well that’s because he’s looking at fragments from his past life in timeline 2. He didn’t have white hair there because he wasn’t fighting in that rift.
I’m leaving out a lot of details to make it easier to understand
Ooooh ok thank you so much. That's very interesting
No idea where his insane maso tendencies came from. I’m assuming he’s always had these tendencies but realized it wasn’t normal. So now that he’s in university living far away from his parents, he’s exploring with a fever. It would explain why he has absolutely NO BOUNDARIES. But he’s also really proud and refuses to go about it in a cautious, “I’m a noob” way.
Obviously he’s flying too close to the sun and something has to happen. He’s gonna get burned so bad and I’m anxiously waiting to see how it happens. I’m suspecting he’s gonna get caught in some way, it’s the only thing we’ve seen him go bananas about. Hopefully the incident will make him more cautious about his endeavors, carelessness and/or lack of boundaries.
I think it's a form of self-destruction that he developed because of some trauma.
To future readers:
Read this story when it’s completed, it is not completed yet. Read the first 10 chapters and last 10 chapters, because the middle is a nothing sandwich.
We all know MC was supposed to die when the season opened. Something happened to intervene on that, HeeSeo is what happened.
Wouldn’t be surprising if ML kills the guy to stop the attempted murder— and/or ML already planned to kill the guy. He probs thought it would have no suspect, because he didn’t know MC would be there. Or it’s possible he originally planned to kidnap the guy and murder him in the house with friends mom. Then he would burn the house down to get revenge/avenge his mom.
But then he finds MC and plans are completely changed. Which leads to the current mess they are in.
I just re-read the end of season 1 after the recent chapter… and knowing that Seo-In’s mom knew mc in high school and would make food for the next time he came over….. it honestly hurts seeing that she paid off Yeongwoon’s dad after his beating. (That was because of Seo-In’s bro, right?) add to that, she has regret of it! Just the sight of him pushed her over the edge.
These flash back chapters really explains their current relationship and how they’re falling into old habits.
Since u re-read s1, does seo-in’s mom ever say anything to yeongwoon about him needing to part ways with seo-in?
oh wait nvm, I just realized u said u re-read the end of s1, so u might not know