
ughh so excited for what's to come with this. backstory doesn't excuse his past behavior blah blah. NUANCE. IT ADDS NUANCE. nexT!
it's such a big deal he thought about dan , like are you kidding... i can't wait.. like jaekyung is 100% the person who works hard to get what he wants, and he wants dan. i'm so ready. 3 years. damn near 3 fucking years and we are approaching the chase, and I AM READY. like i wonder what jae will do, how will he react and behave? anyone that has read knows just how much he's changed since S1. like the director is actually a saint and the savior in all this, like he really opened his dumb eyes *affectionate*
almost 9/2. I AM READY!!!! I AM EXCITED.. idk if i wanna read right away, but tbh i say this every 2/12/22, and still end up reading. i am here for the long haul!!!

this is on hiatus for the korean version, so when does hiatus kick in for this? and then for 2 months.. that's crazy. i was going to start reading it too and then another hiatus. i had this marinating for MONTHS. guess it'll have to marinate some more...
is it cause of the plagiarism or something author mentioned on twitter, which i don't know what that was about tbh.

the ending felt rushed. like bum leaves his best friend to go after yeonwoo, and then yeonwoo and bum go on a trip. i hope in the side stories they give context to all that, and yeonwoo being the kid that stopped bum from killing himself.
but either way sooo cute. i appreciated them finally communicating, and i didn't like the whole fucking my bf to get back at him for lying chapters. but yeonwoo is still the cutest. i love love love nothing more than eepy weepy tops.
also glad that hyuk fella didn't get much screen time. honestly so stupid. you had feelings this whole time and never said anything, was he supposed to wait for you? it's like such a common trope in kdramas too lol

i really enjoyed them both. they're really young and immature, even a little ridiculous at times. but i like how they became more honest with each other eventually. OH and there was that scene where jungwon played with hyesung's balls during a bj. i swear that's something you don't usually see in BLs. i enjoyed seeing that
just wish we could've seen the outfits. like it was so hyped, and we just saw that one sunbae's outfit ... maybe the author didn't have anything to draw that was groundbreaking lol

the painful backstory I wanted. but damn this shit got hands. from that little skrunkly thing (affectionate), to that smaller version of his present self. he worked so hard for everything he has. no matter what mingwa decides, I don’t want to ever see jae losing all he built. if he ever leaves the UFC it’s on his own volition.
now we’ve already established that backstories are for nuance. like this is the part where you empathize. so that’s what I’m doing. the trauma. he tells his alcoholic father that he can die, and that’s exactly what the man does. all he wanted to do was show his dad his trophy after the match and he dies. at that point it seems purposeful, since fuck ass dad said he’ll die before he see’s shit. and you know what. for everything his dad was, jaekyung never swung back. he only pushed him away in the chapter.
also jae’s ears. they aren’t cauliflower ears. and then jumin, that fuckass gremlin. when he and jae met up pre-match he said “are you gonna cry like a little baby when you lose?”.. does that mean he made jk cry when he was younger? what if he’s responsible for the ears? ughhhhhhh I hate it. i hate the thought of having to see that. and then the jinx. who made him have the fuckin sex jinx?!
like i’m loving the information being given. but I also miss them. I miss kyungdan. I miss dan in general. I want to know dan's thoughts on all this. i hope we get a dan care for sick jae moment. I still feel like there’s much backstory to go, and maybe it sums up from the coach's POV next chapter. even so, I want to let this marinate. see y’all later when we're at 76 ...maybe
so now this goes on hiatus until december maybe? ok bye T.T