[Mid spoiler]
In the novel, when Yujin (guy with purple hair) goes to talk with Hyo and offer him advice, there's an esper flirting with Hyo (he doesn't get it tho) and Yujin teases him about it. Then they talk a bit about previous relationships and how being a guide would suck if you dislike intimate relationships and is forced into them, which is Hyo's case, to which Yujin sympathises and doesn't ask further bcs he senses Hyo had a difficult past.
I think it was a nice glimpse into Hyo's backstory that we lost in the manhwa and also justifies a bit his actions and the next arc... Now we'll have to wait quite a bit to hear about his past again.
i love yoo jin so much lmao
he acts like a bitch just to end up actually getting fond of hyoseop it's cute how he keeps him company while hyo is at their base and by the end of the novel he likes hyo more than andante lmao i love this kind of character
[spoiler]
he loses interest in being andantes guide pretty quick and tho he keeps saying shit and putting ideas into hyo's mind it's mostly because he thinks hyo is too naive and is going to get heartbroken. he even puts himself into danger later when andante is after hyo by warning hyo to run lmao he's a little shit but a cute one
waitttt I’m so happy you say this because honestly purple DOES piss me off a bit but I lwk was like wait a sec… he has so much bff potential thooo… LIKE mc’s cunty brat bff… I was like yo that would be so cute what if they got along (and this ch hes still a little annoying but its highkey steering into a twinks supporting twinks thing and I’m fw 100%) so YAYYYYYYYYY
YOU GET ITTT theres a part where andante is almost going berserk and yoo jin starts yapping about how andante should've treated hyo better and like learn to appreciate you guide!!! he's honestly so cunty i adore him... i especially adore how hyoseop doesn't know his value as a guide while yoo jin is the extreme opposite and thinks there's nothing more valuable as a guide and they should be treated as gods lmao
valuable than a guide***
agghhhh one of my fav (and the best) bff dynamics: polar oppositessss
it’s a bonus if one of them are LOWKEY narcissistic (kinda purple but we love that for him)
Can I ask- is the novel completed? (plan on reading it)
it is! and also the english translation has the main story completed and is now releasing the side stories (there are many)
Oh tyy
guys i finished the novel this night and yeah is pretty much torture porn with a little bit of plot by the end.
what to expect:
jiwook gets gangr-ped twice and juyeon locks him inside an extra room in his home for like two months doing all sorts of plays. he even has to pee on those dog things you have in your house for your dog to pee.
why is juyeon doing this:
when he was like just 14 he hanged around jiwook and confessed to him, then jiwook did all sorts of terrible things w/ juyeon, like r-ping him and sending the tape to juyeons mother who had a mental breakdown after it. there was gangr-pe and all sorts of stuff. he tied juyeon in a bathroom with some vibes and left for the school guards to find him etc. jiwook then got into an accident and forgot everything so he doesn't remember doing that to juyeon. so juyeon spend 8 years plotting his revenge...and thats what we are reading now.
yeah they end up together but its tagged as no-love so do not expect the plot to get softer or anything. it really just gets worse
just ask anything u want to know here but like the novel is kinda short so theres isnt much to the plot really
Holy shit that's brutal! Thanks for the head's up. I don't think this is my cup of tea so respectfully imma take my leave.
lmao yeah its really heavy shit so its good to warn ppl that are not into this and/or are expecting the story to get into romance since it doesnt
I'm sorry not only did he get vids of himself sent to his own mother he was RESTRAINED IN PUBLIC IN FRONT OF SCHOOL GATES WITH SEX TOYS ? FOR PEOPLE TO FIND ?
where do you read it please?
not at the school gates, school bathroom so the guards found him after school closed bcs he was screaming for help. the guards helped him, then police got involved and jiwook had to do community service since he was also a minor. but juyeon was gangr-ped by jiwooks group of friends and had those videos sent around school also (and jiwook previously sent around videos and pics of the girls he slept with too)
go on novel updates and search for the novel called "Empathy"
this just sounds like pure horror how on earth did u digest everything as u read it omg I never though it'd get this bad, this is a whole different level to the sadistic beauty side stories
i searched there but i can't find the translation group. I searched the name of the group that was there but still couldn't find it (sorry for my bad english )
you have to create an account on novel updates! then it will show u the chapters
yeah its worse than sadistic beauty and i remember her saying she made minho suffer that much because his design was based off her ex boyfriend LMAO
but i read pretty much everything from all sorts of genres so i wasn't rlly that surprised...and im into horror/eroguro visual novels so it's easy to read when it doesn't have images/just text. i was like "oh shit not again" all the time (tho i skimmed through most of the porn since IT'S A LOT)
Oh i didn't know that! Thank you!
it gets worse really fast be aware
I’m scared
you should
WHAT HAPPENS
[SPOILER]
juyeon orchestrates for jiwook to be gangr-ped by the big guy and his friends (and shares the pics he has of jiwook with everyone that attended this gathering). later he locks jiwook in a room for like 2 months or whatever he cant even go to the bathroom he has to piss on the corner like a dog
WTF THATS SUMN MONSTRISITY SHIT. WELL I JUST HOPE THE AUTHOR WOULD NOT STICK TO THE STORY OF THE NOVEL
Ive seen someone saying that there was an edited version of the novel that was more "clean" but I'm not sure what the second version differs from the first and Im not sure the artist is adapting the supposedly said version... but the extras the novel author released last year to celebrate the manhwa adaptation are more soft since the novel per se ends up in a quite bad scenario
anyways, if anyone wants spoilers from the novel just ask me here, ill try to remember
how do Kang jun and Yohan get together? i’m really curious (^_^)
Spoil me immediately. Let me curdle like rotten milk. Tell me everything you remember.
look it takes a WHILE lmao they get together like really at the end of the novel when they meet again in college (when they solve the 1000 misunderstandings between them and yohan saves jun)
OMG i actually like that a lot!! thank you for answering
i took my time to answer since i knew the reply would be long ill talk in topics since its easier and you can skip the things that are too spoiler heavy
1. junwoo and taesan:
junwoo stops going to school after a while (his father is arrested + no one on his side at school) and thats it, he never appears again.
taesan continues on the school but when they move on to become seniors, taesan and jun end up on different classes, so taesan barely appears. i think there's a scene where he warns jun about yohan being crazy (he sees yohan putting a roach on juns locker or something like that), but jun thinks he's lying and like, taesan's appearances become even fewer after that since he refuses to get close to yohan. anyways, he gets a happy ending away from junwoo.
2. yohan's family
yohan is richhhh like really rich. jun is surprised when he visits but is even more surprised to see that yohan is mistreated by hia family. like, he dines alone and seems really afraid of his parents. it makes jun feel bad and he kinda invites yohan to sleep over whenever he wants to... yohan takes it as an invite to live together with jun for a while.
yohan makes it seem like he is hated by his family because they found out he's gay, since they are all very religious, and jun starts beibg very nice to him out of pity
3. yohan's family (the truth)
yohan made up this whole scenario and his parents actually let him do anything he wants to... his sibling meets jun and tells him that everything yohan said (about being mistreated for being gay) is a lie. they know yohan is gay because his christmas wish was "I wish to get a boyfriend" in front of everyone during dinner his parents were surprised but accepted. yohan just lied for juns pity.
anyways, even if its a lie, i can vouch for yohan and say that yeah his father is still... bad at parenting. he was compared to his brother since he was a child (unknown to him that his brother was also getting compared to yohan), which made both of them develop an inferiority complex and, in yohan's case, this need to lie and manipulate to keep someone close to him. its a very shallow description of his character but thats the spirit.
4. yohans sexuality
yeah hes gay i already said that but he is also a bit of a stalker. yes, he was the one who saw junwoo pushing jun off the stairs in juns house because he is juns neighbour, but he also has a full album on his phone filled with photos of jun, taken in secret before jun even knew who tf yohan was (jun finds out about it when they are kinda living together).
5. bullying
theres like a lot of misunderstandings between them that lead to yohan allowing jun to be bullied for a while (since jun is so close to yohan, the other kids wish for his downfall so they can take his place as the second in command). when the bulllying ends, yohan wants to get close to jun but atp jun is wary of yohan and wants to keep his distance. at this point in the novel, jun starts hanging out with another classmate that is kinda the second ml. hes cool. i think he confesses to jun by the end of the year but tbh i kinda skimmed this arc to get to the end so i dont remember much, but the guy was very calm and gentle (he also disapproved of jun's homophobic remarks about junwoo out loud).
6. ending
they graduate and meet again in college. when they meet again, jun throws a cup of hot coffe on yohan bcs atp he found out about the lies lmao then theres a fight between jun and one of the guys who bullied him (the fat one, i think?) and the guy throws acid on jun, but yohan gets in the way. jun starts visiting yohan in the hospital and they get together after clearing up all the lies and misunderstandings. then theres the epilogues that are like them living together and jun being 100% spoiled by yohan. jun cannot for the life of good cook so yohan is always the one cooking or offering to pay for dinner, which is very very adorable.
thats a very brief summary of the plot from memory, since there were parts that i skimmed and parts where i probably mixed my korean and misunderstood a scene or another, but i hope it helps you anyways. if theres anything specific you wish to know just ask me and ill try to remember!
Love love this!! Thank you for taking the time to write out so much. Your effort wasn’t wasted because I read it all
theres a few changes from the novel and the manhwa, its interesting! ex: in the novel jun tells a guy to go get the milk and a chapter later when hes at the top of the school hierarchy he "rewards" the guy with a bit of social status. its nothing much but it really captures jun's spirit of not owning anyone anything... im just ranting because the novel is really, really good (one of the most beloved bls in korea!!!), the manhwa is a very nice adaptation, very fluid
also i believe in the novel it was a backpack that junwoo threw at jun, not a desk, which makes a bit more fun since gohan went mad from an empty backpack being thrown at jun
he was awake and now he know jigu likes him, but jigu also thinks mc likes him back and both keep hanging out for a while waiting for the other to confess first (mc wants jigu to confess so he can turn him down bcs he wants them to still be friends), so it will take some time before they start dating
this broke my heart fr
brazil mentioned (in the worst way possible) lets gooooo
yohan is like. really crazy.
one example is when he fights junwoo, they both end up on the hospital (junwoo has to be taken bcs hes almost dead while yohan calmly walks to the ambulance lmao), when yohan comes back he gifts jun two of junwoo's teeth that he knocked off during the fight lmao
but yeah yohan is crazy crazy crazy, but jun is also a freak so they match very well
Oh can you spoil me more
sure! what do u want to know tho?
I’m curious too! Ik Yohan is crazy but is he actually innocent? Cause the Ukraine thought he was a player but he denied it, is that true or he’s just acting like he’s never done things like jungwoo ?
Uke* my bad
will taesan be okay I'm worried for him ┗( T﹏T )┛
Yohan seems homophobic so does he actually have feelings for the uke??
Thank u , ohh idk names yet but the one getting bullied does it get better for him , nd please tell me our uke get over that piece of crap , nd u said yohan is Psycho does he hurt our uke
its true, he doesnt fool around like junwoo. he starts smoking at the end from what i remember from the extras but thats it
i dont remember anything that bad happenong to him after junwoos fall from grace (his father is arrested + yohan being crazier than him). he barely appears by the third volume, when they become seniors and taesan stays in a different class. he avoids junwoo and keeps his crush on jun, but i still havent read the last volumes so cant say for sure whats his end
he does. he likes jun before jun even knew who yohan was (he has an album full of jun pics that jun later finds)
I was hoping it would be healthy relationship but sounds like it's not
about taesan (the guy being bullied) i havent properly read the last volumes, i just skimmed through and was not that interested in taesan, so i may be missing major events in taesans life but basically, they become seniors and yohan/jun go to class 1 and taesan/junwoo and all the background characters go to class 2, so their appearences become basically none since it focuses on yohan. taesan avoids junwoo and, apart from junwoo, no one is willing to become a bully since they fear the trachers, so taesan is fine. he sometimes talks to jun but thats all of him. junwoos life is ruined after his fight with yohan and his father's arrest.
about jun getting over junwoo: yeah, after he gets beaten up he stops caring for him. youll see him smilling next chapter and hoping yohan will take junwoo's place in the school hierarchy. he starts liking yohan pretty soon after that. as jun said, he is very shallow so his love also is shallow: he may like junwoo, but he'll throw junwoo under the bus if it means saving his own skin.
does yohan hurt jun: yeah, not in junwoo's level and, in my opinion, not unprovoked. for exemple: yohan is REALLY afraid of his father and his family treats him like he doesnt exist (because they found out yohan is gay), so there's this scene where jun forces yohan to eat dinner with yohan's parents and yohan has a breakdown, thinking jun wanted to humiliate him since he knows his family situation and even so forced him to be in an awkward situation (jun just hated seeing yohan being ignored by his own family and tried to force tem to aknowledge yohan), so he breaks jun's arm.
yohan is prone to breakdowns and is not the most stable person. he's obsessed with jun and pretty much a stalker, but he treats jun well for the most part. when jun finds out about yohan's family, he invites yohan to sleep over and yohan ends up basically living with him and doing all the chores lmao
anyways, after that jun suffers for a while bcs he likes yohan but yohan is the manipulative+obsessed+traumatized combo, but they manage. juns also not a damsel and prrtty manipulative himself lmao
its very dramatic but not all that bad... the story is all about character growth more than anything, honestly, since jun starts the novel only thinking about ways to get ahead and treating everyone as less than him + ... yohan's crazy af father. in the end they r rlly sweet, yohan spoils him loads
btw in the yohan/junwoo fight scene, yohan pulls his own tooth out and while everyone is scared and saying he's crazy, jun's first thought is to put the fallen tooth on milk so yohan can reattach later lmao
omg thank god yohan beats the shit out of him
Wooow slay tbh i love crazy and crazier couple
Thank uuuuuu ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
I seriously cannot wait to follow this story in the manhwa thank you so much
Thank tou for the spoiler, honestly i hope that Junwoo guy out of the picture, but he is kinda hang out in same school.
Can you tell us that does Yohan know about Jun's crush on Junwoo? And if he does, what does he think about it? Why does he say that being gay is disturbing to Jun? And why is Yohan friends with Yohan in the first place and why do they fight?
he does and he also knows that jun was hit by junwoo twice (he lives next door to jun, so he saw both the day jun was hit at school and at home).
yohan's mad jun likes junwoo and not him. and it's hard to explain but basically yohan thinks jun likes junwoo because junwoo is at the top of the school hierarchy, so he's taking the chance to take junwoo's place at the top (though he doesn't care about other what people think of him, only jun) through the rumours of junwoo being gay and encouraging people to bully junwoo. he's not homophobe, yohan's family knows he's gay.
also yohan dislikes junwoo and thinks of himself as not his friend. he only got close to junwoo because jun is always hanging around junwoo. he also always treated junwoo bad and repreended him for drinking/smoking/sleeping around, but everyone always thought yohan was being ironic with the religion thing and laughed it off as his jokes. he also hates junwoo bcs he knows jun likes junwoo (same way jun hates taesan)
the fight occurs because when junwoo comes back to school (i think he and taesan disappear for around two weeks after the fight), some kids threw away his school books. yohan starts joking around about junwoo never studying so he didn't need it. junwoo ignored yohan's comments and starts accusing jun of stealing his books. he throws his backpack on jun and that's when yohan starts to provoke him talking shit about taesan (he says something about junwoo treating everyone's ears like they are taesans loose asshole and thinking he can do whatever he wants with it). then, junwoo loses it and attacks yohan. yohan gets hit a few times (... because he wanted to, really) then pushes junwoo away and gets up. the class watches in horror yohan pulling his own tooth that became loose with the punch. jun makes one of the classmates get milk and goes after the fallen tooth so that yohan can reattach later, meanwhile yohan fucking destroys junwoo. when junwoo is almost dead and unconscious, he gets a metal chair and hits junwoo's face with it. then the ambulance comes, junwoo is taken away and yohan calmly walks towards the ambulance while covered in blood. jun gives him the tooth and yohan carress his cheeks, then goes to the hospital. the teachers even ask if junwoo was not ganged up from how brutal it was. later, jun and yohan visit junwoo at the hospital to like. spit on his face and take some pics of him unconscious. then yohan takes junwoo's place at the top of the school hierarchy and junwoo leaves school after a while.
Wow! That's intense. I'm so glad about what happened to Junwoo and more glad that Jun gets over him. Thank you for taking the time out to write such a detailed response.
Can I also ask whether Junwoo father getting arrested was Yohan's doing or not and what do Taesan and Junwoo do when they are absent together from school for long durations periodically?
hmmm i dont think yohan was the one behind the arrest. he tells jun that junwoo's father was having problems with the law and that junwoo's uncle was taking over the whole company and jun thinks that it was yohan behind it and asks, but yohan says he only heard about it and that soon everyone'd know anyways. if that was a lie and was later explored, i might've missed it, but i don't think yohan'd have any direct power to arrest him.
also it's not said where or what taesan and junwoo were doing, just that junwoo kept dragging him around the city and some people saw them. tbh i found it very weird how they were considered the secondary couple when the manhwa was announced since they are really just background characters that stop appearing after the first act... there isn't much to say about them, just that junwoo leaves him alone/drops out and taesan goes on with his life (and since he's afraid of yohan he barely speaks with jun after they enter third grade)
Wow! Ok. It seems that that I have to sit through the initial angst to get the good part later. Thank you so much for the spoilers. I can happily read the story now and wait for Yohan's crazy side to come out.
ARE YOU SMOKING WHILE PREGNANT GIRL STOP THAT