Manhwa notes:
Kim Hyunjae → Sheldon (webtoon alias); Choi Hwanyoung ('fictional character')
Yoo Jaehyuk; Do-hyuk ('fictional character')
One day, while Sheldon is drinking alone at the bar, he is approached by a black-haired man who looks extremely similar to
one of the characters in his story. They talk for a bit at the bar, have sex, and Sheldon wakes up to an extremely
painful broken leg; he wakes up in a bedroom that looks very similar to his own. The black-haired man is named
Park Do-hyuk, and he thinks that he is a character in Sheldon's story and wants Sheldon to change the ending to make
it favourable for both of them.
Sheldon, in his own story, would 'play' his own character, Choi Hwanyoung, in the situation. He tries his best to
escape Do-hyuk, or just find out why this is going on. Later in the story, it is revealed that 'Do-hyuk' is a craft artist
who is accurately named 'Yoo Jaehyuk'.
- Do-hyuk is manipulating Sheldon, saying that nobody is going to find him, and that he's the only one he'll need. It's
a dependency situation
- In the actual story, Do-hyuk is considerate to Hwanyoung, his character is meticulous.
- There is a constant hammering sound in the background. Do-hyuk also carries a hammer.
- Sheldon believes that if he creates a favourable ending to the story, Do-hyuk will let him go. He wonders if
making an ending to the story that Do-hyuk wants will allow him to get released, but Do-hyuk
says that he will not interfere with any creation of the story, and that Sheldon should write
it himself. Essentially, Do-hyuk is confining Sheldon so he can alter the storys' conclusion,
but does not want to tamper with the process of how the story itself is made.
- The storys' true ending would be one where Hwanyoung returns to a reality
where An-on is waiting for him
- Chapter 13
- The red/brown-haired man with the black undercut (Ju An-on) seems to be Hwanyoung's second
love interest. In real life, the connection of that man with Sheldon, named Kang Wonil, seems to
be a close person with Sheldon, maybe having one-night-stands together.
- ???: Wonil and Sheldon met each other at school, Sheldon is a little bit older than Wonil. They go
drinking one day and have sex. Then they become boyfriends, then after a while their
connection to one another had turned ambiguous.
- Sheldon sees parallels between Wonil and Do-hyuk.
- Chapter 33, 42: Jaehyuk backstory
Hwang Young's Misery