Dohu unintentionally said some really good cruel things to him, and for a person who's that anxious and feels like everyone leaves him and no one will love him, it's very understandable why he's taking it very hard. Dohu really needed that seperation to understand how he wronged him. But I also hate how it developed, probably also because there's family drama with juhoen I just find unnecessary and too dramatic, it's enough for them to have that misunderstanding, they didn't need this family revenge stuff, or else this could've been resolved more peacefully.
I thought that Dohu will be one of the most famous authors in Korea too after the time skip, that would be cool if he can even become more famous than juheon or successful on the same level after Juheon become more famous than this
I don't mind if the author drag their relationship, IRL a lot of woman I know who have some trauma with man end up single for long time (some of them don't even have trauma, they just like to be single) some of them avoid having relationship with any good man because they think they don't deserve that man, that's how hard it is to make relationship with people who think that it's best for them to be single than in relationships
so if Juheon want to escape and run away i understand, even people who have less traumatic experience than him do the same thing
But I really dislike side annoying character who bullied him and Dohu, this is unnecessary suffering, I know that Korea IRL have similar kind of bullying that normally doesn't even happen easily in other countries, but this is fiction, can't the author take it easy
Before the timeskip I enjoyed how Dohu, who's clearly some level of neurodivergent, was understood by Juheon despite everyone else acting like he was a robot. Juheon understood that even if Dohu didn't know how to express it, he clearly cared for him. The start of the angst when Juheon saw the word doc was cliche and seen from a mile away but hey, I figured it would be resolved relatively reasonably. I get that Juheon had baggage that clouded his vision. But instead, this plotline has just dragged on and on.
And the funniest part is, Dohu couldn't have possibly gotten to know and like Juheon if they didn't spend time with each other for some reason at first, which in most romances happens through other contrived means like a shared class or misunderstanding. Dohu 'using' Juheon was clearly not just for writing his book but also to understand neurotypical characters, and he stopped taking notes because he learned to feel a connection. This whole arc could've been a few chapters where Juheon feels betrayed but comes to recognize Dohu's care and his mistake for treating him like a robot while Dohu suffers but comes to understand he needs to be more honest. This would still feature angst, misunderstanding, and reconciliation without the contrived time skip nonsense it turned into. Not to mention it feels like the fact that Dohu is a writer was barely depicted in depth throughout the story; just as a cheap tool to push the narrative along. It seems to have no effect on his personality, interactions, or relationships.