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did you not read the part where joyoon confines jaekyung after they had sex for days (i think with a shackle/chain?) then left him naked and gave him water on a bowl? (like a pet, i believe jaekyung drinks it like that because he has no choice... and joyoon was turned on) and when he came back, the room stank of jaekyung's pee etc (shackled)
i read this a long time ago so my memory is hazy, the first 80 chaps were great (ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY WENT ON THAT TRIP) but then it kinda went downhill afterwards
i read the whole novel, and now im even more pissed off because that club scene makes zero sense without context and idk why they decided to move it so early into the story.
so in the novel the story is alot more slowburn and enemies to friends to lovers type pacing. they do not confess to each other directly for a very long time. jooyoon has the habit of forgetting things when he’s drunk and jaekyung takes it as him pretending not to remember their sexual/romantic encounters. their whole romance is sort of based in their conflicting memories and personalities and mixed signals. because the 99% of the story is told from jooyoon’s perspective, we have to listen to him justify why his attraction to jaekyung isnt gay (internalised homophobia is a big theme in this story as well.) i need you to understand how much of an idiot jooyoon is before i explain this club scene, okay?
they go on a trip together following many, many very romantic “friendly hangouts” (jooyoon throws jaekyung a drinking party takes him and proposal ring shopping??) to jaekyung’s hometown. jaekyung has a bad relationship with his father so he gets really vulnerable and attaches himself to jooyoon alot during the trip. at this stage jooyoon believes jaekyung is a closeted bisexual and at one point, he teases him about them potentially dating (not knowing he is also whipped for him) jaekyung completely shuts down after this and decides to give up on jooyoon and his’ friendship.
he gets back at jooyoon by pretending to date sanna (brown-haired girl) and ghosting him on socials. during this period, jooyoon starts stalking jaekyung on socials with a burner account and pretty much yearns and goons (literally jerks off with a cast of jaekyung’s hand he made) putting himself in the cuckchair of jaekyungs social life. he sees jaekyung post alot of pictures of this guy name han jungwoo, who is also bisexual and just comforting to be around after he’s had the worst situationship of his life with his “straight” friend (#bisexualproblems).
anyway, throughout all this jooyoon’s bubble finally pops and he realises he is atleast sexually attracted to jaekyung, and eventually comes to accept his feelings for him. he gets extremely jealous and calls his sister to give him a makeover so he can pull up to jaekyung at the club and prove how much hotter he is than the other dude or whatever. that is when this whole club scene occurs.
i think genuinely the only reason they pulled it forward so much in the manhwa is because they wanted more frequent smut so engagement would be higher, but it really throws off the entire plot and romantic development. at this stage, it is extremely out of character for jooyoon to act this way.
i hope that clarifies any confusion anyone mightve had about the pacing of this story. read the novel! its really good if you like the concept of this story