Thx for sharing this. I wanted to reflect on the journey so far but my brain is fried so I'm glad someone did it lol
npnp i happened to have a lot free time and my ass cant sit still with it HEHE. also another good analogy i wanna point out, as a (novice) musician myself, i find the story flow kinda resembling a piano concerto! in the first early chapter which i'd imagine the first movement of a concerto is where the orchestra introduce themselves a.k.a the new environment garam was pushed into. following by a piano and sometimes cadenza which to me tells the struggle of garam's adjusting his life in the early chaps. while second movement usually have a slower tempo, and even the emotional part of it, which what we're reading rn, expressive and soothing melody showing the good and appreciative things garam had in his life. and finally the last movement usually end the piece with climax and im hoping for a very intense conflict happening in the end to finalize their journey. at first i find the pace kinda weird like why the hell did they give us 70 chapters of zero chemistry of the BL, but now that i look back, reading this manhwa is equally the same as enjoying a concerto. which makes me like this manhwa even more
oh.. im starting to see the light now... as in i lowkey get the orpheusxeurydice reff rn.. heejae as orpheus who we see very unstable and full of anxious and such a doubting man in the previous arc (before he's being a doting bf rn) after he rmb abt that the ex-manager incident and trying to start a new relationship with garam is how orpheus walk from the underworld/hell(?) back to the earth... he didnt hear any footsteps.. he didnt know whether someone is actually following in the back... he would always questioned the love by hurting garam in the previous arc because he is craving for evidence that he's actually being loved this time for real... and now we're at the peak, here comes the famous line.. "to love is to look back", which what heejae doing rn? orpheus loves eurydice so much that he cant handle a world without her, so eventho when hades told him not to look back bc hades will take back the promise if he breaks that, orpheus still did that. and he paid the price. so in a way im associating garam with being dead as in basically in a way he's the eurydice because what we see in previous chapter ppl described heejae getting warmer, as in garam getting colder. heejae did so many things to garam that the old garam is no longer here, and after looking back now, heejae will realized it (?) the weight of his consequence(?). but in some tale eurydice said "farewell" before parting ways for good now, which i think something garam would dl ultimately when he realized the solitude inside of heejae is no longer there and he wont be needed anymore(?) idk im just speculating but SHEFF KISS this is such a good analogy and a very neat one if you ask me. totally peak writing, this is the 4th manhwa that i rated 10/10 but i feel like this is my top 1 for now.