Guys they are not brother!! NOR cousin!!
You guys pls go back to chapter 1 you'll see the sequence of Baekhee's dream. Pay attention to how it is drawn like it was a pov from someone looking out from a door or between something at the child.
Go to chapter 20. Ilwoo tells Baekhee about himself. He mentioned that his mother passed away because of an illness and his father became a wreck until one day he put himself together and even told them he want them to live well. Ilwoo vaguely said to Baekhee that he was unlucky and his father die because of an accident.
I think you can easily find this chapter yourself but go to the chapter of when ilwoo was looking for jobs when he left Baekhee apartment. The computer screen that said happy ending also had a site that goes along the line of " two men in their 30s... gambling...murder......"
I think a lot of us especially in season 1 believe that he was trying to kill someone and that he ended up Killin Gyeom. Later on in season two, majority of us got misdirected by the author from Ilwoo wanting to kill someone to him simply wanting to kill himself but he ended killing Geyom and going to prison but in this recent chapter (I haven't read the translation here yet but I did screenshot every panel when I read it in Ridi and translate it...) Ilwoo inner dialogue said that he was gonna kill someone and then kill himself.
Idk which chapter is it but probably around 4-6 ilwoo was walking around Gicheon. He hadn't asked Baekhee to showhim around yet at that time. He mentioned how there's a place he feels familiar with but doesn't know where. It probably him referring to Baekhee's home.
So they are the furthest from being related or brothers. Ilwoo's dad probably went gambling around with Baekhee's dad. He took some money and ran leaving Baekhee's dad with debt. Baekhee's dad in his anger abducted Il-woo to threaten for his money back and he killed Ilwoo's father.
let me preface this by saying, I'm not trying to ask for sympathy or weaponized my experience but nowadays it do be feeling like you need to have experienced something yourself before you're allowed to joke about it, discuss it, or defend a character without being treated as insensitive or ignorant
When I was a kid. My father's friend who was also my neighbor and the father to my nanny is a drunkard who would obsessed over me. My parents associated with him because again his daughter was my nanny and some parents just overlooked and brush off a lot of thing as nothing serious or concerning. One day when I was playing with kids. He was drunk and join in our game of chase. We obviously didn't know anything as kid and played along. He grab me. Lift me up and then roughly kiss me with his tounge inside my mouth. I remember being so distraught that I cried my eyes out and everything after that is just blank for me.
Personally, I dislike/doesn't want to talk about negative aspect of my life in a Pirated website whether or not it be the abuse I experience or the pedophila and csa I experienced irl. At some point you gotta to realize that you need to understand when to sperate fiction and reality and not project it onto others. Hard pill to swallow but no one in here is responsible for your trauma nor mine. This isn't an invalidation of anyone else who experience it. You are entitled to believe that Yuri is a "Pedo" but the thing is you need to know when to draw the line.
Nowadays, it seems like people get policed over everything in a literary space.It a piece of literature, you're supposed to think about the characters critically and context are given in the story. We see their progression. The conversation surrounding Yuri being a a quote unquote "pedo" has become so black and white. And once again, we as human grow up with social norms, culture and so on. We develop our own way of thinking, beliefs and values. .. so when reading a story ofc you'll apply those to what you read while others are able to be different or objective with it. What you don't do is making it indisputable when you simplified or don't give any nuance to the text and using what you interpret to assume that people who disagree with that or defend their side of the interpretation would support it irl.
at least look at the character and the actual narrative. Because if you pay attention to Yuri's characterization, his internal dialogue, the chronology of his feelings, and how his relationship with Xinlu develops, you'd understand why a lot of people don't agree with that interpretation.
People are just trying to give a literary explanation to Yuri's character...
im sorry if it seemed condescending. its harder for you to understand the tone i was conveying through text. i was genuinley trying to be supportive and kind about your situation. yes, i do think he is, but i still feel bad that that happened to you. i was just trying to be kind and gracious about it. again, i'm sorry you i made you feel as though I was being condescending.
I just know Baekhee's gonna get hate next chapters. Baekhee get behind me
It's just how some readers are. The more you've been in the bl community you just see how some of them are gonna react. If Baekhee retreat after realizing ilwoo is the child that his father's hurt and feel guilty. There will probably be people crucifying him for an understandable realistic reaction. And I would understand the frustration if that angst is drag out to the prolong the story but it's not the case in this story. Most of them just like Ilwoo more and Baekhee is like an addition.
Okay I forgot which chapter but Il-woo mentioned that his mom passed away early and his dad was wreck. His dad somehow one day got himself together and said to him that he want them to live well. He later on tell Baekhee that he was unlucky cus an accident happened and he soon lost his father. Later on in the story there is this little bit confusion with Ilwoo because we did thought he came to take revenge but later on when season 2 came out, we all thought he was 100% suicidal instead of him trying to kill somebody. In later chapter like around 30+ we see Ilwoo schooling on a website and one website talks about two men in their 30s gambling murder case. You can look at the chapter where Il-woo left Baekhee apartment after fighting with Gyeom. And today chapter we got a confirmation that Ilwoo was the child in the very first chapter flashback and Baekhee was the one witnessing it. So my theory is that Ilwoo dad stole the gambling money. Took Ilwoo away with him. Baekhee's dad is pissed because he is already a piece of shit who needs money, drinks and gamble and Ilwoo dad basically put him in more debts. Baekhee's dad kidnapped or take Ilwoo by force to threaten Ilwoo's father for money. So yeah I'm 100% sure Ilwoo father died because Baekhee dad killed him and in today's chapter as well in Ilwoo inner dialogue he said he didn't just came here to kill himself but he was planning to kill someone and then himself.
The author said season 3 is the last one. Since there is no official site translating this manhwa, I encourage you all to support the author on the official platform on Ridi if you are able to or if you prefer to buy merchandise you can do that too! The story is good and it deserve praise. You can rent chapters on Ridi so do check it out as it is somewhat cheaper.







It's been so long since I've read this. I hope someone pick it up there seem to be vol 3