It’s getting harder to defend the story’s progression, or rather, the lack of it since the new season started. We still have no resolution, and at this point I’m honestly starting to wonder where this is going.
If this ends up being another case of the author burning out, welp… I don’t even know anymore. The Dohu/Juheon issue probably should have been resolved by now instead of being dragged out for this long. Ironically, it feels like this lack of progression may be contributing to the author needing more and more hiatuses.
I completely understand an author taking a break for quality reasons, but as a reader, it’s getting increasingly difficult to stay invested when the story barely moves forward and we keep getting more breaks...
People will come back
Because modern people are addicted to entertainment and get bored easily
I actually want to stop reading novel and Manhua manhwa to be more productive
But I still here reading this lol
So I doubt it if the author really will lost the reader completely
Which is starting to feel more frustrating than surprising at this point. Hopefully the writer doesn’t end up writing themselves into another hiatus again anytime soon. I still want to have faith in them, but this season has been disappointing so far. There have been no real payoffs or resolutions, just a lot of “one step forward, two steps back” moments.
For a vampire, not as spicy as I wanted it to be (felt more like shounen-ai than yaoi). And yes I loved the dynamic of the 2nd couple as well
To check whether it's as controversial as the western fans reactions, meaning the author knows they messed up. Or did korean fans actually enjoy this chapter?
on ridibooks there’s like 419 comments for this chapter. the most popular ones are: 1. damn, they really like each other lol. crazy. just make up already. 2. still… it hurts seeing them hurting each other back and forth. what are they gonna do later if they end up reconciling? 3. even just standing together they look like a picture. theyre probably burning up and tense as hell, practically dying inside, yet listen to the way they talk to each other lol. both of them are steadily collecting the steps for a future regret/angst redemption arc 4. doha with long hair is seriously insane… he’s so handsome.
k-netizens are so funny, on twitter they're just calling dohu handsome and saying "my two husbands are getting more handsome"
I completely understand and respect the author taking a longer hiatus for their health. Burnout is very real, and I’d much rather they take the time they need to recover properly than push through and make things worse. Their well-being should always come first.
That said, I can’t help but feel a bit frustrated with how Juheon and Dohu’s storyline has been handled since the start of the season. It feels like there hasn’t been any real progress in their relationship, and instead it’s been a cycle of one step forward and three steps back.
At times, it almost feels like the author wrote themselves into a corner with how things developed.
I’m still looking forward to the comeback and hoping that this break gives the author the clarity and energy to move the story forward in a more satisfying way.
i feel the same way. i wrote a comment about this a while ago, but i feel like the timeskip was such a lazy way to progress the story, because honestly i've seen it been done hundreds of times and they all end the same way (friendship, relationship, falling out, timeskip, meet again, relationship, misunderstanding, relationship again for good this time- or something of the sort) i really hope the author takes time to reflect how to properly go about this story because i really do love it, and ive been holding out during this timeskip to see what she'll do with it. i hope it doesn't go about that typical style but i do hope it ends well for our boys, this is an amazing story with even more amazing art and it really does deserve the best.
I think the reason for the time skip was to show how deep Dohu’s love ran for Juheon (because we know that he doesn’t believe anyone will love him). The author has been really good with the story so far, so I trust that she knows what she’s doing. Also, I’m not really sure what you meant by everything ending the same way, as isn’t that the only way to end it (other than the couple never getting back together, or I might just be dumb.. sorry!!)??
And of course it’s right when I came here to theorize about what’s going to happen this week... but nah march 28th it is...
Anyway, here’s what I was thinking.
Now that Dohu seems to understand what’s really going on with Juheon, and considering how worried he looked about Juheon’s health (which is completely fair, because Juheon was visibly wobbly and groggy at the end of the chapter when he ran into his aunt in the alley near his apartment), I feel like Dohu is definitely going to show up at Juheon’s place.
Since the aunt was still in the alley, maybe Dohu will overhear her ranting about everything she’s put Juheon through. And maybe that’s when it finally clicks for him that he himself was used as blackmail against Juheon. If that happens, I can totally see Dohu confronting her and finally putting her in her place.
And then… maybe, just maybe, this is the moment Juheon and Dohu properly reconcile. Or, alternatively, Juheon finally collapses from all the stress, and when he wakes up, Dohu is there taking care of him.
March 28th can’t come fast enough.
that’s when i registered for university brooo ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ i have to wait that longgg??
Basically when finals are bout to come up ig ☠
Thanks for the new chapter, Dindin!! And guys… Gitae is definitely up to something bad.
I have a feeling this is going to end with either Juheon or Dohu getting hurt. Honestly, I really want to see Dohu protecting Juheon and getting injured in the process, which will finally make Juheon snap out of his self-loathing slump and stop ignoring Dohu.
Also… why is their scene set in a construction zone? From my years of reading manga and manhwa, I know something bad is bound to happen there ughhh
Sinclair travelled back in time to save in Martin, got too far and had to wait 640 years, but we don't see what exactly he did to get to save Martin and stop the wolves from chasing him. How was their dynamic affected? Did Sinclair ever tell him the truth about how he rewinded time? Just feels really rushed. And that's why I always have a problem with stories using time travel cause it just feels like everything we witnessed in the story's timeline got erased BUT somehow all the dynamics managed to remain the same??
Ooor maybe just something I really wish could happen in the story.
I’m expecting Dohu’s sister to potentially be a new character introduced later on.
Since a family member has to sign his admission papers, I’m wondering if his sister could be the one who gets involved. We know his parents weren’t exactly supportive while he was growing up, so I could see Dohu having a completely different relationship with his sister. Maybe she even adores her little brother.
She could even become something of an advocate for him, especially when talking to Juheon.
I can imagine her explaining to Juheon that Dohu’s condition didn’t suddenly appear out of nowhere. She had watched her brother change over the years, especially starting around college. He became increasingly withdrawn, and his behaviour deteriorated in ways she couldn’t understand.
At some point, she happened to visit him while he was drunk and saw just how badly he was doing. Maybe she realized then that there was someone behind all of this, or at least that Dohu was still deeply affected by something that had happened years ago.
And she could tell Juheon something like:
"You know, I couldn't understand why he was still hung up on one person after all these years. But maybe this was just his way of processing what happened."
She could also point out how wrong their parents were for dismissing Dohu as an "unemotional robot" when he was growing up. Maybe he wasn't incapable of feeling. Maybe he simply had a very hard time expressing what he felt, and when he finally became attached to someone, that attachment became overwhelming.
Then I imagine her looking at Juheon and thinking:
"What kind of person could have this much influence over my brother? Enough to make him express this much emotion... to the point where it became so toxic for him?"
And honestly, she would probably be terrified that Dohu is going to completely let himself go at this point.
Scenario 1: She heard Juheon's name
One possibility is that, during that drunken visit, Dohu actually said Juheon's name.
His sister might not have understood the significance at the time, but she remembered it.
Then, when she eventually sees Juheon at the hospital, everything clicks.
"So you're Juheon."
She doesn't necessarily know what to think of him. On one hand, she's probably angry. In her mind, this man is the person who made her brother miserable for years.
And she could absolutely tell Juheon:
"I don't know what happened between you two, and honestly, I don't care who was right or wrong. But if you're planning on abandoning him again, I won't forgive you."
Because she already hasn't forgiven him for what happened to Dohu.
But I also think it would be interesting if she eventually realized that Juheon isn't exactly happy either.
She can see that they're both miserable. She can see that whatever happened between them clearly affected both of them, even if they dealt with it in completely different ways.
So rather than simply hating Juheon, she might eventually become someone who recognizes that this whole situation can still be resolved.
Scenario 2: She never heard his name
Alternatively, Dohu never actually says Juheon's name.
His sister just knows that her brother is a huge fan of Juheon.
Maybe she has seen him watching his dramas, talking about him, following his career, etc. She might even know that Juheon has been unusually important to him for years without knowing why.
Then she sees Juheon at the hospital, or sees something on TV about him, and realizes:
"Wait... this is the person."
She starts putting the pieces together.
Maybe she remembers all those years when Dohu seemed emotionally affected by Juheon, his obsession with his work, the way his mood changed around certain events, etc.
And suddenly she understands that her brother's "fan" relationship with Juheon was never as simple as she thought.
Either way, I really want his sister to be someone who can see through Dohu's behaviour in a way that his parents never did.
Someone who understands that he does have emotions, he just doesn't always know how to express them.
And I would LOVE for her to be the person who eventually makes Juheon confront the fact that Dohu wasn't simply "cold" or "obsessed."
He was hurting.
And maybe Juheon was hurting too.
Which is why, despite how toxic everything became, I don't think she would necessarily want to keep them apart forever. She might be angry at Juheon, but deep down she could recognize that they're both miserable because neither of them ever properly dealt with what happened between them.
Honestly, give me the Dohu sister intervention arc.
Dohu's parents were never mentioned enough to draw the conclusion that they were unsupportive, there was only one instance of his parents talking about how they got a call from his teacher, saying he was not "as emotionally developed as other children his age" or something like that, so they wondered if they were doing a good enough job as parents, and if they should send Dohu to counselling.
The ones who called him an "unemotional robot" were his classmates.
We don't know exactly how his brother was with him, but Dohu never complained about his family. His sister used to be super protective of him, and she still hurts thinking about how Dohu endured bullying throughout highschool, which seems to be something she found out around his last years. Last time we saw her, she was taking some side dishes to his place (their dad asked her to), she told him to call home more often, and he was asking her what to do about Juheon while being vague about it, something like "there's something I know, that he's oblivious about, and I wonder if it'll hurt him". She didn't know they were dating.
But Dohu's sister was introduced before, he has an older brother too , all his family cares a lot about him , also i remember that dohu asked her for an advice about juheon before