i regret reading the novel ... it was just like reading a horror story where mc never escapes and is doomed forever. They "love" each other but it certainly doesnt feel that way.
Give me spoilerssss pleaseeeee
detailed spoilers:
He feels resentful that his gift was only an afterthought from preparing wedding gifts and feels like a fool for thinking he meant more to the ML.
So, a few days before the ML's official wedding day, he plans an elaborate scheme to escape and lay low in a remote hut to hide out for a few months before planning to reuniting with his father (who will retreat to a country-side residence due to his declining health) away from the main house where the ML will live with his new wife, since he can't bear to stand the humiliation of being a toy to someone he loves who 'does not love him back'. He spikes the meal of a servant ML brought to monitor MC with the help of his attendant and slips away without being caught. He runs away with his attendant, sells important belongings that could identify him, and disguises himself as a monk all in order to shake off trail of ML, who after discovering his disappearance, personally searches for MC himself with bounty hunters. After almost getting caught but narrowly escaping, he set up a house in the mountains close to a village.
ML appears out of the blue and captures his attendant who went to the mountains to collect mushrooms and threatens him to expose MC's whereabouts. MC was not in the house at the time bc he was worriedly searching for the attendant when he did not return before sunset, and came back in time to witness the scene of ML interrogating his attendant. He attempts to run into the mountains to evade ML, but ML ofc notices and chases after him. He gets caught and dragged back to the mountain house where he gets thoroughly punished (18+). ML is super mad and threatens to lock up MC if he dares to run away again and forces MC to promise that he will stay forever with him. After punishment, ML promises that he will never get with anyone except MC bc he realized that MC loved him when he found a box hidden in MC's room containing documents that exposed ML's family was guilty of treason and were executed, which MC could have used to have ML be executed, but MC purposely did not betray ML despite "hating" him. ML thinks MC ran away to get the ML to call off the wedding to chase MC. MC reacted with "???"
They return back to the house where both get scolded by the father, ML gets scolded for calling off the wedding to search for MC and ruining potential boost of family standing, while MC gets scolded for running away without notice and not taking studies seriously.
ML appeases father's fury by promising that he will tutor MC to pass exams to be scholar in 3 years time and father agrees. After father leaves to the country-side, ML promises to MC that he will love him in place of MC's dead mother and father's absence and swears to become MC's right hand man so MC can be the household lead. ML allegedly becomes more gentle-- except for when he's tutoring-- towards MC. The end. (They don't depict much happy relationship stuff afterwards)
(sorry it's so long, hi if you read till the end)
Hi!!! Lol thanks so much!!!!
Hey thats actually better than i thought he’s actually going to take a step back for mc
Thank you for the spoilers! Tbh, this could've worked better as a shorter story with this kind of plot
Idk if you read the comments above
I think someone said the original was only 8 chapters but was expanded later, but even so, the novel is quite short--only 40 chapters iirc. So far the manhwa is following the novel faithfully per chapter, so I presume there are only 11 chapters left.
haha its for sure not the worst case scenario for ending .. the bar is so low for these kinds of stories
i was anticipating this chapter release to see how Guwon would react to teach getting beaten by his hounds, but he genuinely dgaf ... ill come back in a year to see if this is worth continuing .
they got a happy ending... but why don't I feel happy too
bad execution of ending the suspense was too much for the ending to be too short
more time is spent detailing the veins on Gun’s left ballsack than explaining the actual story
I'm dead lmao
holy censorship WE all know Jiklin and Marilyn are in love with eachother
“You’re not a cat and I’m not into beastiality” crazy line to say before doing the deed
The one key detail that leads me to believe Bada is not meant to be an NPC is that his love for horror/slasher content is his large defining characteristic. For an NPC who was not even originally supposed to partake in the main storyline(which is horror), it would make no sense for the author to flaunt that detail unless Bada is a key character in solving the story or they are foreshadowing that he is someone of higher importance, such as a game dev or beta tester
What if Bada became an NPC because he solved the story already and thats why playable characters are able to drag him back? Maybe this is meant to be a one time play through game, so since he’s restarted the game, it’s bugged and he’s unable to do what first time players are able to do, like kill the killer.
I am leaning towards him being the dev irl, but he developed himself as an NPC in the game as an easter egg. Devs do it all the time. So hes not able to leave per se, but he does exist irl. It would make for a bittersweet ending with Doha when he gets out, kinda like rekindle their love thrice over, this time with the real Bada.
Ooohhh I like this...
i think so too, esp since all hints point to him being game dev like his love for horror and him being a comp engineer
i wonder who doha is irl
The worst thing you could ever imagine....a rumble streamer!
so mind boggling how disproportionate the revenge is to the acc 'crime' ... mayb i'd understand if he was assaulted as a result or was even an omega but he's neither
don't ever give this dude a paper cut cos his revenge will be pulling out a glock .
Story depicts navigating adult life and individual conflicts so well, all while displaying the intimate, unlabeled relationship of two people who had to accommodate to a heteronormative society.
It genuinely feels like i'm observing someone's life as it unfolds.
I think they needed a separation because no one can save you besides yourself so i'm not complaining about the ending in that sense. BUT. nothing was resolved before leaving each other to work on themselves. Did Yoojoon know Jiho was being assaulted and was stuck in an abusive relationship? Did he know he has abandonment issues because of his dead mom and being abused by his dad? He did not understand the depth of Jiho's suffering and probably holds some resentment because he does not know. They probably have side stories lined up but it still pisses me off that authors use side stories to resolve issues brought over from the main story. What does side story mean to you?? I've never reacted so viscerally to a manhwa where my hands were shaking and i couldn't eat bc of the story contents. The poorly executed ending was the cherry on top to piss me off. I'm writing this long ahh paragraph just to cope with how much i'm tweaking right now.
RIGHT IM SO FUCKING MADD, THEY SHOULD AT LEAST HAVE A RECONCILIATION LIKE A REAL ADULT. THEY NEED TO TALK OF WHAT THINGS THEY MISSED W EACH OTHER
FR. & they glossed over his self harm wayyy too fast. it was seen once and never addressed again. If the side stories are just purely fucking and barely any talking i'm going to write the full government name of the fucker who rec me this bs manhwa in the death note
RIGHTT?? LESS FUCKING AND MORE TAMING PLS. i hate men fucking so muchhh, PLS FUCKING TALK LIKE A REAL ADULT