Thanks to a comment before me now im kinda ?? So someone please enlighten me about the timeline. From what i understand, the timeline from chapters 1 to 5 spans March 2019 to December 2022.
(Keep in mind that garam was born in 2000 and heejae February 13th 1978)
So it roughly went like this:
Spring 2019 (March): Gaeum's welcome ceremony and their first meeting. He was 18 (unless he was born in March 2nd if so he was 19).
Autumn - Winter 20????: Garam's dilemmas and their courting phase.
2020 to late spring/early summer 2022 : Garam's debut, their first time. He was 20 (or 19?? depending on his birthday) and then 2 years timeskip.
Winter 2022 (December): They broke up He was 22 (or 21 depending on birthday).
Current timeline: November 2026. He is now 26 (or 25, depending on birthday). Wow, the author is really wrapping up this story in the present day).
How long did Garam attend uni again? Was it a full year or just one semester before he left for the US?
Because it just hit me that their whole courting phase, push and pull, first kiss, etc most likely happened in 2019, meaning Garam was only 19 wow like 20 and 19 aren't that much different but I'm still shocked
Since my memory is fuzzy (which is crazy because I binge-read this not even two weeks ago), I need someone to tell me when Heejae started seeing Garam in different light as in more intimate, someone more than a frustrating student, more than a gem he wanted to polish and showed off. I remember him kissing Garam after Garam said, “I understand the loneliness in your sound,” but were there any subtle moments before that? Or was that really all it took, Garam’s words hit a nerve, because that was what he wanted so badly to find again, someone who could read his soul so after that Heejae just started seeing him differently? Because in Garam’s case, the guy saved him, and there was even a phase where he was stressed out over hating him, and other things mixed around it’s understandable how and why he fell for a guy who was also his teacher.
Things are bleak right now, but I’m 100% sure they’ll get back together in the end, not because I have any faith in Heejae becoming a better person, but because the author has teased a public relationship multiple times throughout the story, with other characters bringing it up to Heejae. That’s why I’m pretty confident they’ll eventually come out. I’m excited to see everyone’s reactions hahaha but i think the actual reconciliation will only happen in the last few episodes of the story, with their life after getting back together being shown in the side chapters.
Heejae is garam's first in so many ways, the first person who believed in his passion and supported him in music (despite his terrible ways), most likely the first person he genuinely fell in love with, the first person he slept with, his first serious partner, and the first person to truly break his heart and soul. He shaped and influenced Garam so much, both as a musician and as a person, throughout all those years they spent together.
Moving to USA was be good for him as musician but clearly not as a young person, being pulled away at a crucial time of him finding his own identity and capability of loving himself.
Garam needs to learn about himself and heejae needs to be put down
Based on his monologue in chapter 210 (If you werent here, I might survive, but I wouldnt be happy) I bet these past 4 years pushing 50 Heejae was living his usual comfortable, privileged maestro life, but much sadder, ruder, and eviler.
I have this feeling that Garam will stop doing music because i see destroying that piano as a statement that he’s leaving Heejae, music, and their connection behind. Plus, all of Heejae’s students stopped playing the piano at some point, so maybe it’s Garam’s turn.
I hope I’m wrong because I really want to see Garam pursue music independently, I hope he discovers and evolves his music like Valter did during his healing time plus maybe they should switch things up and make Heejae the one who stops now.
I wonder if Garam is going to cut everyone off, not just Heejae. Heejae is going back to his default mode and becoming insufferable to his workers. I can imagine Valter blaming Heejae for Garam’s disappearance, and maybe he’ll finally confront him. If that happens, I hope he destroys Heejae’s ankles.
I love how in Heejae’s vision the background went pitch black the moment he saw the gloves in Maria's hand, how the gloves he was wearing looked shaky and glitchy when he read the note, and how his entire body became pitch black as he stood still there silently even though he was no longer reading the note in the second last panel. He was so shocked he didn’t even look at his destroyed piano too stunned to even imagine his ex-manager standing in the corner of the room.
I wonder if Garam’s sound will change, just like how Valter’s current sound is different from his pre hiatus one.
I'm so invested aaarrgghh he always says he doesn't give a single fuck about his ex students' hatred toward him i wonder what he's going to say about this one, now that he's just created his biggest hater.
I hope Garam didn’t hurt himself when he destroyed that piano, hope he finds good place to sleep, hope he eats well i hope Eva dragged the hell out of that filthy geriatric hoe. He is lucky garam broke that piano and not his old bones
So glad I binge-read this now, so I didn't get lobotomized by Heejae’s caring-lover display for 30 something chapters out of 209 chapter, during Compton arc and became his lawyer defending him around because he is simply not a good person and desperately needs some real, hard lessons.
He was physically and verbally abusive at times in the first 100+ chapters, abused his students for personal motives, and pretty much projected trauma and dead lover onto his new one until around chapter 160, that's more than half of the whole manhwa. Nothing can excuse his sorry existence because even his trauma from being left behind was ultimately a consequence of his own actions. He wasn’t even raised in some harsh environment that shaped him into a human blade to protect himself, he was born into a classical musicians’ family, supported and provided for in his music career from a very young age, a family rich enough to leave their kids houses in foreign countries as part of their inheritance. That's a golden-spoon nepo baby through and through. He is too old to be acting this way, irl a 45 years old like him wouldn't get this much of graces, sympathy and reasonings, you know you would hate an emotionally constipated privileged man.
Heejae letting a boyfriend 22 years younger than him be the provider and nurturer, to be the level headed adult in their relationship is pathetic. Their relationship is so one-sided, with Heejae taking and demanding everything from Garam without even being able to give the simplest thing in return, while Garam is expected to accept all of his shortcomings, he has taken Garam for granted for a very long time. There’s a whole power imbalance there too, but that’s for another day. His chasing, learning, yearning arc better last a long and satisfying after watching his being pathetic human for 200 chapters.
That being said I do love author art style and this is actually a well written story, a fresh air in the middle of slops.
Just finished the story and read the comment section, and the author was playing with fire with this one. They’re lucky asf that people are on their side. They built up the second couple’s progression over almost 20 chapters of the main story, then whether it was intentional or not made chapter 46 feel more like a prologue to the side story than an actual conclusion to the main story. And now we’re 27 chapters into an ongoing side story focused on the second couple, with only tiny bits no brainer no plot of the main couple? Their tiny bit appearances even served purpose to move side storyline forward, I know what you are author..
Someone mentioned this, and yeah, it’s pretty obvious the author has a favorite, and they’re incredibly lucky that the majority of their audience also prefers the side couple. I know so many manhwas where the audience gets sick of authors constantly shoving the side couple in their faces, shoving main couple to the backseat, or where readers threaten to drop the series if the author introduces a second couple. Personally i'm one of those who prefer second couple so i'm having fun with this display of favoritism
Do any of you know how this book ends? I read somewhere that its bittersweet especially the last line like wdym its not HEA ending hmm
For those still clinging to the delusion that Nanjo is the a demonic abuser who crossed the line while Mokyeon did nothing but loving him passionately and therefore deserves better, remember that Chapter 20 literally comes with a trigger warning. It exists for a reason so miss me with the "they're adults", crossing the lines and all those other excuses when you guys literally enjoyed that chapter. He's no saint, he's borderline abusive and, I'd even argue, a rapist. That trigger warning was there for a reason.
Theres mistranslation in haeseong monologue after he said "Are you doing that on purpose to make me feel guilty?" He said "haesseo jiwona" which means "I did (feel guilty) jiwon" not "are you jiwon"
Im not even writing this to justify his actions or want them together, because i dont, but all of these problems couldve been easily avoided if he had just spoken up, its been a while since ive been this annoyed by a miscommunication trope.
So far, this is what we know about how things went down between Haeseong and Jiwon:
1) They made out and went further on the night Haeseong had a fight with his family.
2) Haeseong lost control and penetrated Jiwon without preparation, which shocked him.
3) When he saw the blood and realized he had hurt Jiwon, he became dizzy and vomited.
4) Jiwon cried because he thought Haeseong was disgusted by what they did.
5) After coming to his senses, Haeseong wanted to apologize, but Jiwon asked him to leave due to a misunderstanding, and his loserish ass just went along with it.
Haeseong was wrong no matter what and he was and still is a huge pathetic coward, even in his big age but im curious about other opinions. Would this be considered rape, or more like dub-con?
This is the perfect example of why you should communicate, because if Haeseong had talked before that marriage bs, Jiwon would have definitely folded. Now both of them are miserable for what?
P.S. I think the author loves seeing Haeseong suffer. I mean, every time he’s on screen (quite a lot tbh) he’s deservedly suffering, and truthfully, I enjoy it too. Every time i see him with dead, empty eyes or in an awkward situation, I’m like ‘That’s what you deserve loser'
After chapter 19, it’s safe to say that Jiwon is truly the only person with common sense in this story. It’s amazing that he keeps attracting lunatics. Both Hyun and Haesong are definitely insane, but on opposite sides of the spectrum.
The way he lets Jiwon’s wrong assumption that his brother has died continue just because he wants to be comforted LMFAO. Glad hyeon is the one doing all the chasing, like his ex said hyeon didnt even know his name until he was confessed to now look at him, desperate as hell for attention. That's growth!
Can anyone help me? There's this manga, I'm not sure if it's yaoi or shounen ai though.
So it's a story between highschool story mc and uni student ml.
Mc and ml were childhood friends, mc moved out to different area and they met again because ml's apartment got issue and he stayed at mc's house till they fix his place. I can't remember the exact plot (because I only read two chapters) but i remember mc got cute het couple supportive friends.
Idk why they didnt upload ch 12 here but anyway hyun is so lucky that jiwon just give in to everything, if it was other people they wouldve reported him to the landlord.