Thank you, Pixie! This chapter had a little bit of everything, humor, drama, angst, and of course the smut at the end. It kinda broke my heart when Jaehyuk said he may never introduce Garam to his mom. Although he’s given his parents lots of reasons in the past to treat him this way, he needs to show them the person he is now that he is with Garam. He’s quite literally a different man. Also, he needs to come clean to Garam over their housing situation before it spirals further out of control. I feel if he tells Garam now, it might not be such a big deal now that they’re together and on better terms than before. It could become a thing now with the mom pressuring him to give it up. I’m also glad Garam is not giving his ex an inch. Keep freezing him out! Also, although I was happy to see some smut after a few weeks of nothing, I don’t want them to revert to not being completely open with each other. They have to be better at communicating. I just have so much hope for these two guys!!
I think it's because of garam's past relationship.. with the ex's mother.. jaehyuk doesn't want garam experience the same thing with his mother so that's why he doesn't want them to meet.. but i got the feeling that jaehyuk's mother will not oppose their relationship (i hopeee) because of garam, jaehyuk is a better person now
Not meeting his mom is more for Garam's sake since he heard about what happened with Sehan's mom. He thinks something that could hurt Garam could happen if they meet each other.
I also hope verbal communication can still take over next chapter.
Tbh I think meeting with the mom won't be as bad too. Jaehyuk thinking them meeting each other could end badly makes me think the opposite will happen.
Right? When they encountered jaehyuk's childhood friend at the restaurant, I was expecting them to have a big fight but we got a love confession from garam instead :') so i really do hope the same thing will happen with jaehyuk's mother
I also think meeting the mom won’t be as bad, the dad looks totally chill! I also agree that him not wanting Garam to meet his mom is probably to protect him from experiencing something traumatic again like he did when he finally “met” Sehan’s mom. Jaehyuk really cares about his Garam! They just need to properly communicate with each other.
Grrrrr… the audacity of this ex.. just let Garam alone
God bless you for this detailed summary <3 I knew I missed some important information just staring at the panels. One of them is Jaehuyk realizing he can't imagine a future without Garam. That's such a huge realization and development in the story. I hope he'll properly confess his deep feelings and life projects to Garam. Although I am not sure Garam is there yet. He likes Jaehuyk a lot but I am afraid taking about a future together will scare Garam more than making him happy. I could be wrong tho. In the meantime, I am pretty sure Jaehuyk is going to mess things up with the miscommunication. Just like his mom, I always have low faith in him, I am the worst lol
Help setting low expectations is okay! Tbh after this chapter, I'm also more threatened about Jaehyuk possibly messing things up than Garam's ex or his mom, but hopefully he proves us wrong.
- Sehan says that he already apologized to Garam about the past. He says he honestly didn't know that Garam still hates him this much. He thought that the fact they met again was fate, and Garam thinks that this bastard has gone crazy (same)
- Jaehyuk is shopping for Garam's clothes. Then his mom calls asking if he sold the house yet. She thinks Jaehyuk is being taken advantaged of since his girlfriend is the reason he signed a contract. Jaehyuk tells her, "If that person knew I bought this house, they wouldn't live here," and she was surprised, but Jaehyuk hangs up before she could say more.
- Jaehyuk thinks it's probably best to not let Garam meet his mom. He wonders though if it's even possible for Garam to not meet his family even once in his life. Then he realizes that just now, he naturally thought that he would spend a lifetime with Garam.
- While waiting for Garam after work, Jaehyuk recalls that him and Garam are both third years so they'll live at their place till they graduate and the contract period for the house is about right.
- Garam gets in the car. They end up talking about Sehan, and Garam finds out that Jaehyuk met him because he was worried. Jaehyuk asks if Garam really has to do his internship this year. He says it's their first vacation since they started dating, and they don't have time to hang out since Garam is at work and there's also that bastard at his workplace. But Garam tells him there won't be a next year since he'll be graduating early. Jaehyuk was shocked to find out about this just now, but Garam was like, "Oh. Didn't I tell you..?" and this upsets Jaehyuk.
- Jaehyuk fingers Garam inside the car while asking if there's something else Garam hasn't told him yet. Garam says there isn't and wonders why Jaehyuk is suddenly like this.