I recently reread it too and I totally agree
I estimated it would take 5-6 years to get to 200+ chapters
Yea, they couldn't continue the story bc the author was having legal issues with her publisher, as they had rights to her story, and she was trying to leave and take her story with her. This was not the only manhwa that got affected it was a lot of other ones too. That's why black haze was on an indefinite hiatus
they couldn't just "continue" the story, they are probably publishing this somewhere completely different from before, so new readers would be lost if there wasn't a beginning
just finished rereading all 200+ chapters. honestly, they should have just continue the story rather than creating a remake. the art on the first version(?) is not that bad and it improved around hundred chapters. ig i need to wait again for many years for this to reach where the last version left off