He ends up with Hyung. The manhwa already ended. But I still felt the end a little rushy. Idk, like there were a lot of questions.
Oh, that's refreshing. Hyung rubbed me the wrong way at first but he grew on me after I saw that he was the only one who demanded Subin to act more like an adult than like a child and Subin needed that. I don't think I could get convinced with Hyunwoo straight-to-gay at this point and it would sound only forced to follow the script of best friends-first love endgame.
If you say the end is rushy then I may put aside now and maybe only finish this later ... It's so frustrating to invest on a story just to see it half assed in the end.
Thank you very much for the reply and heads up though! :)
Yes, I love Hyung, too. And I'm glad that they ended up together, but for me, the ending was rushed. And left so much unanswered questions. Subin and Hyunwoo didn't have a chance to talk properly. Like, at least, for me they didn't show how Hyunwoo was really feeling, and what he really wanted from Subin. As for Subin's side, a didn't get the reason how he got over Hyunwoo so quickly. I mean, I was one of the person that wanted Subin to get over him. But it felt so rushed and it didn't feel real to me, even when I always thought that this webcomic had realistics characters who you could sympathize with.
You can give it a try to this ending, maybe it will leave a different impression on you (:
And btw, happy new year!
Got it ... I probably gonna give it another try later on. :)
~ Happy New Year to you too! Cheers! ~
To that last line, the point of Hyunwoo's story is that he was having a hard time accepting his bisexual orientation. He wasn't the "straight friend". He pursued the other girl so hard because he was attracted to her but also he was really afraid of his feelings for Subin. He had feelings for Subin since they were younger.
Yes, the author stated that when she showed us Hyunwoo's flashbacks. But what I meant was that we didn't know if he was trying to be in a serious relationship with Subin or just treasure him as a friend. It felt that he was still wavering, and was just like push anf pull. Because they didn't even talk properly at the end of the story. So I felt that the story was missing something.
I wanted to like this manga but I couldn't relate or sympathize with any of them ( maybe a bit with Hyung )
I can understand an unrequited love but I can't relate to Subin's being so pushy and self centered. He wanted and wanted Hyunwoo to like him and then dwelled in self pity and emotional blackmail for years. This is low self esteem combined with selfishness ( he kept begging and then would cry and make the guy feel guilty) Loving and confessing to someone does not grant you a chance with the person. So, all the sympathy I felt for Subin at first got bit by bit lost because he just sounded annoying and put no real effort in moving on. ( Hyung did most of the work in their relationship)
Then, after Hyunwoo spent so much time and energy pinnning for the girl, it just doesn't seem credible that he actually felt anything for Subin. Nevermind that the guy is a jerk for pretending he didn't sleep with his friend and make him look crazy. I don't see him also like a convincing lover for Subin
Then there is the cliche of yaoi first love has to be 'the one'. If Subin ends with Hyung, I give credit to this story because first love are special but more often than not they are not the real deal, they are a stepping stone, something you learn from and grow out of it.... Almost all yaoi stories that have a cute 'first love' couple add a third lover just for distraction and then turn back to the first love like a fairy tale. Yes, it's cute but after the 100th story like that, it gets tiring.
I found stories when someone grows up and move on and find a deeper, more mature love way more beautiful and endearing. So if Subin finally grows up and moves on from his crush from Hyunwoo and finds himself in another level of maturity and in love with Hyung, good for him. I stopped when Hyunwoo kissed Subin because it felt it would turn too predictable from there.
Sometimes the straight friend just is not into the gay guy and the gay guy needs to learn to move on but such thing doesn't exist in yaoi yet.