I couldn’t have said it better myself...what you said is right on point, as someone who’s been rooting for joowon from the very beginning it was kinda sad for me to see everyone in the comments section always being on taku's side, so it’s refreshing to see someone who actually understands the true meaning of their relationship, and looks at it from a different perspective rather than just a toxic relation, but more of a " Love or hate" relationship, two people with lingering feelings for each other not knowing to express them or even confront them. So honestly after all the shit they have been through I think they deserve this ending.
Never the less I still love taku, just not with haesoo, he is a great guy and a wonderful human being he just needs to find the somebody that will share his love with, I personally wouldn’t mind a side story for him (⌒▽⌒)
Also the latest chapter clearly says to be continued so we don’t know for sure if he’s gonna end up with joowon( So I’d rather not give myself any false hopes)
Yes! They are just two extremely flawed people who never got the chance to see their love through. It got disrupted before it even started. Sure, at first they were horny teens messing around, but at the same time they were developing real feelings for each other but because of their family situation, they had to cut the stem of a blossoming flower. That flower has continued to be cared for even just to keep it on the brink of death, nothing more nothing else.But neither were willing to uproot it and throw the flower away. Let’s not even get into how their parents have influenced the destruction of their relationship and self image!
Haesoo and Joowon had the cards stacked against them from the very beginning and they needed this break up to really take a look at what they’ve been doing for the past 10 years. They deserve a happy end imo.
I honestly feel bad for Taku, I pity him because I think deep down he wants what Haesoo and Joowon have. He has never felt that moved by another person and I think he knows that he is lacking in emotional intimacy and connection and I think he thought he could simply take Joowon’s place and receive a piece of their love for each other but that’s not how love works. His own story would be a good journey to him understanding what it really means to love and give up control.
Can I upvote a thousand time?
It's so pleasing to read people who actually try to understand the story, analyze it, and appreciate it for what it is.
Taku has many fans, and I can understand that. I like him, and I believe there is a version of the story where he's chosen by Haesoo. But he could never be Haesoo's true love, he could just be the easy one. Like you said perfectly, he was arrogant and I'm sure he will be able to move on. I'm too attached to him, I hope he will have his own story.
I love Joowon and Haesoo's relationship. They just love each other so much. But their beautiful love turned into something so painful because of their family circumstances. They had to lie, they had to hide, and they started to hurt each other because they didn't know how to deal with it. But they were just two teenagers falling in love, they did nothing wrong! It's so unfair, they really deserve to be together.
I can't forget chapter 74, when Joowon wishes he could have been a drama character with Haesoo: where their love would have been simple, and they would have just been happy. It was so beautiful and sad.
Now I want to see them together, as a team. Finally confessing to each other is a big step, but they still have many obstacles to overcome. Because they already have what matters the most, I'm convinced they will make it alright.
I dob’t know why people would rather fight over ships than actually dissect this beautiful story.
Taekyung went about it the wrong way. He was trying to covet something that wasn’t his because he was curious about why Haesoo and Joowon has such a strong attachment. Their twisted love affair fascinated him and he wanted in on the drama. He didn’t understand anything about love. But now for sure he will learn. Haesoo rejecting him is the beginning of his own love story with someone truly suited for him.
Chapter 74 was so beautiful! Joowon is so pitiful for trying to take on adult responsibilities at such a young age. Although he was the hyung, he was just a young dumb high school in love. Their parents really didn’t handle that situation carefully and it led to both Joowon and Haesoo internalizes some dangerous things. I’m rooting for them, and you're absolutely right they didn’t do anything wrong. Their parents can’t expect them to have seen one another as sibling just because they got married. Haesoo and Joowon never regarded each other that way, and had they just met in school as sunbae and hoobae, the story would have been parallel and probably with a better ended.
But despite me rooting for them, I have to admit it is jarring as a parent to catch something like that happening between your son and your step son. The mother still shouldn’t have reacted by immediately shaming and emotionally blackmailing them. That really fucked them up, especially Haesoo. You’re right, Haesoo and Joowon have the cards stacked against because they are STILL in a gay/queer relationship but the added stigma of being former step-siblings will forever haunt them. But I’mmglad they finally cut through the noose and decided to live for themselves and not society.
The joowon stans finally stepping up is honestly to satisfying to read, god knows that through the entire thing we only sat back and watched taku stans go on and on about what great guy he is, while we observed quietly, like you hardly see any joowon stans in the comment, at some point I stopped reading the comments because of it, so it would mean a great deal to me if the author actually made them end up together.
Their story was about more than just a crush, it was about the love they couldn’t share, the affection they couldn’t show to each other, the feelings they couldn’t express, even though I always was rooting for joowon, I disliked his personality at first like I admit he was kinda of an asshole, but I never thought that he did it to hurt haesoo but more like a way to hide his feelings for him, because the way I see it haesoo wasn’t the only one suffering during those ten years, joowon was in much more pain, he hated himself for telling haesoo not to fall for him when if fact he was the one with feelings for haesoo, he only told him not to fall for him because in the end one way or another, they both gonna end being hurt, and if we learnt anything through out the entire thing, it would be that joowon would rather be an asshole, a literal human trash, than hurt haesoo in any kind of way ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Taku stans have always been more interested in fighting and proving how much better Taku is than Joowon than actually reading the story. I’ve never seen a more childish comment section. They would literally just go on and on bashing Joowon and not discussing the story at all! It was so annoying and I stopped reading comments too and paused reading the story because I was just so sick of it being about the pairing and not their collective and individual growth.
Now they’re dismissing the story because “their ship didn’t sail”. I’m glad they started to quiet down though, so fucking childish to reduce this story to shipping ugh.
Yes!! Everything you said. I always liked Joowon actually, I knew he was putting up a front from the beginning and ep.74 just confirmed it. I used to be defending him so much before that ep and felt so vindicated with how Youngha laid out his POv. So many took license to bash him because we only got Haesoo’s perspective, but I always knew there was more to Joowon. Haesoo is insecure but he’s no doormat, no way would he put up with Joowon’s little act if there wasn’t a different side to him. They both willingly got into these roles in order to maintain a relationship without having to be honest of their true feelings and face the consequences of what that means.
They’ve always been each other’s #1 support system and they love the hell out of each other but love isn’t enough. You need honesty and communication, so hopefully things will be better. I would love to see who they could have been had they had the chance to love each other the way they wanted to. What does Haesoo look like when he’s Unapologetically in love? What does Joowon look like when he isn’t wearing a mask trying to be what he things is expected of him? We’ve kinda been seeing that Joowon lately and I just love Joowon, from start to finish.
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Thank you so much!!! That’s so kind of you, I should start a blog lolol
Why are people so mad that two people who’ve loved each other for 10 years have finally come to a place where they’ve healed/are healing the issues that hurt them and kept them apart.
Taku isn’t getting a raw deal. His storyline is developing too, y’all just refuse to actually read canon and choose instead to believe your own interpretations. From the very beginning, it’s always been a love affair between Haesoo and Joowon. All 3 parties know this, and Taku interjected himself KNOWING that his pseudo relationship with Haesoo was not INITIALLY based on love or genuine care. It was mere curiosity and attraction, a distraction for the both of them. Somewhere along the way, he finally started feeling something he’s never felt before. His character development is that he’s no longer going to treat romantic interests or love so lightly. Taku was arrogant and believed himself above the vulnerability that love draws out of us. He’s been humbled and now he’s capable of truly loving someone.
Honestly, I feel sorry for Haesoo. He’s been holding in the pain and torture of being rejected by his first love yet still engaging in a dysfunctional sexual/romantic relationship with him for T E N Y E A R S. I don’t know if any of you have ever actually loved someone and been in a dysfunctional relationship but that shit is no walk in the park. It’s emotionally and mentally destructive and changes who you are as a person. Mostly it alters how you value yourself. Haesoo loves himself the least out of all 3 characters. He just wallows in this misery and refuses to really move on because he doesn’t feel worthy of love. That rejection really scarred him more than he lets on. His attitude is just a defense mechanism because he doesn’t want Joowon to see just how much power he has over him.
His happiness and peace of mind has been so contingent on validating this strange thing between him and Joowon. It’s no wonder he’s so irritable and spiteful. He has built up so much resentment over the years and has had no real outlet to express himself. His writing career is stalled, his relationship with his mother is strained because if his relationship with Joowon, he and Joowon avoid the truth just so they can stay in each other’s lives, and his relationship with Taku reminds him too much of what he yearns for with Joowon. He’s so alone. I used to not be so sympathetic of Haesoo, but I see now that he’s been the only character standing still, trapped in the past while everyone else finds a way forward. Haesoo is literally trapped in that moment Joowon told him “Don’t fall for me”.
SPOILER!!!
That’s why the confession scene is so poignant. It’s not just a confession but Haesoo’s first step forward in 94 chapters! He reopened that wound by being honest about still loving Joowon as much as he did all those years again when he tried to confess. Joowon recognized it too because he rewrote their story as he said he would and confirmed what Haesoo has been silently begging for, that yes they do love each other and it’s always been love and Haesoo hasn’t been alone in feeling all the emotional turmoil from the lack of communication and blatant lies they’ve told each other. They’re finally standing in the same place after 10 years. Youngha wrote something beautiful and it’s so stupid to reduce it to ship wars.