
Honestly, I love this angst. I'm not taking either sides since both are valid but man, loving what we're seeing from Joo Geon.
What Joo Geon may have started for fun eventually turned into something real. He started developing genuine feelings for Hyun Dal so why wouldn't he be afraid to reveal the truth during their time on call at the risk of losing him forever? Was it wrong? Of course, but he's only human.
In the first chapters we know when it comes to him and someone he likes, they break it off and he just accepts it then moves on. This is the first time where he's desperate to hold onto a relationship that he's willing to do anything.
He may be a relationship counsel but when it comes to his own love life, it's at the bottom of a pit.

Now what I say may be copium but after sitting down and drinking my sorrows away after what the ending did to me, I think we have hope guys.
This is a side story but it's exceeded up to 30 chapters. You can't call this a side story anymore. Maybe the author was restricted to ended this series seeing how fast paced the last few chapters have been so they can start serializing a main series for this.
The side story has been very popular and received a lot of good reception by both Korean and Western fan so I don't think they'd leave such an open ending like this.
Maybe the start of the main series will be a time skip when Dohyeok comes back to Korea. Dohyeok did say he'd return and the fact that Siwoo walked off on some random dude with no face while the other side characters (Siwoo's coworkers) have one is clear cut that the author could have clearly drawn a face on the nameless NPC to make Siwoo ending with someone permanent to close off the ending.
The author needs to complete this story main series. It can't just be finished in a side story. With the time skip there's going to be a lot to explore as well if it became it's own series.
The couple is very popular so from a marketing perspective, they wouldn't throw money down the drain but profit off it. Maybe next week or whenever we get the author notes we'll get an announcement?
-Copium over.

Some comments are saying this is realistic but when has this relationship ever been realistic between Siwoo and Dohyeok honestly.
This truly is the worst ending and it's actually a general consensus that even Korean and Western fans are sharing right now. Not because it's a sad ending but the execution towards it is pointless.
I genuinely wonder what on earth the author wanted for this side story by giving both characters problems that are in the end never resolved?
Dohyeok now has PTSD for no reason. The people that gang raped him are living free still. The punishment he received in the main story is better than this.
Also really? A mob that doesn't even have a face? The author clearly doesn't care at this point, huh. Siwoo is clearly taking advantage of this mob as well cause he knows Dohyeok is standing there. Even Suha told him he bounces lovers so I guess the narration of the story for his character is that Siwoo will continue doing so? Nice character development.
If it showed the feelings from Dohyeok's side were one sided then I wouldn't have minded the sad ending and rejection at all but the author made Siwoo open his heart his heart to him and he was kind of gradually showing them to Dohyeok as well. Another problem that also went nowhere.
Every comment I see in Korean/Western forums is that they hope Dohyeok goes abroad and meets a hot foreigner lol. I agree I hope so, too.

you are so right. it leaves me thinking, what was the point of this story? punishment for dohyeok? i don't see how any of this is a good punishment story because he gets violently gangr***d as his punishment and in the process of making this punishment story, the author turned a character known to be good into a r***st. at the end dohyeok doesn't even learn anything. he doesn't think about suha and jiwoon and what he's done to them. in fact he says he won't give up on siwoo, meaning he has learnt nothing and is still obsessive.

*chapter updates*
Focus on main couple: I sleep
Focus on Woojin: Wide awake
I'll be honest... I didn't bother finishing the main story midway. I did try though since I thought the uke was my taste but it was too hard cause I started hating him and wanted the seme deserve better.
Who knew though that Woojin would come out as the the type of uke I liked more. Can't wait to read his relationship, his feelings seem unrequited and so pure.

I love how fucking unhinged Matthew, it's so hot. Also lmaoooo readers who try and bring morality and try to force their own sense justice down peoples throats in a story filled with drugs , murder, and two fictional guys having sex will always be so funny cause it's pathetic.

Hey, you chose to reply, to a thread that has 0 engagement. I think you might be triggered the one that's triggered bro.
Man, just seeing you tryto take the moral high ground when you're reading on an illegal site and arguing about Yaoi, a genre that literally fetishsizes gay men. I am crying actually, from wheezing too hard. Thanks for the laugh
Wow, Heesung and Potato is so cute I hope we have more of them