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Jewel25 has the Spanish translation of the novel on ao3. Personally, I think that everyone in the comment section is being slightly harsh towards Kang. Y'all keep acting like it's going to end in the next two chapters. It's not. Tbh, I don't understand why people are still reading this if they hate Kang so much. If you think he's the scum of the earth and completely irredeemable even after these spoilers, just stop reading already. Nothing is going to make you like him anymore and all you're doing is making the comment section miserable for the people who actually enjoy the story and characters.

First off, they don't really have sex in the next scene. Kang just gets Juheon off enough to subdue his heat and go get his sister to get help. There aren't any full blown sex scenes in the rest of the novel. The novel is pretty much about resolving their past and current issues. They have plenty of needed conversations about the past and future. Not only between Kang and Juheon but also between them and other family members including their daughter.

One criticism that I have was that Kang was a slightly pushy about having Taeyang accept him as her father, but I think it was partially Heeju's (Juheon's sister) fault since she pretty much said that you can't have two fathers because you can't be loyal to both. It made Taeyang think that having two fathers was too strange. After this, Kang tries to normalizes the concept to her by introducing her to a famous fairy tale author that had two fathers. He never forces Juheon to tell her that he's her real father while Juheon is actually her mother.

Only a practice proposal happens towards the end of the main novel and Juheon still says he might reject it. Kang even threatens to leave his family because his grandfather wants to announce their engagement before both Juheon and Taeyang have accepted him. He also switches his career towards pediatrics so he can better understand how to take care of both of them.

By the end of the novel, we only see them just restart their relationship and Taeyoung accept Kang as her father (it's the last real scene and happened during this scavenger hunt during her sports day. She had to fetch her father. It was really cute.) There is only a real proposal in the extra. Even though Juheon accepts the first time, Kang proposes at least another 19 times because he thinks Juheon doesn't like any of the rings (turns out he mostly thinks they're too expensive for him to actually wear even when he's off work lol). We don't see a wedding scene either.

Kang does quite a bit to prove himself as the story progresses. Don't write him off immediately. As the novel goes on, it becomes even more obvious how much he regrets everything he did and how much desperate he is to try to fix everything. I'm more disappointed at the lack of extras we get.