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At least they didn't show it explicitly like they often do

WHAT? who breaks whos arms?

Assuming the ML imagined that, obviously it’s not okay but that’s just how messed up it got for him. As long as he doesn’t act on it, he just needs therapy. Shit everyone needs therapy, except the other professor needs jail.

ML imagined it I assume??

ohhh okay thanks i was so shocked

*****SPOILERS*****



At the end of last season I saw someone on twitter theorising that Suyeon called Gyeol Father/Dad during sex and that's why Gyeol called him disgusting and left, so I'm not too surprised with the events of this chapter.

I thought Suyeon's attraction to Gyeol because of his resemblance to his father would be an unconscious thing for Suyeon, so to have Suyeon just straight up say it was what was surprising.

Gyeol is the king of projection. He kept telling Suyeon that no one wants him, that Suyeon has spent all this time waiting for Gyeol and that Suyeon could never replace him. But we see it's the opposite; Suyeon was moving on and had found someone who he loved and who loved him back. Yoonho was never Gyeol's replacement, if anything Gyeol was the one who was the proxy for Suyeon's father. In chapter 38 Gyeol tells Suyeon "You're simply exploiting a child who years for affection" when that actually describes Gyeol best.

Thank God we finally got some more plot development in this chapter. After a slow start to the season it feels like things are actually progressing, I'm hoping the next chapter isn't just more Suyeon abuse.

I CALLED IT AS WELL, wow! Cause I was wondering why they emphasized the childhood scene with his father (I think he called him a slut and hurt him physically, touching too…ew).

And the appearance of his father.

I was so confused because I saw a lot of comments on twitter talking about a sad backstory, but it was literally nothing bad? His parents were religious but we don't see any abuse so I'm not sure why people thought it was sad. What was most obvious in the flashback is that even as a child the thing Gyeol fears most is being replaced which explains why he freaked out when he realised Suyeon was actually moving on emotionally with Yoonho and not just using Yoonho for sex.

I've got to say that I've found the start of this season to be pretty lacklustre. I feel like I keep reading the same chapter over and over. Gyeol abuses Suyeon sexually, Suyeon barely resists and instead responds to the sensation but then feels disgust afterwards, then repeat. I think the last 4 chapters really could have been 2. The pace has been really slow and we hav't gotten any actual introspection from Suyeon. Hopefully that changes with the letters Suyeon was writing to Yoonho because at this point I'm not finding either Gyeol or Suyeon very compelling.

I've always thought that best part of this series is the way we end up feeling Yoonho's anxiety and despair through the subtlety of the writing and not by having to be told directly. I'm finding Gyeol to be very one dimensional. The series was at it's strongest when it was about Yoonho trying to understand the mystery that was Suyeon but lately Suyeon is less a mystery and is instead just an underdeveloped character who keeps doing the same self-destructive acts.

omg yes, yes, and a final yes. I was so confused on Twitter when I saw ppl saying how they feel bad for gyeol??? I was expecting to see him get beaten up or bullied based on their reactions but he just has a younger sibling...? I get it, it can feel bad to feel that way but nowhere near an excuse to what hes making suyeon go through.

And about the past few chapters lacking in traceability is so real! The author could have done this in a simpler way but it was weirdly dragged out. I think mostly for the smut and sex appeal cause otherwise it felt repetitive.
Im guessing next chapter we'll go back to yoonho and his drinking problems.

Feeling bad for gyros is not what I expected.

Do you read Korean? I use Google Lens to translate but the sometimes you get some very strange translations that don't make sense.

Back in seasons 1 & 2 I thought Gyeol was just a fuckboy who got off on stringing Suyeon along, but it turns out he's a huge sadistic psycho. Even when Yoonho would lose control and belt Suyeon he would perform after care, being super attentive to Suyeon where as Gyeol is just cruel.

It's scary how desperate Gyeol is to reprogram Suyeon into being nothing more than a mindless sex slave. He looked super pissed at the end when Suyeon was vomiting because he knows that Suyeon finds him disgusting.

We also see that the reason Suyeon remained a virgin until his mid 30s is because Gyeol traumatised him when they were students saying no one would ever get turned on by someone as disgusting as Suyeon. Only for it to cut back to the present and have Gyeol say he's the only one who would ever find a gloomy slut like Suyeon attractive. It's just pure gaslighting.

Dirty rag (걸레) in this context has the same meaning as slut in English. It's the same language Suyeon's father used to describe his mother.

yup that's pretty much what I understood as well so the translated version is the same. Seems like gyeol is getting off the fact that someone who was more talented than him in pottery is now not only below him artistically but physically and socially. And him filming that video that isn't sexual (at least the 1st part of it) shows what kind of sadist gyeol is. From the last scene, ig gyeol will probably assault suyeon again and this time it'll get uglier

I didn't think Gyeol would be such a mess. Weird how the video started like one of those cringey youtube prank videos only to go super dark with Suyeon being suicidal.

I'm hoping this current arc is over and we start seeing some plot movement. With only 15-16 chapters left I think there's still a heap of ground to cover.