This is advice from someone who went through something familiar to a person similar to Haeyul. When you encounter someone that says you are perfect, that they wouldn't like you to hang out with someone; they would do something in exchange for your time and for your love; or they bite you, kiss you or hug you without consent; or they want to desperately and forcefully get your attention like Haeyul did to Jaewon, do not and I sincerely repeat: do not go along with things, do not accept things, do not leave with them, you draw a line, and run. In this story the MC is too kind, and such a good person that he didnt immediately kick out a guy who he clearly saw that he had broken in. He didnt tell him where he lived and he didnt invite him before.
I know its for the purpose of the book but, do not think "I need this so I will do what they ask" or "I am going to be nice this once", or "Yeah its a nice distraction " because they will not leave you alone.
I know some will say "but there is such a thing as being nice and cordial": you know what I would rather people see me as a fucking bitch that bites and is an asshole than have an asshole stalker. And I know some other would say "but its his job, its his money" and let me say no money is worth your safety, because those things escalate and they get worse, and its better to look for another job, another person to tutor, etc. than have your safety compromised
Now that asshole is a stalker because he did enter his home without consent, but it seems that their last teacher, Yesung was also a grooming asshole. And people can say its normal or what not, but at 22 you do not ask a 15 year old to be your friend and spend all of the time with him, you dont ask him to disconnect you from life support (basically he js asking a kid to kill him as a favor), and you do not ask to meet them outside work without their parents consent. A pedophile or a groomer does not have an age restriction, they can be 22, and this asshole is a groomer. People can say that they where friends and they never went further but they clearly are because Doonin said so himself, the tests where far away and there was no reason that Yaesung had to ask to meet a 15 year old in private for "work". It was his first time not going and he did it with the his parents permission, he could have called his parents.
I think at this point, the only explanations for the non bl but bl centric plot are either:
1. The author has another "name" and wrote doujinshi bl under that name, but he wanted to officially write an action manga with his actual name. However, his bl tendencies bleed through and now it is more bl than anything.
2. The author is Bl baiting to get readers in an action manga...counterproductive to the actual mission, but it makes sense. Looking at the covers it looks more like a typical bl cover than an action one. I have read action without bl before (like a lot of us in here) and most of their covers dont look like the covers of this manga.
3. It was originally bl but no bl magazine wanted to accept the manga, so the author erased those scenes and made it into an only action manga...but some things stayed the same, and now the author swears it is an action without bl manga.
Its not Yi Zaha apparently, its someone else. Its another person who has the same title but it was passed down apparently.
Same universe. The he FL in this is a descendant of an MC in “Like a Fiery Flame”/“Like a Chilling Flame” (it’s in mangago).
At one point, the Fist King also talks about another MC (someone who was raised in a way where his fighting style looked like dancing). His webtoon is also on mangago: “Sword Fanatic Wanders Through The Night”
Timeline wise, the stories are:
1. Return of the Mad Demon/ Return of the Crazy Demon
2. Like a Chilling Flame/ Like a Fiery Flame
3. A Dance of Swords in the Night/ Sword Fanatic Wanders Through The Night
4. Reincarnation of the Fist King
5. Looking at the Moon Reflected in the Sword
At least he has such good people around, that they all told him off for her. But seriously the author is making it seem like he just goes along with everything everyone around him says when it concerns her, and his future life with her; there is no thought process where you actually see that he likes her except the typical "I like her".
I think the author is just wittting from a manual; man conflicted anout living, man calls in love, man learns to love, happy ending. And done in a good way you can say, "oh I like where this is going" (like Northern Blade), but this seems too mechanical, its exactly like steps to take towards something, and too textbook.
I bet its going to be more like; towards the end, when he is fighting he is going to think about what he wants in life, and he is going to see her and their baby, and his friends (more his friends) and he is going to have a NEW impulse to live, and that is why he will survive.








I love this story, its one of the best ones for depression representation (?) along with Payback, but I think the resolution was rushed at the end. I dont know if its me ....maybe it is ...but people especially in this type of media (manga, manhwas, webcomics) sometimes have to make it work at the end, especially with family. Forgiving family for what they do to you is not always the answer and its not always something that should be done as a step of acceptance or a way to work around your depression.
Yes, she is human, and yes she deserves to be free of the other family that abused her, but: saying that both your children are dead, leaving one of those children behind with the abusive parent and family, remarrying and never looking to see how he was was or even resolving it through therapy (because the daughter said they knew it was psycbological and she got help) is just too much to uncover and resolve in one chapter.
I know he was saying everything and that the thought process was shown in that chapter, but it did not seem enough to me. Yes he forgave her for abandoning him and realized that he didnt want to have people worry about him because he is in pain, but that does not deal with abandonment, or being a young adult, or being talked down to your whole life and told that you murder everyone around you. It would have been more meaningful to have the mother actually working it out and apologizing and him saying that stuff to his mom, rather than the stepchild she raised instead of him. He was an adult now, she could even look for him in secret or in hiding from her husband, I dont know but it would have been more meaningful for it to be her.