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The Warm Hand and the THUD
The final penthouse sequence becomes even crueler once one realizes that Kim Dan may be misreading the sensory evidence itself.
The squeezing and warmth of Jaekyung’s hand can function as comfort and reassurance 
(chapter 100), convincing Kim Dan that the champion is alive, stable, and therefore ultimately “fine.” But warmth does not necessarily signify health. It can also indicate fever, exhaustion, overexertion, and a body approaching collapse. Thus the tactile comfort Kim Dan clings to may actually conceal the severity of Jaekyung’s condition rather than disprove it.
This reinterpretation fundamentally alters the meaning of the final “THUD.” 
(chapter 100)
Importantly, Mingwa does not visually show the collapse or wobbling itself. Instead, she makes both Kim Dan and the readers hear it. That distinction matters enormously because if she had visually depicted Jaekyung collapsing onto the floor, the interpretation would immediately become fixed and undeniable. Instead, she traps both Kim Dan and the readers inside uncertainty or into a false illusion.
Kim Dan sees the hollow eyes, the trembling exhaustion, the devastated face 
(chapter 100), the passivity, and the emotional distance. Yet he doesn’t initiate any conversation. On the other hand, the warm hand even allows him to construct a safer narrative. 
(chapter 100) The champion was not hurt, he won the match. He is warm. He will recover. There is nothing to fear.
The “THUD” violently interrupts this emotional minimization.
And the timing matters profoundly because according to me, Kim Dan has not actually left yet. The chapter only creates the illusion of departure. The words “Goodbye then…” remain suspended through the ellipsis itself. Kim Dan still stands at the entrance. He has not crossed the threshold yet. The goodbye remains emotionally unfinished. He is waiting for a response or word from his lover. 
By uttering the phrase, “Goodbye then…”, Kim Dan suddenly shifts from a passive observer of his own fate to the active arbiter of the narrative. He is the one stepping forward to single-handedly determine the meaning of the separation, dictating the final emotional framing, and drawing the absolute conclusion of the relationship itself.
(chapter 100) The sound forces reality back into the sensory field before Kim Dan can finalize the goodbye psychologically.
This pivot exposes a profound structural shift: it reveals the sudden emergence of power.
This is not a display of external authority, physical dominance, or toxic control. Instead, it represents something far more critical to his psychological survival: the reclamation of narrative and emotional agency. For the first time in the text, he is no longer waiting to be discarded or directed; he is attempting to author his own ending.
Thus the “THUD” becomes the sound of reality interrupting self-erasure before separation can become real. (chapter 100) By shattering his sensory anesthesia, the physical weight of that sound completely dismantles Kim Dan’s constructed fantasy of “noble self-sacrifice.” Up until this exact threshold, his mind had processed his departure as a perfectly balanced, clean transaction. 
(chapter 100) In his internal trauma script, he was performing a deeply logical, protective act: paying his final respects, leaving behind the material markers of a dissolved contract, and erasing his “toxic, burdening presence” so that the champion could return to unencumbered glory.
But the unyielding gravity of the “THUD” forces a terrifying realization into his consciousness: he has completely excluded his own personhood from his moral universe. 
(chapter 98) While Kim Dan possessed a fierce, uncompromising moral compass when defending the life of his grandmother—violently pushing the wolf’s hand away to establish that a dying human body is infinitely more important than sex, duty, or financial leverage 
(Chapter 21)—he systematically denies himself that same basic right to exist.
When lying in a pool of his own blood in Chapter 98, reaching up to touch Jaekyung’s face, he forced a desperate mandate upon the champion: 
(chapter 98) In that agonizing moment, Dan entirely broke his own foundational principle. He demanded that Jaekyung prioritize performance, utility, and a championship title over a dying human life. The irony is that here, he thinks he is being selfless. Nonetheless, Doc Dan, in his pursuit of self-erasure, accidentally acts with immense psychological cruelty. He forces Jaekyung into a horrific repetition compulsion: abandoning a dying loved one for the sake of the ring.
He remains tragically blind to the profound psychological heartlessness of this request which he repeats much later. 
(chapter 100) For Joo Jaekyung, the match had instantly lost all meaning; his entire world was paralyzed by the terror of losing Dan. By pushing the champion to abandon his bleeding body to go perform inside an octagon, Kim Dan did not save him—he unconsciously destroyed him. He pushed a man whose childhood trauma permanently fused athletic victory with the catastrophic death of his parents 
(Chapter 73) to go repeat his ultimate nightmare.
The “THUD” at the threshold is the precise moment Kim Dan is forced to face the real-world consequences of his own words. Throughout their entire history, Dan has remained completely unable to initiate emotional intimacy, perpetually waiting for a sign from Joo Jaekyung (chapter 100), as if he wanted to be “chosen” rather than face the terrifying vulnerability of making a conscious choice himself. He wanted to be selected by the champion, to be granted permission to exist in that space, rather than taking the emotional risk to claim it. If he continues to treat his own life as expendable and vanishes into the dark, his submissive endurance ceases to be a shield—it becomes an active weapon. 
(chapter 100) His passivity would effectively sentence Jaekyung to a lifetime of crushing, unearned guilt, forcing the champion to live as a monster in his own mind, convinced his presence only contaminates and destroys.
By attempting to slip away like a grateful ghost under the guise of an polite eviction, Kim Dan stands on the precipice of becoming the active architect of another person’s ruin. The hollow echo of the penthouse layout confronts him with the ultimate baseline of psychological responsibility: gratitude cannot engineer happiness (chapter 100), and if he walks away now, he will lose everything permanently—not because he was abandoned, but because he refused to choose to stay.
Toxic Positivity and Emotional Avoidance
Episode 100 repeatedly exposes characters trying to impose the illusion that everything will be alright now onto a reality that is psychologically catastrophic underneath.
Superficially, the chapter appears filled with healing imagery. Flowers, gifts 
(chapter 100), warm lighting, soft dialogue
(chapter 100), survival, tenderness, and celebration aesthetically imitate recovery. And yet emotionally, the chapter feels suffocating.
Kim Dan constantly reframes catastrophe into survivable meaning. (chapter 100) At least the champion could fight. At least the title was reclaimed. At least he survived. He will recover. Everything will return to normal.
This is not healthy optimism. It is emotional minimization.
Team Black behaves similarly. Their affection is genuine, yet emotionally superficial. They celebrate survival, normalize the situation quickly, and soothe symptoms without confronting the psychological devastation underneath. Nobody openly says that something is deeply wrong. (chapter 100) In fact, they even praises him.
The final penthouse sequence therefore becomes a brutal dismantling of toxic positivity. Kim Dan tries to impose a healthy narrative onto reality. The debt is gone. The danger passed. Now he should leave. But Mingwa repeatedly inserts contradictions: the terrible face, the red eyes, the hesitation, the trembling silence, the disappointed mouth 
(chapter 100), the unfinished goodbye, the warm hand, and finally the THUD.
The chapter refuses emotional simplification. The body keeps revealing the truth the characters attempt to suppress verbally.
The Day Kim Dan Says “Stay With Me”
For this reason, Kim Dan’s emotional evolution cannot find its resolution in the moment Joo Jaekyung drops his armor and whispers, “Stay with me.” The phrase, though revolutionary within the champion’s own psychological history 
(chapter 97), remains entirely inaccessible to Kim Dan’s internal landscape. Within Dan’s trauma script, he remains the permanently expendable entity—the one who leaves quietly, adapts silently, apologizes constantly, and survives solely through systematic self-erasure.
Even after the profound physical and emotional crises of the hospitalization, his cognitive architecture is frozen in a state of hyper-vigilant transition; he prepares for a clean disappearance rather than a permanent settlement. He proceeds under the lifelong assumption that companionship is inherently temporary, strictly conditional, and destined to dissolve into an empty room the moment his immediate economic or physical utility reaches its natural expiration.
The roots of this profound emotional paralysis extend far deeper than his history with Joo Jaekyung, anchoring themselves in a foundational, intergenerational rupture. Episode 57 quietly exposes that Kim Dan’s defining psychological wound is not the surface-level humiliation of poverty, debt, or social isolation, but a deep-seated terror of broken permanence. 
(chapter 57) In the opening movements of his recurrent nightmare, the memory presents itself under an illusion of maternal comfort. Following an episode of childhood bullying 
(chapter 57), a young Kim Dan is met with the rhythmic, tactile reassurance of his grandmother: “Grandma will always be there for you. You still have me” (Chapter 57). However, the nightmare exposes the truth: the starting point of the little boy’s suffering is the opened door: 
(chapter 57), a symbol for departure which is strongly connected to loss and grief.
This tactile grounding is structurally paramount. (chapter 57) Within the visual language of the series, the physical act of patting and touch is established as the literal definition of safety, presence, and protection. The young Dan cries, yet he surrenders completely to the belief that emotional warmth possesses the power to permanently stabilize external violence. It is this total emotional vulnerability that renders his tearful, smiling response—“Okay!”—so retroactively devastating. 
(chapter 57) It represents an absolute, unhedged contract with permanence; a child’s clean surrender to the promise that an attachment figure will remain physically and emotionally reachable no matter what hostile forces gather outside.
The Trauma of the Unfinished Departure
The structural cruelty of the nightmare, however, lies in its precise chronological sequence: first comes absolute reassurance, and then comes immediate, total erasure. The bullying itself is merely an ambient hostility; the true catastrophe is the sudden mutation of safety into a void. 
(chapter 57) The visual transition occurs through one of the most chilling images in the work: a domestic door standing wide open, leading directly into an unyielding, featureless darkness. Kim Dan stands paralyzed before this threshold, staring into the empty entrance as he quietly whispers, (Chapter 57).
The emotional structure of the nightmare unfolds through a devastating chain of associations. It begins with maternal reassurance and the promise of permanence: “Grandma will always be there for you.” For a brief moment, Kim Dan experiences emotional safety, physical comfort, and the belief that attachment can protect him from the hostility of the outside world. Yet this reassurance is immediately shattered by sudden disappearance. The opened door leading into darkness transforms the promise of permanence into a terrifying image of absence and emotional unreachability.
The Ultimate Catastrophe: The Dissolution of Roots
The small, raw mound of dirt that marks the final resting place of the unnamed puppy in Episode 59
(Chapter 59) functions as a tragic monument to emotional minimization. The animal is given no name, no formal ceremony, and no structural acknowledgment within the household’s narrative. For the elderly landlord, this loss is processed through a lens of pragmatic detachment, viewed merely as a rustic, natural occurrence 
(chapter 59) or a minor rut 
(chapter 59) in life’s ordinary routine. Because the grandfather dismisses the animal’s death as a trivial event, he lacks the psychological framework to connect it to Kim Dan’s rapid mental deterioration. He never mentions the loss to Joo Jaekyung, effectively sealing the entire event in absolute silence. 
(chapter 65) By treating the puppy’s death as an unnoteworthy blip, the narrative environment strips Kim Dan of the baseline right to grieve, signaling to him that his sorrow is disproportionate, inconvenient, and ultimately invisible to the outside world.
This absolute isolation of grief yields the catastrophic psychological state exposed in Chapter 65. When the grandfather notes that Dan slips out like he is in a trance and expresses a terrifying fear that the young man might end up drowning himself in the ocean, he is witnessing a literalized enactment of Kim Dan’s trauma script. This behavior is not simple drunkenness or passive depression, but an active, sleepwalking surrender to the void. The ocean represents the ultimate space of non-existence, a vast, featureless horizon where a burdened identity can be quietly dissolved without disrupting the lives of others. When Joo Jaekyung physically intercepts Dan, lifting him out of the darkness and carrying him away from the shoreline, the physical contrast is stark. Jaekyung acts as an anchor of brute force, yet he remains completely blind to the ghost haunting Dan’s mind, pulling his body from the surf without ever reaching the unmourned graveyard hidden beneath the silence.
The true terror of this sequence lies in how the puppy’s death 
(chapter 59) interacts with Shin Okja’s terminal timeline. 
(chapter 59) With his grandmother’s days explicitly numbered, the sudden erasure of the unnamed puppy strips Kim Dan of his final buffer against the original, unresolved trauma of his life, which is the unmourned loss of his parents. While Dan consciously frames his terror as the fear of being left entirely alone in a hostile world, the deeper, more paralyzing horror is the total collapse of his past. Shin Okja is not merely his protector; she is the sole living witness to his childhood, his family, and his original identity. Because Kim Dan was never permitted to properly process, understand, or mourn the sudden disappearance of his parents, his psychological roots were already incredibly fragile. The photographs in Chapter 94 prove that his childhood was materially documented through images of flower fields and playgrounds 
(chapter 94), yet his parents were completely erased from that visual record. When the puppy dies unnoticed and the grandmother approaches the threshold of death, Kim Dan faces an existential erasure. If the last person who remembers where he came from vanishes, then Kim Dan ceases to exist in any meaningful, continuous reality, meaning his submissive endurance and his active steps toward the ocean are the desperate measures of a man who believes he has already become a ghost. However, what the physical therapist doesn’t know is that Shin Okja that Shin Okja already shared fragments of her memories and emotional legacy with Joo Jaekyung. 
(chapter 94) By showing the champion photographs from Kim Dan’s childhood, she quietly creates continuity where Kim Dan unconsciously expects only disappearance and erasure. In this sense, her final wish almost functions like a symbolic letter left behind through the athlete himself. 
(chapter 94) When she tells Joo Jaekyung that she wants nothing more than for Kim Dan to be happy and hopes he can be happy beside him too 
(chapter 100), she unknowingly entrusts Kim Dan’s future, memories, and emotional continuity to another person before disappearing herself.
The Ghostification of Memory
This disappearance does not function as an isolated fear connected only to Shin Okja herself. 
(chapter 57) Instead, it unconsciously reactivates Kim Dan’s primary unresolved trauma: the sudden loss of his parents in the accident. 
(chapter 94) Once again, someone leaves the domestic space and fails to return, forcing Kim Dan into the same helpless position of searching after an absence he cannot stop, explain, or emotionally resolve.
From this repeated experience of broken permanence emerges the survival script governing Kim Dan’s adult personality. He learns to survive not through emotional dependence or openly expressed need, but through usefulness, gratitude, debt repayment, minimization, and self-erasure. Because attachment repeatedly became associated with disappearance and loss, Kim Dan unconsciously prepares himself for abandonment before it fully arrives.
The psychological consequences of this unresolved loss extend even further than abandonment itself. Kim Dan does not simply lose people; he gradually loses the ability to stabilize their emotional reality internally. (chapter 94) When he quietly admits that he no longer remembers the faces of his parents, the statement appears deceptively simple. Yet psychologically, it reveals a catastrophic form of erasure. A face is not merely visual recognition. It anchors identity, continuity, emotional permanence, and existence itself. Without faces, loved ones gradually begin resembling ghosts.
This realization retrospectively illuminates Kim Dan’s strange confusion between dream and reality throughout episode 100. 
(chapter 100) Even when Joo Jaekyung physically touches him, lies beside him, squeezes his hand, and leaves behind tangible traces of his presence, Kim Dan struggles to stabilize the champion visually and emotionally. The face repeatedly appears blurred, hidden by light, partially obscured, or emotionally difficult to grasp. The body says: someone is here. But the unstable face says: they may disappear again.
In this sense, Kim Dan’s fear is not merely abandonment. It is the dissolution of emotional reality itself around attachment.
Visual Continuity and the Ghostification of Memory
And yet Mingwa quietly introduces one object that resists this entire process of emotional erasure: the amusement park photograph. 
(chapter 87) Unlike the fragmented visions haunting episode 100, the picture materially preserves Joo Jaekyung outside the role of the “Emperor.” The champion appears awkward, calm, almost ordinary, participating in a shared moment rather than performing dominance publicly. For perhaps one of the first times in Kim Dan’s life, emotional continuity becomes fixed visibly instead of dissolving into absence.
This matters profoundly because the photograph directly opposes ghostification itself. Kim Dan cannot reduce the moment into pure dream, hallucination, or unstable memory. The image preserves:
- a face,
- a shared place,
- a lived moment,
- and emotional reality existing outside survival and obligation.
For perhaps the first time since the death of his parents, attachment becomes materially anchored to reality rather than threatened by disappearance. Unlike the faceless disappearance haunting his childhood memories, Joo Jaekyung remains materially visible inside the frame.
And this may explain why the present-day “champion” after the stabbing feels so emotionally disorienting. 
(chapter 100) The exhausted, sleepless figure wandering through the hospital at night no longer fully resembles the mythological Emperor constructed by MFC and Team Black. (chapter 100) Yet neither does he fully resemble the ordinary man preserved inside the amusement park photograph. (chapter 87) Kim Dan therefore stands psychologically between two competing realities: the collapsing public myth and the fragile private human being slowly emerging underneath it.
The photographs shown in episode 94 make this even more devastating. (chapter 94) Shin Okja preserves Kim Dan’s childhood materially: the flower fields, the playground, the puppy, the smiling child. Yet the parents remain entirely absent from the preserved emotional narrative. Even more importantly, the photographs themselves are shown not to Kim Dan, but to Joo Jaekyung. Symbolically, the champion becomes a witness to a forgotten continuity that Kim Dan himself can no longer fully access.
As a result, Kim Dan’s personal history becomes emotionally frozen around a single surviving relationship: himself and his grandmother. Everything surrounding that bond gradually dissolves into invisibility. The accident does not merely take his parents away physically; it erases emotional continuity itself. The lost family begins resembling something unreal, distant, and ghost-like inside memory.
This also explains the overwhelming terror surrounding Shin Okja’s eventual death. 
(chapter 57) If she disappears too, Kim Dan unconsciously fears losing not only companionship, but the final remaining anchor connecting him to his own past and identity.
The horror of this panel is entirely acoustic and structural rather than explicitly violent. (chapter 57) The grandmother has vanished. The room remains physically ordinary, recognizable, and static, yet the emotional center that validated the space has been instantaneously wiped clean. The open doorway stands as a permanent monument to an irreversible departure. Someone has left, and Kim Dan has once again arrived too late to stop the hemorrhage.
This specific visual configuration exposes a profound sense of absolute powerlessness before disappearance. Throughout his life, Dan experiences the people and animals 
(chapter 94) upon whom his emotional survival depends as slipping away into unreachability without warning, explanation, or the possibility of interception.
This nightmare sequence does not merely depict the fear of losing Shin Okja; it functions as a psychological screen memory that reactivates the original, unresolved catastrophe of his childhood: the sudden death of his parents in an accident. The parental loss functions psychologically not as an understood transition, but as a sudden, violent departure completely stripped of emotional closure. Someone leaves the domestic sphere and simply never returns. The child is left behind to wander the empty rooms (chapter 57), searching for an explanation, a destination, or a lingering trace of continuity.
When Shin Okja later assumes the role of his sole protector, she temporarily stabilizes this primary wound 
, but her eventual illness and death cause the old terror to resurface with unchecked force. The reassurance that “Grandma will always be there” collapses into the exact same darkness, rain, breathlessness, and panic that defined the loss of his parents.
This cycle of sudden, unexplained abandonment implants a devastating psychological mechanism within Kim Dan: survivor’s guilt. He internalizes the catastrophic belief that his continued existence is a fundamental material and emotional burden to those around him. He adopts an identity of extreme minimization—reducing his physical footprint, eating nothing under stress, apologizing for occupying space, and preemptively preparing for his own eviction before the other person can abandon him first. Because he unconsciously links deep emotional attachment to sudden death, ruin, or disappearance, he learns to survive by never allowing himself to believe in permanence again.
To openly ask another human being to stay beside him is an act of agency completely prohibited by his trauma script. Such a request requires a fundamental faith in the stability of the future. It requires trusting that a shared warmth will not instantly mutate into an empty hallway or a clinical operating room. Trapped within the logic of the opened door in Chapter 57, Kim Dan cannot ask anyone to remain; he can only wait in silence for the inevitable moment they vanish.
Yet one of the cruelest aspects of the relationship is that Joo Jaekyung’s care alone cannot fully dismantle the psychological structure governing Kim Dan’s self-perception. The champion provides financial stability, physical protection, rest, fun 
(chapter 89), emotional attachment, and eventually even places Kim Dan above the championship itself. But none of these gestures automatically erase decades of trauma, survivor guilt, and self-erasure. Kim Dan continues interpreting himself through the logic of burden, usefulness, and temporary emotional permission. As a result, even genuine love becomes destabilized inside his perception. Care transforms into guilt. Freedom feels like eviction. Presence becomes dream-like. (chapter 100) And companionship itself remains emotionally difficult to trust.
From Ghost to Sinner: The Inversion of the Trauma Script
That is why the emotional reversal of the story likely requires something much more devastating: Kim Dan witnessing Joo Jaekyung collapse.
Until now, the champion has functioned almost like a force of nature inside Kim Dan’s mind. No matter how wounded, exhausted, or emotionally unstable he became, Jaekyung always remained standing. 
(chapter 69) 
(chapter 91)
But episode 100 quietly dismantles this image. The disheveled hair, dark red eyes from crying and insomnia, starvation, (chapter 100) emotional distance, and nightly wandering all reveal someone slowly destroying himself from within.
If Joo Jaekyung’s body finally gives in — if exhaustion overwhelms him, if his legs give in or if he faints or loses consciousness directly in front of Kim Dan — then the emotional structure of the story would reverse completely. Kim Dan would suddenly experience what Jaekyung experienced in the hospital and at the seaside: the terror of watching someone he loves become physically unresponsive and getting really sick.
This matters profoundly because Kim Dan’s understanding of death has never been linked primarily to gore or violence. (chapter 59) His trauma seems connected instead to stillness, sleep 
(chapter 59), silence, unconsciousness, and disappearance.
Thus witnessing Jaekyung collapse would strike directly at the center of his childhood trauma.
More importantly, such a moment would destroy Kim Dan’s ability to hide love behind gratitude. He could no longer tell himself that he stayed because he owed something. Instead, he would finally confront the truth: he cannot lose him.
And only then could Kim Dan truly say:
“Stay with me.”
Not as repayment. Not as obligation. Not as gratitude. But as pure emotional need. At the same time, speaking openly about his childhood, the accident, and the disappearance of his parents would force Joo Jaekyung to confront an important truth:Kim Dan’s suffering did not begin with him. He doesn’t know everything about him either. The champion incited the physical therapist not only to confront his traumas, but also to gather courage and affirm himself. He might have caused him some pain, but he did not create the original wounds. Long before entering the octagon’s violent world, Kim Dan had already learned to associate attachment with disappearance, guilt, and emotional instability. Besides, in reality, he is no angel either, just like him a sinner. (chapter 100)
This pivot exposes the agonizing threshold where Kim Dan undergoes a profound psychological transformation: the loss of absolute innocence and the violent birth of true adult maturity. Throughout his life, Dan has operated under the survival script of a grateful ghost, a creature who believes he must minimize his physical and emotional footprint to ensure the survival of those around him. 
(chapter 53) A ghost leaves no tracks, carries no weight, and can be evicted or replaced without altering the fabric of the room it inhabited. However, the unyielding weight of the physical collapse at the threshold forces a terrifying realization into his consciousness. By witnessing the catastrophic toll his words and his impending departure have taken on Joo Jaekyung, Kim Dan is stripped of his narrative anesthesia. (chapter 98) He is forced to realize that he is not a ghost at all. Instead, he has become a sinner which is symbolized by the blood left on the athlete’s cheek that night.
This shift from ghost to sinner is monumental because a sinner possesses density, gravity, and the undeniable capacity to inflict a wound. For the first time, Dan cannot hide behind the convenient illusion of his own insignificance; he is confronted with the undeniable evidence that he has left permanent, indelible traces in the champion’s life. He is not replaceable, and he cannot vanish cleanly because his presence has already fundamentally altered the internal architecture of the celebrity. To acknowledge that he has the power to wound Jaekyung is to acknowledge his own personhood and agency.
Paradoxically, this recognition of his own capacity to cause pain becomes the first true validation of his existence as a real, impactful human being. For someone anchored in a trauma script of self-erasure, happiness always appears fragile and temporary, destined to dissolve back into an empty room. Pain, however, possesses undeniable reality. Discovering that he can wound Joo Jaekyung therefore destroys the illusion of his own insignificance.
By forcing the loss of his protective, childlike innocence, this realization marks the birth of his adult maturity. (chapter 100) He can no longer view himself as a passive victim of fate or an expendable burden. If his existence carries enough weight to cause ruin, then it also carries enough weight to cultivate healing. Consequently, his psychological survival ceases to be about achieving safety through total self-erasure. Instead, it matures into a conscious, courageous choice to engage in a mutual exchange of lasting impressions—willingly claiming the power to leave indelible traces in Jaekyung’s heart, while finally allowing Jaekyung to carve permanent, undeniable traces into his own world.
This transformation also fundamentally alters Kim Dan’s relationship to silence and moral judgment. 
(chapter 91) Throughout the series, he remains almost completely passive toward institutional abuse and exploitation. He never openly confronts the perverted hospital director, never pursues legal retaliation against those who destroyed his livelihood 
(chapter 11), and never truly challenges the structures that repeatedly reduce him to a disposable object. His anger emerges almost exclusively toward Joo Jaekyung because the champion emotionally reaches him deeply enough to wound him personally. (chapter 100) Yet the “THUD” destroys the illusion that passivity itself is harmless. Once Kim Dan realizes that his choices possess the power to devastate another human being emotionally, he can no longer maintain the fantasy of existential insignificance. A ghost silently endures injustice because it believes it lacks the right to leave traces behind. 
(chapter 1) A sinner, however, possesses moral weight. By recognizing his own capacity to wound, Kim Dan simultaneously acquires the adult authority to judge silence, cowardice, and passivity in others as well.
The Closed Door: The Acoustic Anchor of Reality
Throughout the series, and especially within Kim Dan’s recurring childhood nightmare in Chapter 57, the open door functions as the primal image of abandonment. (chapter 57) It marks the threshold where loved ones disappear into darkness while he remains behind, powerless to stop them from leaving. In Kim Dan’s trauma logic, an open doorway is never neutral. It is a wound left permanently unresolved.
This symbolism returns with devastating force in Chapter 100. (chapter 100) Standing at the entrance of the penthouse, Kim Dan attempts to perform what he believes is a final act of noble self-sacrifice. His suspended “Goodbye then…” reflects the familiar survival strategy that has governed his entire life: leave quietly, minimize the burden, disappear before causing further damage. He still imagines departure as a clean emotional transaction, one in which he can slip away harmlessly like a grateful ghost.
The violent “THUD” of Joo Jaekyung’s collapse destroys this illusion instantly. It brings an end to the generational trauma repetition and as such Kim Dan’s jinx! 
(chapter 100)
The sound functions like an acoustic shockwave tearing through Kim Dan’s entire childhood survival script. For perhaps the first time in his life, he is forced to confront the catastrophic possibility that his passivity is not emotionally neutral. By attempting to erase himself quietly, he is no longer protecting the person he loves. He is actively destroying him. In this sense, Kim Dan unconsciously begins reenacting the very trauma that shaped his own childhood. Just like the parents who vanished beyond the open doorway of his memory 
(chapter 19), and just like Shin Okja repeatedly attempting to remove herself from his life for his “own good,” 
(chapter 65) Kim Dan convinces himself that disappearance is an act of love. The tragedy of the threshold scene lies precisely in this inherited logic of self-removal. He believes he is preventing suffering, while unknowingly reproducing the emotional catastrophe that destroyed him in the first place.
And this is where the scene undergoes its most profound symbolic reversal. (chapter 57) In the childhood nightmare, the open door represented irreversible disappearance and emotional hemorrhage. Here, however, the collapse effectively slams the threshold shut. The exit no longer exists psychologically. Kim Dan cannot continue drifting into the darkness as though his existence leaves no trace behind.
The apartment itself suddenly transforms. The hallway no longer offers escape into abstraction or self-erasure. The sealed space forces Kim Dan to confront the weakened body inside the room and the devastating evidence that his existence leaves real wounds behind.
This realization marks the destruction of the “ghost” identity he has inhabited for years. 
(chapter 97) A ghost passes through spaces invisibly, leaves no wounds behind, and can vanish without fundamentally altering the lives of others. Kim Dan has survived precisely by believing himself replaceable, temporary, and emotionally weightless.
But the body collapsing behind him proves the opposite.
For the first time, Kim Dan is forced to recognize that he possesses the power to wound another human being permanently. And paradoxically, this terrifying recognition becomes the first true confirmation of his own existence. (chapter 100) Pain carries undeniable gravity. Because suffering has always been the most concrete reality in Kim Dan’s life, discovering that he can inflict emotional devastation on Joo Jaekyung shatters the illusion of his own insignificance.
The threshold scene 
(chapter 96) (chapter 100) therefore becomes the site of an agonizing psychological transformation: the death of passive innocence and the birth of adult responsibility. Kim Dan can no longer remain a silent victim waiting to be chosen, summoned, or emotionally permitted to exist by someone else. The collapse forces him to understand that refusing to choose is itself a choice, and that disappearance can become cruelty when another person’s emotional survival depends upon your continued presence.
In this sense, the “THUD” becomes more than the sound of physical collapse. It is the acoustic force that seals the door against self-erasure. The fantasy of a painless goodbye is destroyed forever. Kim Dan is no longer allowed to vanish into darkness untouched by consequence. He must finally turn around, step away from the threshold, and confront the traces he has already carved into another person’s heart.
Two Ghosts at the Threshold
By the end of episode 100, both protagonists resemble ghosts trapped at an emotional threshold. Kim Dan believes that if he truly loves Jaekyung, he should leave and stop burdening him. 
(chapter 100) Joo Jaekyung believes that if he truly loves Kim Dan, he should let him go and stop endangering him. 
(chapter 100)
Both unconsciously reproduce the same inherited trauma logic: love through disappearance. Yet the webtoon author carefully situates this confrontation not during the stability of daytime, but at sunrise. 
(chapter 100) The timing matters profoundly. Throughout the series, dawn repeatedly appears after moments of emotional rupture, exhaustion, or psychological transition. 
(chapter 21) Kim Dan once returned from the hospital at the break of day after another traumatic encounter, intending only to “rest for an hour” before returning to work, as though emotional catastrophe itself had to be minimized and folded back into routine immediately. 
(chapter 100)
In episode 100, however, sunrise acquires a radically different meaning. 
(chapter 100) Mingwa carefully emphasizes the gradual awakening of the city itself through the changing atmosphere of the streets. When Kim Dan first exits the hospital, the urban environment still feels strangely suspended and emotionally empty. The streets remain quiet, the traffic sparse, and the pale sky carries the lingering stillness of night. Both men stand isolated within this transitional hour, suspended psychologically between separation and recognition.
This is perceptible, once you contrast the traffic in the same street during the day. 
(Chapter 56) So we have to envision the following scenery in episode 100. Cars begin accumulating in the streets, intersections grow crowded, daylight strengthens, and ordinary life resumes around them. The world itself begins moving forward again.
And significantly, this transition unfolds precisely while the “Emperor” identity starts destabilizing visibly. The sleepless figure 
(chapter 100) standing outside the building no longer resembles the untouchable public champion sustained by MFC, Team Black, spectacle, and violence. Instead, the growing daylight increasingly exposes exhaustion, emotional fragility, insomnia, grief, and human vulnerability. (chapter 100) In this sense, the awakening city does not accompany the rebirth of the mythological fighter, but the gradual emergence of the man hidden underneath the role itself.
This may explain why Joo Jaekyung increasingly appears ghost-like throughout the hospitalization arc. 
(chapter 100) He does not merely hide from Kim Dan physically. He is unconsciously shedding an identity built entirely around performance, dominance, and emotional suppression. The champion must temporarily become a ghost so that the man himself can finally emerge.
This is why the chapter feels so suffocating despite all its tenderness. The flowers are beautiful, but the giver disappears. The cake is sweet, but the celebration remains broken. The confession exists, but recognition becomes delayed. The warmth is real, but it arrives through traces left behind during darkness rather than open emotional presence.
The Managerial Ghost: Mobility versus Attachment
This transitional atmosphere becomes even more revealing once Park Namwook quietly exits the scene. 
(chapter 100) After dropping Kim Dan off in front of the building, the manager simply drives away without greeting Joo Jaekyung directly or remaining beside him. The movement appears emotionally hollow, especially when contrasted with the unresolved intensity surrounding (chapter 100) “Goodbye then…”. Namwook’s departure resembles transit rather than attachment. He arrives, transports, then disappears again.
The location itself quietly reinforces this instability. (chapter 100) Park Namwook leaves Kim Dan directly beside a pedestrian crossing: a place not meant for permanence, but for transition. Symbolically, Kim Dan stands neither fully inside the old structure nor fully outside it yet. He remains suspended between identities, relationships, and possible futures. Even Namwook’s language unconsciously reflects his belief that the previous system will continue functioning normally. 
(chapter 100) He assumes Kim Dan will simply “stop by” the penthouse to collect his belongings and perhaps “visit” Team Black again later. The manager still imagines continuity, routine, and return. 
(chapter 100)
And significantly, he expects Joo Jaekyung to behave according to that same logic. In episode 95, the time visible inside the car showing 9 a.m., 
(chapter 95) reveals their routine, though here, a small transgression took place. Joo Jaekyung let Kim Dan rest a little: 
(chapter 95). This scene indicated that Joo Jaekyung had already started psychologically drifting far outside this structure. He was already prioritizing his lover. Joo Jaekyung does not wake him despite obligations, schedules, or practical inconvenience. Instead, he silently watches over him for a while and allows the moment of rest to continue. The car therefore temporarily stops functioning as transportation toward labor, treatment, or fighting. It becomes a protected space where exhaustion is permitted rather than suppressed.
So the sunrise indicates that it is much earlier than 9.00 am, an indication that Park Namwook is already going to the gym in order to “welcome” the next physical therapist. By helping him with the discharge so early, the manager avoids a goodbye between the members of Team Black and Kim Dan. (chapter 100) The sleepless wandering through hospital corridors, the nightly visits, the emotional collapse after the stabbing, and the abandonment of ordinary rhythm (no shower and jogging) all reveal someone no longer functioning according to the predictable temporality of the fighting system.
Park Namwook, however, continues organizing life through functionality, punctuality, and performance structure. (chapter 100) This explains why his farewell with Kim Dan feels emotionally procedural (chapter 100) rather than existential. He drops him off, tells him he is always welcome to visit again, then drives away. (chapter 100) The car itself begins symbolizing Namwook’s role inside Joo Jaekyung’s life: constant movement toward fights, schedules, media obligations, and professional continuity, yet strangely little emotional presence outside those structures.
This irony becomes even sharper when connected to episode 5, where Park Namwook laughed about the circumstances concerning Yosep’s divorce. 
(chapter 5) Yosep had been “ghosted” emotionally by his wife, abandoned after years of prioritizing MMA over personal life. Yet episode 100 quietly suggests that Namwook himself increasingly resembles a ghost within Joo Jaekyung’s life. This explicates why he didn’t help him getting discharged from the hospital 
(chapter 53) contrary to the athlete. So this kindness toward the “hamster” is not truly selfless. He constantly orbits the champion professionally while remaining emotionally detached from the human being underneath the “Emperor” persona. And the best evidence is this video sent on his birthday: 
(chapter 45)
The contrast with Kim Dan therefore becomes profound. (chapter 100) “Goodbye then…” emerges from overwhelming attachment, fear of abandonment, survivor guilt, and anticipatory self-erasure. Park Namwook’s farewell, by contrast, remains rooted in managerial continuity. (chapter 100) One goodbye fears love too much. The other barely recognizes it at all.
And significantly, Joo Jaekyung waits outside. (chapter 100) Not inside the gym. Not inside the penthouse. Not inside the institutional spaces that previously defined the “Emperor.” 
(chapter 100) He stands beyond them at dawn, beside the crossing itself, as though the story were positioning him between an ending identity and an unknown new life.
And perhaps this becomes the true tragedy of Jinx. The problem is not absence of love. The problem is that Shin Okja, Kim Dan, and Joo Jaekyung all mistake self-erasure for love itself.
Yet beneath all the silence, flowers, interrupted confessions, ghostly gestures, and unfinished goodbyes, one desperate emotional truth slowly begins emerging: Kim Dan’s journey may ultimately require something even more transformative than saying:
“Stay with me.”
Because throughout his entire life, he has always been the one left behind. (chapter 57) The child standing before the opened door. The survivor searching after disappearance. The person quietly remaining while others vanish into emotional unreachability.
Beyond the Penthouse: Moving Toward a Shared Horizon
This is why the true emotional resolution of the story may instead take the form of a radically different sentence:
“Come with me, a new version of this scene
(chapter 43)
Unlike “Stay with me,” which still implies remaining inside someone else’s space, (chapter 100) “Come with me” fundamentally reverses the structure of abandonment itself. It completely changes the geography of their relationship. It grants Kim Dan absolute agency. He is no longer walking out of an open door into darkness; he is the one opening a path forward. 
(chapter 94) He is inviting the champion into a mutual, shared trajectory.
In many ways, the story quietly foreshadows this desire much earlier through Kim Dan’s simple wish to travel together after Shin Okja leaves the hospital. 
(chapter 47) At first glance, the statement appears almost painfully modest: a peaceful trip, rest, shared time, ordinary companionship. Yet symbolically, the fantasy already contains the emotional architecture of “Come with me.” The dream is not organized around labor, debt, treatment, fighting, or survival. It imagines movement detached from institutional obligation entirely.
This matters profoundly because throughout most of the series, movement itself remains tied to exhaustion and performance. Cars transport fighters toward matches. Hospital corridors lead toward illness and disappearance. The gym reduces bodies into instruments of labor and spectacle. The imagined trip in the woods quietly opposes all of these structures. It represents shared movement without destination anxiety, emotional utility, or professional function.
In this sense, “Come with me” does not simply mean romantic attachment. It signifies the possibility of constructing a life no longer governed entirely by trauma, survival, or institutional rhythm. For perhaps the first time, Kim Dan is no longer merely trying to endure another day. He is imagining a future someone else could walk beside him willingly.
It completely upends his lifelong belief that he is an expendable creature who must minimize his physical footprint to avoid being discarded.
And psychologically, this changes everything. For perhaps the first time in his life, Kim Dan would no longer be searching after someone vanishing into darkness. Instead, both men would be walking toward the same horizon together, carrying their ghosts openly rather than disappearing behind them. In this sense, the story quietly redefines the meaning of home itself. Home is no longer a fixed place haunted by abandonment, empty rooms, or opened doors. It becomes the place where the loved person remains beside you willingly. 
(chapter 69) “Come with me” would illustrate this principle: life is a journey and not a destination.
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(chapter 100), and why Kim Dan continuously retreated into the sterile scripts of formal gratitude and apology instead of absolute emotional honesty. Yet, the cruel irony of the chapter is that the confession itself does not belong to a future resolution; it already exists, fully articulated, inside the physical boundaries of the narrative. While Kim Dan drifts precariously in the liminal space between life and death following the stabbing, Joo Jaekyung drops his hyper-masculine armor and desperately begs him: 
(chapter 100)
(chapter 84) And in episode 100, the wish is yelled at a moment that was both physically and psychologically too late. Physically, the plea materializes while Kim Dan is actively losing consciousness 
(chapter 95) His entire existence has evolved instead around the crushing mechanics of repayment, survival, and economic and emotional burden. 
(chapter 5) Having lost his parents at a young age, Dan did not grow up believing that attachment could exist freely, unconditionally, or safely. 
(chapter 97) Therefore he never rested. 
(chapter 47); he only understands relationships through the desperate lens of survivalist necessity. Hence the grandmother and Kim Dan are seen clinching onto each other.
(chapter 100) readers instinctively interpret his reaction through a lens of uncritical relief. 
(chapter 100) Yet, the formal pacing of the scene quietly suggests a far darker internal reality. For Kim Dan, the champion’s victory signifies nothing less than the absolute completion of their contract. The title has been recovered, the emotional and physical debt has been cleared, and the utilitarian role he assigned himself beside Joo Jaekyung has reached its natural endpoint.
(chapter 98)
(chapter 98)
(chapter 100) While a surface-level reading diagnoses this as mere physical exhaustion, psychologically the moment functions as an immediate emotional retreat. It is as though Kim Dan’s psyche reaches a instantaneous, catastrophic conclusion the second the victory is confirmed: everything is over; I am no longer needed. This interpretation achieves an exquisite, painful symmetry when placed against Joo Jaekyung’s own origin story, which similarly fused hyper-success with absolute loss, having lost both of his parents 
(chapter 74) on the exact night he triumphed as a boxer. Episode 100 constructs the perfect inverse of that trauma script for Kim Dan: the champion’s victory becomes structurally associated with emotional abandonment, proving that for both protagonists, success itself is a dangerous catalyst for isolation.
(chapter 100) The nurses rush into the room, treating Jaekyung’s desperation as a physical disturbance to the patient’s recovery. While their actions are entirely reasonable on a clinical level, psychologically the scene becomes devastating. Unintentionally, the medical intervention reinforces the exact, toxic logic that governs both characters: your emotions are a disruption, your presence causes harm, and distance is the only metric of safety. 
(chapter 100) They show no understanding for his emotional outburst. Because Joo Jaekyung already suffers under the subconscious belief that his violent world has contaminated and ruined Kim Dan, this interruption silently validates his deepest fear. The confession is not merely delayed; it is actively policed and silenced before Dan can consciously receive it. So no wonder why he couldn’t ask later. 
(chapter 100) because gratitude remains the safest emotional language he knows. When he thanks Joo Jaekyung for saving his life and bringing him to the hospital, he unconsciously falls back into the same survival mechanism that shaped his entire existence:
(chapter 100) The pink roses evoke tenderness, admiration, vulnerable affection, and emotional attachment. The peonies suggest healing, compassion, sincerity, and quiet devotion. The smaller pale flowers evoke remembrance, enduring emotional bonds, and spiritual connection despite distance. On the surface, the bouquets seem to communicate something reassuring: someone deeply cares whether Kim Dan survives.
(chapter 100) The reason lies in the absence of the giver himself. Joo Jaekyung never openly remains beside Kim Dan during the day. Instead, the flowers appear during the night like traces left behind by someone haunting the room in silence.
(chapter 100) Kim Dan wakes up surrounded not by Jaekyung’s physical presence, but by evidence that he had been there before disappearing once again. The flowers therefore become emotionally contradictory objects. They communicate affection, but simultaneously reinforce absence. They say: someone came, while also saying: someone vanished again.
(chapter 94) This visual parallel quietly transforms the flowers from romantic gifts into symbols of caregiving shaped by distance and self-removal. Shin Okja genuinely loved Kim Dan, but her solution to his suffering repeatedly became emotional disappearance. She believed that if she removed herself from the center of his life, he would finally become free and happy. Episode 100 reveals that Joo Jaekyung begins reproducing this exact same pattern. He leaves flowers, cake, comfort, and reassurance behind, but increasingly excludes himself from Kim Dan’s life physically and emotionally. Like Halmoni, he convinces himself that the person he loves suffers because of him.
(chapter 97) toward increasing emotional fading. Earlier arrangements contain reddish tones to vivid pink traditionally associated with attachment, tenderness, living warmth, and vulnerable affection. 
(chapter 31) 
(chapter 100) Thus Kim Dan is not happy at all. The bouquets therefore become profoundly double-edged objects. They evoke tenderness while simultaneously reviving the emotional atmosphere of a childhood that vanished forever and departure.
(chapter 61) But now the Emperor begins displaying the exact same symptoms. His hair is disheveled. His eyes are red from crying and sleeplessness. 
(chapter 97) 
(chapter 57) The harassment, the assault, the stabbing, and the violence surrounding the title fight all reinforce the terrifying idea that Kim Dan’s life deteriorates because he entered the champion’s world. As a result, Jaekyung arrives at the same conclusion as Shin Okja: perhaps the person he loves would be safer without him nearby.
(chapter 100) Readers initially interpret them romantically, but the deeper emotional logic behind them is much darker. Joo Jaekyung is the only person who truly understands how little Kim Dan values his own life. 
(chapter 59) Instead, the pattern emerges behaviorally through starvation, bodily neglect, overwork, emotional resignation, rejection of care, passivity toward danger, and repeated willingness to sacrifice himself without hesitation. His self-erasure slowly extends toward the body itself.
(chapter 79)
(chapter 45) to buy a key chain as a birthday present.
(chapter 94) Joo Jaekyung initially fulfilled this exact role. He gave Kim Dan work, stability, material protection, and relief from crushing economic pressure. But the chapter quietly reveals that Jaekyung also begins inheriting Halmoni’s deeper pathology: self-removal mistaken for love. Like Shin Okja and his hyung, he increasingly convinces himself that Kim Dan would ultimately suffer less without him at the emotional center of his life. Thus he leaves behind flowers, comfort, financial freedom, and reassurance while gradually destroying himself psychologically through absence, guilt, and emotional isolation.
(chapter 100) And on his way home, he started imagining what would happen with this cake. The atmosphere of the scene felt so real, though it was just a dream. Soft lighting, playful intimacy, teasing, physical closeness, and domestic warmth briefly isolate the two men from the violence surrounding the outside world. 
(chapter 97) For perhaps one of the first times in the narrative, Kim Dan acts not out of obligation, survival, or repayment, but out of genuine emotional desire. He wants to make Joo Jaekyung happy and have fun with him.
(chapter 97) The smoke rising into the darkness transforms the celebration into visual foreshadowing. The dream of happiness exists briefly, warmly, beautifully… then immediately begins dissolving into air, as if this was already announcing the future stabbing. So the assault violently interrupts the vision before Kim Dan can fully inhabit it emotionally.
(chapter 97) The celebration was not simply about the championship victory itself. It represented the possibility that warmth, intimacy, and laughter might continue after the fight, beyond the violence of the octagon. For a brief moment, Kim Dan allowed himself to believe that happiness could survive the match and extend naturally into everyday life.
(chapter 100) The cake silently reminds him that the happiness he imagined had not been absurd or impossible. For a brief moment, reality itself had begun moving toward that future. The championship victory happened exactly as expected. Yet the companionship attached to that imagined future never arrived.
(chapter 97) What remains afterward is no longer the original cake itself, but only a single detached fragment. The large celebratory cake bearing the visible message: “Happy Birthday” disappears entirely.
(chapter 97) The original celebratory atmosphere therefore belonged not only to Dan’s imagined future, but also to Jaekyung’s own silent desire to share happiness with him openly. Yet after the stabbing, the birthday itself becomes psychologically unbearable. Kim Dan spent that day unconscious, hospitalized, and hovering near death. Thus by offering only a small piece of cake instead of a full celebratory cake, Jaekyung unconsciously buries the birthday itself. 
(chapter 45) Birthdays and presents didn’t exist innocently for him before, but now with this new incident, they become psychologically more than ever associated with catastrophe, interruption, and the terror of almost losing Kim Dan forever. The fragment therefore no longer functions as a birthday cake at all. It becomes reduced to something emotionally survivable: a quiet gesture of care stripped of festivity, joy, and openly shared happiness.
(chapter 100) 
(chapter 97) 
(chapter 97) For a profoundly traumatized psyche, the answer is no. Gratitude is a defensive mechanism designed to restore a transactional balance; it is an acknowledgment of a debt that must be managed. It requires a strict, professional distance to remain safe. 
(chapter 81)
(chapter 100) Dan casually confesses that he had the vast majority of his belongings shipped ahead by a courier service.
(chapter 100) That’s why each time Mingwa focuses on his facial expressions after each interaction with his lover. 
(chapter 100) The manager is the only entity who possesses the logistical knowledge of Dan’s whereabouts and timeline, making the deliberate choice to allow this meeting to occur. 
(chapter 100) For Park Namwook, bringing Dan to the penthouse is an attempt to foster a healthy, mature sense of closure between two heavily damaged men. That way, he won’t have to go through the trouble looking for the physical therapist like in episode 56 and Joo Jaekyung can move on.
(chapter 53) Back then, when Dan believed he was fleeing the penthouse because of his failure and promise to his grandmother, acting under the absolute threat of emotional and professional ruin, his treatment of the cabinet was violent and definitive. 
(chapter 53) He had actively dragged it out of the domestic sphere, casting it out into the sterile, exposed isolation of the public hallway. In Episode 53, throwing the cabinet away was a desperate attempt to sever his connection to the space.
(chapter 100), but that he repeatedly experiences Joo Jaekyung’s genuine presence as something psychologically unreal. Throughout the hospital arc, the champion increasingly resembles a figure existing at the edge of consciousness itself: someone who appears during the night, leaves warmth and traces behind, then disappears again before stable daylight certainty can fully emerge. 
(chapter 100) while Kim Dan drifts between unconsciousness and waking reality. The sequence feels extraordinarily intimate, yet emotionally difficult to grasp. First, Kim Dan quietly concludes
(chapter 100) Part of him wants to move toward reality. 
(chapter 99) Joo Jaekyung desperately holding Kim Dan’s hand, begging him to stay awake, refusing to leave his side, and remaining emotionally fixated on him after the stabbing. Because of this continuity, readers instinctively accept the warmth of the hand as emotionally real even while the scene itself remains visually suspended between dream and reality.
(chapter 100) Here Kim Dan half awakens and perceives Joo Jaekyung lying beside his hospital bed. 
(chapter 100) It creates the illusion that the doctor had been hallucinating. But the sound “TAP” seems to indicate the opposite. Moreover, the narrative cuts toward the lonely hospital room accompanied by the statement: 
(chapter 87) The champion’s desperate plea to “stay with me” 
(chapter 96) dramatic, excessive, intimidating, almost unreal. But the tragedy presented in this chapter feels painfully ordinary in comparison. 
(chapter 100) Neither says what they genuinely feel. 
(chapter 100) Almost everyone has experienced a relationship, friendship, or family dynamic damaged not by hatred, but by silence and emotional avoidance. That realism transforms the chapter into something deeply uncomfortable because the fantasy slowly disappears, leaving behind a frighteningly human mirror.
Throughout the story, they repeatedly symbolize secrecy 
(chapter 7), emotional distance, hidden truths, privacy, abandonment, and separation 
(chapter 64). A closed door immediately creates the impression that something has ended. 
(chapter 100) The protagonists separate. The door closes. The story ends. It almost resembles the conclusion of a dark fairy tale where the suffering has finally reached its endpoint.
(chapter 4) Instead, she traps both the reader and the characters inside the penthouse itself, forcing us to stare at an almost silent threshold. 
(chapter 100) Their feet remain oriented toward each other at the entrance. In Jinx, body positioning often reveals emotions that words suppress, and here the contradiction is devastating. Verbally, both protagonists are enacting separation. Physically, however, their bodies still seek connection. Neither truly turns away. The image therefore creates emotional suspension rather than emotional closure.
(chapter 97) These confessions reveal that beneath the aggression, possessiveness 
(chapter 82), and obsession with fighting and Kim Dan stood a much simpler fear: abandonment.
Ironically, the eight-day separation did not emotionally distance the protagonists from one another. Quite the opposite. During this period, they became increasingly synchronized mentally and emotionally. 
(chapter 97) Their thoughts, fears, and desires slowly began aligning almost unconsciously. Yet this growing emotional attunement produces a tragic paradox: they become so psychologically similar that they can no longer recognize their own reflection inside the other person. 
(chapter 61) 
(chapter 57), where emotional shock and physical weakness are visually connected to walls, imbalance, and bodies searching for support. The ambiguity becomes important because chapter 100 never clearly identifies 
(chapter 41) 
(chapter 100) The debt disappeared. 
(chapter 77) Therefore separation must be the correct final step.
(chapter 1) and leaving himself totally embarrassed 
(chapter 1), the physical therapist has only one thought in mind: to run away. Before opening the door, he nervously stammers 
(chapter 1) and hurries away. Joo Jaekyung’s reaction after his departure is dismissive and mocking: 
(chapter 1) 
(chapter 1), admiration 
(chapter 1), destabilization, and departure are already intertwined from the very beginning. Kim Dan does not simply treat Joo Jaekyung’s body; he admires it through his hands and eyes, marveling at how different it is from every other client he has known. The accidental touch breaks the professional frame, and the result is immediate flight. 
(chapter 4) The absence itself triggers projection. He imagines Kim Dan walking away, already converting disappearance into an internal image. Later, in episode 53, this fear becomes reality: Kim Dan truly leaves the penthouse 
(chapter 73), suggests not only physical departure but permanent emotional inaccessibility. His father’s bitter line—“You are your mother’s son, after all”—reveals that this silence wounded him too. The father was not merely angry because the mother left; he was wounded by the way she left: without true confrontation, without emotional clarity, and perhaps with some distant promise that never became presence. The turned back, the heavy silence, and the unresolved farewell became the core of Jaekyung’s inherited trauma. He stops fighting for the relationship itself 
(chapter 72) and begins fighting merely against the clock, trying to finish a transaction before the countdown hits zero. This memory exposes a foundational trauma. To a young Jaekyung, his mother’s disappearance was directly tied to a transactional failure—his father’s inability to stop her or provide financial security. Consequently, Jaekyung internalized a distorted lesson: love is not protected through vulnerability, communication, or emotional pleading. Love is protected through material capacity and performance. In his child mind, a countdown began: he had to grow up, amass immense wealth, and become powerful enough to buy back his mother’s presence. 
(chapter 77) He turns his back entirely, casting his face in shadow and physically reproducing the visual motif of his childhood trauma. He is verbally establishing a countdown while visually acting out an ending. By telling Dan that their proximity is strictly bounded by the final bell of the title match, Jaekyung constructs the very cage that will later paralyze him.
(chapter 95), Jaekyung’s mental space becomes a dark, claustrophobic cage. While sparring, his only internal thought is sheer exhaustion: “I just want to win this match and get it over with…”
(chapter 100) It takes place right before Jaekyung tells Kim Dan to go. For one fragile moment, the projected departure is completely interrupted. Kim Dan is still there. His hand is still warm. The contact is no longer like that first treatment at the gym, where touch was mixed with embarrassment and professional confusion. 
(chapter 1) Kim Dan bowed nervously while Joo Jaekyung remained emotionally detached, dominant, and superior. Their relationship began asymmetrically: champion and therapist, admired body and embarrassed observer. After accidentally crossing a physical boundary during treatment, Kim Dan fled the room in humiliation, unable to withstand the emotional destabilization caused by touch itself. No reciprocal gesture softened the imbalance. There was no handshake, no equal acknowledgment, and no mutual recognition.
(chapter 100) 
(chapter 87) It becomes even more obvious, once compared with their hand gesture in Paris. 
(chapter 100) Until now, the physical therapist remained trapped inside a distorted emotional narrative shaped by silence, institutional misunderstanding, his grandmother’s sacrificial principles, and Park Namwook’s logic of performance 
(chapter 43) and Hwang Byungchul’s wrong interpretation 
(chapter 70). Kim Dan had unconsciously learned to interpret Joo Jaekyung primarily as “the champion”: an untouchable entity sustained solely by victory, driven by a hatred of losing, and emotionally fulfilled through performance alone. This explicates why the “hamster” had made the following request: 
(chapter 100) 
(chapter 100), Kim Dan is constantly insulated by a loud wall of warmth, visitors, food, and collective reassurance. Team Black worries boisterously about him 
(chapter 100), jokes around his bed admiring the comfort of the room
(chapter 100), scolds him affectionately, 
(chapter 100) while the members of Team Black get to play the roles of “affectionate and concerned” companions. 
(chapter 100) Even when people discuss Jaekyung, they rarely speak about his exhaustion, fear, loneliness, or his disintegration as a human being. Why? Because they simply do not see it and believes in their hyung’s statement, the manager. They remain entirely blind to the human being beneath the title. They speak only of the match, the culprit, the belt, and his capacity to perform. Because he won the last fight, they treat him as an object that functions correctly, while keeping their distance from his harsh demeanor. They essentially avoid him as a temperamental monster, completely oblivious to the fact that they are leaving a deeply traumatized, lost puppy entirely on his own.
(chapter 100) Once the debt disappeared and the championship was reclaimed, Kim Dan instinctively assumed that his role in the champion’s life had ended too.
(chapter 100) the warmth in Jaekyung’s hand reveals that Kim Dan had never merely been “useful.” He had become emotionally necessary. For one fragile moment, Kim Dan experiences himself not as a burden, an obligation, or a temporary possession, but as someone genuinely cherished. 
(chapter 86) Episode 100 revives this visual motif, yet transforms its meaning entirely. 
(chapter 100) Here, he is even portrayed as eyeless, as if he had lost his soul. 
(chapter 99) The asymmetry is devastating. It almost feels as though the champion transfers his final remaining warmth and energy into Kim Dan through the handshake itself. 
(chapter 27) He simply accepted it as an immutable part of reality. The “jinx” appeared almost supernatural: an ominous, mechanical force attached to Joo Jaekyung’s body, his victories, his violence, his rituals, and his frightening aura. Even the title of the series carried something cold, clinical, and oppressive. The word itself evoked danger, misfortune, contamination, and inevitability.
(chapter 57) Feeling powerless, burdensome, and guilty for his slow emotional deterioration, she repeatedly urged him to return to Seoul, live his own life, and stop “wasting away” beside her. Her love expressed itself through self-removal. Rather than openly asking Kim Dan about the reasons behind his pain, she tried to free him from herself before death could do it instead. She thought, she had the solution to the problem, because she believed she knew why!
(chapter 95) At first glance, the sentence appears comforting and romantic. Yet retrospectively, the structure of the promise reveals a deeply corrupted blueprint for attachment. First, Jaekyung imagines Kim Dan leaving long before he ever asks him to stay. Even his love remains psychologically organized around future abandonment. Jaekyung’s words directly mirror the childhood promise made by his own mother—who told him she would watch over and support him from far away, leaving him with nothing but an inaccessible back and a heavy, permanent silence. 
(chapter 72) But the ultimate cruelty of the narrative is that his mother’s promise was an absolute lie. 
(chapter 74) She did not watch from afar out of tragic necessity; she remarried, built an entirely new family, and willfully discarded Jaekyung to start a life where he had no place.
(chapter 79) 
(chapter 99) Joo Jaekyung can only collapse under the weight of his immense knowledge and guilt: the hospital director, Baek Junmin, the switched spray 
(chapter 59) And because Kim Dan still has not crossed the literal threshold , the collapse does not function as an ending, but as a confrontation with reality “sound THUD. 
(chapter 99) He is absent from the ring. There was no sex before the match, no ritual, no “luck,” no physical reassurance. And yet Joo Jaekyung wins faster 
(chapter 99) At first glance, the conclusion seems obvious: the jinx is broken.
(chapter 99) 
(chapter 99) The moderator repeatedly describes him as ruthless. 
(chapter 99) The crowd boos when he leaves the cage. 
(chapter 99) He refuses the interview, 
(chapter 99), ignores the CEO
, (chapter 99), abandons the championship belt behind him, and walks away as though the victory itself had become meaningless.
(chapter 99) We know that the fight was never truly about the belt. We know that the man appearing emotionally empty 
(chapter 99) inside the ring is, in reality, entirely consumed by one person lying unconscious in a hospital room.
(chapter 99), the readers witness emotional clarity.
(chapter 99) That is why episode 99 feels simultaneously triumphant and tragic.
(chapter 99) intended to weaken Joo Jaekyung ultimately destroys the very hesitation that had governed him for years. But the result is terrifying to watch. The emperor wins, yet leaves the octagon looking less like a champion than like a ghost whose heart has already abandoned the arena long before his body does. 
(chapter 15) Dominique lands the opening assault 
(chapter 40) while the athlete tried to avoid his attacks before
(chapter 40), Gabriel initiates the violence 
(chapter 87), and even Baek Junmin, in their first earlier encounter, attempts to establish control first. 
(chapter 50) Joo Jaekyung’s usual fighting style therefore follows a recognizable structure. He absorbs the opponent’s aggression 
(chapter 40), studies it carefully, adapts to it, and only afterward retaliates with devastating precision. 
(chapter 5) The moment is brief, yet Park Namwook immediately notices that something feels fundamentally different. 
Despite training normally, Jaekyung suddenly appears unusually sharp, aggressive, and emotionally accelerated. Namwook asks whether he “did something special,” instinctively recognizing the deviation without understanding its source.
(chapter 75) remarked that Jaekyung performed perfectly during practice but somehow “fell short in important matches.” Park Namwook immediately interpreted this through the logic of sports psychology and asked whether the champion simply got “cold feet.” Episode 99, however, reveals how profoundly the manager and coach misunderstood him. Namwook consistently interprets Joo Jaekyung externally. 
(chapter 99) Before the fight against Baek Junmin, he asks whether Jaekyung wants to warm up, whether he wants to hit the mitts, and whether he has slept enough. He notices that Jaekyung’s body feels “cold to the touch,” yet even then he still assumes that the problem must be physical, routine-based, or performance-related. This misunderstanding reveals something important about Namwook himself. First, it is clear that he is projecting his own indeciveness onto his “pupil”. Besides, he represents the institutional mentality of the gym, a worldview in which performance functions almost like a mechanical equation. Training, preparation, discipline, and focus are supposed to produce victory. To Namwook, hesitation can therefore only mean athletic anxiety or fear of failure. In his mind, the match itself is the most important reality in the room. That is why he keeps trying to solve Jaekyung’s silence through professionalism, routine, and ritual. But what the hyung never truly graps is that Joo Jaekyung is not merely an athlete struggling with nerves. He is a man haunted by memory. The “coldness” in his body was never simple fear of losing. It was emotional numbness. 
(chapter 75) Joo Jaekyung entered fights carrying invisible ghosts with him: the father, violence, hierarchy, humiliation, fear of disrespect, and the expectation of punishment and rejection. The story repeatedly shows how his father enforced authority physically. 
(chapter 72) The elder struck first. 
(chapter 72) Resistance or even “presence” was punished. Submission and later avoidance became a survival mechanism. Even later, fragments of this mentality continued reproducing themselves through figures like Hwang Byungchul. 
(chapter 74) 
(chapter 74) As readers, we gradually realize something deeply unsettling. Joo Jaekyung unconsciously grants older men (Randy Booker, Dominic Hill, Park Namwook and Baek Junmin) the symbolic privilege of initiating violence. This explains why insults such as “baby,” 
(chapter 14) “child,” and “lost puppy” 
(chapter 96) carry so much narrative importance throughout the series. These words do not merely mock him. On the one hand they psychologically reflect his past fighting style 
(chapter 54) Weakness became tied to identity itself. Hesitation became associated with inferiority. Emotional attachment became linked to failure and humiliation. This is why the champion’s mistrust persisted even after becoming the strongest fighter in the ring. Outwardly, Joo Jaekyung became “the Emperor.” 
(chapter 75) Inwardly, however, part of him remained trapped before the father’s judgment, still unconsciously waiting for the older man to strike first. The hesitation therefore was not simple caution. It was fear itself. It was the fear that he might truly be weak. It was the fear that he might truly be inferior. And, above all, it was the fear that he might ultimately become exactly what his father believed him to be: A loser! 
(chapter 73) And this is precisely why episode 99 changes everything. For the first time in the series, Joo Jaekyung stops fighting while carrying the father’s voice inside his mind. He is no longer hearing his voice, but only seeing his lover’s cold body. 
(chapter 99) The assault against Kim Dan forces him into a situation where doubt itself becomes impossible. Suddenly, something matters more than hierarchy, humiliation, fear, or inherited shame. Love overrides the old curse. And once that happens, the subordinate child disappears instantly.
(chapter 91) The “hamster” clearly showed clear signs of PTSD during the restaurant encounter in Chapter 90. 
(chapter 90) The trembling, the nausea, and the paralyzing fear were not just reactions to a “fight,” but to a perpetrator who had physically violated his agency. When the former hospital director attempted to “erase” the assault through further violence (the stabbing) 
(chapter 98), it proved that to the antagonists, Dan’s body was merely a canvas for their malice.
(chapter 99) For Joo Jaekyung, hearing Junmin use a “diminishing” term to describe a man who is currently lying in a hospital bed because of Junmin’s own schemes is the ultimate provocation. It transforms a standard pre-fight taunt into a disgusting trivialization of Dan’s suffering.
(chapter 02) This is why the superstition held so much power over him. Kim Dan unconsciously became transformed into something functional, almost mechanical: a stabilizer, a ritual, a lucky charm. 
(chapter 87) But episode 99 destroys this illusion completely. The moment Baek Junmin says “loverboy,” Joo Jaekyung is forced to confront something openly for the first time. Kim Dan is not luck. Kim Dan is not a ritual. Kim Dan is not a tool. Kim Dan is the person he loves. 
(chapter 49) suddenly becomes extraordinary. A shotgun is a weapon of spread, chaos, and indiscriminate destruction. The antagonist’s psychological attack functions exactly the same way. 
(chapter 96) He fires insults everywhere at once: infantilization, guilt, mockery, emotional humiliation, and social shame. But Joo Jaekyung’s response becomes the complete opposite: a trigger for retaliation. 
(chapter 99) 
(chapter 99), recover 
(chapter 99), or retaliate. 
(chapter 96), a performative tool used to signal emotional superiority and untouchability. Throughout the series, he weaponized his smile to infantilize Jaekyung and degrade Kim Dan 
(chapter 99), positioning himself as the puppet master of the “last laugh.” 
(chapter 87) In Episode 99, Joo Jaekyung deconstructs this theatricality with surgical intent. He doesn’t target the body for a standard knockout; he targets the features of expression: 
(chapter 99) He fights personally. And that is precisely why he becomes so terrifying. The crowd boos because they expected a spectacle governed by sportsmanship, hierarchy, and ritualized violence. Instead, they witness sincerity stripped completely naked. The arena ceases to resemble entertainment and begins resembling execution. 
(chapter 87) Chapter 15 quietly introduces one of the most important structural changes in Jinx: 
(chapter 15) Kim Dan’s transition from a private “function” of the jinx into a visible presence within the audience itself. At first glance, the scene appears insignificant. The arena is immense, saturated with blinding lights, cameras, and noise. Joo Jaekyung stands at the center of a gigantic machinery of spectacle that elevates him into the untouchable figure of “the Emperor.” At this stage, readers are still encouraged to view him primarily as a public myth sustained by victory, fame, and domination.
(chapter 15), the fear of opponents, the attention of cameras, the authority of the CEO, and the symbolism of the championship belt all participated in validating Jaekyung’s existence. The Octagon was not simply a workplace. It was the symbolic center of his identity.
(chapter 40) 
(chapter 87) 
(chapter 87) 
(chapter 40), and transform violence back into entertainment. The spectacle depends on emotional resolution in order to preserve itself. But Joo Jaekyung refuses this transition entirely. He leaves the violence unresolved and emotionally raw. 
(chapter 40), treating him almost as “his” champion to manage, interpret, and direct. 
(chapter 88) But in Episode 99, his praise suddenly feels hesitant and emotionally uncertain. 
(chapter 99) The stutter in “G-good job, Jaekyung!” alongside the visible sweat drop transforms what should have been a triumphant moment into an awkward and deeply uncomfortable interaction.
(chapter 75) The expectations of others, the father’s ghost, the burden of hierarchy, fear of emotional weakness, public image, and the pressure to sustain the Emperor identity all occupied space inside his mind simultaneously. Part of him always remained divided between the immediacy of the present and the weight of the past.
(chapter 99) There is no vanity left inside him, no desire for applause, and no hunger for symbolic recognition. The crowd cannot understand what it is witnessing because Joo Jaekyung is no longer fighting for public validation at all.
(chapter 15) because the audience helped sustain the identity of “the Emperor.” But by Episode 99, the crowd has already lost its emotional authority over him. The boos therefore sound strangely hollow. They belong to a world Joo Jaekyung has already abandoned internally. 
(chapter 99) Before the match begins, both groups of supporters remain visibly divided. Some cheer passionately for Joo Jaekyung 
(chapter 99), while others support Baek Junmin with equal enthusiasm. Yet despite this rivalry, the audience still shares the same emotional framework. They participate in the same ritual structure of sports entertainment: choosing sides, anticipating victory, and emotionally investing themselves in the spectacle. But once Joo Jaekyung abandons the belt and walks away from the Octagon, this division suddenly disappears. 
(chapter 75) But by Episode 99, Joo Jaekyung has already emotionally abandoned that entire system. The boos therefore no longer possess true emotional authority over him. They belong to a world he has already left behind psychologically. 
(chapter 99) 
(chapter 99) 
(chapter 98) That sentence completely recontextualizes everything that follows afterward. Emotionally, Joo Jaekyung had already chosen the hospital over the Octagon. 
(chapter 98) The cage, once his kingdom, suddenly becomes a place of forced exile. He does not want the lights, the crowd, or the spectacle. He wants to remain beside Kim Dan. He wants proximity, silence, and reassurance. But the system surrounding him — the match, the organization, the expectations, and the machinery of professional fighting itself — forces him back into the arena before Kim Dan regains consciousness.
(chapter 57) He exhausted his body for others, suppressed his own emotions, accepted humiliation silently 
(chapter 90), and reduced himself to a functional object rather than a full human being. He moved through life almost invisibly, enduring suffering while abandoning parts of himself in the process.
(chapter 15), intimidation, or performative dominance. Here, however, the emotional repression ruptures openly. Yet paradoxically, the loss of the mask does not weaken his precision. Instead, his years of training allow his body to continue functioning with horrifying efficiency even while his emotional state reaches a breaking point.
(chapter 99) 
(chapter 99), money, and spectacle, yet everything inside it suddenly feels false. The championship belt becomes meaningless. The real “octagon” is the hospital room. This is where Joo Jaekyung finally stops performing.
(chapter 99) The feared separation is no longer tied to humiliation, disgust, disappointment, or emotional abandonment. It is tied to death itself. 
(chapter 34) Pride could function as protection because rejection still belonged to the realm of human choice. But death cannot be negotiated with. Death cannot be emotionally controlled. Death strips away performance, ego, hierarchy, and pride.
(chapter 99) 
(chapter 41) His eyes projected dominance, intimidation, hierarchy, and emotional control, while his words often functioned as weapons protecting him from vulnerability. But in this moment, both are symbolically erased.
(chapter 99) only because Kim Dan cannot answer him. Kim Dan’s unconsciousness temporarily removes the immediate fear of judgment and rejection that had governed Jaekyung’s emotional life for years. His tears no longer emerge from wounded pride or fear of rejection. They emerge from something much more terrifying and much more human: the fear of irreversible loss.
(chapter 99) When the tears finally fall, they carry a symbolic weight that transcends simple grief. Throughout the series, Jaekyung’s body has functioned as a suit of armor—a fortress of hardness, discipline, and emotional immovability. In his world, pain was always displaced; it was never felt, only inflicted upon others through violence or control. He was the man who struck, never the man who collapsed.
(chapter 99) The tears act as a solvent, dissolving the emotional paralysis that has governed him since his childhood. At the same time, they also allow Joo Jaekyung to confront something he had carried unconsciously for years: the guilt, fear, and emotional burden surrounding his father’s death. 
(chapter 74)
(chapter 75) Victory became proof that he was not weak, not broken, not destined to fail the same way. But this also trapped him psychologically inside the father’s shadow. Every fight became tied to survival, worth, and the terror of becoming a “loser.”
(chapter 3) The latter became responsible for the hamster’s sexual education. 
(chapter 90) reveals that his true wound is territorial. He can no longer find his targets within the hospital. He lost control. He lost narrative dominance. This explicates why the predator retaliated against Kim Dan by badmouthing him. 
(chapter 90) The problem is that the champion did not react like expected. He got angry at the “client” and not at the “prostitute”. He never thought that the main lead would side with such a person. Thus the hospital director voiced a menace: 
(chapter 90) His threat is not confession; it is defensive strategy. It reveals what he fears most: exposure. Not moral reckoning, but visibility. The predator who once operated in sealed rooms now imagines himself dragged into the open. And that possibility terrifies him.
(chapter 91) 
(chapter 90) prioritizes its “output” (reputation, profit, or clinical operations) over the safety of its staff, it adopts the woodcutter’s axe. By focusing only on the work at hand, the institution effectively grants the predator a “sealed room.” The wolf doesn’t need to hide from the woodcutters; he only needs them to keep their heads down. What makes him powerful is not brute force but the absence of eyes. The director functioned the same way. His authority depended on institutional insulation — doors closed, hierarchy unquestioned, narratives controlled. As long as no one looked too closely, he remained Compère — familiar, respectable, legitimate.
(chapter 90) It resembles the wolf’s preferred setting: intimacy that appears voluntary. What caught my attention is that he complained about his partners. 
(chapter 33), but at the restaurant. If he had known such a club, he could have met the green haired-guy or the “uke” from episode 55. Thus I deduce that the sexual predator is actually hiding his “homosexuality”, he had been living a double life in the end, like the wolf in Perrault. That’s why he targets “virgins”. Since he used the expression “pandering… get by”, Mingwa implies that this man must have told the men (“all kinds of people”) he met, he was looking for a boyfriend to justify his action. 
(chapter 90) However, this lie was quickly caught by the unknown companion, as the perverted director paid no attention to him. 
(chapter 90) That surprise matters. It suggests expectation of compliance, of silent agreement, of recognition of coded signals. The man likely does not belong to the director’s ecosystem; he does not recognize the invitation as opportunity but as lack of respect. Thus he exits. 
(chapter 90) The fact that the wolf tried to talk him out of it indicates that their relationship was not only superficial, but also more equal. Humiliation is crucial. Predators who rely on social camouflage depend on territory. When territory collapses, strategy must change. 
(chapter 90) This is where Grimm enters. His true nature got exposed, he is socially identified as predator. 
(chapter 90) He devours. 
(chapter 90) There is no sustained camouflage. Violence becomes explicit. 
(chapter 90) Hence he ran away. The exposure destroyed his credibility. The public article marked him. His ecosystem collapses. He is no longer hidden wolf. He is identified predator.
(chapter 16)
(chapter 30), but also as selfless. 
(chapter 30) Yet, he is a libertine, though he claims to be pure by stating that he is looking for his soulmate. 
(chapter 33) Hence no one is suspecting the darkness in his heart. Even the champion believed in his words, when he claimed that he had some feelings for doc Dan. 
(chapter 58) The resemblance is deliberate. He is discreet. He avoids public scrutiny. He hides his intimacy with Potato. 
(chapter 43) Therefore the latter was not present at the champion’s birthday party. The actor operates in private spaces 
(special episode 2) and prefers silence over visibility. Like Perrault’s Compère le loup, he does not appear monstrous. He appears socially legible — even charming. He navigates controlled environments. He is careful about who sees what.
(chapter 35) He proposes a “race”to the little girl, in Jinx it’s a meal (ramen in Korean, an allusion to sex)
(chapter 35) He softens his voice. He invites the girl into bed. 
(special episode 1) He constructs intimacy before violence. He depends on civility as camouflage. 
(special episode 1) 
(special episode 1) It is not about power display, but fun. He hides not to isolate his partner, but to shield himself from exposure. His discretion protects his own public image, not his access to another’s body. The imbalance exists — it cannot be denied — but it is not systematically mobilized to erode consent. The latter comes from their initial contract: Potato is at his beck and call. 
(special episode 1) He has been avoiding “virgins” for one reason. He knows how a “virgin” would react to his dream ” to find his soulmate”. They would take his “words” seriously and imagine him as someone serious and reliable. But by selecting partners with sexual experience, he can claim that he made a mistake, they were no soulmate. 
(special episode 1) But this panel exposes even better why the actor is so different from Perrault’s wolf. Youth symbolizes “vulnerability and innocence” and that’s something he has been avoiding. The reason is simple. That way, he can avoid accountability. That’s why he panics, when he hears the age. He realizes his mistake! This reveals that though Heesung is a libertine, he is different from the hospital warden. He is not seeking pleasure in asymmetry, fear, shame and power. He is not targeting “virgins” to exploit their vulnerability. He has been avoiding “virgins”, as he knew that he would have to take responsibility. In reality, he has always feared attachment. Where the wolf eroticizes vulnerability, Heesung is destabilized by it.
(chapter 34) the predator by accident 
(chapter 89) — clever, adaptable, socially fluid. The fox does not devour. It maneuvers and as such plays tricks. 
(chapter 32) He first approaches Kim Dan through professional contact. Later, he suggests a gig to Potato 
(chapter 88) Even in the gym, he casually asks Yoo-Gu to hold mitts — reorganizing the work structure in ways that subtly serve his private interest. Work becomes the bridge. The boundary blurs.
(chapter 89) The accusation implies that Jaekyung contaminates professional space with sex. Yet Heesung himself collapses that boundary. He initiates intimacy with Potato after drinking. 
(chapter 90) It is when one makes a clear decision and accepts the consequences. Yet, Heesung violated this rule, for he knew Potato was drunk. He did not stop. He did not insist on postponement. He allowed desire to override clarity. That choice introduces asymmetry. Alcohol clouds agency. Youth complicates balance. Professional proximity blurs roles. Secondly, he is rejecting accountability. Finally, he never tried to correct Potato’s error and false belief. He took advantage of his ignorance. So his behavior could be perceived as manipulative and coercive. 
(special episode 1) He hides it, though he tried to reveal it to doc Dan 
(chapter 58). If the truth were exposed — an actor secretly sleeping with a younger, inexperienced partner whom he approached through work — the narrative could easily frame him as exploitative. He could be accused of sexual harassment.
(chapter 91) the emotion is internalized. He experiences remorse not because he was exposed, but because he crossed a boundary. He separates work from intimacy afterward. He becomes rigid about consent, alcohol, and clarity. Therefore imagine his reaction, when he discovers the true nature of the relationship between Choi Heesung and Potato. He can only be shocked and angry. 
(chapter 33) Or would attention shift to the structure that allowed blurred boundaries to exist in the first place?
(chapter 36) When the hospital scandal broke, the institution remained unnamed. 
(chapter 41) The security guards who enforced silence? 
(chapter 40) The sports reporters who repeated the official version? The referees? The moderators? The corrupted director of the gym Choi Gilseok? Or the institution itself?
(chapter 52), does the structure remain untouched?
(chapter 47) 
(chapter 48) As you can see, I have the feeling that the pharmaceutical company might become the topic of the next scandal. 
(chapter 140) 
(chapter 149) Both were suffering from survivor guilt. To conclude, Joo Jaekyung and Kim Dan represent the bitter medicine for their scars. I mentioned “bitter”, because through their loved one, they are forced to face painful moments. That’s how they can overcome their past and discover happiness. However, while looking for a new title, I rediscovered the first illustration 
, and it suddenly made click in my head. To conclude, I had another revelation concerning episode 50.
. (chapter 50) At first glance, the champion is blaming Kim Dan for the wound. He betrayed him. However, his words could have a different signification. Don’t forget that a message always has 4 sides according to Schulz von Thun. 
Consequently, while many saw this question as a “factual information” and as such as an accusation, the reality is that it gave us an insight about the sender too. The sportsman was not using the personal pronoun “I” or “me” in his inquiry. As you can see, the absence of the personal pronoun is indicating that Joo Jaekyung was in reality not referring to him and his wounds. He is not prioritizing himself, rather the doctor and his action. So this question could be prompted by curiosity or a desire to understand the person’s recent activities. Thus I deduce that the champion was asking his lover to tell him the truth. He should come clean. He desired a honest explanation. His attitude reminded me of an adult confronting his child.
(chapter 51) But note that he never accused Kim Dan of assault, but of leaking information. That’s the reason why I don’t think that this inquiry “What have you done” was about seeking accountability. In that case, he wouldn’t have rejected the doctor’s offer. By letting him treat his wound, Kim Dan would have become responsible for the injury. 
(Chapter 50) It becomes comprehensible why the Emperor refused the offer. The rejection was the symbol of his “trust” in Kim Dan unconsciously. Astonishing, right, though people and Kim Dan had the opposite impression. Yet, because of the “tie”, Kim Dan felt responsible for the incident, therefore he apologized. 
(chapter 51) This means, the main lead recognized his responsibility. He should have checked the spray more carefully. The champion could perceive this excuse as a confession of his complicity. Hence he asked his lover if he was the spy. 
(chapter 51) This signifies that in episode 51, he dared to question his physical therapist’s loyalty. Yes, we have another “Truth or Dare” in episode 51.
(chapter 50) This is the face of a scarred man. Yet, contrary to the past, he is not expressing his fear through rage. That’s the reason why his emotions were controlled. Under this new light, Manhwaworms grasp why the athlete asked such a question from his soulmate: 
(chapter 51) Interesting is that he was more pained by the idea of a betrayal from Kim Dan than the tie, if you compare these two panels: 
(chapter 51) But note that at no moment, he is accusing him of an assault. Because of this confrontation, Joo Jaekyung and Kim Dan had a honest conversation. The doctor asked him a painful question 
(chapter 51) which the emperor needed to hear. He has trust issues. And the moment he saw the doctor’s facial expression, he could only get shocked and hurt. 
(chapter 51) He could sense the wound in doc Dan’s voice and gaze. It is important, because the sentence “You don’t trust me?” is actually constructed like a statement and not like a question. It only becomes a question through the tone. Through the latter, the champion could detect his partner’s genuine pain. The wounded tone could only move the champion’s heart. Kim Dan dared with a single question to shake the fighter’s confidence. No wonder why he reacted badly. 
(chapter 51) On the other hand, don’t let yourself get fooled by this rude request. The reality is that the alpha didn’t chase away the doctor, in truth he was the one running away. 
(chapter 51) Thus Kim Dan could overcome this shocking but terrible discovery: he hadn’t earned the full trust from Joo Jaekyung yet. 
(chapter 51) As my avid readers can see, my perception about chapter 50 was confirmed with episode 51. The arguments in the locker room were reflecting the quarrel in the penthouse with Choi Heesung. What is the common denominator between these two scenes? The lack of trust from Joo Jaekyung, but his private PT failed to realize it in the penthouse. Why? It’s because he chose to trust his destined partner.
I believe you = I trust you 
(chapter 15) He told him something that he didn’t know. Note that after the terrible meeting with the actor, Joo Jaekyung couldn’t even find the answer himself: 
(chapter 35) He was still clueless about the trigger for his behavior. With this inquiry “You don’t trust me”, the hamster pushed his destined partner to face his biggest fear: trust someone and in particular him. This conversation can only incite him to meditate about their relationship. So while in episode 15, he behaved like a pouting child 
(chapter 15), in the latest episode, Jinx-philes can perceive his growth and maturity. 
(chapter 15) This painful incident was a wake-up call Thus I come to the following deduction. Kim Dan will try to earn the champion’s trust, whereas the champion will be forced to take a leap of faith towards Kim Dan. Contrary to episode 34, the champion could see the truth directly through the doctor’s gaze and voice: 
(chapter 34) These questions were all rhetorical: 
(chapter 34) This signifies that in the sauna, truth was not standing in opposition to daring. The sauna reminded me of the cavern where an imugi hides, until the latter leaves its hidden place and find his star, his yeouiju. Only then, he can turn into a dragon. To conclude, because of Heesung’s pressure, the imugi had to select between daring or lie. In other words, telling the truth became the challenge itself. Heesung knew that Joo Jaekyung would never confess. 
(Chapter 34) What Heesung wanted was actually a lie by omission or commission which would have been presented as the truth. Through this game, the actor thought that he could impose his will onto the celebrity. He anticipated the athlete’s silence. This signifies that he knew about the star’s denial and turned it against him. Besides, that way Heesung could maintain his good image: he had not stolen his partner and as such there was no cheating. No one was betraying him.
(chapter 34), but also his hand.
(chapter 34) He caught the actor by surprise, the latter never thought that the celebrity would become violent. The redness on his face was displaying that he was barely controlling his annoyance and impatience. 
(chapter 34) However, they were in a public place, the hotel’s sauna, and the actor is a celebrity. Hence he is protected by his fame and social status. That’s the reason why the champion didn’t hit his frenemy, he had learned his lesson at the gym. 
(chapter 34) Despite his words, the gumiho still got scared. The racing of his heart is an indication of his fright. Therefore he ran away more or less after ordering his trainer not to meddle in his love life. 
(chapter 34) Note that when he did this, he avoided his counterpart’s gaze. Deep down, he knew that he shouldn’t provoke his frenemy too much. Only when he was at the door, he turned around and LIED! 
(chapter 34) Yes, after that incident, he chose to give him a fake excuse for his departure. As you can see, this conversation was strongly intertwined with the notion “truth or dare”, but both ended up lying. Whereas the champion didn’t admit any feelings, the other acted, as if there was nothing wrong and he was not scared. The gumiho thought that if he were to remove the champion from the doctor’s side, the latter would be able to open up to the actor. 
(chapter 34) What does it reveal? The actor had been projecting his own thoughts onto the future dragon too. He was the one who didn’t dare to become more honest with the physical therapist. He used work to spend time with Kim Dan. One might say that Heesung failed terribly. Yet, this is just an illusion, because his “failure” pushed him to become more honest with Kim Dan. Thereby he asked to meet the doctor again. 
(chapter 34) Yet, the message is exposing that Heesung was still lying, as he kept using work as an excuse. Hence Joo Jaekyung had to intervene again: 
(chapter 34) The champion dared to challenge his rival. 
(chapter 35) Yes, by challenging the athlete because of Kim Dan, the comedian ended up telling the truth. 
(chapter 34), but his anxiety reached a new peak, the fear that he might be abandoned. Hence he used the sandbag to vent his temper. And what did the cute puppy do during that incident? He dared to offer his help to his idol: 
(chapter 34), yet he was in total denial about the reality: it was dangerous. Deep down, the champion knew that it was impossible for him to control his lover’s time, but also his body. Besides, the other problem is that the athlete is rejecting the notion of love. By denying the existence of his own feelings, he can not claim the doctor’s heart. That’s the reason why the champion got so mad and frustrated. 
(chapter 34) He was not telling the truth, when he stated that Kim Dan was his “possession”. This explicates why he couldn’t stay by the doctor’s side 
(chapter 34) in the end. He manipulated the main lead by letting him think that he had no other choice. Yet the last panel displays his trick. It was up to the doctor to decide how he should spend his free time. Nevertheless, while people were mad at the champion for his deception, many failed to realize that the champion was actually deceiving himself. So all the tricks (episode 33 and 34) were manifestations of avoidance, the fear to face the truth: his affection for Kim Dan and this due to a past betrayal. Hence these chapters stand under the sign of silence hidden by “pranks”. 
(chapter 35) On the other hand, the artist could only tell one part of the truth: the presence of feelings. However, the deceptions in the penthouse exposed something else: 
(chapter 45) or left the doctor in the locker room in episode 51. 
(chapter 45) It is because by denying his affection, he needs to justify his presence next to him. He is his PT… forcing his enemies to portray the doctor as a traitor or a bad PT. However, they failed, as the champion is not doubting the doctor’s innocence concerning his wound on the foot. Nevertheless, the incident is not closed, as the culprit has not been brought to justice.
(chapter 50) First, the schemers’ MO corresponds to the game Truth or Dare. Choi Gilseok asked his minion to cross the line. This explicates why they are trying to use tricks and manipulations. Daring means no truth, thus someone will be framed: Kim Dan. Yet, the plotters are not aware that thanks to the cute hamster, the alpha is turned into a mirror of truth. Hence he couldn’t get deceived by the MFC security guys: 
(chapter 40) 
(chapter 36) The lawyer, the journalist and the manager pushed him to choose “dare” and not truth! That’s why there was no interview and the leak was not investigated. He had to prove his strength. 
(chapter 36) And exactly like at the sauna, daring became a synonym for verity. No wonder why the fighter is never rejecting the challenge. It corresponds to his past attitude: he has been burying the truth and as such the past. But let’s return our attention to the plotters.
(chapter 37) This mysterious man dared to act as a MFC manager, though my intuition is telling me that he works for MFC. The irony is that by challenging constantly the champion, the plotters are not realizing that through their game, the truth is slowly coming to the surface. How so? In the last panel, the doctor noticed his origins: He is Korean indicating that the conspiracy started in South Korea. As you can see, Kim Dan was able to perceive a glimpse of the truth. Then at the café, Choi Gilseok confessed many things to the doctor: he owns the café, he has connections to the company F Pharmaceutical. Moreover, through this game, the champion is confronted with his fears and past. That’s how he can overcome his traumas. The doctor is the mirror revealing the monsters. Hence I come to the following deduction: the succession of new characters mirrors the champion’s past and traumas. The following characters are involved in the champion’s suffering, though the order of the appearance is exposing the gravity of the involvement: Heesung, 
(chapter 29), the journalist without a face 
(chapter 35), the “fake” MFC agent
(chapter 42), Baek Junmin whom the champion couldn’t truly identify 
(chapter 47), then he recognized the director without naming him, 
(chapter 48) and finally the ghost from the past 
(chapter 54). These characters are all connected to “Truth or Dare”. 
(chapter 50) This scene exposed that the champion repressed a certain incident which is rather common among victims of a trauma, especially people suffering from PTSD. This shows that some traumatic event took place for quite some time, but the champion acted, as if nothing had happened. 
(Doctor Frost, chapter 140 ) That’s how the champion became a zombie, he couldn’t live properly due to his untreated scars. 
(doctor Frost, chapter 139) But thanks to his fated partner, the traumatic past is slowly coming to the surface.
(chapter 48) The director created a stage for the betrayal. That should represent the truth, while in reality it was a lie! Nevertheless, Joo Jaekyung could perceive the truth: Kim Dan had met the director from the rival gym. 
(chapter 48) Yes, he didn’t dare to tell him what had happened. No truth… no daring which reflects the games in the sauna and the living room of the penthouse. Kim Dan could have come clean the next morning, but no. This panel explains his silence. He also mistrusted his VIP patient. He had a negative perception of his lover’s mental state. On the other hand, the champion’s attitude reminded me of a parent who has not the time to listen to his child’s problem due to work.
(chapter 48) Should the athlete remember this night, he will realize that he was the one dismissing his physical therapist, although the doctor could have come clean later. At the same time, Joo Jaekyung’s attitude could be mirroring the parent or guardian’s in the past. They didn’t have the time or the inclination to listen to their son, hence the traumatic incident got buried. 
(chapter 27), hence truth comes to the surface! Kim Dan and Joo Jaekyung feel attracted to each other and have come to love each other. When they speak their mind, they feel comfortable around each other. Truth is strongly connected to communication. Hence the painful conversation in the locker room was necessary. “You don’t trust me?” also reflected the doctor’s attitude. He never tried to approach his room mate 
(chapter 47) and voice his true thoughts and emotions: 
(chapter 45) He lied, when he portrayed himself as grateful. He was avoiding his gaze either. No wonder why the fighter got even more mad and threatened to fire him. Such an attitude could only increase the celebrity’s mistrust, as the latter could discern a certain dishonesty. 
(chapter 49) The latter didn’t even greet the director or acted, as if they didn’t know each other. He exposed the existence of a secret, an uncomfortable secret. Consequently, I believe that the champion could only jump to the conclusion that Kim Dan had been indeed acting behind his back, even coerced to do something. 
(chapter 51) Note that the star never came clean with the truth either. 
(Chapter 35) Through the doctor, the champion is encouraged to become honest to himself.
(chapter 33) Simultaneously, it exposes that the champion has a secret, which is strongly intertwined with betrayal, love, money and deceptions. I couldn’t help myself thinking of “blackmail”. Kim Dan had been coerced to do something, as the director was holding something against him. Hence we have the question: “what have you done?”. Remember how the actor chose to approach the angel. 
(chapter 31) He tricked his boss by faking an injury. He put the gym under pressure, as this incident could be leaked to the outside. The whole situation reminded me of blackmail. If he did not follow his request, there could be a scandal. That’s the reason why I believe that the champion’s past is linked to blackmail as well. How is it possible? It is because of the game “truth or dare”! The latter is strongly intertwined with divulging information and crossing the line!! To sum up, this game embodies trauma, secret, leaking information, trust and overstepping a boundary or rule. This observation brings me to my next point.
(chapter 9) And what did happen after they left the restaurant? The champion discovered the truth: 
(chapter 10) 
(chapter 10) Kim Dan was terribly poor, but he was also on his own, missing his grandmother.
(chapter 34) “Are you drunk?” With this question, the protagonist revealed something about himself. He associates dating and love confession with drunkenness. He implies the existence of a lie. But a confession is strongly associated with verity and sincerity. On the other hand, for the sportsman, no one in his right mind would admit to be in love and in our case to love another man. For me, one part of the problem is that the champion is afraid of admitting his homosexuality. The latter is still a stigma in South Korean society. But there’s more to the game Truth or Dare. If you paid attention to the origin of the last quote, you will realize that this fun is linked to bullying and even hazing.
(chapter 49) Furthermore, bullying is never done alone, but in groups. 
(chapter 57) There is one leader and the others are following the flow, the latter even become more proactive by making new bets and suggestions in order to ensure their own safety. As long as no one divulges the truth, the bullies are safe. But there’s more to it. Striking is that the way they coerced the champion to fight resembles to bullying too. He was manipulated with the articles, then with the advises from the lawyer and manager. Once in the States, they tried to drug him, which corresponds to a physical assault. 
(chapter 37) Finally, note that the schemers are working in teams exactly like the bullying students. Therefore I judge Park Namwook’s attitude as the teacher’s who is closing the eye to the truth. He is rather passive and puts the whole responsibility on his “boy”. 
(chapter 41) It is the champion’s choice to refuse or not the matches. The moment I associated the game with parties, peer groups and bullying, I had many revelations.
(chapter 37) Interesting is the athlete described this night as a party which made me think of a students’ party. Therefore I couldn’t help myself wondering if the champion didn’t go to college, but due to an incident, he was forced to drop out. And the latter could be related to a party organized by students. The latter chose to cover up the incident by remaining silent. I would like to outline that the doctor got fired, though he was actually sexually harassed by his superior. The nurse never testified in his favor, she chose to close an eye to the crime. 
(chapter 1) The main lead never considered her behavior as betrayal and abandonment. In fact, he never considered the crime as a betrayal from an institution. 
(chapter 47) 
(chapter 47), Manhwalovers can see that Kim Dan was a loner. Therefore I doubt that he had friends during his college years. The only person he knew from his school was his mentor: 
(chapter 1) It is important, because it implies that Kim Dan avoided to socialize and participate in gatherings. Interesting is that in season 2, Jinx-philes discover that Kim Dan had been bullied in the past. 
(chapter 9), yet Park Namwook made sure that the physical therapist wouldn’t be abandoned drunk. Thus he tasked his boss to bring him home. And as for Potato, it is clear that Oh Daehyun would take care of him, as he was sleeping in the dormitory next to him. In other words, no one was left behind drunk. But this scene contrasts so much to episode 43. First, no one was missing Potato. No one asked about his absence. Secondly, pay attention that the fighters invited Kim Dan to join them for another round, while they were neglecting their boss, though it was his birthday party. 
(chapter 43) Moreover, they never wondered about his physical condition. Was he drunk or not? Funny is that the intoxicated character was the one who forced Kim Dan to go home. 
(chapter 43) That’s what a friend is supposed to do.
(chapter 35) So the auntie could keep an eye on the judo fighter, and it was only a matter of time, until his friend would return. Nevertheless, this scene is implying a certain problem: a drunken person shouldn’t be left unguarded. Thus imagine that during a party, an unconscious person is brought to a room and left there unguarded, as the friend desires to keep partying, similar to this scene: 
(chapter 37) The person could get sexually assaulted, and no one would notice it. Secondly, I would like to outline that the hazing party from the article reminded me a lot to bullying. These freshmen were humiliated, and the perpetrator excused her behavior behind traditions and social norms. So the champion could have been betrayed by a friend, as the latter would have justified his action similarly. So instead of admitting his mistake, he could have justified the incident like this: the victim was responsible for his misery, because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. It was just his misfortune or better said his jinx. Yes, for me, the jinx is indicating that people responsible for the champion’s traumas were denying their wrongdoings.
(chapter 8) From my point of view, this place is not just symbolizing purification and reflection, but also indicating the presence of a wound. As soon as I connected the bathroom and as such water to pain, all the champion’s past behavior appeared in a different light. In episode 3, when he went there, he was wearing his pajamas. 
(chapter 3) Neither Kim Dan nor the protagonist were seen both naked in the shower room. 
(chapter 8) 
(chapter 20) 
(chapter 30) Therefore I perceive the champion’s last comment as relevant. In my opinion, Kim Dan’s gesture reflected the champion’s mind-set. So by saying this, Joo Jaekyung was forced to admit the absurdity of such an attitude. Therefore Manhwalovers can understand Joo Jaekyung’s annoyance at the sauna. He imagined that he would be alone there. 
(chapter 34) He feels uncomfortable naked around people… As soon as you connect this place to a wound, my avid readers can finally better interpret the champion’s irritation in episode 36: 
(chapter 36) Kim Dan’s entrance could be perceived as a violation, for the champion was naked. This intrusion caught him off-guard. But since his gaze was covered, his anxiety masked behind his anger was diminished. On the other hand, this led him to leave the bathtub undressed and have sex in the kitchen. 
(chapter 36) For me, everything is pointing out that one of the champion’s fears is intimacy with water. He has long internalized this association. Don’t forget that the sexual encounter in the swimming pool started with clothes, before they got completely removed. 
(chapter 27) Under this new perspective, I don’t think that it is a coincidence that the champion felt the need to take a shower after meeting Baek Junmin and recalling the past. 
(chapter 49) This helped him to overcome his trauma and past wound. 
(chapter 49) Yet, keep in mind that the athlete’s wounded soul is not the result of one traumatic incident, but of many anguishes. 
(chapter 8) they dared to have sex next to Oh Daehyun and the other fighter. However, note that in all these scenes, neither the doctor nor the champion were honest. They were both lying… not only to their counter-part, but also to themselves. 
(chapter 19) That’s the reason why the argument in the locker room 
(chapter 51) doesn’t represent the final moment where both main leads opened up their heart and mind to each other. They were not truly honest to themselves and to each other. There was no water… and according to me, the spray was a pepper spray, so the champion’s ankle should have been cleaned and not simply covered. For me, both characters need to prove their trust and loyalty to each other. But they are moving in the right direction, for Joo Jaekyung divulged a huge information to Kim Dan. 
(chapter 7) 
(chapter 70) His sexual orientation was exposed in high school, his friends were behind the rumor 
(chapter 70), although we have to envision that his crush played a huge part in it. Why? It is because he didn’t want to be associated with homosexuality. 
(chapter 70) Not only he cut off ties with him, but also he made sure to isolate the main lead from other students. The worst is that this person acted, as if this ostracizing had never occurred. 
(chapter 69), as if he had done nothing wrong. For me, it shows that the traitor never grasped the significance of his actions. Hence Park Sung-Woong could forget Dong-Gyun, while the latter could never forget him at all. The result from this huge betrayal was that the cute uke decided to keep his distance from people. 
(chapter 70) He could no longer trust people, he avoided meetings. In order to outline how severe betrayal trauma can be, the Webtoonist showed us the immediate effects of betrayal trauma: physical and emotional reactions 
(chapter 70) 
(chapter 70) and the long term effects: 
(chapter 69) he is trembling so much, he can not look at his former friend. Readers shouldn’t underestimate the issue. Betrayal trauma is so severe that it is comparable to being hit by a white truck. The pain is so great that it affects the brain functioning and as such personality.
(chapter 9), trust issues 
(chapter 30), negative intrusive thoughts 
(chapter 29), withdrawal (we know nothing about his family and he dislikes going to gatherings, he is not meeting his hyung Cheolmin) and rumination: he got upset, when the hamster ignored his calls. 
(chapter 05) Then when he stayed at home,
(chapter 32), it was clear that the doctor’s actions were constantly on his mind. He was so bothered that he had to bring him to Heesung. He made sure that Kim Dan would forget Choi Heesung in the car. 
(chapter 33) Interesting is that this trauma resembles a lot to PTSD.
(chapter 49), the latter was not loved, as he didn’t reach the first place like his older brother. Then we have Interpersonal with Nam Dong-Gyun and his high school friend. However, since the rumor circulated at school, and no adults intervened, we could see it as a reference to Institutional betrayal. Finally, Mingwa presented the last type (partner) with Hweemin. 
(chapter 51) But why is betrayal trauma so severe? It is because everything appears as a lie, as an illusion. All the memories become tainted. The victim can only question his own senses and judgment. How could he not detect the lies? Since PTSD and betrayal trauma share some common points, it is not surprising that such persons come to blame themselves and develop huge self-loathing. 
(doctor Frost, chapter 139). And now, it is time to expose my latest observation: 
(BJ Alex, chapter 51) Ahn Jiwon caught his first lover cheating on him at a club. Interesting is that the new lover resembles a lot to Joo Jaekyung! Mingwa said that characters from BJ Alex will only appear, but Jinx is not connected to her previous work. Note that they were kissing in a public place. Moreover, the club is a location where students not only meet, but also drink alcohol together. However, once Jiwon saw Hweemin, he dragged him outside so that they could talk. In other words, the “new lover” was left behind. Thus I come to the following conclusion. Joo Jaekyung has been suffering from betrayal trauma exactly like Ahn Jiwon. He was betrayed by his guardian 
(BJ Alex, chapter 51). If this theory is true, then Mingwa would finally outline the devastating effects of Betrayal trauma on people, something she barely touched in her previous work.
(chapter 51)
(chapter 1) He was even called a psychopath, for he resorted to kidnapping 
(chapter 1) sequestration, threats 
(chapter 2) and blackmail and he initially showed no remorse.
(chapter 7). On the other hand, he never got into trouble for his wrongdoings. Why? It is because he wasn’t violating social norms. 
(chapter 10) It was his right to punish servants, for they are not considered as humans but as propriety. As a lord, he could treat commoners, like it pleased him. Though murder is prohibited, even against a lowborn, 
(chapter 43), the reality is that nobles would never get into trouble!! As you can see, there exists a discrepancy between laws on the paper and the reality which was exposed by the rumors in episode 106. 
(chapter 107) The fathers would use their position and influence in order to cover up their children’s wrongdoings. And we have the perfect illustration, when the elder master bribes the governor. 
(chapter 127) That’s the reason why the younger generation could do everything! Though the lord appeared as a monster first, he became a “normality”, the more we got to read this story. Under this explication, it becomes comprehensible why lord Min was so sure not to get bothered by the authorities.
(Chapter 101) He had bought the officers (“the guards”). This explains why Black Heart could threaten No-Name. 
(chapter 76) He didn’t need to dirty his own hands, he could simply frame him. Consequently, I deduce that he had learned this misconduct through the elders’ behavior. 
(chapter 116) This shows that neither Black Heart’s father nor Yoon Chang-Hyeon truly love their children, as according to Erich Fromm, love is knowledge, respect, care and responsibility. However, the elder master Yoon is totally ignorant about his son’s talents and good nature. Thereby, I see lord Seungho from season 1 as the perfect illustration of the corrupted world of the nobility. The monster “Yoon Seungho” was just a reflection from this ruthless and immoral society. Since he committed wrongdoings, his karma was to pay for his sins. It starts with a murder, and the main lead ended up killing people. He might have not broken “traditions” like the disregard of the yangbans against lowborns, but it is considered immoral. He had sinned and now, he is paying for his sins. Therefore his words in the prison resonate differently. 
(chapter 126) He expresses regret. He confesses his crimes, he killed people! This means that he is now siding with the lowborns. Their life is as precious as the ones from the nobility. Yet, note that in this image, the author didn’t drew his eyes. Why? It is because in the moment he executed people, 
(chapter 102) he was either not himself or he did it out of reflex to protect himself. He was influenced by his past experiences and as such traumas. In the shrine, it becomes more obvious, for he has a lost gaze. He is not even looking at his target. Finally, when he met lord Song, he did it to “protect” himself. 
(chapter 123) For me, in episode 1, the execution was triggered by his desire to protect himself and his traumas. And what is the common denominator between these three scenes? The father Yoon Chang-Hyeon! Don’t forget that the petition was the reason for their meeting. And now look at the actions from the patriarch. 
(chapter 116) He had given the order to eliminate all the servants, for they could represent a threat to his “treason”. This explains why the butler describes himself as the only survivor and witness. 
(chapter 86) And we see him giving the order to kill the surviving guard 
(chapter 125) Besides, he had no problem to order the assassination of his own son which was stopped by the intervention of a helping hand. The father had never asked to spare the main lead’s life. 
(chapter 124). He was his bad role model. But he is not the only one. There is another one… 
(chapter 51) Once a criminal, always a criminal… therefore it is not surprising that the joker chose assassination as second work. By working for the nobles, he would be able to escape punishment, because if he got arrested, he could denunciate them. To conclude, justice is inexistent in Joseon. Yes, we are witnessing the downfall of Joseon, or precisely the king’s bad ruling. The latter is not capable of providing justice to anyone. And this coincides with the purge! 
(chapter 37) What is a purge? 
(chapter 107) “Stepping down” was actually an euphemism for removal. The officials were chased out, 
(chapter 80) but their evictions were turned into stepping down. 
(chapter 122) No wonder why lord Song came to resent the protagonist. Under this new light, it becomes comprehensible why the purge was not noticed by commoners. There was no fire and the staff was sparred. 
(chapter 103) The boots were the indication that this person was working for the government. And it was an elder, for he was wearing this particular headgear. 
(chapter 103) 
(chapter 67) The murder of lord Shin is the evidence of the anarchy in Joseon. But actually, the monsters are actually everywhere, and not just among the nobility. The Chungin with the scholar and the physicians who have no problem to lie, participate in a kidnapping and drugging people… the kisaengs, the maids, the servants. They are all accomplices, for they feigned ignorance or chose to remain passive, for they preferred avoiding trouble. What people failed to realize is that no one is safe from this tyranny. Hence people could get killed and thrown into a well so easily 
(chapter 97) 
(chapter 101) and their perpetrators got scot-free. Why? It is because the mastermind and the helping hands are protecting each other, like we could see in the Joker’s case. However, the latter in season 3 had no idea that they would face divine retribution and pay with their life. 
(chapter 102) In front of gods, humans are all equal. There is no distinction between gentry, Chungin and commoners. That’s the reason why I come to the conclusion that Yoon Seungho is the divine hand of justice, he is bringing the “divine retribution”. This explicates this vision: 
(chapter 83) Under this new approach, it becomes comprehensible why he is called “the bird of misfortune”. People around him got to suffer, for they received their karma. Funny is that lord Song mocked him by calling him a grim reaper. 
(chapter 123) He underestimated his opponent, not imagining that the latter would use his sword against him. So he became a grim reaper. Lord Song Haseon must have thought that his minions, just like his age and status, would protect him. But no, someone had planned his death and counted on the main lead’s decision.
(chapter 99) Thus Min’s karma was to die in the total indifference of others. No one is missing him, for he was turned into a brigand himself. 
(chapter 113) But wait… Why did Black Heart get killed in the end? One might say that it was his karma, for he had planned the murder of Baek Na-Kyum in the past. In my opinion, the uke serves as a representative of the divine retribution. The artist is the “judge” and his lover is executing the sentence: death. And we can detect this gods’ intervention through the learned sir’s case as well. Jung In-Hun had looked down on the artist for his origins and education. When the generous main lead chose to accept his apology (attempted rape), 
(chapter 120), the latter reminded him that contrary to Yoon Seungho, he was admired. He had such a good notoriety! Since he betrayed the artist and had almost him killed, the scholar ended up losing everything. 
(chapter 127) He became the scapegoat for this incident, for he played a huge role in the painter’s suffering (kidnapping, assault, murder and brainwashing). His success at the civil service examination was erased within a few weeks and now he is viewed as a brigand. How could such a person get selected as an official? His fate gives a bad impression of the civil service examination. And what is the common denominator between these two villains? They both belong to different social classes. Their cases is exposing the king’s negligence and arbitrariness. The latter is the perfect personification of this corruption. Not even Confucianism is respected, for fathers are abusing their own children or even killing them. Season 4 is exposing the chaos in Joseon. Therefore it is not surprising that the sacred tree and the shrine got burned. 
(chapter 106) The gods were using the humans to voice their anger. At the same time, when the woman made this comment, the Manhwa lovers can detect the huge gate in the background, the symbol for royalty. And now, you comprehend why Yoon Seungho was pushed to go to Hanyang. It is his fate to face the king! His task is to clean the palace of these old bearded men. 
(chapter 44) I had already portrayed him as a black shaman in the essay “
(chapter 65) Don’t forget that the monarch is the only one who stands above the laws, though he is controlled by social norms and his officials. In my opinion, this can only take place, when a new scheme takes place. How so? Note that in the scholar’s case, Jung In-Hun received his karma, but not real human justice. For me, he is not dead. Besides, don’t forget that someone took the petition from lord Song, before Yoon Chang-Hyeon came to the bloody place. There is no ambiguity that the accomplices and schemers didn’t get happy with the last outcome. The couple might be separated physically, but they are attached to each other by their strong love. And since the main lead kept wearing hanboks with the phoenix
(chapter 34) 
(chapter 45), it indicates that someone saw him as his bird of fortune. And this can not be Yoon Seungho, for the latter was full of self-hatred. Finally, his own father, Kim and Heena called him as a bird of misfortune. As you can see, the king could no longer see the main lead due to the artist’s presence. He is his bird of fortune, for he could live out all his dreams thanks to him, and at no moment he got into trouble. No one is suspecting his intervention. 
(chapter 127) I recognized why the painter and Yoon Seungho had to go separated ways. It is because the schemers wanted him to return to Hanyang. Remember the learned sir’s suggestion before his departure. 
(chapter 44) Why? It is because now the main lead is an adult. Since my theory is that the pedophile is the ruler, he can no longer approach the protagonist like that. The latter is no longer visiting the gibang. He wants their path to cross again so that they can rekindle. Hence he had to create an opportunity proving that their meeting is not a coincidence. Under this new approach, it becomes comprehensible why Yoon Seungwon encouraged his brother to reconcile with their father. 
(chapter 37) That way, he would be “following” the tradition and become an official. But since Yoon Seungho developed a fear of “old bearded men”, he had no reason to go there. 
(chapter 46) 
(chapter 68) 
(chapter 97) 
(chapter 111) 
(chapter 120)
(chapter 127) As you can see, the painter was feverish. Why? From my perspective, he was drugged. He was not allowed to see his loved one, because they don’t want him to remember their departure. The schemers desire him to feel abandoned like in the gibang (chapter 105). The reason why I am suspecting a drug is that this panel 
(chapter 127) is similar to the first Wedding Night: 
(chapter 21) At the same time, this scene is also a reflection from the night after the massacre in the shrine. 
(chapter 103) Back then, he was also under the influence of an aphrodisiac. They don’t want him to remember his last words. And since he didn’t take care of him during that night, though he was unwell, they hope to create the illusion that Yoon Seungho neglected him. He broke his promise. But their trick can no longer work because of the lord’s visitation in the prison and his words. 
(chapter 126) 
(chapter 127) The separation arc is there to prove these plotters wrong. Their affection is not trivial and momentary. He is not a plaything, but his “partner”. In fact, they have absolute trust in each other, and their source of strength will be their short happy moments together. Besides, I am quite certain that the artist will remember the lord’s whisper from that night, since he had problems to recall the First wedding Night and the incident in the shrine. Both are related to his bad conscience. Besides, I have another reason for that, the power of the unconscious knowledge.
(Chapter 108) Though both were close physically, they still allowed others to manipulate them, for their trust was not complete. In other words, the schemers are thinking that time is working for them!! On the other hand, since Kim is by his side, the painter can only consider his presence as the evidence of the lord’s care. 
(Chapter 127) This coincides with the beginning of the Manhwa, when the lord was seen without his butler.
(Chapter 1) The latter only appeared in episode 7, and back then Yoon Seungho had to dress himself. 
(Chapter 7) Finally, I am expecting schemes again. 
(chapter 127) This means that he is giving up on his status and freedom for Baek Na-Kyum’s sake. 
(chapter 127) Here Yoon Seungho had been treated like a servant, because he had been submitted to the straw mat beating. Exactly like in the past, there was a promise. Notice how similar the words are: “No matter”. 
(chapter 77) However, there exists a huge difference. Back then, the vow was made between the butler Kim and Yoon Chang-Hyeon. As you can see, Yoon Seungho is now copying his surrogate father’s behavior. 
(chapter 127) This shows that the young master is following Kim’s path. On the other hand, the domestic employed the future tense in his pledge (“I will do as he commands”), whereas the “spiritual son” is using the present (“I swear to live as you command”). Moreover, the main lead is talking about his way of life and not “order”. And what does the father desire? 
(Chapter 86) Making connections so that the Yoons can become influential again!! But how can he do that? By showing his talent? I have my doubts about it. Why? It is because in season 1, the lord was having sex with his peers, and back then they were like battles… for an exchange of favors. I hope, I might be wrong, but I fear that he is about to become a male kisaeng again. Or if not, then this is what the king is expecting from him. And we have the best example in this scene: 
(chapter 118) Why does he need the protagonist? It is because he needs “connections”. And how can he get these connections? Through his brother. But with the last incident, it looks like Yoon Seungwon jeopardized the remains of his influence, for the noble ignored him. 
(chapter 127)
(Chapter 56) Yet, the domestic is only bowing with his head and not his body. The protagonist is dressed exactly like his father. This comparison exposes that my past interpretation was correct: the butler had awakened his master during the night by lighting the candles. And after receiving this letter, Yoon Seungho dressed himself in order to meet his childhood friend, which reinforces my theory that the valet won’t follow the protagonist. 
(chapter 86) However, back then, he was considered as the eldest son. One of his duties was to continue the lineage 
(chapter 82) and because of the stolen kiss, the patriarch became obsessed with sexuality. Observe how lord Song Haseon described the father’s attitude. He knew about the atrocities that the young master was exposed to 
(chapter 123), but he chose to turn a blind eye, for he believed that the end justifies the means. This explicates why he left the room so quickly and abandoned his son. Yoon Chang-Hyeon’s resent for the eldest son came from his high expectations. This can only reinforce my past interpretation that Yoon Seungho is a new version of Prince Sado. Thus the elder master Yoon’s personality is based on king Yeongjo. Moreover, lord Song alluded to the execution of a prince ordered by the monarch. 
(chapter 107) 
(chapter 55) But what did he see in his father’s gaze? Anger and disappointment, for he was never able to satisfy Yoon Chang-Hyeon’s expectations. 
(chapter 55) With the release of episode 127, I had this sudden revelation concerning this memory. In the past, I used to think that he had been submitted to the straw mat beating. But now, I think that in this scene, Yoon Seungho was forced to bow to his father by the servants or guards!! Yes, the former version of this scene. 
(chapter 126) This idea came to my mind, the moment Yoon Seungho emphasized his bowing! 
(chapter 127) The protagonist’s words imply that he had never done it before!! And now, you know why Yoon Chang-Hyeon agreed to make a deal with his eldest son. 
(chapter 127) Yoon Seungho’s bow and oath stand for blind obedience and loyalty. This explicates why the author drew him without eyes. 
(chapter 87) That way, he can act, as if the purge and the humiliation had never happened. So by submitting himself to his father’s will, it looks like Yoon Seungho is put in the same position than in the past. He is “exposed” to the harsh judgement from the patriarch. However, it is just an illusion. How so? First, what caught my attention is the absence of the protagonist’s eye. 
(chapter 11) 
(chapter 35) Does it signify that the protagonist has the intention of betraying his own father? I don’t think so, but the manhwaphiles shouldn’t forget the lord’s wish in the kitchen: “I shall remember this moment for as long as I live”. 
(chapter 118) This shows that when the lord bowed to his father, he was thinking of Baek Na-Kyum in the kitchen. His body might be by his father, but his mind and heart were elsewhere. Thus I couldn’t help myself thinking that Yoon Chang-Hyeon will get betrayed and abandoned by his own son. During the same night, he made 2 vows. It was, as though he had two “lords”! His goal is to meet his loved one again. 
(Chapter 127) Finally, don’t forget that the main lead is following Kim’s path. He will have to choose between his father and the painter. Yoon Seungho is actually applying the father’s principle: the end justifies the means. So if necessary, he can break his vow to his father. 
(chapter 116) I still believe that the painter has the original petition. And who is by Baek Na-Kyum’s side? Kim!! 
(Chapter 108) By living by his side, he can lead a quiet life far away from Hanyang. However, this signifies that the artist has become a “prisoner”. As long as he lives in Yoon Chang-Hyeon’s claws, his loved one can not return to his side. Interesting is that a carriage was used to carry away the protagonist. 
(Chapter 78) But where is the painter going? To the mansion? Or to another secluded place? In my eyes, the location is important. His existence is still a source of problems for the schemers. I see a future conflict in the lord’s life, for one oath stands in opposition to the other. Moreover, should the patriarch lose Baek Na-Kyum, he can no longer control his son. He can not suddenly blame the painter for the death of lord Song, for Jung In-Hun has been now convicted for the crime. 
(Chapter 7) Now, the positions are switched. He is the one getting coerced! And this brings me to the following observation. Why did the elder master agree to this deal in the end? First, he refused to assist his son.
(chapter 127) He believes that he has the petition, therefore he can no longer be blackmailed by his eldest son. The latter has no longer any leverage over him! However, he changed his mind. 
(chapter 127) For me, it is related to the bow. I noticed that the patriarch pays a lot of attention to “manners” and etiquette. Therefore the guards apologized on different occasions, yet the elder master always accepted their excuses 
(chapter 125) 
(chapter 126) Yet, in reality they were fake excuses. I have already pointed out that the servants would act on their own. But more importantly, their fake apology hid their failure as guards. How could they let the young master barge into the lord’s bedchamber? With a simple apology, this wrongdoing was overlooked. And now, observe what happened during the same night: 
(chapter 127) Yoon Seungho was followed by the guards! It looked like they were serving him. This scene reminded me of the officers’ appearance in front of the mansion. 
(chapter 94) This can only reinforce my theory that the main lead will turn against his father in the end. Keep in mind that there is a deal, so should the situation change (the painter’s desertion or the discovery of the second petition for example), the lord is no longer forced to keep his vow towards his father. Moreover, since Baek Na-Kyum got lied, “brainwashed”
(chapter 125), “drugged” and slapped by Yoon Chang-Hyeon, he is destined to receive his karma through his son. And what was his dream? 
(chapter 125) and paid the governor 
(chapter 127), he could get into trouble for it was, as if he was admitting his responsibility. 
(chapter 87), whereas Yoon Seungho stands for change and hope.
(chapter 127) Where was Heena noona, when her brother was in prison? This rumor can only create the illusion that the painter is still devoted to the learned sir. Yet, after the last incident, the painter came to regret to have trust the learned sir. Both characters are now healed from their traumas (abandonment issues) and they are in full possession of their mind. This makes them less weak to manipulations.
(chapter 126) to another 
(chapter 126). He allowed his father to humiliate and abuse him 
(Chapter 126) once again. It was, as if the story was back to square one and the protagonist had learned nothing at all. Under this perception, my avid readers can comprehend why I selected such a title. However, instead of thinking that the author was a bad writer, I decided to ponder on the following question. Why did the author choose such an evolution? 
(chapter 7) Like Baek Na-Kyum, he rushed to his loved one’s side. However, he was first stopped 
(chapter 126), because it was not the right time. How so? Notice that his brother had fetched him at the port
(chapter 125), but he never followed him to the bureau of investigation. And the same happened later. Why didn’t he go to his shed, when he was trapped there? Where was he, when the eldest son visited the father? 
(chapter 07) Therefore Yoon Seungho didn’t notice the presence of a civilian next to the governor. 
(chapter 126). Striking is that the governor knew about Yoon Seungho’s whereabouts before his arrival: the coast. As you can see, I am detecting a link between the governor and the younger master Seungwon. Yet, it was disguised as a rumor behind the expression “I had heard”. My assumption is that Seungwon came from the bureau of investigation in order to inform his brother. Therefore it is not surprising that Seungho was invited by his brother to visit the prison during the night. 
(chapter 126) And the moment I perceived the protagonist as a fool in love, I realized that chapter 126 is a reflection of episode 7, 29 
(chapter 29) and 40 
(chapter 40). Here, the painter was trying his best to protect Jung In-Hun’s interests (life, high position). Moreover, in episode 40, the painter had a dream, when he saw the announcement for the civil service examination. He smiled, for he was looking forward for the future. 
(chapter 40) And what have these episodes more in common? A betrayal, abandonment from a loved one and a paper (painting, poem). Hence I am more than ever convinced that the petition will resurface very soon and play a huge role in the downfall of the schemers and haters. Besides, chapter 40 represents the negative reflection of the conversation in the prison. 
(chapter 40) There is neither disdain nor mockery. The mentioned scenes are similar, for the present resembles the past. And this brings me to the second reason for the Webtoonist’s decision.
(chapter 123), Yoon Chang-Hyeon considered Yoon Seungho as a human, for he employed the personal pronoun “he”. He was still his son. Then in episode 77, he judged him as a slave 
(chapter 77), hence he was submitted to the straw mat beating and was held captive. He even refused to send for a physician. 
(chapter 83) Here, the father is denying his humanity, he is just an animal. In their next confrontation, he describes him as a monster, hence he wished that he had never been born.
(chapter 86) However, his words exposed that he was still viewing him as a living being. Therefore it is not surprising that he accepted lord Song’s request to order the murder of his son! In the gibang, he decided to no longer acknowledge Yoon Seungho as his son. 
(chapter 107) The tragedy is that the protagonist still viewed the Yoons as his family because of Yoon Seungwon, who keeps calling him “brother”. This explicates why Yoon Seungho sponsored his brother to have an official position. 
(chapter 115) Therefore it is not surprising that he followed Yoon Seungwon’s advice again. 
(chapter 120). He would bring the petition to his own father. This means that he is acting like the painter who listened to his noona Heena so well. 
(chapter 126) He is not even a thing. This means that he is actually discarding him. This explicates why he sent him to the shed. 
(chapter 126) It was, as if he had become a merchandise. Or we could say that the elder master had been using him as a tool, which he can now abandon. 
(chapter 126) Interesting is that the idiom “plaything” has for antonyms tool, implement, instrument and utensil. And this brings me to the following remark. The father’s words are reflecting the last scheme. Yoon Seungho was used as the sword to get rid of an enemy, lord Song. It was, as if someone had decided to get rid of lord Song, for he represented a danger or threat. It also mirrors the trick in the shrine. Min and the others got killed, because Lee Jihwa went to his childhood friend. And who had seen the main lead using this sword, when he was enraged? Father Lee! 
(chapter 67) But let’s return our attention to the patriarch and his son. Yoon Seungho is no longer recognized as a Yoon member. Therefore I come to the conclusion that Yoon Seungho will make the following decision: to become an orphan. And this is symbolized by the loss of hair. I am expecting him to cut off his hair, something the painter has been doing for a long time. That’s why Byeonduck showed us the lord without a topknot. 
(chapter 126) This would coincide with my previous statement. The lord is going through the same experience than his loved one. However, people will come to the conclusion that this was done by the father. How so? Remember how each rumor became a reality. 
(chapter 1) I had already demonstrated that Yoon Seungho was not a fiend for sodomy with no regard for time and place, until he met Baek Na-Kyum. But once a deed is done, it can never be repeated. 
(chapter 101) So should Father Lee claim that he has long disowned Jihwa by cutting off his topknot, no one will believe him, for the young master was still seen with a topknot after confessing his feelings in public. 
(chapter 57) In other words, the topknot incident at the kisaeng would be brought up. It is impossible for 2 fathers to act the same way. Besides, the loss of the topknot has another signification: Yoon Seungho would cut off ties with valet Kim, for the latter was the one who gave him the topknot. And episode 126 reflected one more time his position: 
(chapter 126) He is the one dressing him. It was, as if he was the pope.
(chapter 116) It is because someone had reported to him the conversation between lord Song and the painter. 
(chapter 122) There was a spy listening to their conversation. Since all the guards died 
(chapter 124) 
(chapter 120) And who was present there? Jung In-Hun! But there is more to it. Since leaving Baek Na-Kyum behind is considered as an abandonment, it means that the patriarch abandoned his son too. 
(chapter 27) By speaking to Yoon Seungho, the elder master Yoon didn’t realize that he was admitting his own wrongdoings. Actually, he had abandoned him many times… like here for example 
(chapter 87) Therefore his words will come back to bite him. But these words are also exposing the valet’s betrayal and abandonment towards Yoon Seungho!! How so?
(chapter 122), then he should have been at the patriarch’s house. The absence of the valet is the evidence of his treason. For me, he is now working for Jung In-Hun which explains why he never mentioned his presence in the mansion, only lord Song. Besides, keep in mind that once deed done can not be repeated. In episode 27, the lord was too angry and busy to notice the learned sir’s spying activities. 
(Chapter 27) Moreover, Kim didn’t report the interrogation to his master. This means that the butler covered up for the teacher’s wrongdoing. But here is the deal: 
(chapter 120) The library was ransacked, hence this crime is bound to be discovered. Finally, his intervention in the shed is exposing his deception. 
(chapter 83) That’s why I am convinced that these words 
(chapter 126) He is no longer suicidal, in fact he is full of hope! Though he was sent back to hell for a short moment, he came out of this as a winner. My evidence is that the lord has now become a believer. 
(chapter 126) Yes, episode 126 exposes the return of his faith! And where could we see the atheism of Yoon Seungho in the story? In chapter 92! 
(chapter 92) He didn’t believe in the spring poetry to ward off bad luck! That’s why he was sent back to the past. He needed to lose everything in order to find hope! In his darkest moment, he expressed a wish: to meet his loved one! And where did he pray to the gods? In the shed! 
(chapter 126) Observe how he is kneeling in direction of the bars. He is hoping to meet Baek Na-Kyum again. As you can see, though this scene 
(chapter 126) He was showing resistance and anger towards his father. Moreover, he was no longer shaking in front of the patriarch or the guards. 
(chapter 86) Thus I deduce that though he was mistreated and insulted like in the past, he was no longer suffering from his traumas. He is healed. His will is now really strong, supported by his new found faith. 
(chapter 62) Even if they were hugging, they were not close emotionally and mentally. This stands in opposition to the scene in the jail. They might be separated by the bars, but they are touching each other tenderly. 
(chapter 126) They are able to see each other. 
(chapter 126) Try Meditation 
(chapter 126) or Prayer 
(chapter 126) 
(chapter 126) Quoted from 
(chapter 126) It is relevant, because light represents knowledge and truth. He is now the bearer of the truth. And he got his blessing from Baek Na-Kyum, when he touched his hands. 
(chapter 120) Yes, chapter 126 mirrors 92! This somehow confirms my theory that the butler was the one hiding under the purple hanbok. 
(chapter 92) Moreover, we have another reference to this episode, the pouring of alcohol! 
(chapter 92) 
(chapter 126) It was, as if someone wanted the lord to pay for Min’s insult! That’s the reason why I come to the following conclusion: Yoon Seungho is now opening up to Baek Na-Kyum. He is confessing to the painter about his wishes. 
(chapter 85) The manhwaphiles should keep in mind that the request from the artist in the study was strongly connected to forgiveness. And Baek Na-Kyum could also confess what happened in the past: his guilt and regret asking for the lord’s forgiveness. Right now, both are blaming themselves for the incidents, although they got fooled by many schemers. Because the lord proved his loyalty and blinded trust in the painter, I see the scene in the jail as a new version of this confession: 
(chapter 75) Thus I consider the prison cell as a sacred place, where both characters are about to be freed from their guilt! 
(chapter 11) thus he could escape justice! 
(Chapter 11) Simultaneously, the first definition of life lie corresponds to Yoon Chang-Hyeon. The latter blames his eldest son for the downfall of the Yoons. 
(chapter 125). They fail their duty, for they allowed the main lead to barge in the room. 
(Chapter 126) He is actually encouraging his son to hate himself and indirectly his own father! However, the son made the exact opposite decision: love!! Hence I am more than certain that the elder master is about to experience a harsh awakening. 
(chapter 101) Thus they got punished. And now, the two main leads are about to face human justice. 
(chapter 65) But strangely, the painter is showing no fear at all. 
(chapter 126) He is ready to sacrifice himself. So why was Yoon Seungho dressed up in the end? One might say that with the topknot and the hanbok, the abuse from the patriarch got covered up. That way, Baek Na-Kyum wouldn’t detect Yoon Chang-Hyeon’s lies and abandonment! 
(chapter 125) The latter brainwashed him to take the fall for everything, implying that way, his loved one would be protected! However, I am suspecting that if the lord were to leave the prison, he could meet someone in the office. That way, this person is not confronted with the reality: the main lead was “abused”. According to the butler, he was supposed to meet his brother at the office. 
(Chapter 92) In episode 92, we have a mysterious man in the background dressed in black, but he is not wearing his gat. Besides, I would like my avid readers to remember this image from the trailer: 
which reminds us of the office: 
(chapter 98) This place symbolizes power and strength. And because episode 126 is a reflection of chapter 7, 11, 29 and 40, I think, Yoon Seungho is about to receive a deal, for these episodes are focusing on the deal between the painter and the protagonist: protection from the father and punishment in exchange for entertainment. He would appear as a fake savior in the end. Remember what in episode 11 the artist said in front of his fated partner:
(chapter 11) He would do anything except painting!! He was not willing to give up on this principle, which reminds us of faith. So when Yoon Seungho faced his father, he experienced powerlessness for one reason. 
(Chapter 105) Then in episode 122, 
we discover that lord Song employed the pipe to beat the painter. Moreover, I detected a progression. In season 2, Yoon Seungho was still smoking. 
(Chapter 74) But once the painter showed that he didn’t like smoking, Yoon Seungho stopped taking the drug. This explicates why in season 3, he was no longer seen with the item in his hand. Even under stress, he chose to hunt instead of smoking in front of the window. We have two scenes where the pipe is present. One is when the lord is throwing it out of anger,:
(chapter 86) which reminded me of the incident with the music box.
(Chapter 85) This shows that this item had no value to the protagonist. Then the pipe appeared in the gibang on the table. 
(Chapter 96) However, here the lord had only eyes for the painter or Heena. Hence I have the impression that the pipe could resurface and serve as an tool to identify the perpetrator, just like the glasses were used to recognize the scholar. 
(Chapter 102) Finally, since the pipe appeared in the gibang twice, it indicates that this hobby is linked to the kisaeng house!! And this brings me to my final observation: the pipe is connected to paper
(Chapter 1) 
(chapter 1) However, there exists two books!! And one has no PIPE! This coincides with the decision of the painter to stop drawing erotic pictures! Yes… dropped amusement! At the same time, Yoon Seungho has long lost his interest for erotic publications. He also dropped this hobby. On the other hand, the books were dropped in front of the painter. 
(Chapter 1) Finally, the petition was dropped in front of lord Song 
(chapter 123) which announced his death sentence. To conclude, the papers have a strong connection to punishment and death. 
(Chapter 126) Yoon Seungho went to the father’s mansion, and it didn’t take him that long! As you can see, I consider this trip with Yoon Seungwon as a diversion. 
(Chapter 121) So why didn’t the elder master return to his old home? It is to drive the Yoons out of their propriety. In other words, the lies from the past are becoming a reality exposing the liars in the end. Their life lies will be ruined.
The manhwalovers could barely see Yoon Seungho’s face, for he was surrounded by darkness. When I saw it, my first thought was to associate the protagonist to “Sleeping beauty”. He had the same expression than in the bedchamber, when he was sleeping totally relaxed. 
(chapter 87) He was not tormented by a nightmare, like the painter discovered it in chapter 38: 
And the darkness reminded me of the forest of thorns and as such of the curse put on the princess. The darkness, the metaphor for the forest of thorns, is the reason why the lord felt trapped and suffocating in his torment. 
(chapter 86) This contrasts to the princess’ situation, for the latter had no idea about the existence of the prison. It only appeared, when she fell asleep. Moreover, in this picture
(chapter 63), love and happiness in his nightmare. In his darkest moment, he voiced a wish, which exposed the return of hope. This corresponds to the spark of faith, the gradual return of trust in his life. On the other side, Baek Na-Kyum came to view his lover as the moon giving him light and hope during the night again. 
(chapter 94) I would like to point out that the artist has always associated this satellite to a source of joy and love, like we can detect it here. 
(chapter 94) Finally, Talia could get liberated from her curse thanks to her children. The splinter of flax got removed from her finger, the moment the babies were sucking on them. This signifies that she got revived thanks to love and life. Moreover, she woke up, the moment the source of her pain was removed. This observation leads me to the following conclusion: the noble can only be completely freed from this darkness, the moment his suffering is removed and as such revealed!! This means that Yoon Seungho will be able to voice his misery and denunciate the crimes he was exposed to. He will be able to identify the persons responsible for his suffering. He might know a name, lord Song, but he has no idea about his true identity. That’s how his burden will be erased. Like mentioned above, the noble’s physical and sexual assault will be brought up to light. That’s the reason why the new image announcing season 4 is so dark. They represent a reflection from Yoon Seungho’s past and torment. 
(chapter 38) I thought that the couple would share the bed, thus the lord could relax. He felt protected by his lover. In other words, I was already envisioning that this scene is a reflection from chapter 97/98, for the couple had not been able to sleep together. 
(chapter 97) However, the moment Lezhin published the second panel
, I realized that this illustration was referring to a different element in the same scene: separation. Thus I deduce that the embrace during the sleep must have happened before, for the noble’s eye has no dark circle. He looks rested and relaxed. 
(chapter 88) This image was mirroring the past, someone had made the promise to the young master that he would “stay by his side”, implying that he would protect him, but he had failed to keep his words, for he had trusted more in others’ comments. 
(chapter 88) Because of the tragedies, the main figure got blamed, and as such he got cursed. He was a bird of misfortune, while in reality he was the main victim. In “Sun, Moon and Talia”, the perpetrator and the accomplices, the king and the astrologers, they all got scot-free. I am certain that it was the same in Yoon Seungho’s past. And because there are astrologers in this fairy tale, I am more than ever convinced that a shaman played a huge role in the young master’s downfall. 
(chapter 83) In Painter Of The Night, the hunts were always used to provoke a quarrel and as such a separation, but it never worked. This is important, because this shows that the couple from the Italian story had to separate. It is now time to reveal the whole quote from Milner: 
(chapter 97) Back then, the lord was scared, for he still doubted the artist’s love confession. It was too beautiful to be true! However, back then, the artist never doubted his own resolution, thus he gave comfort to his lover by giving him his hand. 
(chapter 97) 
(chapter 97) In other words, he desired that the painter would follow his requests and as such he should vow him loyalty and trust one more time. The irony is that the lord was actually the one breaking his vow, for he left his lover without saying goodbye. Thus I conclude that in this scene, 
(chapter 78) This means that the lord is smelling his partner’s hair helping him to remain strong and calm. He is now trying to memorize his lover’s odor so that he can forget this stench, a remain from the past: 
(chapter 86) This can only help him to defeat his “opponents”. Finally, in different analyses, I had already interpreted that Baek Na-Kyum was embodying memory, whereas the lord stands for truth. The image is actually a reference to recollection and as such honesty. There is no ambiguity that both men are trusting each other, but the painter is crying, for he fears for his lover’s life either. Yoon Seungho is leaving him in order to protect him in my eyes. And this leads me to the following deduction. When the lord is about to leave, Baek Na-Kyum is not left in the dark contrary to episode 97. He knows the whole truth, for the lord must have confessed to him. We could say that he is not leaving without a word 
(chapter 97). Furthermore, this signifies that the artist doesn’t need any longer to rely on the explanations from others. Thus the artist will keep his promise
(chapter 23) 
(chapter 24) In other words, this announces the return of Yoon Seungho’s passion for painting! And it is the same for the painter. The erotic picture should reflect their love for each other, created based on memories. At the same time, this can only push the noble to demonstrate his talents to others refuting all the negative rumors about him: he is intelligent and possessing his whole mind. Furthermore, this can help him to reminisce his tragic past, what led him to his downfall and suffering. This signifies that he will be able to confront his past and his memories. He will be able to identify the rape, and Kim already exposed the truth to Yoon Seungho, when the former suggested him to ensure the painter’s consent. This shows that Kim was well aware of the sexual abuse, but he chose to never divulge the verity. On the other hand, the pedophile thought in the past that the young master would never forget him due to his position, thus he had no problem to leave Yoon Seungho behind and make no real promise. Departure was never painful for him… hence this quote (“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”) will become a reality for the mysterious lord Song, but it is already too late. In fact, the gods punished him by making Yoon Seungho suffering from amnesia. He is not attached by loyalty to the pervert. 
(chapter 57) That’s the reason why I believe that when an incident occurred during that night 
(chapter 83), the main lead was framed. He got accused of a crime, whereas he had been the true target in reality. There is no ambiguity that the abusers doubted the protagonist’s loyalty and integrity, for they were themselves untrustworthy. They all knew that they had lied and deceived the young master at some point.
(chapter 11) However, there is no ambiguity that the painter can only fear for his lover’s life. The closed eye contradicts the haunted gaze in the shaman’s house. 
(chapter 21) This gesture symbolizes the epitome of the noble’s affection and the desire to give “happiness”. Then in the bedchamber, he did it in order to console his partner. 
(chapter 82) With his kiss, he was asking for his forgiveness. This means that the kiss on the eye serves as reassurance and comfort either. Thus we had this scene in the study: 
(chapter 84) The lord had kissed his lover there, because he was voicing his attachment and desire to redeem himself and to comfort the artist. As you can see, it was a combination of all the previous significations. Yet, the lord had not grasped the “gravity” of his “wrongdoing”. Thus the kiss was associated a certain playfulness in the study. As a conclusion, this image 
(chapter 94) 
(chapter 94) 
(chapter 34) 
(chapter 11) 
(chapter 19) He came to feel more safe during the night, until he met Yoon Seungho in season 1. From that moment on, his night life got slowly affected. That’s how he discovered that night could be associated to pain and agony too. Yet, deep down, he still felt safe by the noble’s side. As you can see, the new illustration 
(chapter 51). Hence the butler could perceive this promise as a betrayal from Yoon Seungho. The latter is slowly forgetting the valet, he is no longer seeking his assistance and his side. 
(chapter 36) Hence you comprehend why my new title is once again referring to faith and sin. On the other hand, the readers could be surprised by the choice of my new title. How is it possible that a sinner can be pure? This represents a contradiction. I chose this oxymoron for two reasons. Junah ended season 2 with the same contrast: 
(chapter 44) In this scene, the prosecutor is pronouncing Ha Ideun for “guilty” for murdering Kim Jintaek. 
(chapter 44) However, in that moment the author chose to show the hand of Ha Sungmin, who is about to remove the mask of Ha Sungyeob. This means that the so-called brother is about to commit a murder on the former CEO, his official father. Thus I am deducing that despite the verdict of the prosecutor, Ha Ideun is actually innocent. The “real guilty” versus the “fake one”. 
(chapter 44) It was, as if a burden had been removed from his shoulder and heart. Furthermore, in special episode 2, the protagonist’s innocence became even more obvious. 
In his nightmare, Ha Ideun is imagining himself wearing a white bathrobe in a white room. Moreover, he looks busy cleaning himself. If you read my essays about Painter Of The Night, you are probably aware of the signification of white and “cleaning”. It is an allusion to purity and purification. Finally, Ha Ideun said that he would never lie by commision. 
(chapter 11) Everything is pointing out about Ha Ideun’s innocence. 
(chapter 39) Hence the reporter Yoo Tae describes him as a bastard, and the official mother Choi Seolhwa doesn’t recognize the protagonist as her son. She doesn’t even call him by his name, but by the expression “the boy”. 
(chapter 41) He is not part of the family. On the other hand, Ha Sungmin and Ha Sungjoon views Ha Ideun as a relative. 
(chapter 37) We could even say that Ha Sungmin views himself as his owner, even as a surrogate father, for he was the one who raised the main lead. 
(chapter 37) 
(special episode 2) He feels responsible not only for the death of Gu Sihwan but also for the death of Kim Jintaek. This explicates why in his nightmares, the suspect had the impression that he had stabbed himself the victims. 
(chapter 21) 
(special episode 2) The hands covered with blood were the symbol of his guilt. The manhwalovers can comprehend why Ideun felt terrible towards the prosecutor. Thus he constantly apologized to the prosecutor by kissing Gu Sehuyk’s wounds 
(chapter 13) 
(chapter 23) or by voicing his apology directly. 
(chapter 44) However, as you can imagine, the chaebol never killed the brother or the criminal. I have no doubt about it. He shouldn’t blame himself for their death. On the other hand, Ha Ideun is definitely involved in their vanishing. Thus Ha Sungmin blames him for everything. Ha Ideun is perceived as a sinner. And that’s how he judges himself too, therefore he dreams of being sent to hell. So when the prosecutor declares Ha Ideun 
(chapter 8) which is linked to corruption and the project Heaventown. With the slush fund, Ha Sungmin could buy politicians and officials in order to buy the golden land in Gwanghae. 
(chapter 39) Note that in the beginning, Gu Sehuyk was supposed to investigate the slush fund. Yet due to his brother’s death, he was removed from the case, for he was left traumatized. His colleague Na Joohwan took over the case and look how it ended: 
(chapter 8) I have two clues for this theory: he got promoted within a short time, he became deputy prosecutor general, and he is wearing glasses. After reading so many manhwas, I made the following discovery: characters with glasses are hypocrites and even backstabbers. 🧐 [For more read the essay “The significance of masks in manhwas”] Then the reporter Yoo Tae was supported by Ha Ideun to investigate the matter, because he wanted to maintain the good reputation of Hasung Hotel: 
(chapter 39) Moreover, I would like to point out that 2 years later, Ha Ideun was also monitoring Kim Jintaek, this means that he was again investigating about a case, where the Hasung group was involved. This truly exposes the main lead’s righteousness and purity. He chose to do the right thing, yet each time he failed, for he was powerless. People had to die. Therefore the brother said this to Ha Ideun in his dream. 
(special episode 2) Both brothers are goal-oriented, yet they both stand on different sides of the law. Ha Ideun stands for law and righteousness, while the other has no conscious. The goal justifies the means. This explains why Ha Ideun would ask Gu Sehuyk as the prosecutor for this case. The latter is famous for his uprightness and pure nature. Only through him, the truth can come to light. Consequently, I am suspecting that the trial concerning the murder of Kim Jintaek will serve as a mean to unveil all the dirty deeds committed by the Ha family. On the other hand, Ha Ideun wished that his family wouldn’t get into trouble: 
(chapter 40) Why did he make such a request? We have many possibilities. It could be related to Ha Ideun’s goodhearted nature and pride or his fear that Gu Sehuyk could get hurt. So far, people representing a threat to the brother got eliminated. This shows that the main lead was still under the influence of the terrible huyng here.
(chapter 26) his ambition and greed. He would like to dominate the town and even the economy. His mentality is strongly influenced by his mother who appears as ruthless and selfish too. 
(chapter 41) She is already waiting for her husband’s death. Striking is that at no moment, the villain feels remorse. Why? It is because he has been gaslighting his brother. The brainwashing is detectable in this statement. 
(chapter 39) I am definitely suspecting that there was a battle among the family, and Ha Sungyeob definitely used illegal means to achieve his goal. The oldest sister died in a car accident, and the second brother was judged unqualified. So we could say that Ha Sungmin is actually imitating his “father’s” past behavior, though they are not biologically related. Interesting is that 
(chapter 25) in this scene, Kim Jintaek revealed that he had been in contact with Sungyeob. He showed no real respect to the elder by calling him “crook”, though I have to admit that I am suspecting that Ha Ideun is not Sungyeob’s son. This truly shows that the family Ha is no ordinary family. 
(chapter 37) Junah added the red traces in this panel for that reason. Moreover, Ha Ideun showed signs of PTSD in season 2. On different occasions, he was seen trembling
(chapter 34), sweating, had difficulties to breathe
(chapter 34), he had a lost and terrified gaze 
(chapter 33), and he is still suffering from insomnia. He can only sleep after having sex. 
(Chapter 36) This is an indication that the sexual abuse took place during the night. His panic attacks could get triggered by different elements: a certain position or a specific location. He is also suicidal, displaying his self-loathing. 
(chapter 21) From my point of view, Ha Ideun had tried to rebell and leave his brother’s side 
(chapter 35), but he had failed. The stabbing is the proof of his resistance. 
(chapter 35) Simultaneously, he was forced to remain by his side, for he had wounded his brother. The blood on the stomach was to make the main lead feel guilty. That way, he would remain silent and passive. 
(chapter 26) They could never show their true self. In my eyes, Ha Ideun stabbed his brother during the sexual abuse 
(chapter 33), as he tried to protect himself, thus the brother has a huge scar on his stomach. 
(chapter 43) This explicates why Ha Sungmin tied his hands with the belt in the hotel. He made sure that the “brother” would never reject him. It was to control him. The hyung had learned his lesson. Moreover, it was his way to “convince” him to return home. In addition, Ha Ideun was definitely confined, for the nightmare revealed that Ha Ideun was trapped. The most terrible thing is that the huyng made sure to gaslight Ha Ideun. He shouldn’t have stabbed him, he had committed a huge sin against him. That’s the reason why Ha Ideun sees his hands covered with blood in his nightmares. He views himself as a sinner. The dirty hand symbolized his guilt. 
(special episode 2) Thus the main lead came to internalize that sex between “siblings” is normality. Don’t forget that Sungjoon never intervened. He became an silent accomplice. On the other hand, in his subconscious Ha Ideun is well aware that this is not right. This explicates why he felt safer to have sex with strangers than living with his brother. And now you comprehend why I wrote before that the main lead’s wish 
(chapter 08) All traces of violence had to be removed and cleaned. 
(chapter 23) This is no coincidence that Ha Ideun asked how his sexual partner felt about their sexual encounters. It was important that Gu Sehuyk would like it. 
(chapter 22) That way, the main lead had the impression that he was indeed capable to replace the brother’s loss. However, like pointed out above, Ha Ideun needed the protagonist on his side too, for he wished to unveil the truth about Heaventower and the father’s illness which is connected to the drug. This is no coincidence that sex with Gu Sehyuk was connected to a confession. The sinner was seeking relief from the “priest”, at the same time he was trying to redeem himself by give warmth to the wounded prosecutor. Simultaneously, he was hoping to obtain his forgiveness. This is important, because by interacting with the prosecutor, he came to discover a new form of family. This is not surprising that at some point, Ha Ideun came to question the nature of the relationship between siblings. 
(chapter 25) Hence I come to the conclusion that by interacting with Gu Sehuyk, the victim adopted slowly a new religion of HOME! Don’t forget that home has different significations: a household, a mansion and a clan. What caught my attention is that Ha Ideun started calling the prosecutor’s house HOME! 
(chapter 26) This truly exposes that he had moved from Sungmin’s fake religion of home and family. 
(chapter 29) and at the end of season 2, he chose to reveal his secret to Gu Sehuyk: the sexual and physical abuse. Therefore it is not surprising that at the end, Gu Sehuyk said this to Ha Ideun. 
(chapter 44) He was now considering the “suspect” as his “family”. That’s the reason why I believe that this “sentence guilty” at the end of season 2 is just a subterfuge. This can only serve as an excuse to keep him by his side. At the same time, the prosecutor Gu Sehuyk can not be suspected of favoritism, for he is suspecting a chaebol to have committed a crime. The media already reported the case to the public. Under this new perspective, I came to understand why Ha Ideun never tried to defend himself right from the start. He needed to remain a suspect, so that he could influence the prosecutor in his investigations. That way, he could discover that his brother’s case had not been truly solved…. At the same time, Ha Ideun could be considered as a sinner, for he “seduced” the priest Gu Sehuyk to have sex. So far, the man was dedicated to his work, and as such had no sex life. 
where equity, love and warmth were oozing which stands in opposition to the cold and aseptic “temple” of the Ha. 
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