I finished the novel. I had never imagined that being a Reader I will be fooled the way I was by the end of this chapter.
Totally shocked
Totally unthinkable
Bruh
I just....😵💫
Comment by St Ts on Half of Me - Chapter 89
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@St Ts by the end of this story**
@St Ts can I have the spoiler pls
@St Ts spoiler please 🙏🏻
@Reader_Riri
Website is not allowing me to say all that I want to so I will say it in parts.
Part 1-
Hee-chan and Min-jae begin dating, and during one conversation Hee-chan admits that he believes all relationships eventually end. To avoid deep pain, he prefers drifting apart slowly rather than clinging until the end. Min-jae responds with only a faint smile, saying little.
As the story progresses, Hee-chan is revealed to be both good luck and bad luck in Min-jae’s life. Whenever Hee-chan fails to keep a promise to meet or fails to answer Min-jae’s calls, misfortune strikes—Min-jae is injured in serious accidents, pulled into dangerous situations, and even kidnapped. In contrast, when Hee-chan appears unexpectedly, without prior appointments, things turn in Min-jae’s favor. He saves Min-jae from assaults, prevents bad investments, and helps him succeed professionally.
Disturbed by this pattern, Hee-chan begins to believe that missed appointments and unanswered calls are the cause of Min-jae’s suffering. To protect him, Hee-chan avoids setting fixed plans and even distances himself for a week, despite missing Min-jae deeply. Eventually, he realizes that while his absence brings harm, his presence also brings salvation. He decides to meet Min-jae again, only for Min-jae to be busy with work for another week.
Website is not allowing me to say all that I want to so I will say it in parts.
Part 1-
Hee-chan and Min-jae begin dating, and during one conversation Hee-chan admits that he believes all relationships eventually end. To avoid deep pain, he prefers drifting apart slowly rather than clinging until the end. Min-jae responds with only a faint smile, saying little.
As the story progresses, Hee-chan is revealed to be both good luck and bad luck in Min-jae’s life. Whenever Hee-chan fails to keep a promise to meet or fails to answer Min-jae’s calls, misfortune strikes—Min-jae is injured in serious accidents, pulled into dangerous situations, and even kidnapped. In contrast, when Hee-chan appears unexpectedly, without prior appointments, things turn in Min-jae’s favor. He saves Min-jae from assaults, prevents bad investments, and helps him succeed professionally.
Disturbed by this pattern, Hee-chan begins to believe that missed appointments and unanswered calls are the cause of Min-jae’s suffering. To protect him, Hee-chan avoids setting fixed plans and even distances himself for a week, despite missing Min-jae deeply. Eventually, he realizes that while his absence brings harm, his presence also brings salvation. He decides to meet Min-jae again, only for Min-jae to be busy with work for another week.
Part 2-
Seeking answers, Hee-chan visits the same fortune-teller they had met earlier (regarding Tae-kin's matter). She tells him that his fears are indeed correct, what began as coincidence has hardened into fate—the bond between him and Min-jae has become a knot that cannot be untied. Accepting this, Hee-chan chooses Min-jae regardless of luck or misfortune. They move in together, and Min-jae confesses his love in a quiet, touching moment.
Seeking answers, Hee-chan visits the same fortune-teller they had met earlier (regarding Tae-kin's matter). She tells him that his fears are indeed correct, what began as coincidence has hardened into fate—the bond between him and Min-jae has become a knot that cannot be untied. Accepting this, Hee-chan chooses Min-jae regardless of luck or misfortune. They move in together, and Min-jae confesses his love in a quiet, touching moment.
The final chapter completely overturns this understanding by revealing Min-jae’s perspective. After hearing Hee-chan’s fear of relationships ending, Min-jae investigates his past and learns about Hee-chan’s abandonment trauma caused by his father leaving during his teenage years. Min-jae then makes a deliberate decision: he will not allow Hee-chan to leave him.
It is revealed that many of the so-called coincidences were not accidental. When Hee-chan failed to meet or answer calls, Min-jae was not unreachable by chance—he deliberately ignored Hee-chan’s calls and messages while being in dangerous situations created by fate, infact his kidnapping was staged by him and his lawyer. His aim was to instill fear, guilt, and responsibility in Hee-chan, reinforcing the belief that Hee-chan’s failures causes bad luck and his presence ensures good luck.
Min-jae actively constructs the pattern of bad luck and good luck, emotionally binding Hee-chan to him. This manipulation deepens when it is revealed that Min-jae followed Hee-chan to the fortune-teller and questioned her after Hee-chan had left. The woman admits she knew the truth was incomplete and asks Min-jae how much of it was fate and how much coincidence. Min-jae answers that half was fate and half coincidence—those “coincidences” being the deliberate dangers and silences he himself created. Their bond, therefore, is forged equally by destiny and manipulation.
Part 3-
Bruh, I *TRULY* enjoyed this story until the very last chapter. When I read Min-jae's POV immediately after reading the main story I didn't think too much about it because I thought well, he is obsessed with Hee-chan because he loves him, ofcourse he doesn't want him to go away, how cute and adorable. But when I calmed down after a while, I realised that there were various things wrong.
Bruh, I *TRULY* enjoyed this story until the very last chapter. When I read Min-jae's POV immediately after reading the main story I didn't think too much about it because I thought well, he is obsessed with Hee-chan because he loves him, ofcourse he doesn't want him to go away, how cute and adorable. But when I calmed down after a while, I realised that there were various things wrong.
My opinion is that while Hee-chan genuinely loves Min-jae, Min-jae’s feelings are different. Min-jae admits that Hee-chan gives him the same excitement, fulfillment, and content that his sport once did. Though the story presents what Minjae feels for Hee-chan as love, I read it more convincingly as obsession. Love does not deliberately create fear, anxiety, and emotional dependence, right? Min-jae weaponizes Hee-chan’s trauma to ensure he can never leave.
What makes this revelation especially difficult to accept is that throughout the main story, Min-jae appeared caring, nurturing, and selfless—helping Hee-chan without being asked, supporting even those around him, his workers, the Organic Club members, the gay friend. However now it seems to me as though calculated. In hindsight, even Min-jae’s line—“I will make sure you’re never able to get away from me”—sounds less romantic and more chilling now.
From this perspective, Hee-chan is bound to Min-jae partly by fate and partly by carefully manufactured “coincidences".
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@Xiaoshi I have shared the spoilers as a reply to the other person's comment, please check them out.
@St Ts G**,this is horror..not sure if I'll be able to continue ..ughhhh at chapter 89 I come to know about this ..disappointed honestly..
@Hehehehe yeaaaaaaaah. Read it still, we have come this far, it will be more disappointing to drop it in the middle.
Even after reading the novel I still look forward to the Manhwa chapters because now I get to see the words of the novel have faces, expressions, feelings and emotions that can be seen 😂.
I hope you won't stop reading.
Even after reading the novel I still look forward to the Manhwa chapters because now I get to see the words of the novel have faces, expressions, feelings and emotions that can be seen 😂.
I hope you won't stop reading.
@St Ts thankies for the sweet spoiler.....and dayummm that was very unexpected ending...tbh throughout the side stories, the author has displayed minjae's pov and his interest towards heechan and heechan's growing love towards minjae
Iirc minjae himself has a pretty traumatic love experience abroad which later made him quit sports(the only passion he had) so we can't really expect him to have normal love for heechan....but I never thought he'd create scenarios triggering heechan's innermost fears(I'm actually kinda disappointed tbh) but well if they both are happy then that's it
The main story was unrealistic which made it interesting and the side stories I guess kinda lack romance objectively(which I was basically reading for🤧) but I still like how they portray minjae's obsessive+possesive love(even though it could have solved with time 🙄)
Iirc minjae himself has a pretty traumatic love experience abroad which later made him quit sports(the only passion he had) so we can't really expect him to have normal love for heechan....but I never thought he'd create scenarios triggering heechan's innermost fears(I'm actually kinda disappointed tbh) but well if they both are happy then that's it
The main story was unrealistic which made it interesting and the side stories I guess kinda lack romance objectively(which I was basically reading for🤧) but I still like how they portray minjae's obsessive+possesive love(even though it could have solved with time 🙄)