Is this series even worth it?

[u/Stunning_Taste8845]

I remember reading I love Yoo like a long time ago, like right during the pandemic but it's all blur now. I wanna try re-reading but from what I heard this series hasn't really progressed at all. Its been like 290+ chapters and it's being dragged to hell. Not even most action series have this much space.

Maybe i should just re-read purple hyacinth instead

[u/scarred_crow]

I personally don't like it, and I started back in 2018 or do then dropped it during the hiatus.

Can someone spoil me where the story is now? It feels like it was going nowhere.

[u/ObiSkies → u/scarred_crow]

Pasting this from another comment cause it's spot on - and adding more other points myself. This is just SOME of what’s happened

Shin-Ae had an extended flashback that went into detail about her life and her horrific injury as a kid, and Alyssa who betrayed her.

The backstory of Rand and Nol's mother was explained. They were actually married so Nol isn't illegitimate. Yui's the one Rand cheated with. The details of how Nol came to live with Rand is still under wraps but it's pretty easy to guess what happened there.

Yui is a psycho, like criminally so. Like, Epstein level criminally insane. Eg. Alyssa is being sex trafficked by Yui as she rises the ranks in her idol career and she's one victim of MANY (ie. like how Shin-ae NEARLY became a victim during the black and white formal 50s eps into the story). But Rand and a reporter named Yu-Jing are actively working to bring Yui down.

Turns out Yui's been drugging Kousuke's deserts since he was a child, hence his addiction to them. He's so high on them that he could die if he stops taking them for a few weeks. This may be why his cognitive/social development was stunted, memories repressed and so on.

Shin-Ae's sister is back, unbeknownst to Shin-Ae, and her entire backstory along with her and Shin-Ae's mother has been revealed. They're HALF sisters since their mum used to jump from man to man to take their money.

Yu-Jing needs Kousuke's help. Kousuke doesn't trust Yui anymore and deep down he's on Nol's side now. The reporter and Kousuke's cousin (a doctor) are gonna have to slowly work him off the drugs in secret. Shin-Ae's sister is also working with/for Kousuke in secret as he's dealing with a huge identity crisis and needs people to trust.

Nol is in jail because of Yui but will be released in 6 months.

Turned out that when Nol asked Shin-ae to be his friend, it wasn't genuine. He didn't see her as a friend at the time. He needed others to take care of to get rid of his own past guilt (his mental state is so bad that during the black and white formal 50-ish eps in, when he fell in the water, he actually tried to drown himself). But obviously over time he did see her as a friend without his knowing. Shin-ae, Dieter and Soushi are all trying to help Nol now in whatever way they can. Also, Nol and Shin-ae are aware that they like each other now. But neither’s ready to admit it to themself yet let alone the other.

Shin-ae caught Yui's eye early on in the story and that hasn't changed. Now that Shin-ae has a stronger understanding of just what she's gotten into by being involved with the brothers, Yu Jing wants Shin-ae to act as a spy for her and Rand. Once Shin-ae turns 18, she wants Shin-ae to let Yui THINK she's controlling her.

[u/Mara_Uzumaki → u/ObiSkies]

Umm, they got divorced before Nol was born and he married Yui but kept go back to his wife, so Nol is still illegitimate, he's younger than Kousuke. 

[u/kiircsaki → u/Mara_Uzumaki]

Divorces didn't become legal in Ireland until 1996, so no they most likely didn't get "divorced". The story also doesn't tell you that they did, so this was an assumption on your part.

[u/Mara_Uzumaki → u/kiircsaki]

Even if you say that, he still married Yui and had Nol after that fact, in a whole other country, so he still was the child of an affair, because Rand does say they were "separated", meaning Ex, no longer together. And Nol doesn't even carry his father last name, even chairman Hirahra acknowledges and calls Nol a "bastard", in the recent episode. So he is legally tied to Yui, and had a child outside of that union, making him still illegitimate, to this current marriage union, and y'all would then, say well, his marriage with Yui, isn't legit but, in the story verse it is, Rand and everyone else acknowledges it as a marriage, despite of.

And mind you this is still a fictional story not completely based on real world events. And I would honestly like to assume, Yui and the chairman, would've already been 100 steps ahead and made Rand get a divorce, or else he wasn't getting the Hirahra name.

But honestly this is exactly why this webtoon sucks because you fans suck out all the life and reality from it by painting everything involving Nol is some pure light, even his cheating dad, and clueless mom gets Kawaified, and thought as "no, he's special, he was born, out of love", rather than seeing it as him being born of a woman desperation and a greedy cowardice man. Sigh.

[u/kiircsaki → u/Mara_Uzumaki]

No one is saying that it wasn't an affair or that his marriage to Yui isn't legit. Also, the idea of it being a fictional universe with its own laws doesn't exactly land when Nessa went to Wales to get an abortion. Because again, they weren't legal in Ireland until 2018. Just because you don't find merit in reading into what the story implies, doesn't mean the readers are wrong for doing it.

And I really don't get why you constantly have to fight the ghosts in your head shaped as the readers, because Rand is so hated for neglecting his wife and then cheating on her. Nor is Nol a character who gets no flack, his reaction to Alyssa in 243 or those towards Kousuke during his spiral showed it plenty. Nol as a character is someone who sees when he is being victimized but fails to see when others have been as well – so he puts his own pain above them. It's a serious flaw of his but that doesn't quite fit in your gary stu narrative now, does it?

Frankly, I know having these discussions with you leads to nowhere. You're unwilling to engage with the cues given to you, you're unwilling to acknowledge any nuance in characters unless they're Kousuke, you don't even view the story nor its readers highly, so you shoot anything in discussions down (not very fun, I'll tell you that). So in the end, what readers like about the story is clearly something that doesn't speak to you. Kousuke's arc can't be all that for you to keep reading when I don't even see you participating in discussions about his arc. Your input in the community is all about oh how x and y suck as characters, how the readers suck, yadda yadda..So really, I don't understand how you can keep reading something that clearly fills you with so much bitterness, when you can just..spend your time elsewhere with a story that does speak to you, instead of trying to sour people's fun even inside their own community. Does it genuinely bother you so much that not everyone is hate reading it?