When last we left our unhappy teen and (game) player, our poor player was falling through a black void. That’s no good.
Back to the High School BL, but something is missing
Yeowoon stands on the school roof, sans a terrifying universe-swallowing hole. He’s not sure why he’s there. He walks by the convenience store where he and Myungha got ice cream. He walks home with Sangwoon and Kyunghoon, limping with one foot in a medical shoe. He’s confused about when he started walking home with them.
Later, Sangwon asks when he got injured and he doesn’t know. Yeowoon asks Sangwon why he joined the track team and he doesn’t know. I’m confused too, because I know the injury was part of the story that Myungha changed. Without Myungha I guess some things have changed back but not others. So Yeowoon still gets injured, but now he has friends. Maybe?
Eating at home, there’s a glitch and Yeowoon sees Myungha. He gets a call from the sportswear woman and she asks about Myungha. So he hasn’t been entirely erased.
Yeowoon hears a voice calling his name and remembers sweet moments with Myungha.
Myung-who?
But so far Yeowoon and the sportswear lady are the only ones who remember him. When he goes to Si-a, Kyunghoon, and Sangwon they give him blank stares.
He runs to Grandma’s house, but she seems confused. Yeowoon goes to Myungha’s room and finds the pen. When he picks it up he sees flashes of Myungha and cries. He wants to do something for Myungha. The pen starts glowing and there’s a pulsing sound.
The option appears to use the “Original Author’s Pen” to change a character like Myungha did. He’ll be charged with his accumulated affection, I don’t know what that means and it never matters. He doesn’t know what to do, but we see that Myungha wrote “Please make Cha Yeowoon happy”. So I don’t think he meant to disappear from the story.
Yeowoon is crying as he writes something. A notification pops up.
The Mission Has Changed
We see people making wishes on falling stars. An older, sadder-looking Myungha wishes to disappear from this world. His grandma dies and that woman breaks up with him. He goes to his mom’s coffee shop, but she denies who she is and rushes off to take care of a young child.
He gives up on himself, walking into the sea. That explains the bubbling water last episode in the stairway when talking to his author-sunbae.
This is how he died, but he regretted it at the last moment. He stands in the black room, crying and facing his sunbae. Sunbae says once you die you can’t go back, and Myungha wonders what this was all for. Because he regretted it, sunbae wanted to give him one more chance. He hoped that since he saw himself in someone else, he could learn to love himself and be happy.
Myungha wants to know what’s the point if it’s all over now. Sunbae wants to know if he says it’s over, is he really going to end things? Myungha says he wants to live and be with Yeowoon.
New Mission: Please make Tae Myungha Happy
Sunbae tells him not to think he has to face everything alone. Myungha asks sunbae who he is, but then he’s back in his bed. He has a text from the sunbae, hoping this world brings him hope.
Notifications show that the cause of the error has been fixed and the Love Supremacy Zone has been activated. Myungha calls Yeowoon, who was looking for him at the cinema.
When Myungha arrives, he can’t see Yeowoon. They’re both in the lobby standing in the same place but can’t see each other. Myungha asks Yeowoon for the date and about the race he wanted Myungha to watch. It’s in two days.
Myungha tells him he must participate and to wait for him there. Don’t look for him anywhere else. That’s where he’ll go. He tells him he missed him.
We see them on a split screen facing each other but not seeing each other. The showtime screens turn into a countdown, 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 15 seconds.
I think this is one of those time-space things
Because the timer shows 1:55:32 and Myungha is on a bus. The bus breaks down and Myungha gets off and runs. But meanwhile, Yeowoon is running out of a strange building with Sangwon calling after him. So is it just an hour and a half later for Myungha but 2 days for Yeowoon? Not sure how that works but it’s a neat idea.
There’s a Japanese drama level of running from Myungha and Yeowoon. The timer keeps counting down and they’re both on the beach. Just as the number reaches 0 their hands touch.
Flashback to older Myungha sitting on the steps, lonely, and wishing on a star that he has someone. So did he wish this after wanting to disappear?
Yeowoon pulls Myungha in for a big hug. He tells him he’s got him and not to leave again. Myungha says never. There’s kissing! The End!
Not quite, because here’s our ending reward! Myungha, Si-a, and our other guys go to the beach, which is the habit of gay men all over the world if movies and dramas are to be believed. Myungha and Yeowoon are cute, and we get some VO about ordinary life and destiny and beauty.
In saving Yeowoon, Myungha saved himself
Here’s how I understand the ending: A regretful, dying Myungha activated a divine/universal power (sunbae) that gave him another chance. In the form of a game because, well, that’s fun. In the game, he helped Yeowoon get the support he needs. He also broke the game. At that point, all he wanted was Yeowoon to be happy. When he disappear-died, he chose life and his love with Yeowoon, regardless of whatever pain might come. The divine/universal power is kind, so it gave him the chance to reunite with Yeowoon.
I love how as their hands touch, the show goes from letterbox (used for in-game time) to fullscreen (used for times with sunbae and real-life flashbacks.) This seems to me to indicate the game world becomes real.
Bigger picture stuff like, why a game? Does that mean he now lives in a game? What is sunbae really? All that can stay vague and mysterious. Life is vague and mysterious.
I’m not sure what those visions of a car accident (?) were about. Was Yeowoon so like Myungha that he was trying to kill himself in the beginning? I thought it was all about a leg injury. There are a few unclear details I wish were clear.
This is the rare case where I would love another episode to understand the climax. These last two episodes flew by. Myungha broke up with Yeowoon because he couldn’t make him happy and yet tells sunbae he wants to be with Yeowoon. At some point, he decided to focus on his happiness and let Yeowoon into his life, but I’m not sure when it happened. Was it only in that instant with his sunbae? I would have liked more insight into Myungha’s thinking here.
But I love Yeowoon remembering him despite everything and saving him
This ending is great. Now Myungha has all the friends he made that he thought he was making for Yeowoon. With them and Yeowoon, he’ll be better equipped to handle what comes his way in life next.
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