There are 12 half-hour episodes or 6 hour-long episodes. After finishing 2 hour-long episodes, I believe I’ve the minimum facts to form a theory or two. Since I know you read me for my theories, as absurd as they may be, let’s get to them.

1. The black holes

Eun DanOh found two blackholes. She discovered the first blackhole while standing on the skywalk. Earlier, she had an encounter with her supposed fiancé, Baek Kyung. I’ll go over it to give us context.

BK: Eun DanOh. What are you doing?

His annoyance is understandable. DanOh had excused herself to go the clinic but instead of going directly to the clinic, she stood out in the hallway, gesturing wildly, because she wanted to conjure up another magical “vision” of the future. Little did she know that the whole time she’s been waving her arms outside the classroom, she could be seen by the teachers and students inside.

Now, the teacher instructed Baek Kyung to escort his supposedly sick fiancée DanOh to the clinic. The guys in the class mocked him as “Husband Baek” prompting one of his A3 buddies, Oh NamJoo, to shut them up. Of course, Baek Kyung was annoyed to see DanOh just “goofing” around in the hallway. He thought she was pretending to get sick again.

DO: Don’t interrupt me and go on your way. It seems like I can’t see what I’m trying to see because of you.
BK: How has your repertoire not changed at all from before?
DO: What?
BK: Don’t you know that having a crush on someone this way makes that person tired?
DO: One-sided crush? I have a crush on you?

She momentarily forgot that in the comic book/manwha world, she was supposed to be a girl in love with him for 10 years. When she remembered, she reverted to character.

DO: (continuing) Oh yes, that’s right. It’s not wrong (to say that she has a crush), but I think that’s a little bit…(she means to say crass of him to rub her supposed “adoration” of him in her face.)
BK: (turning to leave) Forget it.
DO: Look, you’re always so rude to me!

Then CLICK! the manhwa world turned on. She stood immobilized and the scene from the manhwa unfolded.

BK: Eun DanOh, let’s stop.
DO: What?
BK: I hate girls who are ill. It’s annoying. Do I need to tell you again? You’re just wasting your time on this one-sided crush. Your past, present and future. I would never like a girl like you.

Ugh! Why does the manhwa writer put in lines like this?

There! This last confrontation with Kyung is the reason DanOh was standing on the skywalk and berating herself. She blamed the manhwa for forcing her to “act nice for no reason” and suffer Kyung’s rejection when she didn’t care for him at all. While she was wailing at the unfairness of the manhwa, a black hole appeared in front of her. She thought it was a hallucination until she spotted Jin Mi-Chae or the Dried Squid cook, also looking at the same black hole.

She searched for him in the kitchen but he refused to answer any of her questions. Ha! I’m pretty sure he wanted her to find out anyway because he told her, “Nothing good will come from you knowing the answer.”

One thing you should remember about teenagers: reverse psychology always works.

DanOh also spotted the manhwa “Secret” on the counter. This was the book she was browsing through in the library when she had a vision of Kyung.

When the Squid guy sat on the book to hide it from her view, she simply rushed to the library to look at another copy. The Squid guy said in admiration, “She’s more quick-witted than I thought.”

To me, he sat on the book because he wanted her to be curious about the book. Again, reverse psychology.

Back in the library, she found the right shelf, but the book was no longer there. In its place, there was a smaller black hole. When she tried to investigate it, it sucked in her hand.

A brief note on the shelf: When she first saw the book on the shelf, it was found beside our favorite Jane Austen book, “Pride and Prejudice.” Then, on either side of the comic book, there were duplicate copies of “Contemporary Residence in a Historical (sic)” and two books with the word “Encyclopedia” on their spine.

Furthermore, what’s missing on the shelf is as important as what’s found on the shelf. Two, maybe three other books could easily fit in that space beside “Secret.” If you ask me, the missing books could be:

a) one or more copies of “Secret.” This would mean that more than one reader could be reading the “secret” of the manhwa at a time, and/or
b) another manhwa by the same writer. The book “Secret” could be part of a series, like the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. The manhwa could have a prequel, sequel, or a companion book.

Now, to me, this black hole exists because the Mystery Guy created and jumped through it.

I don’t think he belongs in this manhwa “Secret.” I think he’s from another book, either a prequel or a companion book, made by the same writer. But he jumped into that black hole to join DanOh’s world.

And here’s my explanation.

2. She WAS the original heroine of “Secret.”

To me, DanOh was correct to believe that she was the heroine. In the beginning of this romcom, she said, “There are a few things that are inevitable for a heroine. It’s her destiny to have hot guys obsess over her.”

lol. Don’t you hear the “Pride and Prejudice” overtones in her assertion? Her introduction has the same formula as P&P. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Truth universally acknowledged = inevitable
Single man in possession of a good fortune = heroine
Must be in want of a wife = hot guys obsess over her

DanOh was the female version of Mr. Darcy: rich, smart, snobby. She’s a crowd-stopper with a keen moral sense to stand up for the bullied student, just like Mr. Darcy is protective of his young sister against the wicked Mr Wickhan. In DanOh’s case, she was pursued by three men, known as the A3.

Her fiancé, Kyung, asked her why she wasn’t picking up his calls. Implication? SHE was ignoring him. Her response: she flipped her hair at him.

The soccer player, Lee DoHwa, deftly kicked the ball to make it land it at her feet. Significance? He was attracting her attention. He asked her to kick it back to him, and she kicked it away from him.

Then the campus heartthrob and lone rebel, Oh NamJoo, parked his motorbike right in front of her and tossed his helmet at her. Message? “Pay attention to me.” He casually mentioned that it’s been a while since they met, but she tossed back his helmet.

A rude girl barged into them, and NamJoo walked off to the school. DanOh picks up a keychain on the ground and, thinking it belonged to Namjoo, chased after him to return it. She smiled cutely as she flashed it, and plopped it in his hand.

She said, “These are yours, aren’t they?” His eyes flickered, then he turned around with saying thanks. His odd behavior baffled her.

My point here is that, from the beginning, all three widely popular guys of her DanOh’s high school gravitated towards her. Just like the heroine of a story.

More importantly, DanOh solidified her role as the heroine when she defended the clumsy girl JooDa (the same girl who rudely barged between them) against bullying. She scolded NamJoo and the crowd for their bullying tactics.

The crowd looked sheepish. DoHwa immediately moved to help pick up the scattered items on the floor. Namjoo said, “You’re the first woman who has done that to me.” And Baek Kyung stared after her. Everybody was stunned at her bravery and she strode off with her classmates eyeing her with admiration.

This is the precise moment when her world changed.

She heard two loud clicks and both times, her surroundings flickered. When she turned around to look, she saw her classmates had been turned into an animation.

She heard another click again and this time she was teleported into her classroom. Something has gone wrong with her world.

To me, the anomaly in DanOh’s space and time was caused by the Mystery Guy entering her dimension. He came from a different world or storybook, but he breached her dimension for a reason. She was fast becoming the heroine of this story, with three guys obsessing over her. However, she wasn’t meant to become the heroine of this story, so he came to STOP her.

That’s the reason for the black hole and for his appearance in the manhwa: to switch her from becoming the heroine to a minor character.

Do you get what I mean?

3. The irritating Yeo Joo Da

To me, it’s clear that, before DanOh experienced that time/space glitch in her world, the manhwa’s male lead, NamJoo, was falling for her, NOT to YooJa.

Watch his interaction with her during the non-staged/non-Manhwa moments in Episodes 1 and 2.

I mentioned the motorbike opening scene and the keychain hand-off. In my opinion, he accepted the keychain from DanOh because he believed that DanOh was offering it to him as a gift, and he couldn’t refuse when she smiled so cutely at him.

He was used to girls giving him tokens of affection, on some pretext or another, so he probably thought that DanOh was PRETENDING that he dropped the key and she accidentally picked it up. Returning a “lost-and-found” item is one of the oldest ruses to give an unsuspecting person a gift.

But let’s take a second look at the accident in the hallway. That girl YooJa crashed into him because she was stupidly walking with a heavy box in a crowded hallway (why is she always hauling things anyway??). After she accidentally kissed him, she cried in a stupid fashion, “Sorry! Otoke?! I’m sorry.” She began to wipe off his coat but he shouted at her, “Take your hands off me.”

She apologized again but he shouted at her, “You ruined the art supplies, my uniform, and my face. Are you nuts?”

Stupid Yooja just sat there.

It was Danoh who answered back. “Oh NamJoo. Enough!”

She first asked Stupid Yooja if she was okay, then she read NamJoo the riot act. “Do you think you’re someone special because you’re a part of A3? All of you are the same, too.”

In response, Namjoo said, “You’re the first woman who has done that to me.” Although it’s entirely possible that NamJoo was referring to the mess – and kiss – that Stupid Yooja made, it’s more logical to assume that he was referring to the severe reprimand that Danoh gave him in public.

Really now. Which one is more humiliating to his reputation and more hurtful to ego: to be kissed by an inconsequential girl or to be dressed down in public by a very popular girl? I think NamJoo was impressed with DanOh’s courage.

Then there’s rooftop scene. Danoh was fretting about her mental health after rescuing YooJa from the bathroom so she went to the rooftop to berate herself. Namjoo was resting there.

DanOh: My memories are disappearing, I’m hallucinating, and I think my personality is changing a bit. On top of that, I was being so nosy towards Joo Da. Have I gotten a serious illness? What do I do?
NamJoo: It’s so noisy that I can’t sleep.
DanOh: (ignoring him) “Are you all right? Are you hurt?” Why did you do that? Also where did the wet wipes come from? You never bought any?
NamJoo: Yah! Eun Dan Oh! You keep being impudent towards me.

This is cute. He intimidated everybody else. But with DanOh, he tolerated her cheekiness. Just like when he accepted the keychain she gave him, he complained about her noise but he didn’t yell at her to get lost in his brusque way.

DanOh: Mind your business and get lost. Where on earth did I get the wet wipes? Something is definitely going on.
NamJoo: Are you also this forward with Baek Kyung?

He must have thought this, too, when she gave him the keychain. He thought she was just being bold and brazen.

DanOh: Gosh, really. That darn BK. That’s not important right now.
NamJoo: What?
DanOh: (pushing him out) You leave. Get out!
NamJoo: (protesting) Why should I leave when I was here first. I was going to sleep—
DanOh: (shoving him) You said you couldn’t sleep.
NamJoo: I need to—

Again, this was cute. He presented a mean front to everybody but here he was, being pushed around by a midget.

After he was RUDELY ejected from the rooftop, he went down to their A3 clubhouse. He was contemplating the pig keychain.

NamJoo: How rude! (tossing the piggy) I don’t like how she’s getting on my nerves every single time.
Kyung: Who is? (reaching for keychain)
NamJoo: Don’t touch it. It’s mine.
Kyung: That’s yours?
NamJoo: Yeah.
Kyung: (sarcastically) Oh I see. When did Oh Nam Joo’s taste become so cute? (remember DanOh’s cute face when she handed it to him.)
NamJoo: Baek Kyung, what do you think about her?
Kyung: Who? (stopping for a second) I already told you that she’s not my type.

Note here: his question only made sense if they were talking about DanOh…NOT JooDa. The reason he posed this question to Kyung, in particular, and not to DoHwa as well, was because DanOh was Kyung’s fiancée. There’s a boys’ code that says that buddies can’t date the same girl. In a way, he was tacitly asking Kyung permission to puruse Kyung’s girl.

NamJoo: Really? That’s a relief.
Kyung: Relief?
NamJoo: She’s been on my mind lately.

See that? If he had been thinking of JooDa, Kyung’s opinion of her didn’t matter. Why would Kyung have an opinion of JooDa anyway?

Then, there was also this moment when Kyung was loudly mocked by the male squad about being engaged to DanOh (or being DanOh’s husband).

Instead of Kyung getting angry at them, it was NamJoo who hollered at them to be quiet.

My interpretation here is he wasn’t upset for his friend, Kyung. He was more upset that they were laughing at Kyung for having a fiancee like DanOh. Do you see the difference?

Also, I really think that he was addressing DanOh when he said, “Hey, I’ll give you a chance. A chance to thank me.” He was looking her straight in the eye, and JooDa wasn’t there.

However, since this moment happened in a staged/manhwa setting, the scene could be easily tampered with and re-created with JooDa superimposed on it.

The other encounters, like the motorcycle scene, the keychain scene, the reprimand scene, the rooftop scene and his talk with Kyung, all happened in the “shadows” so they couldn’t be revised to fit the writer’s narrative. To me, those encounters were more sincere and authentic because the dialogues and actions weren’t created and dictated by the manhwa writer like the “stage” events.

Unfortunately, however, since these scenes happened in the “shadows,” they couldn’t  be remembered after the events took place.

My point here is, without the manhwa writer’s interference, NamJoo was predisposed to like DanOh.

In the “shadow” moments, NamJoo had more interactions with DanOh. But similar to how the manhwa writer forced DanOh to feel a one-sided crush on Kyung when she didn’t even like him, the manhwa writer could have pushed this love match on NamJoo and JooDa.

4. The presence of the Mystery Guy changes her life.

To see how the Mystery Guy affects DanOh’s life, I’ll list the times he was present behind-the-scenes and in her company. I know that correlation doesn’t mean causation and, sometimes, there’s no cause-and-effect between two incidents.

However, since the director chose to insert the appearance of the Mystery Guy at specific times in the show, I’m going to take that as a sign of director’s conscious effort to link the Mystery Guy with DanOh.

Here’s my list.

The first appearance (Episode 1 at 15:33):

DanOh’s getting more and more confused because of her memory lapses. Sometimes her time jumps last only a few hours, so she loses awareness of her actions during those few hours. She can’t remember what she did in those lost hours.

Other times, she loses track of days. She’s terrified because she doesn’t know when or where she’ll open her eyes: it can be at the hospital, in the middle of the street, on the skywalk. She despairs of ever getting her normal memory back.

Then the camera pans to the Mystery Guy seated by the window in the library. He regards the scar on his left palm then lifts his hand in the air to block the blinding sunlight streaming through the window. Then, he looks at his hand again, brings it down and clenches it into a fist.

To me, these two different scenes with DanOh and the Mystery Guy give the same “feel.” To me, the Mystery Guy seems lost, too, when he blocks off the sunlight. It’s as if he isn’t accustomed to seeing sunlight so strong. Second, they both carry a reminder of their injury on their hands. The Mystery Guy obviously has the scar, but DanOh wears a watch to monitor her damaged heart. Last, they’re both waiting for something. DanOh is waiting for her memory to come back while he’s waiting for her.

He hears the library door open and it’s DanOh who’s come looking for books about her illness. He watches her from afar as she pulls book after book from the shelves.

She sits down on the floor to scan through them. After she gets tired, she notices a book moving on the shelf. It’s the “Secret.”

She flips through it and enters into a trance of sorts. She gets visions of Kyung getting angry at her, of an accident in the cafeteria, and of NamJoo helping her up.

When she regains consciousness, she steps back, only to trip on her stack of books. Out of the blue, Kyung appears behind her to give her a steadying hand. She drops “Secret.” Then, just like in her vision, Kyung accuses her stalking him. “You followed me all the way here?”

She’s shocked, of course, and turns to walk away. He grabs her wrist, and says, “That’s enough.” She runs away from in fear, not because she’s afraid he’d hurt her, but because he’s repeating the same words that she just saw in her vision.

Kyung moves to follow her. He doesn’t understand her reaction to him. But one of his girls stops him and starts to bad-mouth DanOh.

The Mystery Guy must have witnessed this whole scene because he walks past Kyung and bumps his shoulder hard. This is no accident, of course. The hall is wide enough for the two of them, and 10 other guys, but the Mystery Guy intended to shoulder-check him. His move is deliberate. And it’s a payback for Kyung’s behavior with DanOh.

Kyung calls out to him for bumping him. The Mystery Guy turns back but the light shining through the door made him look like a silhouette, and his nametag was curiously blank.

He doesn’t wait for Kyung to speak and he turns again to walk away. Being used to his male peers kowtowing to him because he’s a member of A3, Kyung is bothered by this display of insolence. But he cannot chase after him.

I like this introduction of the Mystery Guy because it shows that he isn’t intimidated by the other popular A3. Although he’s faceless and nameless, he stands his ground.

His second appearance (Episode 2 at 16:00):

After DanOh finds out that she’s a comic character, she asks her dad what he would do if this world were merely a comic book universe. Her dad says, “Being a main character in a comic book would be nice, since you can do whatever you want. Then, we can start by fixing DanOh’s heart condition.”

He adds that it doesn’t matter whether they exist in a book or a film, he loves DanOh the most.

Then the camera shifts to the library where the Mystery Man is drawing in darkness. He’s drawing DanOh’s face. The wall beside him is also plastered with sketches.

The following morning DanOh is sitting on her bed. Her photo albums are open and photographs are strewn all over the floor. She’s perusing her pictures and souvenirs probably because she can’t believe that she’s only a comic character when there’s so much proof of her being loved and cherished from childhood.

She says, “Nothing will change when my heart is beating like this. I am me. Eun Dan-Oh. I am real.”

I’m sure that to the Mystery Guy, she too is very much real and alive to him. Look: despite not having pictures of her, he draws her picture.

What does THAT tell us about the Mystery Guy?

Simple. That he knows her as Eun DanOh and he remembers how she looks like.

Remember that in the manhwa world, the memory is rebooted with every new “stage” that occurs. The Mystery Guy isn’t supposed to remember Eun Dan Oh’s face, much less draw it in the dark. But he surely remembers her because he can draw her from memory.

I like the fact that even before she knew that he existed, he was already drawing her.

…which brings me to this theory: the Mystery Guy is the manhwa writer himself who lost his real-world consciousness when he joined the comic world. 🙂

The third appearance (Ep 2 at 26:00):

Let me bring up the cake scene during the “shadow” moment for context. One by the one, the A3 guys take a seat by DanOh’s side. She baked a cake for the guys.

DoHwa: (smiling) Oooh. How did you know I like chocolate? (he sits in front of her)
Kyung: (playing on phone as usual) I don’t think she made it for you. (he means that he’s the fiance so the cake must be for him. He sits to side of her)
NamJoo: I love cakes, especially homemade ones. (sitting behind her)
DanOh: Guys, to be honest, I haven’t made up my mind yet. I don’t want you guys to fight over me. Truly. Please promise me not to fight. Please?

Now, while she’s talking about cutting the cake into three pieces, the Mystery Guy walks by and observes her through the window. He can hear her chat animatedly to her A3 admirers.

Then the camera suddenly switches to DanOh reading in the lawn. She’s holding a book, “Like the Flowing River” by Paulo Coelho. She says, “It’s a very funny book” in English, then follows it with, “What the heck is this all about?” in Korean. lol.

To me, this incident is noteworthy because she’s holding the book upside down. She knows how to read English so why did this error occur?

And this is not the only glitch. In Episode 4, after the Mystery Guy rescues her in dodge ball, she returns to the soccer field in search of the Mystery Guy. Kyung picks up a basketball (!) rolling on the field. DanOh even grabs it from him and bounces it on the soccer field.

These two scenes occurred in the “shadows.” Just like there was a technical glitch in Episode 1 in the famous confrontation scene with NamJoo about bullying.  I think one possible explanation for these errors is the manhwa writer cannot control what’s happening in the “shadows.” For instance, he can make DanOh a perfect student in the “stage” setting of the manhwa but in the “real” world of the shadows, she can’t read English. Or he can make them perfect athletes in the “stage” setting, but they’re probably not athletic in the “shadows.” lol.

The fourth appearance (Ep 2 at 29:55):

DanOh puts down the Coelho book she’s reading and helps Jooda who’s AGAIN carrying heavy bags. (Really what’s wrong with this girl? She’s always hauling things.) Bullies approach them, and then click! the “stage” happens.

DanOh thinks that she’ll be rescued and she’s expecting Kyung to come. But Namjoo appears and Namjoo approaches JooDa instead of her.

Flabbergasted, she realizes that she’s only a minor character in the manhwa. The romantic leads are actually NamJoo and JooDa.

Meanwhile, in the library, the Mystery Guy finally finishes his sketch of DanOh. From the window, he observes DanOh. And even if she’s faraway, he manages to draw the details. He’s drawn the curly trimmings on her blouse front. pwahahaha.

But remember now: he began this sketch a couple of nights ago.

Methinks he doesn’t like DanOh going out with the guys. Now that NamJoo has been partnered up with JooDa, there are only two guys left to deal with.

The fifth appearance:

He’s in the art class (Ep 3 at 7:23, 8:02) when DanOh is chosen as model to sit for the class. He starts drawing her right away.

It’s hard to spot him because when the camera focuses on the full face, the actor is  different. Like here:

But the director films his eye as proof-shot, lol.

I think it’s funny how everybody’s distracted by NamJoo’s drawing of JooDa. DanOh tries to get everyone’s attention back to her with outrageous poses but she accidentally knocks over a bust. In resentment, she breaks another one.

But I guess the manhwa writer disapproves because she hears a click and everything is reset to normal, and she can’t budge.

This tells me that the writer was listening to her. This wasn’t originally a “stage” event: no lines had to be delivered. They were in the “shadow” although the female lead, JooDa, remained in spotlight. I would have had a tantrum too at the unfairness of the writer.

When she goes to Squid cook, he explains the concept of “stage” versus “shadow” to her. She vows to resist the writer’s plans for her. She says, “I’ll never ever end up following the writer’s will.” She’ll follow her destiny.

The sixth appearance (Ep 4 at 14:02):

In the scene following DanOh’s promise never to follow the writer’s will, the Mystery Guy walks in the library by himself and gazes at a beautiful stained glass window.

This is the meaning of this shot: No matter how beautiful the stained glass window is, the view of the outside, natural world is still more beautiful. A trapped soul will still desire to break through that stained glass window and become free.

That’s why Handel’s aria, “Lascia chi’o painga” is played in the next scene. The aria is about being enchained and wanting freedom.

Let me weep over
my cruel fate,
and let me sigh for
liberty.

May sorrow shatter
these chains,
for my torments
just out of pity.

Here’s the Italian version because we’re nerdy bitches.

Lascia ch’io pianga
mia cruda sorte,
e che sospiri
la libertà.

Il duolo infranga
queste ritorte,
de’ miei martiri
sol per pietà.

I like that DanOh rebels and starts dancing to Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy.”

Of course, just like when she broke the busts, the writer immediately clicked to make her behave.

The seventh appearance (Ep 3 at 30:00):

In the library, he picks up two books that she dropped from her stack. She sees the scar on his palm.

DoHwa’s love triangle with Jooda begins in the library when they exchange glances in the library. DanOh recognizes that it’s the start of the heartache for her friend. She sighed, “It finally started. The innocent second male lead and his destiny in the search for love.”

However, I don’t think she suspects that her own side-story (or love triangle) is about to start, too.  Similar to how DoHwa discovers that Jooda’s pretty smile in the library, she discovers the Mystery Guy’s dashing figure in the library.

The eighth appearance (Ep 4 at 8:08):

I don’t believe the stair accident is an accident at all. The Mystery Guy knows exactly when to walk down the stairs to block her fall. DanOh was terrified of the pain from a broken leg so she put on protective gear. But when the “click” happens, she finds herself divested of the helmet, shoulder pads and knee pads, and standing on the staircase just like in her vision.

Mystery Guy walks down and her heart monitor beeps like crazy. She starts to follow him but her bestie pushes JooDa down the steps who, in turn, knocks DanOh off her feet only to land on the Mystery Guy’s back. They both fall to the ground but Mystery Guy takes the brunt of it as she lands on his arm.

This averted accident tells me that he’s aware of the story even before it actually happens.

According to the Squid Cook, the “visions” DanOh sees are actually thoughts of the writer. “You’re not seeing the future, but you’re seeing the continuity. An approximate idea that the writer had before he started drawing. A script or a general directive that he was going for. Would it be easier to understand if I said ‘preview’?”

This is the reason I suspect that the Mystery Guy is the manhwa writer himself.

The ninth appearance (Ep 4 at 22:04): 

The dodgeball game.

He saves her from getting hit in dodge ball. Smart girl DanOh figures out that instead of her looking for him, he’ll come to save her.

Again, he knows exactly when to come in to rescue DanOh.

The tenth appearance (Ep 4 at 32:01):

From the library window, she sees him regarding the flowers blooming in the garden arbor.

She goes down to meet him but he’s gone by the time she arrives. She sees her umbrella and tries to reach for it. He suddenly shows up behind her and reaches for the umbrella.

In his last four appearances, the Mystery Guy actively participated in either helping her out or saving her from harm.

5. Haru

This is the last one because I’m sure you’re tired of me. I found out from @barbrey that the Mystery Guy’s name is Haru.

We all know about the extensive use of parodies from Lee MinHo’s “Boys Over Flowers” so I’m not going to be a bore and dwell on that.

But I will tell you about the possible “Big Bang” reference.

Haru means “day” but there’s a very popular “Big Bang” song named “Haru Haru.”  Haru haru means everyday, day by day.

In the music video, one guy thinks his girlfriend is cheating on him with his best friend. The boyfriend becomes enraged and they have this big street brawl. As it turns out, she has a terminal illness and she’s faking her affair with his best friend (rolls eyes). She doesn’t want her boyfriend to feel sad when she’s dying. In her weird logic, it’s better to leave her boyfriend, NOT only feeling despair because she died without him knowing, but also GUILT because he accused her of cheating.  Niiiiice.

Anyway, I’m bringing this up because I find it fascinating that Kyung has no patience with DanOh’s heart condition, and the manhwa writer keeps on writing Kyung hurtful lines to say to DanOh in the story.

I think if DanOh should develop feelings for Haru and ask Haru to be with her, at her deathbed, rather than her fake fiance, then it would be fun to watch Kyung get all angsty.  BTW, the actor who plays Kyung also played the evil programmer, Marco, in “Memories of the Alhambra.”

Remember Marco?