[brisingr123]

^well here are my ideas/theories:

1)Well... why did he let her almost marry... because he thought that by leaving her with a fellow mortal might be better for her.... not having anything to do with his world especially the Emp and HooYe seemed the best. And the boy was right, wasn't he? But then again he went after her, since his love/jealousy was stronger than "he not having her with him for her best".

well about Tae El Jin that is still uncleared... but after he gave him the drug.. he said to Habaek "u r too trusting... that's why u get betrayed" and then Habaek had that dream where Nakbin almost killed him...maybe just a reminder as in stop trusting people, stay cool & calm.... love isn't that great, as u've already seen.
and in his dream... the surprise lilies -the parting flowers - were mentioned... as in ... if he and Soah never meet again, what's the point. Then he must have thought that the Nakbin incident shouldn't happen again, that he isn't able to withstand another loss in matter of love. So he went after her.


But the strange thing is that when he arrived in Soah's house in ch. 24, it was night, and when they arrived in Suguk, it was day since she met with Habaek (the chibi one). Weird, huh? maybe they can alter time.... just a thought there..


2)well that I ain't gonna answer.. since I'm not sure of anything related to her... and what I'm thinking right now must be wrong....she is said to be, at least by nakbin that that girl is the true bride of Habaek. now where does all this leave our Soah?!

3)A female god, believer in Buddhism, without property.... they don't say, but since she loves plants... must have smth to do with earth, no?
I was always thinking that that little girl Yoohe must be smth important.... remember when that che creature almost ate Soah in vol 1 ch3? who was the one who proposed to go there?? guess who... and she said smth like I like plants for they are honest, they don't deceive u and they return as much love as they receive.
anyway there's smth fishy about her...

4)u know Mura, even before the Habaek& Nakbin affair/moment, she was there, "loving" him if u can call that love... maybe a sick one.... full of jealousy and possessive feelings...

[feorin]

2)well that I ain't gonna answer.. since I'm not sure of anything related to her... and what I'm thinking right now must be wrong....she is said to be, at least by nakbin that that girl is the true bride of Habaek. now where does all this leave our Soah?!

Soah mentions that she is a "false bride" around volume 2, and in volume 3, I think, it's revealed that her father sold her to replace the girl who was the original intended sacrifice for Habaek. The original girl was Yeo-wa, who was also the girl Habaek (in child form) met in vol. 3 or 4 who was playing a stringed instrument for children and was later beaten for stealing something. The Emperor gave her Nakbin's appearance and memories to use her against Habaek. But then, her crudeness and growing belief that she truly was Nakbin, made her ineffective in the Emperor's plans, so she was killed. Poor Soah's fate is really up in the air now, especially since we don't even know if Habaek really did believe at any point that she was Nakbin's reincarnation or not. Maybe he fell in love with her and then tried to justify loving her by believing she was Nakbin's reincarnation while keeping in mind the promise he made to Nakbin when she died.

I would like to imagine Soah will get the happy ending Tae-eul-jin-in predicted for her... maybe she was meant to be Habaek's true bride all along? When Mui meets the god with the book of red threads, the god tells Mui that Mui's red thread is not connected to the person he is thinking of and Mui responds that if it isn't that person, he doesn't want to know who he is connected to either. It's not clear if Mui is thinking of Nakbin or Soah at that moment. Furthermore, that god tells Mui that the red thread that ties two people together isn't breakable even in death; Mui responds that if that is the case, he will break destiny.


Tae-eul-jin-in is an interesting figure as well, given that very little is known about him. I speculate that he has connections with Mui's father... but that's entirely groundless, mostly because I can't remember if he appears and speaks with that god with the book of red threads or not. It's unfortunate that Habaek is so trusting (which is ironic given how he keeps telling Soah not to be), so it's hard to say if Tae-eul-jin-in can really be trusted or if he is more duplicitous, like Mura and Hoo-ye.

[Heroine]

I would like to imagine Soah will get the happy ending Tae-eul-jin-in predicted for her... maybe she was meant to be Habaek's true bride all along? When Mui meets the god with the book of red threads, the god tells Mui that Mui's red thread is not connected to the person he is thinking of and Mui responds that if it isn't that person, he doesn't want to know who he is connected to either. It's not clear if Mui is thinking of Nakbin or Soah at that moment. Furthermore, that god tells Mui that the red thread that ties two people together isn't breakable even in death; Mui responds that if that is the case, he will break destiny.

that's the part that got me thinking for ages. I'm assuming that the red thread can only be between Soah and Nakbin. If he was thinking of Soah, then it's Nakbin that's connected to him. Which sucks. If he was thinking of Nakbin then it's connected to Soah. Which still sucks cause he's thinking of Nakbin. So either way, it kinda sucks, lol.

[brisingr123]

Tae Eul Jin, when he read her palm he had a oent of pause there... and we know or we should know that that means he has hidden smth regarding her destiny/future.

I know what u r saying feorin,and I agree with your thinking, but regarding the Yeowha incident:
he also met Soah when she was little... and he said the same as he said to Nakbin (when they first met): "let's meet again when you grow older" he said the same thing to both of them.... about the Yeowha girl (sorry if I spelled her name wrong.. since there are 2 instances of her - Yeohwa and YeoWa... ), Habaek said his name was HooYe at the time... so he wasn't looking for a bride nor love (just like before he liked our world, our human nature).... cause u know usually a god asks for an offering (like if is draught means he wants an offering or at least he puts humans to a test of faith), although Habaek is a weird god...
anyway...Yeowha was a coincidence or smth along those lines... but is she still important? he never loved this girl not then not now, so we're back to square one nakbin and soah...

in the whole red thread thing.... Mui is not the type that gives up on love or at least that's how he appears to be now... since he is a bit more mature than when he was with Nakbin....just a bit.
so remember when he said to that old guy that if that is his destiny, then he will destroy that thing called destiny!
that's nice since if he was thinking about Nakbin being his destiny, means he will destroy his relation/ties to Nakbin. If it is the other way and he thought about Soah then ...well then that's sad...and those images with the blood will eventually become? true?

ahh ... these muddy waters from Suguk!!!

Yun-nim really likes to make it so fushigi... and pardon the japanese word since I don't know the Korean one....
But the truth is even though the story has a lot of unanswered questions and mysterious characters, I still cannot get enough of this... I simply can't get bored. Love it! and also, of course, love you guys who are translating this....saranghye!

[feorin]

Tae Eul Jin, when he read her palm he had a oent of pause there... and we know or we should know that that means he has hidden smth regarding her destiny/future.

I know what u r saying feorin,and I agree with your thinking, but regarding the Yeowha incident:
he also met Soah when she was little... and he said the same as he said to Nakbin (when they first met): "let's meet again when you grow older" he said the same thing to both of them.... about the Yeowha girl (sorry if I spelled her name wrong.. since there are 2 instances of her - Yeohwa and YeoWa... ), Habaek said his name was HooYe at the time... so he wasn't looking for a bride nor love (just like before he liked our world, our human nature).... cause u know usually a god asks for an offering (like if is draught means he wants an offering or at least he puts humans to a test of faith), although Habaek is a weird god...
anyway...Yeowha was a coincidence or smth along those lines... but is she still important? he never loved this girl not then not now, so we're back to square one nakbin and soah...

Sorry... I wasn't suggesting that Habaek had any feelings for her - she was probably just a random girl he was curious about during a random outing. I was just thinking that at the time, when that little thief girl (Yeo-hwa) was introduced, it was very odd since she had no direct relation to the story (Soah had just been sent back to the human realm and Mui was going back and forth on whether or not to bring Soah back to Suguk). It was confusing since the episode with the little thief girl isn't said to be in the present or past, so it was really unclear on why the author decided to put in this story. It looks like a random outing by Habaek, but I guess the Emperor or Banwang was watching and thought the girl would be useful since she would recognize Habaek in the future, I suppose. Yeo-wa ended up being a red herring in this whole mystery of Nakbin.

I think it's supposed to be Yeo-wa, not Yeo-hwa. Somebody mentioned that it's no aspirated 'h' in her name. Nevermind. There are two characters with really similar names, Yeo-wa (the Nakbin imposter) and Yeo-hwa (the little thief girl in volume 3 or 4 who has nothing to do with Nakbin).

that's the part that got me thinking for ages. I'm assuming that the red thread can only be between Soah and Nakbin. If he was thinking of Soah, then it's Nakbin that's connected to him. Which sucks. If he was thinking of Nakbin then it's connected to Soah. Which still sucks cause he's thinking of Nakbin. So either way, it kinda sucks, lol.

Heroine. Yeah, I agree. If he was thinking of Nakbin, I was thinking that might have been the moment he realized that Soah wasn't Nakbin's reincarnation. Perhaps he's in denial or he's strongly bound to that promise he made to Nakbin. Or maybe he was thinking of Nakbin because of what has happened in the past, but since it isn't, he's afraid it might not be Soah either and then he'll get hurt all over again for loving her? I'm more inclined to think (hope?) that it was Soah he was thinking of, because it might be the reason why he wants to "break destiny" and end that promise he made to Nakbin to return to her no matter what so that their red threads aren't connected any more. It's not clear how much Mui even knows about Nakbin's betrayal - it's implied he doesn't know, but it has been a long time since she died, so he might know and he's hiding it because he's still attached to his memory of her.

Habaek's actions have been curious of late anyways. He tells Soah his true name, which he has never even told Nakbin. Evidently, he does seem to trust Soah more than he ever trusted Nakbin, no matter how much he loved Nakbin. Though that still doesn't indicate if he knows that Soah is not Nakbin's reincarnation or ever even considered that she was.

Or as brisingr123 suggests, his attempt to break the red thread that connects him to the woman he does not want to be with is going to lead to those images of a bloody Habaek and a weeping Soah. Or maybe that image is the result of breaking his promise to Nakbin and trying to be with Soah...

[t0tallyunfazed]

I thought that it had been made clear in previous posts that the little thief girl is NOT the Fake Nakbin. And she can't be the "real" bride of Habaek that Soah replaced. That girl had family to protect her and the money to buy a replacement, which the thief girl obviously doesn't have. Also, at the end of the thief girl flashback, I was under the impression that she commits suicide, which is why she tells Mui tell "Hooye" that she can't see him again. She could actually be the mortal who kills herself and inspires Habaek to create water lilies that save people from drowning. This would fit with the thoughts you see Mui having immediately after the flashback ends. "How can mortals be so strong in some ways and so weak in others?" or something along those lines

[feorin]

I thought that it had been made clear in previous posts that the little thief girl is NOT the Fake Nakbin. And she can't be the "real" bride of Habaek that Soah replaced. That girl had family to protect her and the money to buy a replacement, which the thief girl obviously doesn't have. Also, at the end of the thief girl flashback, I was under the impression that she commits suicide, which is why she tells Mui tell "Hooye" that she can't see him again. She could actually be the mortal who kills herself and inspires Habaek to create water lilies that save people from drowning. This would fit with the thoughts you see Mui having immediately after the flashback ends. "How can mortals be so strong in some ways and so weak in others?" or something along those lines

Ack ack ack... sorry, I failed to carefully read to Teqq's summary.

Yeohwa is NOT Yeowha. YeoHWA has the second part of her name pronounced with the H in front hhhhhhwaa. Yeowha I could alternately spell as "Yuh WA". YuhWa is not Yeohwa. Yeohwa is the little thief girl...

So there is a Yeo-hwa, the little thief girl. The Nakbin impersonator is named Yeo-wa (or Yuh-wa).

[deinieru]

this is the best manhwa I've ever read..
does the author have other manhwas?

[brisingr123]

^ actually I think it's her first one. A least that's what I understood from the Epilogue and Creator Profile in Volume 1.

hope it's correct...

[narcissus_hime]

this is the best manhwa I've ever read..
does the author have other manhwas?

As far as I know, there is another oneshot by Mi-Kyung available: A Cat That Loved A Fish

that's the part that got me thinking for ages. I'm assuming that the red thread can only be between Soah and Nakbin. If he was thinking of Soah, then it's Nakbin that's connected to him. Which sucks. If he was thinking of Nakbin then it's connected to Soah. Which still sucks cause he's thinking of Nakbin. So either way, it kinda sucks, lol.

So i'd rather Nakbin was fated to be with him. Cause he once said he would break destiny. Let's hope he will succeed. [But i kinda have the ominous feeling that there wont be a happy ending :'(]

[kuavang<3youngbae]

ohmygee. i'm waiting to read part two. lolz
i've read part one, and damn! it's so interesting(:

[chire]

Sorry this took so long. I've been trying to stick to a two week schedule, but life got in the way >_>

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[brisingr123]

wow, thanks Chire!!!

don't worry, life always gets in the way lol.
even if it was a one month period between chapters, I'd still wait patiently for them.
as long as you will delight us with the scanlations!!!

[In.tro}]

NOOOOO!!!!!!! Why did it have to stop there?!
(okay, i ask that question evey chapter... lOl)

T^T

Thanks for all the summary other readers
Haha, I got a little lost halfway through...

[Lilcy]

no worries chire!
thank you so much for the new chapter ^^

[13infamyss]

Thanks Chire!!!!
I just recently got addicted to this manhwa and must say, it's beauitful. way beautiful than I imagined. both art and story.
and say what.... Soah became Hooye's wife now. HMMFFF. how did this happen? O.O.
im still on the process of backlogging this thread

[rui-is-assez-hot]

I think Chapter 59 made it obvious that Habaek's fate is actually connected to Soah and that the old man lied and told Habaek that he was connected to Nakbin instead.

[Heroine]

I think Chapter 59 made it obvious that Habaek's fate is actually connected to Soah and that the old man lied and told Habaek that he was connected to Nakbin instead.

yea, I think so too.

p.s. thanks Chire =]

[0timelost]

It is also obvious that the person who Habaek wanted to be with is Soah.

The fortune teller lied to Habaek by telling Habaek was not fated to be with the person he wanted, thereby prompting Habaek desire to break the fate so he could be with that person. We know it can't be Nakbin because even the fortune teller had stated that Habaek had chosen his own fate and that his fate was the one which he was destined to have: his destiny with Soah.

[amienguyen]

Woohoo. The plot thickens. So that old man lied? Habaek's red string is linked to Soah's? Awesome! I kind of dread what is going to happen in their future. Anyways, I would like to see more sweet moments between them.