Jinx Chapter 26 will see Kim Dan and Jaekyung have a fistfight as the two get into the ring after Jaekyung’s proposal. It was surprising to see Kim Dan show an aggressive side, as he had always been dragged around. Dragged around by bullies, dragged around by loan sharks, dragged around by hospital bills, by Jaekyung, and the list goes on.
When one goes into Yaoi, they do not expect character development outside the scope of their affection for another person. And as the series first started, it was nowhere near nice or sweet towards Kim Dan; it put him through one trial after another. Every Yaoi story starts with a powerless protagonist that gets taken care of by the powerful one in the relationship.
That was how it appeared in this story as well, but that was also when one thing was made clear too. This is not a regular genre story with the same beats as every other story and the same ending. Jinx is there to test all tropes and then take a different approach, which is not butterflies and rainbows.
We got to see Kim Dan being pushed down one after another as life and circumstance(new and old) kept punishing him. Punishing him for being nice, trying to fend for himself and his grandmother, and trying to keep their house together. But he kept taking it all as he had some things he held dear till his breaking point with Jaekyung.
Jinx Chapter 26: Plot So Far
Jinx Chapter 26 feels completely unrelated to the ones before, as everything feels so different. It feels as if it is a different story. The tone of the story so far has remained of moral degradation and destruction of one character. While another character was having the time of his life, and he even got himself a toy for eternity.
What’s worse, the story tried to bait them over and over so that things would get better between them in the future. And then it would do 180 in the very next chapter, making Kim Dan another atrocity, breaking him further. With each passing event, his spirit would break down, and his spirit would get weaker and weaker, but he could take all that.
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However, he finally decided to stand up for himself when the last barrier of his patience was broken. Jaekyung had seen that Kim Dan would sometimes get excited when he was with him, so he made plans to make him filthy. He was filthy in soul and heart, making him forever bound to him, but things didn’t go according to his plans.
A phone call from the hospital during the night when Jaekyung was corrupting snapped Kim Dan out of his passivity. He pushed his employer and talked back to him like the person he was, a man that drowned in his sin. Jaekyung was left speechless after this, and this was also when the relationship between the two started to change.
Jinx Chapter 26: Potato’s Poor Heart
Jinx Chapter 26 will see Potato slumped more than before as the reality starts to sink in right before him. His idol Jaekyung does not think much of him and only cares about Kim Dan, his physician. Potato has tried to get closer to Jaekyung by joining the same club as he became a martial artist so he would be praised by him.
But all of it seems meaningless as Kim Dan just came in one day and took Jaekyung all by himself. He suspects that there is something more going on between the two because Jaekyung only treats Kim nicely. He wants to be adored and treated nicely by Jaekyung, but the mixed martial artist won’t even look at him.
The main focus of the chapter will be how the relationship between Jaekyung and Kim Dan will grow with this. Kim openly accepted a challenge from Jaekyung, knowing full well that he couldn’t beat him, but there was a fire in his eyes. He is no longer the flustered kid that can’t look after himself. He is someone that needs to set boundaries, Jaekyung.
Jinx Chapter 26 will be available to read on Lezhin.
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