Dear X Episode 12
Added 2026-02-04 15:00:07 +0000 UTCBaek A Jin's Last X
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Thank you! I was curious about the webtoon ending.
Xia
2026-02-07 09:02:30 +0000 UTCit was crazy watching ep 1-4 again after knowing how it all ends. Me being jun-seo biased, for i am always prone to be ML-biased (except for Start Up, if you know, you know), will always feel bad for the lost potential of jun-seo and ahjin (if only life wasn't so terrible for both of them...). And i do believe that junseo is the ML of "Dear X" if there can be one. Thanks for reacting as always!
Danis
2026-02-06 21:57:22 +0000 UTCThis is how webtoon went, if In case you are interested. Up untill moon do hyuk, everything was pretty similiar, with some tiny changes here and there (except ahjin wasn't emotionally involved with ingang grandma, grandma was just a background character that happened to die off screen and affected Ingang's mental health. Also ingang was never suffering through depression before the relationship and didn't had much background like he did in the drama, the drama gave his character a lot of depth, which was really good) In the webtoon, moon do hyuk was just a rich fiance, who was a sociopath just like ahjin. He was never obsessed with her, he just wanted to use her popularity and good image to his benifit, and ahjin wanted him for money and security. Moon do hyuk wanted a son very badly, but was infertile, but he himself wasn't aware of this (ahjin got to know this from his ex wife that she met) So ahjin slept with junseo, hid her pregnancy from him while pretending she's carrying dohyuk's child to get him to marry her, fabricates DNA test and decides that she'll abort the child after marriage. But do hyuk being extremely smart clocks her ass and her plan flops. While around the same time junseo finds out what ahjin is planning as he overheard her on a call, and that she's carrying his child. Upon finding this, he goes vengeance mode and prepares documentry. And then the whole award show and documentry happens the way it did in the drama. And after that, ahjin who has nothing left, tries to jump off a bridge, just when kim jae oh saves her. Also, jae oh in the webtoon spends some time working abroad as he took his brother for his studies, so he has connections there. So ahjin and jae oh runs away to Japan i think (if i remember correctly) and she raises her and junseo's daughter. While there time in Japan, ahjin leaves jaeho and goes with a rich guy there with her daughter, but ends up getting betrayed and had some sort of accident that ruins her face because of which she get's a lot of plastic surgery and now she looks completely different. Then ahjin jaeho and the daughter come back to Korea. And while junseo, who went through his own journey of depression, suicidal attempts, and healing after the whole documentry thing, he is now again the hotshot author that he was, was holding a fansign event where his daughter comes to get his sign. Unaware of her existence, he feels a connection, signs the book and she goes away holding ahjin's hand, who's junseo get's a glimpse of. Later junseo recieves a letter from ahjin, in which she tells him about her and his daughter's existence and that he already saw her, and says something like "your daughter does not knows about her father's existence, i never told her about you, you do not exist for us. But for you, both of us (ahjin and daughter) will exist in your life, you'll always remember us and suffer from the longing. This is my revenge against you". And THE END.
Yuri
2026-02-06 14:13:17 +0000 UTCMy 2 big issues with these last 2 eps was that: 1) Jaeho died for nothing, the documentary ruined everything jaeho tried to protect with his death. It felt like writers didn't knew what to do with his character anymore, so let's just kill him. 2) the documentary was PATHETIC. I'm not against her downfall, i do love ahjin as a character a lot, but she did a lot of bad stuff and she needed to be taken down, so sure, go ahead expose her, I'm all for it, but that documentary was so lazy and biased. It was made with the intent of painting her evil ONLY, instead of exposing the truth. All the trauma and abuse towards her, which junseo saw upclose, but never uttered a single word about it, and how he himself was a bystander and helper his whole life. They just interview random people that didn't like her, and talked shit about her. If you wanna talk about what all she did, also talk about WHY SHE DID, WHAT DROVE HER TO THOSE ACTION, not that anything justifies her crime, but it is the truth afterall. They showed half-assed truth in the documentary.
Yuri
2026-02-06 14:13:00 +0000 UTCI agree with things going downhill after ingang arc. Ep 8 was my favourite, a lot of emotions, complexity and range in acting, and everything was executed perfectly. But after that too much happened too fast so it felt like a mess at times.
Yuri
2026-02-06 14:10:23 +0000 UTCI do agree that the first half was much stronger than the second half. Do-hyeok was a failed addition that wasn't a part of the webtoon.
Paper Tiger
2026-02-04 19:42:05 +0000 UTCWhile I didn't read the webtoon, I know the ending is very different. Apparently, she has Jun-seo's baby, which he's unaware of (presumably thinking it's her husband's child). When he becomes involved with the documentary to expose her, she sends him a letter revealing that the child is his. She tells him that she has taken the child and gone into hiding—that he'll never find them, never know his child, and never see how they grow up. That becomes her revenge on him. Many people thought the webtoon ending was better, but I actually found the drama's ending more fitting for their characters.
Paper Tiger
2026-02-04 16:52:14 +0000 UTCWhen I mentioned the drama was like the darker more twisted version of It's Okay to Not Be Okay, It had only aired the first 4 episodes, like Moon Young, she is diagnosed as antisocial but unlike the latter drama, this one does not shy away from depicting the full extent antisocial debilitating impact it can has on those around the person and it has more accurate representation of it (aside from the whole murder aspect which is not necessarily accurate). While both had a dark vibe the latter was more sanitized and romanticized with the whole "love can save you" narrative. In contrast, Dear X showed that unless the antisocial person wants to change, there is no amount of love that can move them. This is one of the reasons, they are notoriously difficult patients because they can charm, lie, and manipulate their way out of therapy rather than actually change unless they have a reason or stake in changing. This is why I think she does not deserve a second chance since there is no indication that she would actually use it to change, she sees nothing wrong in her behavior or a reason to change it. I actually loved the drama for fully committing to her character.
Paper Tiger
2026-02-04 16:46:36 +0000 UTC
