'Save Me' Webtoon

The **화양연화 pt.0 *<SAVE ME>*** posted on Line Webtoon, provides a graphic storytelling for the HYYH timeline. It contains 16 episodes, beginning from the prologue and ending at episode 15. Click here for the webtoon.

Big Hit Entertainment provided the webtoon's story while LICO, a Naver Webtoon subsidiary, adapted and incorporated the story into *Save Me*. The upcoming release of *Save Me* was also teased in Big Hit Entertainment's *Smeraldo Books* Twitter account, wherein short video clips were uploaded along with short notes excerpted from *HYYH: The Notes 1*.

There are MAJOR trigger warnings, including domestic abuse and violence. As this is visual, please proceed the episodes with full caution.

An expanded detail of the Save Me webtoon exists on this wiki as a Korean Line Webtoon.

\*Save Me is only available for free per one episode. Thus, to unlock the others at the same time, coins must be used.

## Contents

### Plot Summary

Seven boys. Best friends. Their fates intertwined through the good times together, but also the tough times, as they have gone their separate ways and suffered greatly as a result. When all is almost lost for these boys, one is given a special chance to go back in time and help his friends fix the mistakes that led them down this path. He’ll do anything to save them, but can he? Or is he too late?

### Prologue

A panel montage of each character’s state is shown; Taehyung is shown standing in front of a broken glass bottle and blood with blood on his hands, Namjoon is shown in a cell with a lollipop, Jungkook is shown standing atop a building roof ledge holding his arms stretched out, Hoseok is shown falling down a flight of stairs and lying at the bottom of them, Yoongi is shown burning in a room, Jimin is shown looking unhappy in a hospital room and Seokjin is shown in front of a window with closed curtains, before opening them and looking at himself in the reflection.

### Episode 01

Seokjin is on the plane, arriving back in Korea from LA after 2 years. He then wakes up on his bed on the morning of April 11th and exits his room, going on a drive in his car, where he then stops at a crossing in front of his old high school. He spots Jungkook amongst the crowd of students and has a flashback to his first day at school, where him and the rest of the boys are lined up and being given detention for being late by a teacher, and then to them all spending time together and having fun in the classroom turned storage room, before he comes back into reality as cars honk him on past the school. He then later sees Namjoon working at the petrol station on the night of April 11th and pauses, before driving away.

A panel montage of Seokjin spending time in his room is shown, before he is shown to fall asleep and have a nightmare of the rest of the boys drowning, with him unable to reach them before then waking up. He wakes up on May 22nd, wondering how the rest of them are doing, and whether he should’ve walked up to Jungkook and Namjoon back on April 11th.

He goes back to the petrol station and asks about Namjoon, being told he is not there at the moment, before asking for his number and then being informed that Namjoon is currently in a detention centre. Whilst these panels are shown, the TV shows a news story of a high school student being arrested for the murder of his father. Seokjin visits Namjoon at the detention centre, offering his help to Namjoon, before being told it has already been settled, and being informed of what happened on the night of April 11th – Namjoon getting into a physical altercation with a rude customer who disrespected him and mocking him for his poverty, further mocking him when a settlement is mentioned, and then Namjoon refusing to settle, leading to him being put into the detention centre on. Namjoon tells Seokjin that it was bound to happen to him and to not worry, leading to Seokjin asking whether the others know, and if he still keeps in touch with them. Namjoon responds that he does not, informing Seokjin that Jungkook and Yoongi are dead, Hoseok is in the hospital after a bad accident, and that he does not know about Taehyung and Jimin.

Seokjin walks out after the visiting time is over and ponders over whether if he had talked to Namjoon that night, then maybe they wouldn’t have met in the detention centre, before coming across a crowd of journalists and reporters calling out questions related to the news story that had appeared on the screen earlier, of the high school student who had murdered his father, as Seokjin makes his way through the crowd before seeing Taehyung being arrested and taken away, calling out his name and the two stopping and looking at each other.

A flashback is shown of them all at the beach, running around and having fun as Seokjin recalls their happy time together, before being shown at the beach again, now alone, and wondering where it all went wrong, what happened, and why. The white cat then appears by his side, asking if he believes he can straighten out the errors and mistakes and save everyone if he could turn back time, to which Seokjin responds he would do anything to do this and to make them all happy again like they used to be, being shown opening up the closed curtains in front of the window in his bedroom, light flooding in and the scene then shattering like glass.

The episode ends with him waking up in his bed again and opening his curtains, thinking to himself that he thinks he just had a dream, though he can’t remember and leaving his bedroom again, his phone showing April 11th.

### Episode 02

**A new timeline begins.**

The episode begins back at the night of April 11th, where Seokjin sees Namjoon at the petrol station, though again, he drives away without talking to him. Seokjin is then driving through an alleyway, thinking to himself about how he should have said hi to Namjoon and wondering how the rest of them are doing, before he hears a thud on his car, stopping suddenly to see that it was Jungkook who fell onto his car before the scene shatters and he wakes up on his bed again, back at the morning of April 11th.

He thinks to himself again that he must have had a strange dream, but he does not remember it. He gets up and looks in his drawer at a polaroid photo dated 6.12 of them all at the beach back in their high school days, thinking to himself that he misses them, wondering how they are all doing again and that something feels strange before leaving his room.

Seokjin is then back in his car in front of the high school crossing and notices Jungkook in the crowd, though this time his heart begins to beat faster all of a sudden and he pauses, wondering what is happening to him before he is honked on by other cars to drive past the high school again. Later, he is back at the petrol station on the night of April 11th, seeing Namjoon there, but driving away without speaking to him again, this time thinking to himself that he feels he forgot something important and wondering what it could be.

Seokjin then stops outside a convenience store and walks down the alleyway, before hearing a thump from behind him on the ground and turning around to see Jungkook lying there on the ground before the scene shatters into glass once again.

**A new timeline begins.**

He wakes up in his bed on the morning of April 11th again to the sound of the cat’s voice, asking if it is too late, and that he could have been the one it has been looking for, telling Seokjin to open his eyes and see straight if he has already sealed the pact. Seokjin asks who the cat is, to which it responds that this is the world Seokjin must live in and his fate that he must go through, telling him that he wont make it out alone in this entangled destiny, before showing him how to remember the time loops once he opens his eyes. The scene shatters into shards showing flashbacks of what has happened so far- Taehyung’s arrest, Namjoon’s altercation, Jungkook’s fall, the cat then asking Seokjin the same question it asked at the beach, whether, if he could turn back time, he could straighten out the errors and mistakes and save everyone.

The scene comes back into reality and Seokjin questions what is happening, the episode ending as he realises that he has possibly gone back in time.

### Episode 03

Continuing directly from the last episode, Seokjin is wondering if the days had been repeating themselves, before coming to the realisation that he had gone back in time. He sets out again on April 11th, stating that he has been given a chance to make everything right again, and wondering if he can save everyone from their misery, as a panel montage of the other 6 shows; Taehyung graffitiing, Hoseok at his burger restaurant job, Yoongi playing piano in front of 3 people, Jimin alone in his hospital room, Jungkook in the classroom at school, and Namjoon at the petrol station, about to walk up to Seokjin’s car. Seokjin, on the night of April 11th, rolls down his window as he says that it’s been a while, as he says that he believed this would be the beginning of saving everyone.

Seokjin and Namjoon talk briefly at the petrol station, but Namjoon is called to attend to a customer, the rude driver from before. The customer mocks Namjoon again and throws his money on the floor for him to pick up, but before Namjoon goes to pick it up, Seokjin picks it up and hands it to him instead, causing the customer to disrespect once again the both of them, but before Namjoon can react, Seokjin stops him and tells the customer to leave, handing back the money he threw on the floor. The customer leaves, and Namjoon thanks Seokjin, apologising that he had to do that before asking what brought him there. Seokjin responds, saying that they need to find Jungkook by the end of the day and asking of Namjoon keeps in contact with him, to which he responds he does not. Seokjin begins to walk away, stating he needs to find him immediately as Namjoon questions what is going on. Seokjin answers that he will explain later, and as Namjoon grabs his arm, he says that one day they will all meet again, and that, on that day, they should all go to the beach together before leaving, leaving Namjoon wondering what is going on.

Seokjin goes to Jungkook’s house to ask where he is, to which one of his family members responds that he is at school for an after-school study session, and that he comes home after 10pm these days. Seokjin visits the school, but Jungkook is not there, as confirmed by the teacher, who says he never stayed late after school, leaving Seokjin wondering where he is, and thinking about the last place he remembered him being at, the building he fell from.

Namjoon is then shown walking down the street, wondering why Seokjin came suddenly and why he was looking for Jungkook, before spotting Jungkook across the road on the other side of the street, calling his name, though is unheard as several cars pass by loudly. He spots Jungkook again as the road clears, and crosses the road the try and find him, but he has disappeared into the crowd, nowhere to be seen. Seokjin is then shown searching for Jungkook by the convenience store building again, and as he sees a police car pass by, the same car that he had seen in his previous time loops before Jungkook fell, he recalls the building Jungkook had been on, the one with the crane in the background, and runs over to that building.

Upon reaching the roof, however, Jungkook is not there, and the episode ends as he questions whether he can trust his own memories, and where Jungkook is.

### Episode 04

The episode begins with Jungkook walking past two men, bumping into one of their shoulders and walking straight past them as they tell him to watch where he’s going and call after him. They then proceed to attack him, beating him up as the scene shows Namjoon searching for him nearby, running the opposite direction as he hears a crash coming from that way, just before the 2 men who just attacked Jungkook walk out into the street Namjoon was just on. Jungkook is then shown on the floor, getting back up and walking away. The scene turns to Seokjin atop the same roof he was on before, realising that he has the wrong building, and running from there. Jungkook is then shown atop the building he was on before, stepping onto the ledge and stretching his arms out wide, walking along the ledge before he suddenly wobbles, hearing Namjoon’s voice call his name as he spots him from below and tells him not to move. However, he wobbles again and nearly falls, but is grabbed and saved by Seokjin who hugs him close and asks where he has been, and what he was doing out here alone. Jungkook then has a flashback of him being scolded and jeered at by his family before he comes back into the current time and responds that he had no reason for being up there.

Namjoon arrives, and Jungkook says he thought Seokjin was still in the US, before smiling and inviting the others to see the night view with him, to which they don’t respond, and at that moment, Jungkook’s phone rings, Yoongi’s name coming up on the screen.

Yoongi is then shown having repeatedly dialled Jungkook’s number, flicking his lighter, the flame turning into a piano on fire as him as a child looks on, the scene changing to his back in in his school uniform at a piano, to his back in the motel room, the episode ending with his lighter lit in front of him.

### Episode 05

Another scene just before Jungkook’s phone rang in the last episode is shown, where Seokjin and Namjoon question Jungkook as to why he was up on the ledge, though Jungkook plays it off, saying he wouldn’t have fell anyway, and just lost his balance for a second. Namjoon then questions him on his injuries, Jungkook playing it off and saying he just bumped into a wall, Namjoon not believing him and figuring out that he must have been attacked by someone. Jungkook changes the subject to asking what the two are doing there, and Seokjin asks whether Jungkook should be home by now, and whether his parents will be worried, though at that moment, Jungkook’s phone begins to ring as it did in the last episode, with Yoongi’s name on the screen and he answers, saying “hello?”.

The scene turns to Seokjin, Namjoon and Jungkook running into the Emergency Unit of a hospital, Seokjin asking where Yoongi is to a staff member, and as they are brought through to him, they see him lying in the operating room with an oxygen mask on surrounded by doctors. As Jungkook shouts his name, Yoongi has a heart attack, having a defibrillator used on him before his heart rate flatlines as the 3 look on, Seokjin freezing, Jungkook falling to his knees and Namjoon turning away before the scene shatters into glass again.

**A new timeline begins.**

Seokjin wakes up again on April 11th with tears in his eyes before getting up and going back through his bedroom door again. This time, on the night, before Jungkook can bump shoulders with the 2 men and get attacked like before, Seokjin pulls him in around a corner where Namjoon is already, telling them both to stay there, the two confused and wondering where he is going and what is going on as he leaves, neither of them knowing why they are there. A flashback of earlier that night plays as Namjoon explains what happened to him to Jungkook, showing Seokjin at the petrol station rolling down his window as Namjoon approaches, this time not saying a word to him but indicating to get into his car, Namjoon then doing so. Namjoon and Jungkook talk for a moment, mentioning how Seokjin told Namjoon he had to find Jungkook, before Namjoon asks Jungkook if he still keeps in contact with Yoongi, to which he responds with “…Why do you ask?”. Namjoon’s phone then rings and he answers, “Hello? What? The police?”.

Seokjin is shown searching for Yoongi in a motel, mentioning to her that there is a guest that may set fire to the building to get her to cooperate. The scene then shifts to Namjoon, Jungkook and Taehyung walking out of the police station, Namjoon and Jungkook wondering where Seokjin is before Namjoon asks Taehyung what Taehyung was doing at the police station, and why he called him all of a sudden, to which Taehyung smiles and apologises, mentioning that it’s good to see each other again regardless. Namjoon then asks Taehyung if he keeps in touch with Yoongi, saying that Seokjin asked him too earlier, to which Taehyung responds he has seen Yoongi in his dreams, but before anybody is able to reply, police officers run by to a police car and they hear over the radio controllers that there is a suspected arsonist near Downtown Motel, the episode ending on their faces looking on in shock.

### Episode 06

The episode continues on from the last, showing what was occurring whilst Namjoon, Jungkook and Taehyung met each other again up to them seeing the police officers run by, with Seokjin searching for Yoongi looking at a man through CCTV footage at a motel. The receptionist asks if it is him, to which Seokjin replies it can’t be before he hears a loud crack and looks out the window, seeing a room at the Goodtime Motel on fire across the street, the scene shattering into glass.

**A new timeline begins.**

Seokjin is back at the morning of April 11th at the high school crossing, where this time he stops and gets out of the car, calling to Jungkook and asking him if he still keeps in touch with Yoongi and when the last time he saw or heard from him was. Jungkook has a flashback of the last time he saw Yoongi in the motel room, clicking his lighter as he tells him to piss off. Seokjin asks if he doesn’t remember, and before Jungkook can reply, Namjoon, who Seokjin had already picked up, calls out from the car, asking what he is doing. Seokjin asks if he has any leads on Yoongi, to which he responds he does not, and it seems that Yoongi has vanished, until Jungkook responds that he had seen Yoongi.

The scene turns to Seokjin, Namjoon, Jungkook and Taehyung in Seokjin’s car as they search for the part of town Jungkook mentioned he had seen Yoongi in, around the Goodtime Motel. Taehyung says that this wasn’t where he last saw him, to which Namjoon replies that he only said he saw him in his dream, but Taehyung states again that they are not in the correct place. Seokjin asks Taehyung where he saw him, and he points to another motel he says he has a gut feeling for. Seokjin asks how he knows that, and Taehyung responds again that it was in his dream.

Ahead, the panels show that a large truck is swerving and driving erratically, meanwhile Seokjin is thinking to himself and wondering why the location changes every time for Yoongi, despite the time being the only thing that changed slightly for Namjoon and Jungkook. Taehyung asks him why he is trying to find Yoongi, and whether something is wrong, before he looks up and the both of them notice the erratically driving truck swerving into their lane, resulting in a collision. Seokjin looks at the others, who have died from the collision, whilst thinking to himself that the future is changing because the past changed, because he jumped in and changed their fate, and that it was all because of him and that he did this before the scene shatters into glass and the time loop restarts again.

**A new timeline begins.**

Back on the morning of April 11th, Seokjin is drawing up a map in his room, writing up a plan of how he will act; preventing Namjoon’s fight at the petrol station, then leaving Namjoon and saving Jungkook, then moving onto how he will save Yoongi. Realising that there are too many variables with where Yoongi may be, he decides that he will find out where he is when Jungkook receives his call after he is saved, and that he must find the shortest distance between each location before stating that nothing must change in this order, and that this is the only way he can save everyone.

The scene shifts to Yoongi in a bar alone at a table as he picks up his phone to Jungkook on the other end asking where he is, Seokjin also talking on the call also asking where he is, though Yoongi does not respond and instead ends the call, ignoring the ringing afterwards and having another drink of alcohol. He then hears a voice flashback of his dad dismissing his dreams of music and playing the piano as nonsense, unless he wants to go crazy and kill himself like his mom did, causing him to bang the table repeatedly saying, “like my mom he says”, breaking a bottle before getting told to calm down, and then ordering another bottle of alcohol, the last one before he must go home as the bartender says.

He lights his lighter and the scene switches to the motel room, where he begins to burn a sheet of music, dropping it to the floor as the episode ends with the room engulfed in flames.

### Episode 07

**A new timeline begins.**

The episode opens with a flashback to their high school days, showing a scene in their classroom turned storage space secret hideout. Yoongi is playing the piano and Jungkook walks in, not saying anything and lying down on 2 desks pushed together, listening to Yoongi play, before a teacher suddenly appears over him, slapping him to the ground. Before the teacher can attack him again however, Yoongi is shown to be standing between the teacher and Jungkook, grabbing the teacher’s shirt, the next panel showing a letter of expulsion for Yoongi, dated to be effective for June 25th. The scene then shifts to real time, continuing on from the last episode and showing the same scene of Yoongi burning a sheet of music and dropping it to the floor, with the room becoming engulfed in flames.

Seokjin is shown to be driving whilst this happens, thinking about the three locations Yoongi could be at where he has set fire to the room in previous time loops, before he suddenly sees smoke coming from the window of the motel next to him. He runs into the building and to the door with fire and smoke coming from it, which is locked so he uses an emergency axe nearby to open it, finding Yoongi almost fully unconscious on the bed. He runs in and carries Yoongi out, Yoongi regaining some consciousness as he does this and recognising that it is Seokjin who is carrying him out.

Yoongi is shown in the hospital with an oxygen mask on, still alive, and Seokjin is relived that he was not too late, and wonders if everything will be okay now. It is now the night of April 11th, and Seokjin and Yoongi are together in the hospital room, Yoongi having regained full consciousness now. He calls out Seokjin’s name, Seokjin asking if he is okay, and that he’ll get the doctor, but Yoongi ignores him, going on to tell him that in the fire, he thought he would finally find some peace and would get to escape his living hell and breathe easier, but then someone dragged him back to hell, directing this towards Seokjin and asking him why he did, before telling him that he should have just left him to die. Seokjin does not respond and looks at Yoongi, thinking to himself that he thought he had saved him, but what he had done had perhaps not been enough.

There is then a time skip to a month later on May 11th, where Taehyung is spray painting a building shutter before the police arrive and chase after him as he runs away. He reaches Namjoon’s container to see Namjoon inside as the police outside search for him, and they talk briefly about Taehyung’s painting and why he does it, Taehyung saying there doesn’t have to be a point, and that maybe he’s just trying to make a point with his drawing, to which Namjoon smiles and says “yeah, right” before the episode ends with Taehyung asking Namjoon if he can stay in his container for the night.

### Episode 08

The episode begins with showing a panel sequence of Taehyung underwater as he spots Jimin sinking, being dragged down by a dark figure that is shown to be Jimin himself. Taehyung then wakes up in reality, showing the previous panels to be a nightmare, and he sees Namjoon at his desk in the container, asking him where he thinks Jimin is.

The scene shifts to Jimin is the hospital sitting on his bed when a young child comes up to him, asking him why he’s in there and saying that he doesn’t look sick at all, to which Jimin responds that the kid has got him there, and asks him why he’s there as well. The child replies that he doesn’t know why he’s there either, and says that makes them friends, reaching out his hand to Jimin. Jimin smiles and goes to hold hands, but the child collapses onto him, suddenly unconscious, and Jimin asks the child if he’s okay and what’s wrong, calling out for help. A voice calls out that it’s alright, and Jimin turns around, seeing Hoseok standing there, who explains that the child just fell asleep, and is like him (narcoleptic).

The two are then shown sitting on Jimin’s hospital bed, the child asleep next to them as Hoseok asks where his parents are, and how his parents could have left him alone, adding that they remind him of his mom. He goes on to say that at least he fell onto a human cushion, pointing to a bandaged injury on his head, saying that he got it when he collapsed whilst walking alone, and that he should’ve kept Jimin around too. Hoseok asks if it’s been 2 years since they last saw each other and a flashback shows of the two at the bus stop in their high school uniforms, where Jimin suddenly has a seizure, the next panels showing him in a hospital bed and Hoseok looking at him from the curtain. The scene shifts back into real time, and Jimin responds that his clock stopped ticking at some point, and he can’t really say how long he’s been in the hospital now, or how much longer he needs to stay.

Jimin is shown now in his hospital room’s bathroom standing over the sink with the tap on and basin overflowing. He puts his head under the water and begins to visualise himself sinking under the water, opening his eyes to see the Grass Flower Arboretum sign, a splatter of blood and a child version of himself running away whilst crying. He begins to panic and feel himself drowning as he sees himself being dragged deeper down by a dark figure before he pulls his head back out of the sink, looks at himself in the mirror and begins to stagger to the floor in front of the sink.

The scene now shows railroad tracks where Namjoon and Taehyung are walking, Taehyung telling Namjoon that he has been having a strange dream lately where he sees Yoongi trapped in a fire and Jimin drowning to which Namjoon responds that it sounds like nonsense. Taehyung says that maybe it’s because he wants to see them both so bad, Namjoon asking if he wants to go to see Hoseok and Taehyung responding by smiling and walking ahead. As he walks ahead, however, Namjoon sees the back of his neck and the bruises on it, and looks saddened by the sight of them.

The two head to Hoseok’s place of work, Two Star Burger, where they have asked where he is, to which they discover he is in hospital due to falling over. They then go to the hospital he is in and whilst talking bring up an incident from high school where he fell asleep whilst crossing the road and got hurt due to his narcolepsy before going to the information desk to ask where he is. Hoseok is then shown walking down the corridor where he hears a group of doctors talking about Jimin and asking how long he will be staying at the hospital for from around the corner and walking towards him. He hides around the corner and overhears them mention that Jimin has been here for years now, that his parents forcibly hospitalised him and that he had some sort of accident when he was little before they leave through the fire exit and down the stairs, where the episode ends with Seokjin sitting lower down on the staircase looking downwards solemnly.

### Episode 09

The episode begins by showing Seokjin sitting on the stairs from the end of the last episode as he has a flashback to his meeting with Yoongi in his hospital room after he saved him, where Yoongi says he thought he would finally find some peace at last in the fire and asking why Seokjin saved him, saying that he should have just left him to die.

In the same flashback, after this, Seokjin apologises to Yoongi before asking him whether, if he could go back to the moment they first met, would he change anything that happened after that, to which he responds, “why bother?, it’s too late now anyways”, before telling Seokjin to stop worrying about him and leave, and that he’s starting to annoy him.

The panels begin to shift into real time whilst Seokjin thinks about how he feels bad for saving Yoongi against his will and that there was nothing else he could do for him, wondering whether he will ever be happy no matter how many times he saves him, before asking himself what he’s even doing at the hospital, and what the end game will be if he saves Yoongi, Jungkook or Namjoon. Whilst he thinks about this, flashbacks of previous time loops show; saving Jungkook, saving Namjoon, and the car accident, and he thinks further about how he’s thought so many times what he can even do for them, and that maybe there’s nothing he can do, but he concludes that he can’t let anything happen to them, and he can’t leave them alone, coming back into real time and leaving to go to the hospital information desk. He asks which room Yoongi is in, before being told that Yoongi had been discharged the previous month.

Yoongi is shown to be in currently in the hospital lounge with Namjoon, Jungkook and Taehyung, before the panels show a doctor speaking to Jimin in his room, with Hoseok standing beside his bed. Hoseok’s phone rings and he picks it up, Namjoon telling him that he is there at the hospital now and Hoseok relays this to Jimin, saying that Namjoon has brought the others there, and invites Jimin to go with him to see Namjoon. Jimin declines despite Hoseok’s attempts to convince him, and he tells Hoseok not to tell Namjoon he is there.

Hoseok goes down to visit the others in the hospital lounge (Namjoon, Jungkook, Taehyung and Yoongi) and they ask how each other are before Taehyung asks Hoseok if he keeps in touch with Jimin. Hoseok asks why he asks, and Taehyung responds that he doesn’t know, and that he’s been on his mind lately, to which Hoseok smiles, but does not respond. Namjoon leaves for work, and on his way out he finds Seokjin in the reception area, asking why he is there, and whether he is there to see Hoseok, which Seokjin responds to with surprise that Hoseok is in the hospital, and asks why.

There is a time skip to the next day, where Hoseok is sitting on the hospital staircase and a flashback of the previous episode where he overheard the doctors talking about Jimin shows, before it comes back into real time, and he hears a door opening. He looks up and sees a woman dressed in a long skirt and cap and a child in hospital clothes exit the door and begin to walk down the staircase. He gets up and begins to run down the staircase, believing this woman to be his mom, but as she begins to look around he slips, falling down the staircase. The scene shifts to Seokjin walking down the hospital corridor, where he suddenly bumps shoulders with someone and turns around, noticing that it was Jimin. As he says his name, and Jimin says his, they both turn and hear doctors running through with a patient on a stretcher, shouting that he has been injured and has fell down the stairs, and Seokjin realises that it is Hoseok, calling out his name and seeing him on the stretcher as he begins to shatter, the episode ending with the scene and Seokjin shattering into glass once again.

### Episode 10

**A new timeline begins.**

The episode begins with Seokjin waking up on April 11th again, checking his phone and seeing the date on the screen. Flashbacks of the end of the previous episode’s ending (previous time loop) show with Hoseok on the stretcher and Seokjin calling out to him, before it comes back to real time, where Seokjin is sitting on his bed and thinks to himself, realising that that’s what a loop feels like, and that it will end before he can do anything. He goes to his drawer and pulls out the high school polaroid photo of them all at the beach, dated 6.12, again, looking at it and concluding that he cannot give up like this, and has to try again. A panel montage is shown of him driving with post it notes inside his car, ticks on those for saving Namjoon and Jungkook at their locations (the petrol station and the construction site) and an unticked one for Hoseok at the bridge.

There is then a time skip forward to May 10th where Hoseok is shown walking along a bridge before suddenly collapsing forwards, however he is caught by Seokjin before he falls to the ground. A flashback of their high school days is shown, where Hoseok is dancing with the others watching, when he suddenly falls asleep and collapses on the floor, later regaining consciousness and taking 2 pills. Back in real time, Hoseok wakes up and finds himself in Seokjin’s car to his surprise, asking how he is and how he found him, to which Seokjin responds that he was just driving somewhere. Hoseok then asks where they are going and Seokjin responds that they are going to the hospital, to which Hoseok says he does not need to go to the hospital, and that they will just tell him the same as they always do as he takes 2 pills. Seokjin notices that he is still on medication, and asks if he knows what is causing his narcolepsy, which Hoseok does not respond to, just smiling instead.

Hoseok tells Seokjin to drop him off as he has to go to work before noticing the post it notes in Seokjin’s car, showing that he also has unticked notes for Yoongi at the motel and Jimin at the hospital, and questions what they are, Seokjin not responding but instead saying that he will see him next time, and not responding a second time when Hoseok then asks him if everything is okay. Hoseok then leaves the car and Seokjin drives away. The next panels then show Hoseok at his job serving customers before he stops and has a flashback to seeing the post it notes in Seokjin’s car, thinking to himself that Seokjin was acting a little weird, and wondering what is going on.

Later on, Hoseok is at the petrol station talking with Namjoon, and Hoseok asks whether he thinks Seokjin is in some kind of trouble, to which Namjoon agrees, but when asked for more details by Hoseok, he explains he does not know the details, and still does not understand why Seokjin came to see him. Hoseok is then shown leaving on a scooter, checking his message he sent to Seokjin whilst stopped at the traffic lights, asking to speak to him and telling him to call him when he gets his message, which Seokjin has not read yet, and he wonders what he is doing. After putting his phone away and looking up, he spots Seokjin in his car a car across from him and calls out, attempting to follow him as he turns when the lights turn green, the episode ending with the honking and screeching of cars.

### Episode 15

Seokjin now attempts to save Taehyung, who refuses to elaborate his family home. Although Seokjin attempts to comfort him by saying he is always there, Taehyung only questions about his dreams involving the rest of the friends (as a result of the timeline resets). Later on, Seokjin tries to prevent Taehyung from killing his father, as per the original timeline and Taehyung accidentally stabs Seokjin with the glass bottle, proceeding to kill him. The timeline resets.

## Timeline

The **화양연화 pt.0 *<SAVE ME>*** webtoon is the beginning of all canon content, as it was the first time the timeline resets.

After the webtoon, the timeline resets many, many times. This is shown from the BTS Universe Story and some scenes from the music videos. The official first timeline that moves on after all this would be the Love Yourself timeline, established by the Love Yourself Album Notes and the HYYH Notes 1.

## Release and response

The prologue and the first two episodes of *Save Me* were uploaded on January 17, 2019 in both the Naver (Korean) and Line (English) webtoon portals and was subsequently updated with a new episode every Thursday. Official versions of the webtoon are available in Korean, English, Japanese, both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Indonesian and Thai. On February 1, 2019, WEBTOON also opened *Save Me* to fan translations through a post on its official Twitter account *WEBTOON.* The series officially closed on April 11 with the uploading of its last two episodes.

On March 15, 2019, *Save Me* was featured in an exhibition by Naver's Line Friends Store in Times Square, New York City. The exhibition showcased exclusive figurines of the seven central characters of the webtoon, although the figurines are not for sale. Line Friends Store also opened another *Save Me* exhibition in their Harajuku, Tokyo branch on March 22, 2019; both exhibitions ended on April 18, 2019.

On March 28–30, 2019, BTS members Jin, Jungkook and J-Hope were featured reading and commenting on *Save Me* through short video clips uploaded by WEBTOON in their Twitter and YouTube accounts.

*Save Me*, including other related works under the BTS Universe, has been the subject of much debate and theorizing among BTS fans. Hours after its initial release, it gained mostly positive response from readers and BTS fans. It quickly earned 20,000 followers with the release of its first two episodes. *Save Me* garnered a 9.9 rating on WEBTOON, and at its closing, the webtoon reached 50 million accumulated views.

[Text pulled from Save Me Official Wikipedia]

## Trigger Warnings

**<Warning>** Words like *suicide*, *death*, *blood* will be mentioned. Order of mentions based on severity of the situation.

Episodes which are particularly more triggering will be highlighted. **(Bolded)**

### **Prologue**

Jimin is shown whilst *forcibly kept in hospital* by his parents.

*Blood* is shown in Taehyung’s panel.

Jungkook is shown on the ledge indicating attempt to commit *suicide.*

Yoongi is shown in the fire attempting to commit *suicide.*

### **Ep 01**

Taehyung is shown with *blood* in the background.

Taehyung *murders* his father.

Mentions of Jungkook and Yoongi’s *death.*

Jin’s dream of the main HYYH Characters *drowning* and him saving to fail them

Namjoon is explicitly mocked for his *poverty.*

### **Ep 02** (Approach this episode with absolute caution - **Aftermath of suicide is SHOWN/ What happens after Jungkook’s suicide is SHOWN - *death*)**

**Jungkook’s body drops from the ledge (*suicide*) onto Seokjin’s car and this is shown. Seokjin sees his dead body on the frame. His dead body continues to appear as the reader scrolls. (Take caution reading)**

**Jungkook’s body drops from the ledge onto the road (suicide). Jungkook’s body drops onto the floor and his dead body stares back at Seokjin. (Take caution reading)**

### **Ep 03**

**A small panel showing a flashback of Jungkook’s body dropping onto Seokjin’s car (*suicide*). *Blood splatters across his window*.**

Jungkook is seen on top of a ledge. *(Attempted suicide)*

### **Ep 04**

Jungkook is depicted being *beaten up*. One of the men is shown to *choke* him.

Jungkook is seen on top of a ledge. *(Attempted suicide)* He *almost slips and falls*.

Jungkook's *abusive* stepfamily is shown *verbally abusing* him. *(Child Neglect)*

### **Ep 05** (Approach this episode with absolute caution - **A character goes into the *ICU* and dies - *death***)

**Yoongi is admitted into the *ICU (Emergency Room)* and is shown flatlining. His *death* is shown explicitly.**

### **Ep 06** (Approach this episode with absolute caution - **The characters have a *car accident* and their deaths are shown - *death***)

**Seokjin’s car collides with a truck. (*car accident*) *Blood* is shown everywhere on Jungkook, Taehyung and Seokjin and they are *dead.***

Yoongi’s *suicide* through fire is shown.

Yoongi’s *alcoholism* is shown.

### **Ep 07**

Yoongi has a speech on *wishing to die*.

Jungkook is *slapped* *by the teacher.*

Yoongi almost dies through fire. (*Attempted suicide*)

### **Ep 08**

Jimin is shown to have a *seizure* at the bus stop with Hoseok.

Jimin runs away from the scene and sign of the Arboretum in his *violent flashback* and *blood* is seen everywhere, to the point that the water turns red.

Taehyung’s *effects of physical abuse* by his father is shown through the *bruises on his neck.*

Jimin is shown to have *violent flashbacks*, mirroring *PTSD*.

Jimin attempts to simulate *drowning* by placing his head into a sink full of water, and appears to be *dragged down into the water to drown* by a figure within his *violent flashback* before removing himself from the water.

Taehyung is seen *drowning* and tries to save Jimin, who is *drowning*.

*Abusive parents* of Jimin forcing him into *hospitalization.*

### **Ep 09**

Yoongi *wishes to commit suicide* and *tells Jin to leave him to die in the fire.*

**Flashbacks to the *blood* and *death* in Ep 05.**

*Abusive parents* of Jimin forcing him into *hospitalization.*

References to Hoseok’s *abandonment* by his mother.

Hoseok *falling down the stairs*, leading to his *death*.

### **Ep 10**

Hoseok is depicted taking a *pill*. (Hints of *overdosing*)

A *near-death* *experience* is almost faced by Hoseok.

### **Ep 11**

Hoseok is *abandoned* by his mother and flashbacks as a child is shown. *(Parent Abandonment)*

Yoongi’s *attempted suicide* is shown. He is *unconscious*.

### **Ep 12**

Jimin *commits suicide* through *drowning* in a bathtub.

Jimin’s mother *slaps* *Jimin on his fac*e. *(Abusive parents)*

A frame shows Jimin *scratching himself* in the water. *(Self harm)*

The *blood* and water mingles to represent his *PTSD*.

Jimin’s *parents’ abuse* is shown through “locking him up”. (*Forced hospitalisation*)

### **Ep 13**

Jimin’s *PTSD* acts again (sees the arboretum sign) and he runs away and *dies.*

*Everyone’s attempted suicide* is shown in flashbacks.

### **Ep 14** (Approach this episode with absolute caution - **Domestic Abuse is shown**)

**Taehyung sees his *father beating up his sister*. His *father pulls his sister’s hair*. *A flashback is shown to Young Taehyung who cries after being beaten up by his father.***

A flashback shows that Namjoon sees the *bruises*, the aftermath of *domestic abuse.*

Taehyung picks up a bottle and *murders* his father. *Blood* is shown.

### **Ep 15**

***Taehyung’s dad can be heard screaming at his sister*. He is also seen *slapping her*. (*Domestic Abuse*)**

**Taehyung *attempts to murder his fathe*r, but he *accidentally kills Seokjin* and *breaks down*. *Blood* is seen.**

Taehyung is depicted with *blood*.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/webtoonofficial/status/1111070793226579969
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/webtoon/status/1111432977911672833
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/webtoonofficial/status/1111795301075968000