God I was reading this story through updates since 2023. I finally re read it and I have to say such a gorgeous story. I mean them meeting as children was such a fictional and funny unrealistic coincidence but nonetheless cute. Just looking where Seo-An started with his social anxiety to really being able to be a rock for Woo Won in a hard time is insane. Like the roles reversed, Woo Won was always comfortable being in his head all the time, over analyzing his own feelings to the point where he didn’t acknowledge them and lived mellow. Where as Seo An was processing his own feelings through therapy and needed Woo Won to be his rock and he truly could because he wasn’t ready to unpack his own emotions. And finally when the tramautic situation with his dad occurred he had something to lose and someone to have his feelings mean something to. It’s so beautiful when you live your whole life feeling like your life and emotions are insignificant and what you do is small, but the moment he handed Seo-An the umbrella it changed Seo-An’s whole life which in turn changed his life that his emotions do hold weight for someone else and that he really does have an impact on someone else’s life deeply. Truly reading those early scenes I felt something. I mean I got frustrated with Woo Won running away but he really did spend his whole life avoiding his emotions up until that point and sometimes metaphorically we need someone to smack us back into reality which is why im not too mad about the punch but (abuse is never tolerated) Anywho, what a gem and perfectly paced story. Honestly BL’s these days tend to lack depth and storytelling but this one I could feel the emotion in all the internal and external dialogue. It made all the build up from friends to lovers that more wonderful.
God I was reading this story through updates since 2023. I finally re read it and I have to say such a gorgeous story. I mean them meeting as children was such a fictional and funny unrealistic coincidence but nonetheless cute. Just looking where Seo-An started with his social anxiety to really being able to be a rock for Woo Won in a hard time is insane. Like the roles reversed, Woo Won was always comfortable being in his head all the time, over analyzing his own feelings to the point where he didn’t acknowledge them and lived mellow. Where as Seo An was processing his own feelings through therapy and needed Woo Won to be his rock and he truly could because he wasn’t ready to unpack his own emotions. And finally when the tramautic situation with his dad occurred he had something to lose and someone to have his feelings mean something to. It’s so beautiful when you live your whole life feeling like your life and emotions are insignificant and what you do is small, but the moment he handed Seo-An the umbrella it changed Seo-An’s whole life which in turn changed his life that his emotions do hold weight for someone else and that he really does have an impact on someone else’s life deeply. Truly reading those early scenes I felt something. I mean I got frustrated with Woo Won running away but he really did spend his whole life avoiding his emotions up until that point and sometimes metaphorically we need someone to smack us back into reality which is why im not too mad about the punch but (abuse is never tolerated) Anywho, what a gem and perfectly paced story. Honestly BL’s these days tend to lack depth and storytelling but this one I could feel the emotion in all the internal and external dialogue. It made all the build up from friends to lovers that more wonderful.