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Authors sign for a numbers of chapters for each season, they rarely can elongate it. Also the artist has said in the first season that they had already planned out the whole story (which, with the heavy rhythm they must follow each week (à good 60 hours for 60 panels), is really needed).
I can understand that the regression feels annoying, but it’s actually pretty realistic. People don’t change that easily, and J has always had a weak ego. And scenario wise, it’s probably is just the great fall before the rising of the finale. If the characters are in the worst place of the story, them getting out of it will feel more intense, which is needed for the ending to feel satisfying.
But yeah, the story has always been planned for two seasons, we’re reaching the end of it now
I feel like this was a deliberate choice by the author at this point to make Jaekyung regress in character just to keep the story going because it's popular. I noticed a trend with all my favorite manhwa, once they hit chapter 90ish it usually goes down hill from there as the plot stalls. Like it's chapter 96 why tf aren't they offically together by now? I feel like I wasted my time and I was the biggest supporter of this series from the start.