Okay now that I’ve finished this I have to say it just wasn’t as good as I was expecting based on the praise. Junyeong is far more interesting when she’s younger because her personality felt very realistic based on the abuse and her desire to be better than what life forced upon her. Her relationship with Beom also felt natural and I didn’t feel like Seungun had any ground to stand on which is really refreshing. The school arc does something that I rarely see with a two ML situation, with Junyeong being very aware of Seungun and making it clear as day that she will never like him. Seungun also isn’t so grossly unlikeable in his youth (I still didn’t like him though).
The timeskip does nothing for this story. Junyeong feels so blasé after it because her motivations are so understated. She literally lives just to chase Beom to the point that she abandons her pride just to have him. And don’t get me wrong, I’m glad we have an FL that takes the lead. A lot of their interactions are just references to moments in high school and it feels like a cheap way to explore the chemistry they already had without trying anything new. Not seeing how Junyeong’s relationship with her mother changed after Beom left or up to the time Of her accident also hurts her character. The whole reason she’s still attached to Seungun is because of her mother, but the story just completely ignores this after it is mentioned. It felt like a “oh okay I know it sounds crazy that Junyeong took the scholarship based on what we saw but it was for her mom!” We are just meant to accept it without asking any questions.
Junyeong is also another example of the “strong female lead” where the story constantly tells us that she is capable and smart, but her actions do not support this. She puts herself in danger because it’s somehow more efficient than playing it safe. And I mean the whole accident scheme was kind of poorly implemented in general, but the conclusion had me rolling my eyes. There were ways for her to catch him without needed to fall the world’s most obvious bait. And again this all happens just so she can say another thing that makes us remember what happened when they were students. It just feels really cheap.
Seung-in as an adult is so abhorrent that I don’t even know what to say about him. It’s realistic that he snapped and got worse with time, but I don’t understand how he got to this point where he still believed he could have Junyeong. I also don’t know why Junyeong let him get so close to her and why his mother let it happen either. She felt like she was controlling him by keeping Junyeong close despite her saying that Junyeong was a dangerous variable? It’s so odd. I did find it fun to watch him fail miserably at every scheme and flirtation attempt though. He is just so realistic in his gross creepy man behavior that I actually hated any time he was on screen.
Lastly the whole plot with the company felt really lame. I don’t think the author knew how to write realistic politics lol. The fall out happens is like 2 chapters and life literally moves on. They wanted to avoid drama but apparently firing a guy the day after he becomes director just went without a hit. Not a single rumor? Get out of here lmao. I also do not care for Ms. Kim’s betrayal (also lmao at the mom having her stored as first name Ms., last name Kim!). Nothing she said or did put any kind of doubt in her loyalty so there’s no sense of layoff after they reveal she betrayed them. I guess she was mad about getting choked out by a loser.
Anyway the story wasn’t bad persay, it just wasn’t that good. I still enjoyed Beom and Jun’s relationship. It’s wild that their wedding happened off screen though. 7/10
Okay now that I’ve finished this I have to say it just wasn’t as good as I was expecting based on the praise. Junyeong is far more interesting when she’s younger because her personality felt very realistic based on the abuse and her desire to be better than what life forced upon her. Her relationship with Beom also felt natural and I didn’t feel like Seungun had any ground to stand on which is really refreshing. The school arc does something that I rarely see with a two ML situation, with Junyeong being very aware of Seungun and making it clear as day that she will never like him. Seungun also isn’t so grossly unlikeable in his youth (I still didn’t like him though).
The timeskip does nothing for this story. Junyeong feels so blasé after it because her motivations are so understated. She literally lives just to chase Beom to the point that she abandons her pride just to have him. And don’t get me wrong, I’m glad we have an FL that takes the lead. A lot of their interactions are just references to moments in high school and it feels like a cheap way to explore the chemistry they already had without trying anything new. Not seeing how Junyeong’s relationship with her mother changed after Beom left or up to the time
Of her accident also hurts her character. The whole reason she’s still attached to Seungun is because of her mother, but the story just completely ignores this after it is mentioned. It felt like a “oh okay I know it sounds crazy that Junyeong took the scholarship based on what we saw but it was for her mom!” We are just meant to accept it without asking any questions.
Junyeong is also another example of the “strong female lead” where the story constantly tells us that she is capable and smart, but her actions do not support this. She puts herself in danger because it’s somehow more efficient than playing it safe. And I mean the whole accident scheme was kind of poorly implemented in general, but the conclusion had me rolling my eyes. There were ways for her to catch him without needed to fall the world’s most obvious bait. And again this all happens just so she can say another thing that makes us remember what happened when they were students. It just feels really cheap.
Seung-in as an adult is so abhorrent that I don’t even know what to say about him. It’s realistic that he snapped and got worse with time, but I don’t understand how he got to this point where he still believed he could have Junyeong. I also don’t know why Junyeong let him get so close to her and why his mother let it happen either. She felt like she was controlling him by keeping Junyeong close despite her saying that Junyeong was a dangerous variable? It’s so odd. I did find it fun to watch him fail miserably at every scheme and flirtation attempt though. He is just so realistic in his gross creepy man behavior that I actually hated any time he was on screen.
Lastly the whole plot with the company felt really lame. I don’t think the author knew how to write realistic politics lol. The fall out happens is like 2 chapters and life literally moves on. They wanted to avoid drama but apparently firing a guy the day after he becomes director just went without a hit. Not a single rumor? Get out of here lmao. I also do not care for Ms. Kim’s betrayal (also lmao at the mom having her stored as first name Ms., last name Kim!). Nothing she said or did put any kind of doubt in her loyalty so there’s no sense of layoff after they reveal she betrayed them. I guess she was mad about getting choked out by a loser.
Anyway the story wasn’t bad persay, it just wasn’t that good. I still enjoyed Beom and Jun’s relationship. It’s wild that their wedding happened off screen though. 7/10