I wonder if Dohun gave up on the Seongmin matter with Yuwon after that? Maybe he just brought up the footage with Seongmin instead (which is why Seongmin asks Yuwon if they’re a thing) and Yuwon’s innocent rejection was the final straw, since maybe Seongmin was staying at that company for him?? I guess we’ll see.
It could still very well be that Dohun is unrelated to Seongmin’s dismissal.
i had the same sort of idea about the expression being despair… however i considered another possibility where yuwon actually made a purehearted determined expression, like “seongmin is definitely not that kind of person,” except he’s saying this with his face and not his words. i think this sort of stubborn/positive expression would make dohoon more dumbfounded than a look of true despair, which is further supported by what dohoon asks yuwon afterwards: “just who is seongmin to you?” dohoon also states that this particular expression was hard to look at, and this made me wonder more since dohoon usually has no trouble looking at yuwon regardless of whether yuwon has a negative expression. im thinking its sort of like when you don’t want to burst someone’s bubble because they’re happy about something or believe something to be true (even when you know it’s not), so you just don’t say anything to preserve the naïveté (like not telling kids santa isn’t real). just a thought. obv yuwon could’ve made any expression, we don’t know for sure
Oooh~ it could very well be! As always, I’d have to reread the chapter from Yuwon’s perspective to see what fits best. Maybe, as we discover what actually happened with Seongmin, we’ll get to revisit the conversation? In any case I hope so; thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Deputy manager has taken the bait~ For what I don’t think we’ve seen yet. He was still well when the fight happened.
I think for Yuwon, Kim Seongmin was his last hope. When he was younger he mentioned he wanted to believe that good people existed, and he could still see the beauty of people around him.
But day in and day out, I wonder if he was contemplating suicide at the time, staring at the ground from the roof, smoking. Seongmin still stuck by him even when he was getting bullied, and if Dohun hadn’t shown up I think he would’ve clung onto him to heal. I think to Yuwon, Seongmin was the “last good person” (Yuwon knows Dohun isn’t good, and can’t trust him; he’s killed people after all), which he was why he was so desperate when he disappeared with no notice.
So I think the face Yuwon showed Dohun when he was accusing Seongmin was “utter despair”, losing hope.
The insecurity Dohun felt afterwards was most likely that Dohun realized Yuwon still has expectations in others and people, he has needs outside of the ones Dohun can provide, he was shaken by the fact he might not know Yuwon and his greater good as well as he thought he did.
I feel like Yuwon’s behaviour of banging his head against the wall made Dohun realize 1. How close he was to the edge when he met him. 2. That he suffered badly alone during the years he was gone.
Dohun self-comforts with illusions, so he was able and happy to maintain the semblance of a functioning relationship while Yuwon was kind of spiraling, feeling alone while Dohun disengaged.
I’m very curious if, as Dohun feels Yuwon slipping he pushes more on the sex to be able to artificially pretend he’s “happy”, maybe that’s where it started to get violent and rough? Or Dohun realizes the resentment Yuwon’s held for everything and tries to take it on?
I want to see what Dohun actually did when he met his dad while Yuwon snuck out.
Gahhhhhh i love it so much!!!! Can’t wait for the next chapter~~