He was so brave to come clean and be honest with his new employer, that really could have been his moment to start rebuilding his life and he knew it. The way he cries after realising wookyung ruined that for him too ugh so good, the artist went crazy with all his crying scenes.
The saddest part is realising he had no reason to be such a conniving, insecure person to begin with, he worked his way out of childhood poverty to become a university lecturer, he has enough practical skill to clinch a translation gig pretty easily and they immediately wanted to expand his workload beyond manuals into fiction. His employer mentioned being impressed with his lit crit so he's not even untalented as a writer, maybe he's just not meant to write great fiction like he dreamed of. He and Doona could have been an iconic team of a novelist wife with her literary critic husband, his inferiority complex poisoned what could have been a really good life.
He was so brave to come clean and be honest with his new employer, that really could have been his moment to start rebuilding his life and he knew it. The way he cries after realising wookyung ruined that for him too ugh so good, the artist went crazy with all his crying scenes.
The saddest part is realising he had no reason to be such a conniving, insecure person to begin with, he worked his way out of childhood poverty to become a university lecturer, he has enough practical skill to clinch a translation gig pretty easily and they immediately wanted to expand his workload beyond manuals into fiction. His employer mentioned being impressed with his lit crit so he's not even untalented as a writer, maybe he's just not meant to write great fiction like he dreamed of. He and Doona could have been an iconic team of a novelist wife with her literary critic husband, his inferiority complex poisoned what could have been a really good life.