chap 125

Lol, so hilarious to see some people putting the blame on Nami while it was Sumin who was at fault here. In fact, she should have felt grateful to have an honest friend like Nami as she’s willing to point out the worst and best parts in Sumin/Seju rather than those who kept showering their friends with compliments and praising like they have been doing nothing wrong so far.

For example I’m Team Pink but I have to admit that Seju was totally wrong when she slept with the bartender out of insecurity in Sumin’s love for her and I can’t tolerate some of her manipulative and insensitive behaviours towards Sumin/Won either. So to me, Nammi was just doing the same.

1.“Why are you pissed at President Baek? It was me who held onto her, if you’re going to get pissed at someone, it should be me”

Asking for one night stand with Seju in order to know if Seju can break the taboo, and yes, she didn’t fail in making Seju spit out the nails stucking in her throat for years. Furthermore, she eventually made Sumin admit that she still loved Seju and her revengeful and selfish acts to Seju had never made sense anyway. In truth, she had no rights to blame Seju/Nami that time considering they had broken up, not to mention the fact she did hook up with Nammi once too.

2.“Why should I have told you about someone who never even crossed your mind?”

Sumin’s inexcusable fault here is, she just cut all ties with Sunhwa after graduation as if she had never existed in her life before despite having Sunhwa as her childhood friend since middle school. To the point where she didn’t get to remember her hot pretty bff Sunhwa when Sungji asked her in previous chapter if she had friends and what she was like in high school. Sumin: “No friends, I was just a loner who’s always busy studying, We shouldn’t get moved by someone who used to like us back then”. To be honest, I was laughing bitterly at these scenes so much when I read it, like “Come on, you really forget about Sunhwa that easily?” Even if they aren’t friends anymore, there is really no need to ignore her existence in your life as if she’s never accompanying you during middle/highschool days…

So that basically means, what Sunhwa had been scared of did come true, that Sumin really getting far away from her after graduation, unlike what she promised to Sunhwa that she didn’t want to stay away from her afterwards either. But eventually, she knew Sunhwa had feelings for her and she didn’t talk things out but instead, she made it as if it was Sunhwa’s problem so she pushed her bff away by saying "We'll go back to friends
when you no longer have feelings for me" which sounds no different than “If you want to be my friend again, you need to solve your own problem first”.

What’s more? Neither Seju or Nammi asked her to do so to Sunhwa and to all of her friends or just anyone trying to get to near to her. She was so busy with her new life in university that she gradually forgot she used to have a closed friend like that, and of course she didn’t mention Sunhwa even once in her daily chat with Nammi, which led her to think it would be better if Sumin didn’t find out about Sunhwa’s death forever. Would Nammi inform her this if she at least brought up Sunhwa once in their conversations? - The answer is yes - It’s just that you didn’t seem to care, so why do I should bother telling you it?

Nammi didn’t inform Sumin of this because she wouldn’t come if she did, and she didn’t expect Sumin to bring up Sunhwa at the reunion either. But could anyone hide it any longer once Sumin mentioned Sunhwa? No - that was why Nammi eventually chose to blurt out the truth. Someone else would do that if it’s not her. So where did Nammi did wrong?

Simply put, the author is the one who have biggest faults here, she’s heading to the boring, cliché plot twist in order to show that Sumin had become mature a lot of after her separation with Seju. That this time, after learning the death of her important ones, she didn’t lock herself in her own world that long anymore or push Sungji away like how she did to Seju (yet she didn’t seem to truly open up to Sungji even when they have been dating for 4 years) But still, is death the only way for Team Gaji to create Sumin’s character development? Just why did Sunhwa have to die for the sake of the main characters’ development? What was her purpose in Paradise all this time? People waiting to see her brighter life without Sumin or if she will act jealous over Sumin’s new relationship with another girl later on but what did we get? Such a waste.