once again i’m gonna explain the levels of nuance of abuse or toxic relationships. her mother and aunt showed they stayed in their relationship out of habits or wishing of an alternative but fear of leaving what they know. it’s not childish that our girl doesn’t wanna leave, remember he said to her in this chapter:
“are you calmed down” minimizing her feelings or why she’s arguing for their relationship.
“you can’t live without me” trivializing her to being inept without him while also implying she’s no one without their relationship. remember they’ve dated the entirety of her twenties a time that you’d usually need to find yourself.
just with those two statements you can see this relationship is made to make him feel more important despite the fact that we’ve heard from others she’s the more important one of their working relationship. even implying without her he might not have been as successful. we’ve already heard from her ex’s mouth that he doesn’t prioritize her given his excuse to not go get her cause it was raining.
she knows, that’s why her aunt said if you don’t wanna be in the same relationships as her mother and her she gotta leave him. at some point even waste water becomes sweet implying of course you remember the good, but that doesn’t change it’s bad. it’s always been bad. she’s not childish she’s scared. look at what he did when he saw her, he didn’t apologize. abusive and toxic relationships aren’t always simple of a “leave them” despite what we see in fiction.
i’m glad we got all their flashbacks before this moment cause it made it even sweeter them kissing again. before i did feel the flashbacks were a little excessive for them showing how much their birthdays meant to them. now ive changed my mind, honestly the more chapters we get the more complete their relationships get and the story feels more alive. even the background characters feel very 3 dimensional. i rarely say this about manhwa but this one of the few that i think could be pretty well translated to a live action. even if you cut the sex. it’s a really good story.







im excited to see the results of this cause with all his acting he doesn’t have any vocal or rhythm which i assume would make action scenes or idol performances (in acting) difficult. i wonder how he’ll overcome this?