beta
i finished it~ sans the side stories because i'm not putting myself through that. there's a suspiciously daewoo-shaped elephant between the 7/10 this story is and the 10/10 it could've been. it's really bordering on a 6/10 because daewoo is such a deterrent to this story, and his involvement in the plot that suddenly got switched up to dole out the blame to other parties and shift focus off of him holds it back by so much it isn't even funny. there are genuinely one too many scenes wasted on him because the author desperately wants you to forgive him for something they never had to make him do in the first place if they weren't going to commit to him suffering any consequences for it. and that's really the worst part about it for me: nothing happens to him at all for the amount of problems he caused and he gets everything he wants in spite of it all. it's almost comical. it's upsetting because beneath this really ugly sheen, the story is more than serviceable, but the commitment to making sure that nothing happens to daewoo fills me with a sense of foreboding for the author's future works the main couple is sooo lovely, idk why they couldn't just focus on them alone lmao.