10/10 is a pretty overwhelming ending; all the drama and anxiety of the previous chapters makes you feel like everything is going to end badly. When June jumps overboard and Jeon follows her into the sea, it made me doubt whether the ending was truly happy (i.e., if they ended up together), whether they both died, whether Jeon would drown. After thinking about it more carefully, June never actually wants to kill or drown her in the sea. She says she's going to protect her, and although one might think that perhaps for June, drowning her in the sea but being together forever would mean protecting and loving her, it's shown that this isn't the case because June is willing to die instead of stabbing her and drinking her blood underwater. If she intended to drown her and be together as a loving act, shouldn't she have chosen to stab her and stay underwater together as a final act of love? Instead of deciding to die herself on land and let Jeon live and spend her last moments with her? This is why I think that when Jeon and June fall into the water, they survive. June is saved thanks to Jeons trust and love, and Jeon also gets to live under the sea. I think the author wanted to portray the sea not literally, but as leaping into the unknown with the person you love. It shouldn't be taken as if June and Jeon are literally going to build a house out of sand and shells and live in the sea. I believe the whole story alludes to taking risks and leaving everything you've built behind to be with the person you love, hence June being a mermaid and the sea representing the unknown, the possibility of death. The author, in a way, makes us consider whether jumping into the sea, whether that decision, means dying or living. Jeon and June decided it meant living, and it's up to us whether we see the unknown as death or as a life of love. Personally, based on what I've said before, I think they live, because the story isn't meant to reflect something literal but metaphorical.
When the blonde asked "should we keep in contact" and hesoo answered "no, block me" Am I the only one that that interaction felt so off? I know she just broke up with someone but why would she say she doesn't want any further contact and even saying to block her? There was no resentment from the breakup or the relationship, they didn't end things on such a bad note, so why? I get the no talking period after a break up for a while to adjust but going as far as to block them...
Do you also block the person you were dating after breaking up?
In my opinion I would also block because if they stayed in contact the option of getting back together would still be open. And there’s no reason to be friends when hanging out in itself is already awkward. Best to cut ties and never see each other again. Hesoo was going to block her regardless, best to be honest with the blonde and tell her to do it too so she doesn’t get confused by her intentions either











This second story looks interesting