love the story love everything but is it just me or is the art style changing too much. like i swear their faces are changing every 10 panels and im ngl i miss the old art style. sure they look good here but i feel like their features are too tiny and their bodies are too big
like i don’t wanna say it’s ai or anything, im sure there’s genuine drawings in this but the facial features are nowhere near consistent. and i understand that there’s a necessary change due to time skipping but this almost feels overboard. i struggle liking it and they look like completely different characters to me
i purchased the webtoon chapters if you wanna know what happens lmk and i’ll spoil it
basically the chapter pics up where it left off, in the parking garage. su-ae says that the shoes are nice but her feelings for eunhyuk are done. they’re nothing to each other and she feels that way because she realized that she must have meant nothing to eunhyuk to begin with if he was gonna leave her the way he did. she questions why eunhyuk could comfortably talk to her sister but not her. to that eunhyuk says nothing. she says thanks for the shoes and that it’s nice to have a goodbye finally.
eunhyuk grabs her arm and su-ae says take care with a smile and pulls her arm back, leaving eunhyuk in the parking garage. he doesn’t chase after her.
time skip to later that day and su-ae is back home and she’s putting the shoes away in a rack, presumably for nicer shoes or shoes she values because she says, “no, they’re not even precious enough to keep safe in the cabinet” and leaves them at the door saying they’ll be for work. so she puts them back on again and heads out.
while she heads out her phone is being blown up and i mean like BLOWN up people are messaging her like crazy. the dohwa scandal photo got leaked. not of them kissing but of them in the parking garage, the scene were eunhyuk wanted to give her the shoes but chickened out and watched her and dohwa from his car. she’s really confused and then she gets a random call from dohwas manager saying “get in the white van to the left” so she does because people now know her face and associate her with dohwa, they’re kinda swarming her in the street.
when she gets in the car the manager takes her to a location cursing dohwas carelessness and says, “he said this would jog your memory” and it’s dohwas old apartment. she’s told the password to the apartment is her birthday and to let herself in, so she does. when she enters the apartment she looks around making note of a few changes but stating that things look the same.
she makes herself at home by watching the news and sees that the scandal is on the TV too and dohwa is being swarmed by people. she feels distraught looking at it because she concludes that she should have been careful too, she knew he was popular (i felt she somehow didn’t think she’d be dragged into things because of self worth issues). ultimately she’s overwhelmed and feels bad for dohwa, she feels responsible.
she says to herself, “the article calls me beak-dohwas celebrity girlfriend… but that’s not actually true. we went on dates and kissed but… putting it that way really makes me seem like a mess. everything i did because i didn’t want to hurt him… might’ve been hurting him even more…” basically confirming she doesn’t have feelings for him the way he does for her and led him on in a way and that she feels guilty for it (self interpretation).
dohwa knocks on the door to the apartment and waits to be let in, he’s wearing a biker helmet. likely to hide his identity but also because he feels insecure and ashamed. he brought su-ae into a scandal pretty carelessly and doesn’t know how to face her. despite those feelings su-ae is very gentle with him, not getting mad or yelling but taking accountability for her carelessness as well. he takes the helmet off and dohwa says, “i’ll fix it.. somehow, i’ll fix it.” and he means it, he looks like he does. su-ae smiles at him and says, “i wasn’t exactly careful either..” and it gets kind of awkward here.
he asks, “are you mad?” and su-ae just smiles at him still, a sad smile, and says “dohwa-“ but is cut off and he says “can you not?” because she’s pitying him. they both can’t look at each other, su-ae avoiding eye contact with tears in her eyes and dohwa looking down at his feet.
tears welled up in her eyes and she looks down at her shoes eunhyuk gave her and sees a black smudge, they’re dirty, and internally says, “what i’m about to say to you.. and the fact that im upset about the scuff on my shoes even now.. it all just feels wrong.” now fully acknowledging to the readers and herself that she lead him on.
“let’s stop,” su-ae is making eye contact now, “i feel like all i ever do is hurt you” dohwa says nothing then says, “but im the one who screwed up-“ su-ae cuts him off saying, “i feel like im going to keep hurting you.” dohwa looks up at her and she’s fully crying, sobbing, “i don’t want to do that” is what she can say before dohwa lowers his self worth by saying “what if im okay with that?”. and we get a flashback from high school till now of all the times she made his life feel worth something.
su-ae just looks at the ground and apologizes looking away from dohwa but his eyes are full of tears already, “should i retire?” he says. “i don’t need any of this anyway. i never wanted a house or a nice car. the only thing i want is you… so why can’t it be me?” and he’s fully crying, similarly to su-ae “why has it never been me?”. su-ae rushes to comfort him after seeing his tears asking him not to cry but he says, “we can’t even be friends, does that mean i can never see you again? nothing is fun unless i’m with you” su-ae is trying to find his eyes because he’s looking down again, wanting eye contact. she says “we can still see each other…” but hes quick to call her a liar. he nuzzles his face into her hand and whispers, “you shouldn’t have let me hug me then, now i can’t let go” and with that it cuts to su-ae leaving the apartment.
we see a side by side of both of them crying, her as she walks down the street and him as he leans against his door. the last thing we see of dohwa is him contacting the press to make an official statement but nothing is clear on what he said.
su-ae is walking down the street and gets grabbed by the arm by her sister and pulled into her car. ra-im says she’s crazy for going home because reporters are swarming her place. so, ra-im takes her back to her place and says to make herself at home because she sleeps heavy so she shouldn’t worry about waking her up. ra-im states that she’s doing this for their parents and not su-ae but that feels like a lie because at night ra-im wakes up to see su-ae slightly smiling at a romance tv show and she smiles too, comforted at the fact that su-ae is smiling.
daily life goes on at ra-ims place and then it cuts to eunhyuk getting on a plane leaving to new york. we get a glimpse into his life in new york. he was abusing alcohol and taking heavy medication to help with sleeping, clearly showing he’s extremely depressed after the slow heal of the death of his mother and the goodbye su-ae offered him. he’s taking such heavy drugs and drinking so much he hallucinates life with su-ae. her in his apartment, on a bus near the campus he was going to for school, her talking and laughing with him. he’s laying chest down on his bed, it’s well past 11pm and he says “i really feel… like this will be the last time i see her again..” and sees her again, sitting on a chair next to him.
we get a flashback of him dreaming back to when they would have first graduated, she had short hair then and he looked equally young, both sharing an apartment and chatting together at something. then it cuts to him smiling sadly and suddenly she’s not there anymore.
we get a flashback of him at uni, he says he was just getting used to the struggle of a language barrier, getting used to a new life, new environment, a new language when he comes home to his mom suddenly dead. he came home to see her being carried out of the house in a box. the direct cause of death was a large dose of sleeping pills and alcohol, something he’s doing right now to himself. he’s in his bed, clearly depressed and distraught hallucinating su-ae in his room, in the house he shared with his mom, as a way to clearly self soothe. not an intentional hallucination but a subconscious one. he hears people outside of his door saying that he won’t leave his room and whoever it is outside his door says that they talked him out of dropping out of uni.
he dissociates a lot because the conversation going on around him turns blurry and he focuses in on a pendent he got from su-ae, one meant for luck. “the more miserable i became the more vivid the visions got,” is what he internally says. “and because i could only see you in my dreams… i spent more and more time trying not to wake up..” finally saying “that’s why i went to go see you, even when i knew i had no right to”.
it seems as though the first interaction they had when were with su-ae a long time ago wasn’t really the first because eunhyuk had been watching her daily life for a while from a distance. we know it’s a while because he concludes that she’s living life just fine without him. he’s watching her interact with friends at a park “i was the one falling apart, while you seemed to be fine this whole time” is what he says to himself. he realizes something, saying, “that’s when i realized, showing up in front of you again… would only be me trying to ease my own pain… and getting in the way of a good time during your life…” he’s walking away from her again “and honestly, i was too pathetic, to face you anyways… running away, then running again, then running away from that too… so i made up my mind… i’d be the only one to keep this longing alive. i ended up never going back to school… so i guess i broke my last promise to my mom..” and he wakes up from his dream because of a phone call, it’s a wedding invitation.
cut to a few weeks later a monologue saying, “dohwas agency dismissed the dating rumors saying they were just close friends, of course nobody believed them anyways”. then we see big red spray paint on a wall saying “beak dohwas father accused of massive fraud using his sons name” and a monologue saying “the public’s attention shifted elsewhere, it was revealed that beak dohwas father used his sons name to rack up debts worth billions of won” and says later the scandal broke. a news reporter saying, “among the stories that has taken the entertainment industry. this is one that cannot be left out.” following up she says, “ just three days after reports surfaced about beak dohwas father was involved in a massive debt scandal, the actor abruptly announced his retirement from the entertainment industry” dohwa says he will pay every penny back to the people who lost money and that he’s tired of the entertainment industry anyways.
su-ae hearing that feels no better nor relieved at the shift of attention from her to dohwa.
cut to eunhyuk on a plane, he’s irritated that he just found another way to run away from what he was doing. assuming he’s on the way to the wedding. we get a flashback to before he leaves for the wedding saying he’s a workaholic. showing that he’s killing himself through work. his secretary, also assuming she’s the person outside his bedroom door convincing him not to drop out during the flashback when his mom died, is telling him to take a trip to korea because he’s “going through that ‘phase’ again” is what she says, and that a trip would be good. he ultimately wasn’t going to do it until he sees the directors name on his proposal script, it’s su-aes, and he feels her calling out to him again despite her never actually doing it. he is yearning for her too much, so he gets on the plane. that’s where it leaves off.
i’m unsure of the script/wedding thing being a current time thing or a flashback explaining why we officially see him. i think it explains why we officially see him so this isn’t him going to see her again but an explanation as to why he showed up in her life to begin with. he saw it as a sign.







it actually feels like some sick joke to of found something this good this early on with this level of quality i feel so spoiled