It's not possible to always come out fully. I live in a liberal city in the West. But my family and my partner's are hella religious & conservative. When we go out, we gotta be mindful where we hold hands more often than not. We're young, this is 2026 and things are better in some ways. But we're still not there yet in many ways. I can only imagine how much more oppressive this shit is for those like us living in hyper conservative countries like Korea..
The horror is so well done fr fr. I feel for the MC and for Haesu. That loneliness and that fundamental feeling of never being enough.. bruh.. so well done. And Eunha is honestly pretty well conceived, personality wise. She ain't 2D, she pretty fierce in a very believable, non performative way and is also cute as hell. I think she's way too understanding towards some adults, esp the dad, but that's the whole extreme Confucianism thing that seems to underpin Korean society
The whole staying w the grandpa while the kids essentially grow up w one parent, Lee Hwa, and missing their most important years, esp having given birth to them (I read there's also a biological link bw mom and baby, attachment wise), is so much bs, I can't even.. But ig it's all that obligatory Confucian stuff taken to extremes










I legit liked it. I think the story needed a bit more room for that happy ending to work right. Had it ended wout a happy ending, it might've made more sense for the story and might've been more satisfying. That being said, it's one of the best bls I've read and i got attached to the characters. It's realistic but also.. not really. As a queer guy, i think culturally.. some things don't map well from Korean culture to N American culture re being gay. Tho things are more difficult nowadays again, not that they were super easy before. But yeh. The high rating tracks