If Dane finds out about Grayson and that dog story, and what happens? It doesn't sit right with me if they just gloss over that lowkey
the dog story wasn’t true. grayson told josh it was a lie to scare chase
Dane is literally gonna be a red flag to grayson,but i think my man likes to be ordered around by him
I mean he kinda deserves it
Still fucked up, that lie went on for years bro. It didn't just scare Chase it literally made him traumatized
Wrong name, where tf did i get chase from...
Hey why'd i doubt myself its literally chase im remembering kiss me, liar broo
Someone get me into a psych ward asap
Dane doesn't care about what Grayson does to others btw, he knows the story but his reaction was idc actually and it's very evident in the future story Dane only cares about 2 Things Grayson and his cat Darling
Josh did tell him about how he lied about the dog thing but before that Dane witnessed something that made him understand the situation a bit so he didn't pay any attention to it.
DAMN IT DANE i had high hopes for you
Dang...ok the angst in this one better be fucking top-tier or else
If it makes you feel better, Dane was able to make Grayson sincerely apologize to everyone he's hurt including Chase. Dane didn't force him or tell him to do it, it's js Grayson finally realizing the bad things he actually did.
Yes this helps a lot thanks
I think it was a great read with how the plot was built - but the ending was definitely meh I'll agree with that. If it was longer it would've been great. Spoilers ahead.
Now let's talk about Minjun and Jinhwan and how people are saying Minjun's a red flag - I'd disagree.
So from what we know about our MC Minjun, he's a people-pleaser, and during his 20s he has very little confidence and has never been in a relationship. When he meets Jinhwan, he's constantly trying to go at his flow BUT he doesn't even know what it is. Jinhwan's wants are indecipherable to him, and he doesn't even know if he wants a relationship as well. Imagine being led by the nose during the entirety of a situationship then hearing THAT phone call? Minjun isn't confrontational, and we KNOW this, so he just leaves. Mind you if this all happened to me I'd fucking leave too tf
Jinhwan, our ML, is also part of the issue just as much as Minjun is. He tiptoes around the relationship they have, and we literally know he knows that Minjun also likes him. The problem with him is that just like Minjun, Jinhwan doesn't know if Minjun wants a relationship with him as well. He misinterprets Minjun's awkwardness when trying to feel him out or please him as awkwardness towards him and a relationship. So he also adapts a people-pleaser personality in a way by not mentioning a relationship at all.
Jinhwan had literally both the confirmation of Minjun's feelings and the upper-hand in the relationship where he knows they both feel the same way. He doesn't say anything - just like how Minjun didn't say anything about the phone call. There's no if or what ifs, the phone call was the last straw for both of them in a way.
The title itself 'a pushover's romance' refers to the both of them. They're both pushovers for each other.
At the end of the day the relationship they had in their 20s was built on assumptions and ended with assumptions. When they meet again, they both still hold their people-pleasing attributes whether they know about it or not. The only difference is that they've both changed and harbor resentment, but the resentment is exactly why their relationship works out this time. They let their real feelings out and actually get angry at each other. If Minjun had gotten angry like he did now, he would have actually confronted Jinhwan about the phone call - but he didn't have that resentment nor lingering attachments in his 20s. If Jinhwan was as direct in his 20s as he was in his 30s, we probably would have seen him actually address the issue of dancing around the subject of a relationship.
Literally the people they've become in their 30s were the answer to their relationship problems in their 20s. That's why their relationship works out this time. While the ending was ass, we witness Minjun see what Jinhwan actually wants after the entirety of the story not knowing what he wanted. They both become pushovers again, but this time for the right reasons to make a relationship work.
That's why it's 5/5 for me with like one star having a faulty lightbulb for how ass the ending was in general.
I yapped to hard bro
Nah bro this made so much sense
Please yap more
Don't read until the second season comes out, fair warning bc there's just a cliffhanger that for some reason couldn't be resolved in the first season? Like it feels like next-chapter cliffhanger not a 'this needs a second season' type of cliffhanger, it's like a hiatus cliffhanger lmfao.
Because this was a short there's a couple of time skips, and the description really only describes like the first third of the story and that's it. It's great in everything else but after reading like ten other stories that follow a similar storyline, or similar it just feels like a remix of all of them.
Nothing really happens for like 20-ish chapters plot-wise either.
I went digging for gold and found diamonds thankfully I found this when the main story ended.