When will it be my turn to have a freaky ahh guy who actually likes me enough to overcome himself during the process T^T
First of all, true! All of my childhood friends are girls because I could never form a decent connection with a guy without any of them constantly mistaking basic human decency for romantic interest.
Second, on top of what you said, I'd like to add that I think people severely underestimate the effort that's actually required to maintain a real relationship. Like, I just got back into the dating pool after spending two years healing from a toxic long-term relationship, and honestly? It’s been reallll hell out here lately. Most of the people I've encountered absolutely love the idea of getting into a relationship, meeting someone new, and exploring that connection—until the actual weight of responsibility and effort hits the block, then suddenly they think of themselves as birds that need to be freed into the wild.
Maybe I just got struck by a string of bad luck in this dating scene, or maybe rejection really is redirection. But man, it's getting too tiring now that the pattern keeps showing up and I can't even do anything about it but leave. We can't force people to choose us after all, and loving them harder doesn't magically create a space for you in someone else's heart
I hope the 2nd male lead also finds himself someone that's fit for him. One that's also unapologetically them. Raw, determined, driven, and genuine, but isn't in any shape nor form, a ripoff/copy of Hanuel.
Just like Mincheol, he has showed us, the readers, change. A kind of change a person is capable of when they really like someone during the process. So let’s not take away that fact, or the progress he has shown and achieved so far in this story—well, unless, he chooses to prove us otherwise y'all
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Watching Hanuel stand on business is js chef's kiss atp, 'cause wdymn boy keeps fumbling sb? SHE'S RIGHT THERE MY GUY WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT??
Standing on business BECAUSE shes literally making the guy reflect. Shes not babying him anymore. And literally so what if she still likes him? Its the fact that even if she loves him or wtv, shes not gonna lose her self respect by being the one to do all the moves. Shes just giving him openings and if he doesnt take it, then sucks for him. Youre stupid to think if a persons emotions and actions are automatically equivalent to each other. She may like him, but shes standing on business by keeping her self respect.
Oh, I think you’re mistaking “standing on business” for instant emotional detachment. That wasn’t what I meant—and clearly, most people understood that.
She didn’t stop loving him. Not yet since she still have feelings for the guy. But she is aligning her actions with the boundary HE SET when he chose for them to be “just childhood friends.”
That’s why she refused the jacket and refused the empty talk he was gonna offer to the table. She’s simply not entertaining half-steps anymore and getting herself taken advantage of in return.
Plus, if you read it with an open mind, you’d immediately recognize the nuance in the situation, as this also mirrors our reality. You can def have feelings for someone and STILL enforce boundaries w/ them. Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive. And reducing—or oversimplifying—it to “she still loves him, therefore she’s not standing on business” blatantly ignores:
1.) The emotional complexity a person can have.
2.) The entire point of her growth.








GET HIS ASS GIRL