You and me both. Not only past live, there's also the we met as a child trope. Idk why those are common
Fr! And I especially don’t like when one of them is a thousand years old or something and met the other as a kid… What is going on with these authors…
honestly they could've ended the story with season 1 and just kept doing fluffy side stories or smth.
im thinking it might have to do with the influence of buddhism on korean culture. bc they have a concept called in-yeon (인연), which basically deals with karma and past lives influencing present connections and explains why people meet.
you could think of the red strings as like a symbolic representation of inyeon
(disclaimer: red strings-- which are originally a chinese concept and not related to buddhism-- have slightly different folklore/meaning depending on whether it's in china, japan, or korea)
I am not very interested in these “past lives” types of stories. Why are they so common in manwha? But I may continue reading anyway because I am so attached to these characters and the story…