you and me both, gang
I am not against their eventual reunion, but for it to feel earned, the author needs to thoroughly and convincingly develop their future interactions. Their relationship is a complete mess.
Yeongwon herself will point out in the coming chapters that Seunji didn't give a damn about her for six years and never even tried to find her. Currently, Seunji’s attachment reads more like a guilt complex. And we, as readers, understand far too little about what she truly thinks of the past. Shame and pity for her victim… that seems to be the entirety of it.
Even Yeongwon’s bratty cousin raced back for her, risking her life to pull her from a burning building. And what did Seunji do? The car with Yeongwon’s aunt and guards drives away, quickly leaving her behind. ALONE. My God, if I had done such a thing, I would have had an epiphany right then. I would have run back up that hill, into that fire, if only to make sure there was nothing left to do. The sheer abandonment was fucking cruel.
I cannot even comprehend what goes on in Yeongwon’s head. Apparently, in all this time, she has never been able to fully hate her own betrayer. Honestly, she is an angel in the flesh. So much shit happened yet this girl just silently swallowed her tears, tried to move forward, and maintained a polite, gentle demeanor toward others. Seunji, meanwhile, was betrayed for money just once and turned to stone. Yeongwon’s continued patience toward Seunji is extreme. Her love never died. And that is terrible… I feel sorry for her.
Every hint of sympathy from Seunji should be disgusting to Yeongwon, it’s like being forced to step over her own trauma and resentment repeatedly. That’s why I am glad that in the upcoming chapters, she will finally voice everything she has been holding inside.
As for Seunji, she doesn’t feel like a fully realized character right now. My only moments of sympathy come when the weight of her actions visibly crushes her. In those flashes, there’s a potential for her to crack open, to genuinely connect with her own motives, or at least to ask the right questions. But her methods remain awfully selfish. She consistently fails to translate that internal pressure into meaningful action.
Take the bottles… Seunji removes them because the sight of a broken, drunk Yeongwon leaves a heavy residue within herself. It isn't about Yeongwon’s health, it's about alleviating Seunji's own discomfort at witnessing the consequences. She never once asks how Yeongwon reached this point because that would require confronting the full, ugly story. Some might argue asking is an impertinence, but removing someone’s sole coping mechanism without offering any alternative is infuriating.
It’s this accumulation of small, telling details that builds my frustration. Seunji operates with no tact, no basic empathy, and a shocking lack of shame. She forces her presence and her solutions on Yeongwon, but it only makes things worse. Her interventions are about alleviating her own guilt, not addressing Yeongwon’s pain. In fact, they often inflict more of it.
Seunji’s background provides context. A difficult childhood explains her warped worldview, and the events that followed explain her deep-seated suspicion. Even the initial abandonment of Yeongwon could be framed as a catastrophic failure under pressure. It is a human, if despicable, instinct.
But none of this justifies the erratic swing of her feelings. Without insight into her internal logic, the current motivations are frustratingly opaque.
Sorry for the babble.
No, no. You voiced everytjing I have heen feeling about Seunji for the past like...20 chapters? In S1 we got to see how she developed in her relationsjip with Yeongwon and we see that she actually did fall in love with her(or at least I thought so, when they were cuddling and she was getting scared of caring about Yeongwon).
After that, it feels like Seunji has become more of a plot point, specially dince we have gotten very little about her past before meeting Yeongwon, nor have we seen a lot of what she did or the conseauences of her actions begore meeting her again. She only started thinking about it and caring about Yeongwon when she saw her state, as you said, out of guilt.
Ever since S2 started I have been waiting for her to go to her knees and apologize, and I'm getting frustrated that she hasn't even aknowledge that. It makes me even more frustrated that Yeongwon's resolve to kill or take revenge has dissolved almost entirely with how little Seunji has paid back. Shes too good of a person but also it was not just a petty betrayal, it was leaving her to her death when she promised they would escape together and had a romantic relationship.
Idk, if I dont get justice for this girl soon imma implode cuz its been 48 episodes of no accountability whatsoever and I still don't want them together, not like this.
I agree with both of you. I do not excuse the leaving her to death part because thats SO fucked up, and I wish to see Seungji properly apologizing for that, if she would take a bullet for Yeongwon it would make me feel less guilty for wanting them back together bc tbh even tho I still think they can find ways to fix what happened to both of them, right now they are completely toxic and this manhwa falls (no pun intended) in what most of stories uses to push us to read further: no proper communication. And I hate it. But it's understandable, the situation they are in is so difficult to solve that I can totally see why they can't stand to speak of the past.
In conclusion, I just wanna see them get a happy ending :')
Exactly, cuties. What a wonderful convo we had.
Seeing the comments and starting to feel like I'm the only one who wants them back together