SADNESS

I personally don't think Seju will be going back to Sumin. That red mitten scene, I guess it just indicates that Sumin will always stay in Seju's heart & memory. 10 years is a long time, Seju had suffered enough. I have questions like why Seju is leaving and fire Do Won / the guy with the bat... Team Gaji always leaves us surprises and twist plots (〜￣△￣)〜

First of all, Won is not just a caretaker, that's just her facade, the brother hired her to take care of Seju, not the hotel. This is something that people tend to forget, quite often.

The scene you describe, when Seju fired Won it also sounds like an ending to me, a farewell, like Seju tried it with Won but it din't work, Sumin is still present in her heart and in her mind, and that's why the next day we see the damn red gloves and Seju planning to take a plane, and I think Seju is trying to sell the hotel on the phone call. So for me she plans to go alone and not come back, she is leaving back to Sumin, to that toxic but familiar relationship (in the previous chapter she says something like that)

Now about the end, I think Won is going to get hurt in the fight when she defends Seju from the killer, and this will be the reason why Seju will decides to stay and not take the plane back to Sumin. She will stay with Won to take care of her and to make sure she is okay. Honestly this is the only reason that I could think for Seju to stay and dont take the plane.

I also agree with you. I guess Seju think that she & Won didn’t work out because Seju had only been feeling desire & sexual attraction, but not love. It can be safe to assume that Seju hasn’t develop real feelings toward Won, and this is due to the fact that Seju still keep Sumin in her heart.

I don’t blame Seju if Sumin gonna stay forever in her life, because no one can really throw away memory and her past just like that. We gotta live with it, acknowledge that we had experienced it and learned from it (the past).

I just hope Seju will start to let Sumin go little by little to allow Won to enter her heart. I hope Seju can fall in love again.

The guy with the bat was so scary, and I don’t know why but I predicted that Seju might also get hurt. If Won decide to show up, both of them gonna get hurt.

If the guy come up with a gun etc, it will make sense if someone was tryna kill her. But seeing the bat, could only make sense that someone just wanted to torture Seju badly, to the extend might eventually kill her also (but i dont think this will gonna happen bcuz this is just too much).

The business plan seems like an attempt to start everything new for me. Because in the very first moment, Seju went to Jeju island to escape. Basically just for a temporary, so now maybe Seju decided that she didnt find any trace or leftover of her mother, I guess Seju just want to sell the hotel as mentioned above. Later she start focusing on her business.

About Seju going back to Sumin, I personally dont think it gonna happen. I got a strong feeling that Seju just cant forget Sumin, & decided not to commit in another relationship. Anyhow, she wont linger in Sumin’s life, bcuz Seju know well that Sumin already moved on.

I feel bad that Seju just tried it with Won and it couldnt work out, but I guess this was for the better. The steps they took to fall in love were wrong, so I hope that they can properly do it and Seju will find happiness at the end of this ordeal.

However, back to my point which I mentioned before, I don't know if she was planning on going back to the toxic relationship with Sumin because she seemed pretty set on not going back to that relationship because she realized that it was never going back to the way she wanted it to be. She knows the pain she causes for Sumin and doesn't want to hurt her anymore. Her constant presence in Sumins life causes this pain and she doesn't want that. I mean she stopped having sex with Do Won for that very reason, because she didn't want to betray Sumin and cause any more hurt.

The point you made of her arrangement of selling the hotel and that is what she was talking on the phone about makes a lot of sense and that is why she doesn't need Do Won anymore.

I agree that Do Won getting hurt and Seju taking care of her would probably be the most plausible and only reason I can think of Seju staying and them getting closer.

It is obvious that there is no love at the moment and neither of they are thinking about a relationship. It is too soon!

But they are curious, interested and sexually attracted to each other. When I said that it didn't work between they I meant that Seju, despite feeling a lot of sexual desire for Won, couldn't have sex with her and in that moment I think she feels like she was cheating Sumin for having sex with someone else. Just when she was about to have sex with Won, she has a flashback of Sumin crying saying, "How could you do this to me?" in the day they broke up. Seju still feels guilty about that mistake, she can't forgive herself. In 10 years Seju was never with anyone else in a way to self-punish and wait for Sumin to forgive her and come back with her and it seems that she still holds that habit and can't break it. Reading this chapter and the previous ones I think Won was like a test for her, to see if she was able to sleep with someone else and break that toxic habit of self-punishment, but she failed miserably, and now wants to run back to Sumin again.

It's not going to happen of course, some shit must happen so Seju can't take that plane, as I said before maybe Won is injured during the fight, or both, but it's pretty clear that she was planning to come back for Sumin and that bothers me a lot.

Seju knows that Sungji and Sumin are back togethers?? The last time when she left, Sumin and Sungji had broken up.

I feel bad for seju too now. Part of me want seju going back with sumin , and another part of me dont want seju going back again with sumin bcause its a toxic relationship. But how i wish that sumin forgive all the mistake that seju hv done b4 this instead of torturing her for 10 years,. I mean no other girl will love sumin the way seju did (eventho sumin hv sungji now). Seju hv been waiting for sumin like a crazy person. Believing that one day sumin will going back with her.