It's not really that she didn't acknowledge it, more of she didn't know. She asked him if he was serious and he couldn't even respond back, so it's not her fault. He wasn't even really rejected because he never really asked, when he found out himself that he was in love with her he kept silent about it
She only rejected him because she knew what he felt wasn’t romantic love but more in the sense of family. And when asked if he did love her romantically he couldn’t say it right away either. Plus, near the end of the their last time seeing each other he said, “I loved you noonim.” Which could be interpreted as him saying he loves his sister (if u look up wut noonim means. Idk, I can’t fully said that he didn’t have at least have 1percent interest in her romantically but I wanna defend her actions cause she didn’t want him to force himself to marry her when he didn’t like her in that way. If it helps, she did acknowledge him defending her on chapter 72. nsjosjosbjhgsakg
^^^^
For real! She asked him if he was serious, but he didn’t respond. Then, after he went up to her and asked her to talk, he didn’t confess either. I’m going to guess he gave up on her.
Yeah he just decided to love her as family instead ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I just had to drop this. I feel so horrible for the purple haired guy who got rejected just like that. :(( He literally beat someone up trying to defend her. She should at least like, Acknowledge that. I know she doesn't have mutual feelings for him but rejecting him like that was so... unnecessary. Poor guy.