
how are you, in your thirties, saying "thank you for hanging out with this old lady ho ho ho" to a guy in his twenties as if you're an elderly woman with whom he can't possibly have anything in common? is the average korean person this ashamed of being in their thirties? is it a cultural thing? or are these characters just weird? people in their twenties and thirties hang out together all the time where i live lol

Are you skimming through these chapters for you to not know that she’s not your average 30-year old? She was literally abused by her father, bullied by schoolmates, her one and only safe person became her worst nightmare. She was married to a guy who overtime turned into a narcissist. She doesn’t have friends. She has no social life, she was isolated and forced to rely and hold onto her ex-husband cause he’s all she’s got. She has low self esteem as that’s how the people around her made her feel SO OF COURSE, SHE DOESNT KNOW. She doesn’t know that’s normal. Also 10 years gap is still huge. ML is a college student and she was a working housewife. They were living a completely different life at least in her POV.
I don’t get why you still have to question things like this when it should be us who understands her the most.

ok but it's not just her, mincheol also acts weird about his age. is that also because of his hard life? also yeah i get her having low self-esteem it's understandable but usually the insecurities you develop reflect society's prejudices and her own insecurities are HEAVILY focused on her age when she's only in her early thirties. so i wonder if it's not a common mentality in korea

like i could understand if she thought "oh i'm so unfashionable, my life is so boring, i have nothing to talk about 'cause i don't have money or time so i don't have hobbies" but more often she just thinks "oh man i'm so OLD i'm WASHED". if that's just her lamenting wasting her youth on mincheol i wish the narrative would make that a little clearer 'cause to me it looks she just has a complex about her age for some reason

In korea a lot of people dread the age '30'. I've been seeing patterns since I started reading manhwas in 2016. A lot of characters would be saying like "I'm turning 30, I'm an ahnumma now!". And in the real world, a lot of young Koreans would feel weirded out if they see a person in their 30s in a club, a party, or any gathering for young adults. And apparently when you turn that age, it's the time where you should spend all of your savings trying to look as young as possible. The whole "ahjumma" gimmick with the MC was something I ignored due to it happening often to other manhwas. Your comment lowkey made me think about it again.

i've liked haesoo so far but she was really self-centered and selfish in this chapter. she tells taeha "we're not dating, so don't get any ideas" to protect herself and when he says "ok" she makes him out to be the guy by thinking "wow you don't even care so you really were only after my body i knew you were promiscuous". bitch you acted like you were only after his body first. did she never even consider that he was also just trying to protect himself by saying he was ok with that? does she think she's the only one who has feelings or what?

Yeah I kinda agree with you on that take. She was really only thinking of herself when she said that (can’t blame her for that) but I also think she’s trying to think the worse of him to not only protect herself but to also not hurt him with him having some expectations. Which has back fired of course since his feelings did get hurt a bit. She’s putting up a wall so that neither of them will get hurt from having any sort of expectations. Those are just my thoughts.

i don't want minhyung and yijae to have a happy ending together. when someone as lovely as namhyun dies someone needs to be sad about it forever and yijae should be that person. and minhyung the one who killed him should rot in hell

“someone needs to be sad forever” NO WAY you said that absolutely nobody has to be sad forever that somebody lovely died. everybody deserves to move on and find happiness instead of drowning in the memories of that person. of course they should hold them in good memory and look back fondly at them, and not completely forget their existence. but this isnt it. getting over the death of a loved one is hard, and absolutely nobody should be sad forever that is literally torture no hate
i missed this