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Y’all, I read the raws and the angst is about to begin. In ch 13 the ml’s brother reveals the ml is getting married/engaged (I forgot I think it was engaged tho).
In ch20 it REALLY gets going tho bc that’s when the mc casually brings it up to the ml and is still in disbelief and doesn’t think he’s gonna actually do it, but the ml is like yep.
Ch 20 dialogue I quickly translated when mc finally brings it up (with a lot of hope for his relationship still):
Mc: “Do you plan to live as your family expects you to?”
Ml: “yep”
Mc: “So, are you going to marry the person your family expects you to marry?”
Ml: “yep” (he says this with a completely neutral expression too like a ‘I see nothing wrong with this’ expression)
Mc: “…What?”
Ml: “What does it matter?” (Still unbothered expression and wondering why the mc is shocked)
… etc
Mc: “Was I just a toy* to you?!??” (Alt tl: was I just a plaything* to you) (he’s crying atp)
This seems to be the main angst point in this manhwa bc the ml can’t rlly understand the issue and even when he figures out the mc is upset that he’s getting engaged to another woman (he considers it part of his duty and just business yk they were raised in different worlds so his idea of an engagement is different and it’s not about love etc), he can’t/doesn’t stop it and it escalates further.
So in ch30 (yes this doesn’t get resolved for fucking ages lol) ml is meeting with the woman in a restaurant beneath a hotel. He DOESN’T tell the mc about this, and has handed his phone to his secretary before he goes into the restaurant. Mc has been with the ml’s brother and they’re talking about the ml. Ml’s brother is saying how the ml doesn’t normally do stuff like renting out an amusement park when dating (emphasising to the mc that he’s special to the ml) and how the ml really just sees marriage as business and didn’t understand mc’s feelings. Basically the brother is encouraging them to talk it out and giving him hope. So the mc, with a renewed sense of hope, decided to call the ml thinking he’s probably finished work by now. The secretary picks up, as the ml has handed his phone to him by this point and gone to meet the woman.
Summary of the phone convo between mc and ml’s secretary:
Secretary: basically ml is busy and he asks if he can take a message for the ml
Mc: no it’s ok
Secretary: well if it’s urgent do u want me to tell u where he is?
Mc: ahh but wouldn’t I get in the way of his work?
Secretary: Is that what he told you? He’s at work?
Mc: …it’s not work?
Secretary: he’s on a blind date/meeting his prospective marriage partner* (*맞선: a blind date specifically to meet the future marriage partner in an arranged marriage type of thing)
Mc: sorry?
(Tldr mc asks the secretary for the location and decides to go and talk to ml face to face)
The mc catches the ml there collecting clothes ? or buying clothes for the woman? I forgot, but she had some wine spilled on her. Tldr mc is miserable and storms out and tells the ml not to follow him, thinking that he (himself not the ml) is like an idiot.
A lot of the readers at this point are saying they just want the mc to break up with the ml bc it’s just disrespectful and the mc keeps getting hurt and “a lover who doesn’t discuss these things with you isn’t your lover”. The ml kept the truth from him and silently went on the date and he had to find out that way lol