Butterfly

probably just jealousy she's trying rlly hard to repress or she herself hasn't recognized yet man idk

Proberly because the fl has more game than her without trying

Because her expression is sour towards her and she's still acting on assumptions that Haesoo has "everything". It comes off as jealousy and envy. Also she gave unnecessary advice and worded it in a shitty way, getting a gift doesn't mean you're obligated to give back and she yet again brought up her age and how she should behave. She's irritating.

Yes, she’s acting on assumptions pbut not because Haesoo has everything. The coworker changed the attitude towards FL because she thinks that Haesoo divorced her husband to seek a younger man and doesn’t know that the douchebag actually cheated on her in their own house. Haesoo never really talked about her personal life at work.

Sorry but I seriously think you need to reread the story. The coworker ALREADY looked down on haesoo before she thought she was a cheater. Coworker also expressed interest in taeha early when they first met. Coworker constantly insulted haesoo by calling her old and worsening her self-esteem implying taeha could never be into someone like her.

I think there’s a concern when hundreds of readers have noticed the coworkers malicious intent and you’re part of the minority who still clings onto “she’s misunderstood!” You don’t insult someone to show them “reality.” She’s constantly gotten upset whenever haesoo is shown to be happy. Even after being warned by taeha, she STILL acts this way. You need to accept not every girl has good intentions. She’s extremely nosy as well. And I’m saying, this coworker resembles a lot of girls readers have met in real life and always turned out to be a mean girl. People speak and know from personal experience, that coworker is not misunderstood or doing it for FL’s benefit.

I think maybe you missed all the hints showing she’s not a good person. Even in this new chapter she CHOSE not to warn the FL because she’s upset and thinks the FL will do fine with a man by her side. She chose to do that once she saw FL was happy and made the same bitter face she always does at her happiness.

I purposely reread the chapters between the coworkers, dw. I never sense a negative energy from her towards the FL, still don’t and that’s why I was surprised with the hate. At the beginning she supported Haesoo and told her that she is pretty and that she should accept Taeha’s feelings since more younger guys were after older woman (her words). But let’s all ignore that part, right? Then she found out that the FL was married and the idea of her with a younger man didn’t set right anymore. She got happy for a while when Taeha bought roses from her for a while, not a surprise about that since she is young. If you’re upset about that is your problem I don’t see it a big deal. I can agree that she is not consistent with her thoughts and she changes her mmind a lot based on situations. Only in one chapter she said how Taeha wouldn’t be interested in her because she is a “ajumma” (which btw it means also married woman, not just middle aged) and afterwards she minded her business ( not a constant behavior as you mentioned) untill Taeha showed affection in the workshop. There you can clearly see how unsettled she was with the fact that Haeso wasn’t married anymore out of the blue in her mind and was already in some sort of interaction with a man that pursued her.

Most readers on this site act based on emotions and don’t really try to understand other characters or other readers. If they have a thought that’s it. But just cuz 100 people say the same thing doesn’t mean that everyone needs to agree with it.
To resume the coworker’s main complaint for me was that she considered the FL married and for that reason she shouldn’t mess with other men. And she didn’t interfere and bothered the FL after learning that they were together. She moved forward and that was it. If you can’t grasp this thought is fine, you can’t understand everything.

I agree that not every person has good intentions, but I don’t need you to tell me what do I need to accept or not. Feel free to follow the masses that just repeat the same thing over and over and ignore my comments.

Yeah nope then you clearly missed the several hints she’s shown to lower haesoo’s self esteem whenever she’s happy. I’m truly concerned about your lack of observation and how naive you think of the coworker. Anyways like I said, lots of people speak from experience from meeting girls like that coworker in REAL LIFE and know she does have bad intent. And ahjumma almost never is meant to mean married woman, majority of the time it’s to call people old. Even Koreans get offended if they’re called “ahjumma/ahjussi” when they’re in their 20s-early 30s. There’s literal pranks on YouTube in Korea where a girl calls people that.

YOU asked why there’s hate for the coworker and you were dumbfounded and couldn’t understand, and I answered. The whole “she’s just looking out for haesoo” statement was already debunked long ago the moment she started insulting haesoo and talking behind her back to “protect” a random man she doesn’t know vs actually talking to haesoo first. There’s a clear reason why taeha doesn’t like the coworker and called her out for it. You can’t say “lots of readers act on emotions” when they dislike a character you like. They DO understand the coworker much better than you think, you just choose to stay blind and naive to her blatant intent. Like I said (which you chose to ignore too), the coworker chose to not warn haesoo of a creep just cause she saw her looking all happy she has a man, and was bitter. You can keep believing the coworker is an angel until she does worse things lmfao.

Ok, wathever we won’t come to a agrement and you just keep repeating the same statement without beeing mentioned in the story.
Not every experience is the same for everyone IRL and I don’t get why u constantly bring that up like is the only truth on this planet when I’m specifically talking ONLY about the story since I can see how events actually went instead of just assuming. Is like you’re talking from your point of view, noeone is mentioning Real Life.
Oh yes people are very sensitive about how you call them and get offended easily even as a prank, wow how low.

No, you just not answered, you criticised me. You could have answered once and simply explained tour thoughts, but no, you had to make a big deal of it.

Are you even reading what I’m writting or are you just pretending and assuming things I didn’t even said? Cuz I feel like I’m waisting my time here. When did I said that she is looking for Haesoo or that I liked the character? Did I said that the coworker did nothing wrong? If you didn’t notice I’m not taking sides here. All I’m saying is that she had her reasons to act in a certain way which I stated that it was a reckless behaviout. Yes she could have talked to Haesoo first, but she thought badly about her and didn’t trust her and acted on instinct. They weren’t close to begin with to be friends and tell each other every private matter or what bothered them.

Oh I ignored you, sorry you felt that way. I thought it was clear from my OP that she had the itention to tell Haesoo about the guy, but didn’t because she was in a good mood (which again I don’t agree with cuz dangerous things must be said). But you only care about your opinion, how could you understand mine.

I’ll keep beliving what I see in fictional stories, you keep being salty and assuming things as you please cuz everyone is seeing that way and rherefore it automatically has to be applied to real life factors :)) byee.