• Namgung Ho & Park Su-ah: Ho finally stops waiting for permission to be happy. After taking time to step away from his past trauma and live entirely for himself, he embraces his evolving feelings for Su-ah, whose unburdened warmth contrasts the suffocating guilt he felt with Mi-do. They are positioned as the definitive romantic endgame.

• Lee Mi-do & Han Tae-seung: Mi-do chooses not to jump directly from one domestic relationship straight into another. To rebuild her self-worth and recover from her creative slump as a film director, she prioritizes her career first. The story utilizes a time-jump where she and a reformed, softer Tae-seung cross paths again down the line, concluding on a lighter, open-ended note that hints they are starting over the right way—from scratch