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People don't step away from a three-year relationship without any heartache, and I did enjoy how the drama took the time to portray their very comfortable companionship with each other and the depth of their relationship. I do wonder how the story will go though, because there will be a lot of dissenting voices and a lot of obstacles that Sou and Tsumugi will have to overcome if they do choose to be with each other. Oh... I fear of future heartache (for myself).

It does come across to me that to Minato, Sou is more important to him than Tsumugi. Right from the start, he was always thinking of how to help Sou and appeared more anguished by Sou's quiet departure from his life than Tsumugi's actions. Perhaps somewhere, he always placed himself in second place (or third place), but it looks like to me that his number one was and perhaps will always be Sou.

I find the 2nd FL's in-his-face obsession with Jae Hoon a little creepy......

Indeed, I do not disagree. I was surprised at the angry comments about Yeo Reum, that there was so little empathy towards her empathy for Ji Wan. Was it unkind to Jae Hoon? Of course it was, but she was between a rock and a hard place, and she had to choose the lesser of two evils.

And I too agree, that if Jae Hoon knew why he had to do that, he would have agreed because he is a good man. But he didn't, because Yeo Reum is also a good person who is protecting Ji Wan's privacy. And hey, Yeo Reum's world has been shaken - the feeling of her heart and head trembling said she! - by this beautiful tangled mess that she inevitably created, and Jae Hoon had chosen to jump in head first.

My heart goes out to Jae Hoon, but I too feel for Yeo Reum who has now been dragged into the cesspool of manipulative antics of reality TV and being unfairly blamed because Chae Ri is basically........ VERY driven? To put it mildly. I feel a bit disheartened watching the trailer for episode 9, thinking Jae Hoon should know better, but hey, I guess he is allowed to be not perfect, and it's not a drama without some drama!

Polyandry anyone? The Crown Prince would join the fun, since he will hate to be left out. Lol.

Yul isn't stopping Mu Deok from doing anything really. He does keep telling her to go look for Jang Uk. He didn't explicitly say who he wants to bring, so perhaps we can just pretend the person he wants to take is Jang Uk, cos he'll get Mu Deok as a freebie if he brings Jang Uk. Then they can then live together in the fortress as one big happy family.

And I just can't stop myself from being moved literally to tears whenever I see how devoted Uk and Mu Deok are to each other. It's always so sweet how silly-happy Uk looks whenever he sees her. =)

Love the team work from Crown Prince x Yul x Dang Gu 🤣 The Crown Prince is so adorably silly, I don't want a future where Uk, Mu Deok and the Crown Prince have to turn against each other.

Sometimes, people can't see the wrong that they have done. I can only say, Seo Joon is Ji Woo's godsend, to teach him what it means to love.

I have to say, I really appreciate this season because the story telling was full of artistry. The many juxtapositions of the past and the present (how those broke me, especially in the first few episodes), the parallels between the first and second season, the snippets of longing and heartache that was never spoken of.

Putting aside the reality of being in a same-sex relationship in South Korea - there was no judgement, no questioning stares, everyone just accepted the two like it was the most normal thing in the world - this was ultimately just a love story between two people. Between a clumsy, far-from-perfect man and a courageous one with too much love to give.

Was the last episode worth the heartache I had to suffer through in the first 8-9 episodes? I don't even know. But I do think those early episodes did their job perfectly in eliciting the pain of languishing in the longing for a love lost, and I'm just glad we got to wherever we got to in the end.

I know. So proud of SJ dissing JW off - regardless of how transient that was. I laughed (in a very loving way of course) when JW started whining like a 5-year-old about the things he didn't like SJ doing. 😆 SJ, who has a heart the size of the universe, must have been like "Oh, you silly man... How can I not adore you."

I have never been so invested in a BL before. I was basically crying myself to oblivion every week before this. Love makes people stupid, so let's forget about everything else indeed. I mean, they have. 💕

Well, if he looked at his phone a year earlier, he likely would have just thought it was SJ being disgruntled at getting dumped by a nobody. The impact is probably quite different, being "harassed" everyday because of what can be misconstrued as pride, versus being hit by the realisation that he was still loving and caring for you even when you had given absolutely nothing back.

And JW was clearly all raring to go. Yoo Ha's mother had impeccable timing. HAHAHA

But I really loved the part after where they just naturally locked hands on the bed when SJ was the arm pillow.

I can only say, SJ has an EXTREMELY big heart. He has the shittiest parents (I still don't know what is up with them) but asks whether they've had eaten when he was just being criticised by the person on the other end of the phone, he wanted to protect his friend till the end in Season 1 until his friend blatantly asked him to take the fall, and he is always trying to protect everyone in the film crew etc. even if he had to take the blame for it. He is the type to keep giving and he probably gave too much for his own good.

So that was how SJ was with JW. SJ's love for JW was unconditional, he only threw a minor tantrum after all that nonsense JW put him through. I think JW needed SJ in his life to become whole. I don't know if SJ needs JW in his life; SJ is fully capable of forming meaningful relationships with a lot of people, but at least he was happy when he was with JW. As the show said, there is no perfect man nor perfect form of love, and JW is perhaps more flawed than others. JW had acted in a very immature manner and he had a lot to learn. I think - or at least like to think that - now he'll be spending the rest of his life becoming the kind of person deserving of what SJ has given him.

Yes!

I think that's just his modus operandi. He just leaves and drops off the face of the earth, just like he did with his ex, thinking it doesn't matter. Until he realises that it does.

I wasn't expecting some of the "flashbacks" to actually be memories of their future. And boy, JW got disgustingly sweet after they talked things through. Lol.

And JW marked the tree with what looked like SJ's handkerchief - I'm surprised the handkerchief didn't disintegrate after a year.

I had wondered for a while why they repeatedly showed JW walking in the woods - so that was what he was doing?? Visiting the spot?

Thank you for letting me know. At least the "perhaps" softened the thoughts, and I somehow think, he has no idea what he is trying to run away from or what he is trying to achieve. I imagine that we can all claim moral superiority and criticise the choices that he has made, but there are times when people (JW) just got their blinders on and be unable to see past what they think they see. I think he finally understands that he has been nothing but a fool who has hurt the one who loves him unconditionally. Everything and everyone is broken now. I'll wait for the final two episodes to see how they will pick up the pieces that he has left behind. I need to leave these episodes for now before my soul gets fractured any further.