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talk depressing, everyone is going on about the forbidden love as if this some sordid animalistic attraction. this was more about Yoon Ha, he was a lost soul all alone in the world, who found solace in a kindred spirit, Jung Bun. she didn't treat him like a kid & was as lost as him - like she said "...just cause she was older, didn't mean she wasn't as helpless & lost..." just another disconnected human like him, that had lost everything & was doing the best to survive & even though their interaction was only as street vendors, he helped her as much as she helped him - they were equals.
when she suddenly disappeared from his life, he felt abandoned all over again & meeting her again by chance a decade later "Felt like kismet" & as a young adult man, with all those hormones flaring it was natural that he felt attraction to the women who was his other half in suffering, loss & pain.
just now as an adult, he could shoulder her pain & help her as a man - add the hormones & he wanted to be more then just a comrade in suffering. but given her daughter's infatuation, let alone societies norms, she knew she couldn't encourage him in any way, that's why she ran -

personally i just felt sad for both - for different reasons. i don't see this as cheating - maybe forbidden love & the ending was depressing. but what other outcome could there have been. i don't agree with the daughter's commentary at the end - she was being petty, like her mother acted petty by taking the power box. it was cause her ego got hurt, when her daughter told her a woman her age couldn't were power, as people would laugh.
sorry, but just cause u r a mother doesn't mean u lose ur sense of self worth - u push it to the back putting ur children before urself - heck u put ur whole family before ur self, like Jung Bun did. mothers can be jealous of their daughters & vise versa, & being human they can be selfish too, doesn't mean Jung Bun was a bad mother, it for sure doesn't delete all her hard work or the love she had & gave her daughter. if anything she tried her best to safeguard her daughter, without breaking her heart, moving the 1st time & then she tried to make it clear to Yoon Ha that if he didn't love her daughter, he should stop what he was doing.

the fact that Yoon Ha was too desperate to have Jung Bun in his life, even if that meant using Mi Soo is a sad decision he came too, but he also knew that there was NO other way to keep Jung Bun in his life otherwise.

the end was Jung Bun knowing all was lost & choosing suicide by In Bun's hand. she was tired of being her sister's caretaker, watching her daughter have what she prevent herself from having. maybe keeping up the act that all was ok had become too tasking. maybe she couldn't live with Yoon Ha being near but knowing she could never lean on him, cause now being her son-in-law it would be doubly forbidden & it weighted on her soul that she wanted too, but would never dare.....
this was well written & acted, but OMG depressing.