Lovely

I love that they went this route.

I think this would've worked better as a 2h film, not so much as a drama. It's just very repetitive, and personally, I find it barely relatable, because the characters just have no personality and even less chemistry.

I think Yumi's partner's primary cell should either also be Love or Emotion or Empathy.

This is what I've been saying!!! Where's the EQ????

I guess that he probably won't have any time for her, or that maybe he has to move, and that he broke up with Yumi to be "fair" to her. I hope we get answers in the second season.

I love Woong's lack of transparency, go boy, give us nothing~!

Yeah, after the Saeyi thing, hadn't quite realized that this man really gives nothing. In my mind, they had a serious and thoughtful conversation after the event off-screen, it took me a while to realize they didn't.
That birthday disaster, it was embarrassing, but not so bad to break up. LOL!

LOL. Yeah, my affection paralleled Yumi's. It's just that I'm way less forgiving, and a lot more petty, that's why while Yumi was still patient, I was already waiting for their break-up in ep8 or so, after he lied about his housing situation. It may have helped, though, that I knew they were gonna break up.

Exactly, the text wouldn't even have been an issue, if she didn't have already enough reasons to break up with him. It was just that right at that moment it was a sign of effort he didn't give that she needed to hold on further.
Woong didn't even ask or wonder why she'd be angry for the payment of the table, because he just didn't care.
Yumi is not bad at communication, she's just too forgiving and too patient. Every time they had a conflict, she would show her discomfort either by clear facial expression and body language, or more often she would straight up say what she dislikes. But instead of explaining himself, Woong will go on to "what's wrong~" and coax her. She will ask a question to understand why Woong does certain things, and he gives her nothing. She was unhappy that he moved out and asks why, he didn't answer, and then she's even supposed to tell him how it makes her feel insecure that he is so unresponsive. All that, while Woong knew he was making her worry, but he kept quiet still.
Communication is not a one-sided job. Could Yumi have done more? Yes, in her place I would've fought him many times, but I feel like people ignore her effort. You cannot communicate if the other person is unresponsive by choice. Woong was not dumb, and he wasn't as clueless as he acted like, he just chose to ignore whenever he knew that he was making Yumi feel insecure. And in the end, he rather lied to her and leave her with a trauma for mentioning marriage in her next relationship, instead of being honest and transparent the first time as a last time in their relationship, because his reason for breaking up was 100% because of his new job opportunity.

You're right. I mean, it's fine that he wanted to end the relationship too, but why suddenly? When Yumi mentioned marriage, internally he was like "not right now" and not straight up rejected by the idea, and we know his desire for marriage is not as deeply buried like before that's why I believe it was a total lie when he said it was the first time he believed they weren't on the same wavelength. So, he'd rather leave Yumi with a trauma of mentioning marriage instead of being honest and transparent for the first time as a last time in their relationship, so that Yumi wouldn't think that it was her fault. Truly f*** this guy. I really liked Woong, but with them broken up, I'm glad that all my affection for him is now gone.

Wang Zi Qi is really a good actor. The ending of ep 20 really caught me off guard.

My hope for the 2nd season is for Yumi to make some serious and not only work related friends who'll wish the best for her.

really really loved this. I think they did an excellent job a making us love Woong too, so even we were in conflict if it is better to break up or not, because rationally yeah, but then again they were such a sweet couple. I would've loved to know what went on in Woong's head, but the way it ended is quite nice.

I didn't quite catch him as manipulating, but what you said does make a lot of sense. I was wondering too why he wasn't more upset about loosing Saeyi as a friend.
What really surprised me was when he said that he might get angry when she wants to break up with him, I mean he didn't, but it's quite alarming that it was his first instinct instead of worrying why Yumi was feeling hopeless for them.

I agree. I don't mind it either, but I do think the difference is that it's more Woong's pride that's in the way. Because if we remember, Yumi put herself first too, and I think that's totally fine and even healthier for her, because she gives in too easily anyway. She put herself first, but she'll still put Woong's comfort over her own. I think for Yumi to prioritize herself means, doing what's best for her and makes her happy, and for Woong it means to uphold the utmost pride.
In my opinion, Woong also needs to level up on his EQ, or find someone that can decipher his cryptic answers flawlessly. I hate to say it, but may be Saeyi does understand him better because she has been friends with him for so long, and Yumi only gets to understand Woong in their relationship.

I'm happy for her. I wish her all the success

I like Woong but I'm done with him. I think it's too late for him to suddenly change up his priorities, I don't think he'll be any or much better at opening up to Yumi and allow himself to be vulnerable with her. I believe she just only became his priority because he got scared, he probably will put his pride first when he feels safe again.

Yes, I think it's easy to forget that they've been together for two years now, and he still doesn't open up to her. Is she just ever supposed to accept his cryptic answers and feel insecure about their future?

Also, he lacks so much empathy because he's all so analytical, and that may be just who he is, but it's getting more and more disappointing. I think it's quite symbolic how he said he didn't understand people who line up for food. Symbolic for how he doesn't understand Yumi and always only tries when he suspects her to be angry. He's almost unable to imagine someone else's feelings. It showed with the whole Saeyi situation, with the whole hiding that he was homeless situation, with her desire to be a writer (because he was reflecting himself onto her instead of looking from it by her perspective), with the damn table, with not recognizing her question about what he likes about her as an insecurity he inflicted in her, and now even when he recognized that she was about to break up with him, but he still didn't know why, and it came as a surprise to him.

Honestly, as much as I love our main lead couple, at this point my rage for Jang Tae Jin is so strong, I'd still rate this high even if our couple wasn't to end up together, as long as I see Jang Tae Jin, his minions and Segi group burn to ashes. I need retribution.