i want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. but i am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. ■■■
love when a show hands me a seemingly normal protagonist who becomes a little more morally grey and a lot less heterosexual as the story progresses and then sprinkles in lies, murder, manipulation and yearning
the way this is one of the coldest and emptiest ending i’ve ever seen and captures an anticipated breakup so well like no sad bgm no crying no hysteria just yumi watching woong leave her sight for the last time after they walk off in opposite directions with just the sound of the water fountain in the background
it was multiple things piled up but ultimately, woong’s pride and dishonesty really are what led to the end of his relationship with yumi. it’s a shame because from the beginning, he said he was honest and actually showed it and that’s what felt refreshing about him to yumi. but he continually kept important things from her and did straight up lie to her at times. he just wasn’t a clear and open communicator. even his reasoning for the breakup was that him and yumi were, as he claimed, on different wavelengths regarding marriage which is true but he left things out because to yumi, it sounded like he had no intention of ever marrying her. but from his pov, we saw that his relationship with yumi reanimated his desire for marriage and what stopped him was his unhappiness and shame with his place in life because he felt like he wouldn’t be able to be responsible for her (not that he has to! yumi is a very independent woman. but again, his pride dominates). and of course, even with his objective scientific algorithm saying otherwise, he refused to see anything wrong with his actions and did things, including sending her money which yumi explicitly said would make her mad, simply for the sake of his pride.
and so we finally meet yumi’s pride cell during the breakup. i suppose we can infer that woong’s pride cell put the end of relationship card down before yumi’s could. up until then, she really did let love, emotion and reason cells lead her. she held hope, placing the ultimate decision in his hands and didn’t want to let him go until she had to because that’s the kind of loving person yumi is. his priority list might’ve changed out of panic when he finally let himself register that their relationship was in danger, but did that really last long? because in the end, woong couldn’t find it in himself to love yumi more than his pride.
