If I would describe this manhwa, the best word is **COMPLICATED. **
You read 2/3 of it without a thought to stop. The pace is good, not much drama, simple but interesting setting. But the last 1/3 and the ending leaves you with much too think. Whether to read it or not... It depends on whether you are ready to have bad aftertaste, but at the same time think: "There is nothing simple in this world.
And not everything ends well"
I saw alot of comments that the ending is rushed and incomprehensible. That characters' actions are strange... From my point of you, these are people who came for simple "romance book". But this one is (as I already said) complicated.
We have not one storyline here. There are 2 of them. But one is not on the surface:
- A man who fell in love and struggles to be happy and make the other party the same
but unfortunately he fails in his understanding of situation
- The married single-mother who
had had so much hardships in her life that had to take medicine, relieve stress in Gym and immersed into work
Both of these storylines we see along the story development. But we start to think about the second one only in the end. And this shows us the answer to the meaning of the ending.
Further i'll interpret my understanding of WMC actions. And the answer why I think that the main character of this story is not Manager Son:
First of all, did Manager Ahn even once said that she loved Son? No. Why is that? Because for her he wasn't a lover. He was a beam of light in her mundane hard single-mother life. Like oasis. A man with the characteristics opposite to her husband, with no link to her family or relatives, her past. That is why she was shocked when he proposed. She wanted him to stay the way he is. But he tried to become someone she already had. The notion she didn't desire.
She said it herself during their stay in the hotel bar. That "everything happening now is illusion, another universe". This was the only place where (in her world-view) they could be this close.
Manager Son healed her with his presence. She stopped going to gym, take medicine and even left the job. All the things that were connected with her stress. She saw in him something that makes her life happy. As long as he stays "good guy" - she will be happy, like a talisman. In the last chapter she almost broke when she saw Son's expression (when she said about new surname). But the moment he smiled she felt relief. So for her he is like a depiction of happiness. She says it herself. And she didn't see him happy with her. Her egoistic conclusion.
This is the main problem - egoistic thoughts of WMC. She thought that he wouldn't be happy with her. But at the same time she didn't think WHAT would make him happy.
All the biggest character changes that happened in the story were those of Ahn. And the main character turned out to be a support character for her happy life. And more so: she left her whole mundane life to him (even writing that she liked to do). He became miserable guy who continued to leave her life, workaholic with problems in personal life. She just became his doppelganger. That took his normal life and left him with nothing but hardships. At the same time she really thought (i hope) that it was for the best.
My point is. That if you look at this manhwa like at any other romance comics - certain decisions of characters and the ending itself are bad. But if you try to understand what happened and are ready to "see some unpleasant turns"... It's not bad, just complicated
There are alot of words here. And it's alittle bit messy. But I hope that somebody understood my point of view ☺️