I really like the aunt :)

I didn't like Seo Ji-Wan. I don't like how she interferes with Yoon-Sol's life. She knows that their friend has feelings for Yoon-Sol but she was jealous and she went to the restaurant. She needs to decide to assume her feelings or to back off.

I wonder if the drama will fall in the usual "bad guy becomes nice after meeting a nice girl" trope. For once, I hope not. Ii would be more interesting they don't end up together. But until now, Jae-Eon didn't need to make a lot of efforts and she couldn't resist, so if he really purchase her...

For the rest, I have a lot of difficulties with how some actors said their text, it didn't feel natural and sounded childish.

"Dating isn't about picking the nicest person. It's about meeting someone special to you." Aunt's foreshadowing. As soon as the episode opened with Jae-eon's voiceover, I knew the drama changed the endgame. This is the first time we've seen his perspective. This playboy has really changed and ​likes Na-bi for real. Seol-ah was lying when she said they were dating.

Do-hyuk is nice but boring. It would've been a cute misunderstanding if when Na-bi said she had a boyfriend, she was talking about him. They liked each other when they were young. Na-bi did that territorial thing again when she saw Do-hyuk with his cousin Do-yeon like when the drunk girl asked Jae-eon for a cigarette or when she saw Jae-eon kiss Yoon-ji.

Na-bi and Jae-eon are two lonely people who wants to be loved. They crave it, but don't know how to show or express it outside the sheets. They need a long and honest talk with each other and resolve whatever bothers them in order to move forward. Potato guy on the other hand, never seize to amaze me with his creepiness.

Jae Eon, where did your development from the previous episode go?! Hope he didn't really pick up that girl at the bar because boyyyyy. You need a good smack! It was interesting learning about JE's thoughts through the voiceovers, though. Wonder if they are going to continue that or do a mix of both Nabi and JE in each episode now?

I was surprised that Seol-Ah came clean to Jae-Eon. It seems she really does care for him and realized that he is not her's anymore and that JE must have real feelings for Nabi. Also, when did she take his lighter? Totally thought it was her own that she told JE she threw away. Glad that they didn't make her completely into the crazy, jealous ex-gf.

All the metaphors and foreshadowing from Nabi's aunt and JE's mom is giving me some hope?? That preview though for ep. 7 when JE asks why him having a gf is an issue...hope that is just the drama trying to mislead us because ughhhhhhhhh. Please just tell her the truth about Seol-Ah lying about it.

Why did they cut out the scene of Do Hyuk hugging Nabi? They made it such a big deal in the preview. Hope they don't flashback to it later/retcon it to push the Do Hyuk/Nabi pairing more. This episode was slow and seemed like a filler episode, but I understand why they needed it. To give both her leads time to think and to give more foundation for the love triangle. Potato guy is nice and all but...he still feels a bit too much for me and kind of zzzzzz. Even Nabi fell asleep while he was talking. LOL. Jk. I know it's because she was drunk.

And how dare they leave the episode with that cliffhanger!! lol I was hoping to see a bit more interaction between the three of them, but they just served us crumbs this episode (aka whatever was in the preview and that's it).

Thoughts on Week 6:
-Is it Kyu-Hyun who's giving Jae-Eon perspective on his love life? bwahaha xD Holy shit, a 5 min convo with beanie-dude gave JE more insight on Nabi than spending time with her actual self ever could. I don't think it speaks greats things about their 'relationship'
-Are we getting JE's monologues too? So, is this where is redemption-arc starts? :O
-Homeboy got gifted a Maserati? Like seriously... does nice potato-boy on the bicycle have a chance now? Me thinks not xD
-Somebody said Nabi being ultimately unable to fix the shelf, when she thinks she has... is a metaphor of her not being able to fix/change JE at the end of it. Kwool, I mean, Auntie's speech right there had me worried it's going down the cliche route!
-Every time I saw Do-hyeok's sunshine smile... i melted T_T
-Is sadboi-face on SK supposed to make us feel an iota of sympathy for the character? Really? Am I missing something... because more than a fuckboi, he comes across as a pathetic jerk and a coward. I think at this point, both JE and SK know how much of a loser the character is.
-Hmm, JE is more self-absorbed than I initially thought. He has the audacity to pretend it's about him and how *HE*'s the one who's hurt in all this, and has like half a pence worth of empathy and understanding for Nabi. Hah! He needs to get his head out of his butt.
-The only conclusion I have on Nabi is she's a very wishy-washy in her resolve. People talk shit about JE- she breaks up with him. Her aunt says one arbitrary statement about love and the 'right person', and she's reconsidering giving him a second chance. When will this end? -___-

How does everyone else interpret the pencil rolling away from the shelf scene? Is it trying to tell us that stability is an illusion?

Or that one should always use a water level to check that the shelf itself is stable before installing new boards? Or perhaps that houses by the sea are often structurally unsound?

We once got a glimpse what kind of mom that Nabi has. This week's it's Jaeun's mom.
Looking at those backgrounds, I'm not surprised how both of them has issues with trusts, uncertainties, toward people and relatioships.
Of course their moms love them, and sure enough, the feeling is mutual, but those are not properly (?) given or shown. Oh being a mom myself, I can go on forever with this issue, but to put it simply, those poor kids, they don't know how to love, to receive love.
They are afraid to get attached with other people.
Now I understand how Nabi seems to always thirsty with attention and Jaeun always distance himself. They don't even really have real friends.
It will be rocky and tricky, but I really hope they can somehow find ways to heal their broken hearts and souls.

The rolling pencil is a metaphor for the drifting that the main characters indulged in in the whole episode.

Without Jae eun to ground her, Nabi floats aimlessly throughout the duration of the episode, lost. Everything is meaningless. She goes through the motions, smiles and laughs mechanically, but her heart is not in it.

Jae eun too struggles without Nabi.

They walk like ghosts but each is empty and hollow without the other.

In the last scene, the grinding wheels and the screeching brakes breaks this limbo-like, whimsical, unreal state of being, and Jae eun steps out, treading on the gravel gratingly, and deliberately, and the cocoon where Nabi has insulated herself from him and hurt and pain bursts.

He stares at her, steps into her space and her safe place.

She reacts and comes to life again.

Just rambling.

The rolling pencil could mean nothing but a tilting shelf.

@missvictrix Wow! That theory about scenery change. I learned something new.
I liked how Na Bi is gone for a day and Jae Un is left pining after her as if its already been a month. Visits the places he built memories with her and then creepily offers a stranger to show his butterflies. I mean exactly how obsessed is he with the butterflies. I have not seen even dog lovers being this keen to show their dog around (or are they?).
Bit-na was a disappointment. I like how she was playing with beanie guy as if he was a puppy. But then she goes around patting other dogs in the neighbourhood too. Ugh.
One should not start celebrating before a victory. Our Potato Boy seems to be so happy as if he has already won the war already. No Bro, you opponent just arrived.
That aunt just went ahead and normalised not a toxic relationship but infact a toxic pattern. Ugh. I rather wish healthy relationships were normalised the way toxic relationships are propogated.
I mean what does Seol-a want? I was about to appreciate her honesty (despite the wierd stuff she pulled out last episode) but then she went ahead being a tattletale.
What role is that secretary couple playing to the story? Poor 2 good looking people being used as fillers. Tsk Tsk.

a lot of people seem to think that this episode was a filler and I agree too. what i find interesting about it is that this filler was narrated by jaeon. it kind of sucks because when nabi narrates she's like all over the place and she has so much to say, but with jaeon its the opposite although i wish he had more to say though, it fits his character just right. if you rewatch it, you'll see that he observes more than he thinks or says. so in his narration, its more of what he does, where he is, what he hears rather than what he really thinks. we only get snippets of what he thinks.

i think that really reflects his character because when he hears other students talk about him or even that scene with the man misunderstanding him for having an affair with his sister, he doesn't do anything, he just listens to what they have to say and doesn't clear the air at all. even with nabi when she tried confronting him about seeing other people. like many of you said, he's really only honest with nabi. but she doesn't get that because she lets people and herself get in her head about her relationship towards him especially. and yes, their relationship is there but not really there so where in the world could she gain the confidence to even trust him right? and i get it but also because we see jaeon's side of the story every now and then, i can also see that he doesn't blatantly lie to her just to keep having sexual relations 🤷🏻‍♀️

this episode kind of verifies with jaeon that he really has feelings for nabi. he misses her at random moments—not the sex but her presence. see, if jaeon was really just into her for the sex, then he wouldn't have relived the moments where they met at the bar. he wouldn't look at her desk in the middle of class or go to her desk in hopes of finding her there. or when he clearly shows some kind of frustration when he would look at his phone and not have nabi show up on his screen. if jaeon really wanted nothing else to do with her other than be strictly physical, then she wouldn't be bothersome to him and seol ah wouldn't have felt threatened. but yes, when he faces moments of confrontation with other people like seol ah, gyu hyun and his mom, he chooses to pretend not to be aware of what he truly feels because of how sceptical he is about love and relationships. "close but not enough to get hurt" right? it's clearly just his defense mechanism that is getting in the way of him mustering up the courage to feel loved and to love someone without the fear of getting hurt. clearly as a male lead he is being portrayed really well by song kang because we all keep getting swayed by his actions!!!! love it and also hate it. haha

and with that flirting scene jaeon had with that woman in the bar he and nabi went to, i know it seems like they were gonna hook up and he was regressing back to his old ways. but i think that just shows his character too. trying to mask the way he feels and using other people as...

Since most of us are already doubting do hyuk/potato boy. In that market scene with his cousin and Na bi, did he really did that to her bike just so she could ride with him on his?

That was played for laughs but it bothered me a little or is it just me intentionally doubting him too?

I think I might be the only one who thinks this drama is just getting better and better with each episode. It's doing a lot of interesting things and showing how relationships aren't always straightforward especially when you have people involved that have a lot of baggage. Yes, dramas often show characters "healing" as they grow closer to each other but rarely do we see two characters that are young, hurt each other, and yet are still drawn to each other. I don't know if that's a "toxic" relationship but rather, it's showing us some mistakes that people make on their way to trying to find themselves and to find love (romantic, familial, platonic love, whatever it is).

Jae-eon and Na-bi are both young, don't know how to deal with their intense feelings for each other, and are both afraid of getting hurt (and in Jae-eon's case, afraid of hurting others).

Jae-eon wants to be loved and one way he does this is by sleeping around, like he did with the woman in the bar. It allows him to get validation and to feel desired without him getting hurt, like he might if he entered into a real relationship.

On a side note, I really truly doubt that Potato Boy is a stalker or is bad. He is just a sincere person. I hope that this drama leaves him as he is and Na-bi will have to hurt him in the end to get what she wants, as I think that is the character arc they are trying to do with her. I don't think she reciprocates his feelings and yet, she was momentarily jealous. Na-bi, just like Jae-eon, craves loves and she can see (whether she is conscious of it or not) that Do-hyuk cares for her, so she wants him to keep loving her, not some other girl.

I hope that this show doesn't make her "lead" him on. He should tell her his feelings clearly and I hope she is clear with him that she doesn't reciprocate his feelings. He doesn't own her and her feelings. I don't like it when we get "second lead syndrome." Na-bi doesn't need to reciprocate his feelings and just because she doesn't, doesn't make her a bad person. She is allowed to have her own feelings and to not want Do-hyuk. However, if Na-bi leads him on after he tells her how she feels, then that will cruel to him. I won't get too mad at the show if she does this though. Na-bi clearly has her own relationship issues and I think we are seeing that she can hurt others too.

All I'm saying is there are no heroes or villains (or crazy stalkers) in this drama. Just young people making mistakes and learning about themselves in the process. Seems like they might need to eat some more bugs and poop before they get the honey :)

I'm wondering if this episode marks a complete turn around - a reversal that is also a departure from the webtoon. I haven't read it, but from what others have said, Jae-un goes back to the girlfriend from his school days, yet in the drama, it's Nabi who is doing that. What if Jae-un is the one who becomes so jealous, he wrecks Na-bi's relationship with DH, instead of the other way round?? What if Na-bi then turns the tables on Jae-un, goes back to him, and then cold-heartedly dumps him? Perhaps that's now why we are finally getting Jae-un's voiceover so that we can have an insight into his insecurities.

Potato Boy is so so so boring. Anyone else with me?

I have to say I just adore Do Hyeok. I don't find him boring at all! But I don't think he's the complement in a partner that NaBi needs. I feel like Do Hyeok is all sweetness and sincerity, but so is NaBi, although slightly more timid than Do Hyeok it seems.

When we saw JaeEun with NaBi alone many times in NaBi's apartment, JaeEun was also sweet and sincere, but JaeEun is much more assertive in pursuit. JaeEun just finds it very difficult to get too close, or even reveal to anyone (friends, classmates, et al.) if he's very close to someone.

There's a reason we've seen very, very little of JaeEun's living / work space up until now, and we've seen sooooo much of NaBi's living space / work space. JaeEun is finally letting NaBi in though, opening the door to himself slightly by showing her / sharing his work space and where he lives, if not the actual living space. I think that's why Seol-a felt threatened. Clearly, Seol-a knew where JaeEun lived / worked. Now NaBi does, too.

Here's hoping NaBi and JaeEun can get past their neuroses and meet somewhere in the middle. Very much looking forward to Ep. 7. ❤️