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i cant even start talking abt it . why jeyi exemplifies the gothic romance love interest. the way jeyi plays the role of both protector and threat. the way jeyi's position at the top of the forces that crush seulgi also renders her seulgi's best option in defending herself from them. how a new layer is revealed w the car scene where yeri lies her (& gyung's) way out of the car after charming jeyi's father, and the audience is exposed to the tense reality of their intimacy, a closeness beyond proximity and understanding. in a lesser show jeyi's victimization at the hands of her father would put her on equal grounds w seulgi, who eventually is also targeted by him, but here it only exacerbates their difference, jeyi's dominant desire to protect, seulgi's desire to obey and be vulnerable, w a starkness they both fall into relieved and pleased, indulging the truth of this like nothing else. even jeyi being stripped of (giving up) all her power and ostensibly becoming equals materially w seulgi does not erase this dynamic, but will rather allow them to live by it without the dangers that plagued them before--the detection of jeyi, the humiliation of seulgi. using the instruments of their divide to free each other......thissss is how you do a modern gothic love story