i don’t for a second believe huiseung is over ilmi, especially after he took all that time to say yes after minu asked if he was. and what makes me sure is in his goal to distance himself from ilmi so he can be with chaeri, he literally says he can’t do platonic things with her or else it would mean he’s not taking his relationship with chaeri seriously. i’m not seeing how getting food to celebrate the end exams (especially if it’s a tradition) or putting a bandaid on your best friend’s leg is a threat to your relationship unless you don’t view that person platonically.
maybe i’m supposed to be looking at this with shoujo eyes and therefore just think those things are romantic, but i don’t have those eyes anymore. all i can think is would he act this way if it was minu and not ilmi? I think huiseung likes both ilmi and chaeri, but decided he wants to move on from ilmi and therefore is trying to be less involved in their friendship.
also, when he told chaeri why he liked her and then said he was just confused about ilmi all i could think was about that flashback that showed him and ilmi in childhood. to me i think ilmi acted more like chaeri then, it’s just that as she grew older she became more repressed to uphold appearances and try and measure up to her well known family.














