#pocket comics

Status in Country of Origin 

11 Volumes (Complete)

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Ambitious Goal/s

Arrogant Male Lead

Best Friends

Bickering Love

Blunt Female Lead

Blushing Male Lead

Character Growth

Chasing After Love Interest

Childhood Friends Become Lovers

Country Boy

Dense When It Comes To Love

Dream/s

Emotional Roller Coaster

Emotionally Strong Female Lead

Female Demographic with Male Lead

Female Nerd

First Love

Friendship

Inexperienced in Love

Innocent Love

Kuudere

Love Triangle/s

Male Lead Falls in Love First

Misunderstanding/s

Multiple Couples

Mutual Pining

Mutual Unrequited Love

Post-Secondary Student/s

Rejection

Rich Person Pursuing Poor Person

Rivals Become Lovers

School Club/s

Single Parent

Slow Romance

Socially Awkward Character/s

Student-Student Relationship

Transfer Student/s

Tsundere Male Lead

Unexpected Feelings

Unexpressed Feeling/s

University Student/s

It’s a bit hard to summarize it without spoiling, but Joy and Aerie become friends during high school as a result of some events, but since Aerie is about to transfer soon, they don’t have too much time they could spend together. Years later, when Joy is struggling with her life more than she used to and find herself reminiscing about Aerie, fate brings them together once again.

Both of these characters, but especially Joy seemed very relatable, with all the gritting, bearing, trying to maintain the status quo and swallowing up her words when she needed to speak up for herself brought her to a point where she kept questioning whether the discomfort/anger she feels is ‘legitimate’ or ‘appropriate’ although she’s been hurting for all the good reasons for years. Aerie has her past issues to resolve too, and it was kind of cathartic to see them relying on each other and become each other’s safe place 💞

And here comes the ‘but’… This is one of those badly translated and/or not QC’ed series on Pocket Comics and it gets so hard to understand what the conversaon is about at times. And it’s not exactly a SoL, easygoing series either, so I think bad translation takes away a good part of the power this series has. It’s such a shame… still, it really deserves a chance, I’m enjoying it a lot (minus the parts where we learn about Joy and i got really anxious)!