Seju: let's start over
Sumin: you and I both must've wanted to turn back time at one point or another. But I don't think that's possible now. Even if I wanted to go back, it's not the time we're both thinking about.
that's because throughout the Manhwa you know that Sumin want's the past back. But for Seju, she want's to start over and make things better.. They are looking into two different time horizons.
Nora, I think it's true that Seju wants to move forward (regardless of what had happened between them). This scene also made me think about a scene a few chapters before this (chapter 54) when Sumin said she loves Sungji but added "then what am I supposed to do if I want to go back to you", to which Seju replied "Then all you have to do is just come back to me" which ties in nicely with what you said about how Seju " doesn't care about what happened in the past 10 years and won't avenge Sumin for it".
However, when Sumin said " you and I both must've wanted to turn back time at one point or another. But I don't think that's possible now. Even if I wanted to go back, it's not the time we're both thinking about "
Sumin is making presumptions that Seju also wants to go back (by the word "**back**" I am taking this literally to mean in the past), in this case:
- If Seju just wants to move forward and how the past has unfolded does not matter anymore to her, there is technically no need for her to go back to the past..she already has the present and she can choose what she wants to do with it..(but then again when Sumin said that, I think it was just her perception - we don't know what Seju really thinks)
- To me, what is interesting here is then: to which timepoint in the past Sumin wants to go back to and to which time point in the past she thinks Seju wants to go back to?
For Sumin: to before the two of them meet? to before she started her 10 years quest for revenge? to before she agreed to let Seju do whatever she wants before they really cut it off (which led to Sungji breaking up with Sumin)?
For Seju (in the eyes of Sumin): to before the bartender incident? to before Hello Studio hire Sungji?
If we know the answers to both, they would be very telling.
I wonder if Seju really thinks hiring Sungji was a mistake (just that at the point she hired Sungji she thought it was the right decision)...I wonder if this is also what Seju was referring to when she said "You don't know. That's why it's called a mistake"..as if also to say that some things may be fated/ is inevitable..because even when you think you think you are doing the right thing, that may end up being the wrong thing and by the time you realise this, it had already happened..(in fact, maybe it even needed to happen before you can realise it)..
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