WDTFS Ch. 74 — Part 1 🩷
Seju’s POV | Seju Apologist Reading
This scene looks deceptively simple: Sumin is looking for a place to live, Seju buys the place, and offers it to her. But from Seju’s perspective, there’s something much more emotional underneath it.
Sumin tells Seju that she found a place she really likes, but hasn’t signed the contract because the owner is selling it and it feels like too much pressure. Seju listens, remembers that Sumin had gone to look at a place, and asks whether she has managed to secure it yet.
That little thought says a lot about Seju.
She doesn’t ask Sumin to stay.
She doesn’t ask Sumin to come back.
She doesn’t ask for anything in return.
She hears that Sumin has found somewhere she loves but might lose it and her instinct is simply to make sure Sumin can have it.
And then she actually does it.
When Sumin asks,
“You’re the new owner?”
Seju casually answers:
“Yep. I bought it.”
There’s almost something characteristically Seju about how straightforwardly she says it. She has already taken care of the problem before Sumin can even worry about it.
Then comes the part that I think is especially important for understanding Seju:
“And… you’re going to rent to me?”
Seju replies:
“Or you can just live there.”
She doesn’t even insist that Sumin pay her.
From Seju’s perspective, this isn’t about making money from Sumin. She has just heard Sumin say that this place is perfect, so Seju makes sure Sumin can have it.
That is Seju’s particular way of loving:
she provides before she asks.
But Sumin says:
“No, thanks.”
And Seju doesn’t lash out.
She simply asks:
“Then what do you want to do?”
When Sumin still has to decide whether to rent, Seju keeps the tone light:
“Are you going to rent?”
“Or not?”
She smiles through it.
And that’s what makes this scene painful from Seju’s perspective.
Because Seju is watching Sumin build a life separate from her. Yet even while Sumin is moving toward that independent life, Seju is still the person trying to make that life easier for her.
She knows Sumin wants her own place.
So Seju gives her one.
She knows Sumin wants something that feels perfect.
So Seju makes sure she doesn’t lose it.
She knows Sumin doesn’t want to simply accept the house from her.
So Seju still leaves the choice with Sumin.
There is no demand for love attached to the offer in these panels.
It’s simply:
“You found the place you wanted. I’ll make sure you can have it.”
And that’s why I don’t see this scene as Seju trying to trap Sumin.
From a Seju-apologist perspective, it’s almost the opposite: Seju is still taking care of Sumin even when the life Sumin is building is a life away from her.
The tragedy is that Seju can give Sumin a home but she cannot make herself part of the future Sumin is building there.
And that contradiction is exactly what makes the house so emotionally important.
Seju buys the house because Sumin said it was perfect.
She offers to let Sumin live there because she wants Sumin to have what she wants.
But underneath that generosity is a woman who is slowly realizing that she can provide Sumin with everything except the one thing she actually wants: Sumin choosing her again. 🩷
Ch. 74 Part 1 — The Seju Apologist Take
Seju isn’t buying a house to possess Sumin.
She’s buying the one place Sumin called perfect because, even after everything between them, Seju’s first instinct is still to take care of her.
And perhaps that’s the most Seju thing about this scene:
Even while Sumin is building a life without her, Seju is still quietly helping her build it🩷
Unapologetically,
Seju Apologist 🦊
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WDTFS Ch. 74 — Part 1 🩷
Seju’s POV | Seju Apologist Reading
This scene looks deceptively simple: Sumin is looking for a place to live, Seju buys the place, and offers it to her. But from Seju’s perspective, there’s something much more emotional underneath it.
Sumin tells Seju that she found a place she really likes, but hasn’t signed the contract because the owner is selling it and it feels like too much pressure. Seju listens, remembers that Sumin had gone to look at a place, and asks whether she has managed to secure it yet.
That little thought says a lot about Seju.
She doesn’t ask Sumin to stay.
She doesn’t ask Sumin to come back.
She doesn’t ask for anything in return.
She hears that Sumin has found somewhere she loves but might lose it and her instinct is simply to make sure Sumin can have it.
And then she actually does it.
When Sumin asks,
“You’re the new owner?”
Seju casually answers:
“Yep. I bought it.”
There’s almost something characteristically Seju about how straightforwardly she says it. She has already taken care of the problem before Sumin can even worry about it.
Then comes the part that I think is especially important for understanding Seju:
“And… you’re going to rent to me?”
Seju replies:
“Or you can just live there.”
She doesn’t even insist that Sumin pay her.
From Seju’s perspective, this isn’t about making money from Sumin. She has just heard Sumin say that this place is perfect, so Seju makes sure Sumin can have it.
That is Seju’s particular way of loving:
she provides before she asks.
But Sumin says:
“No, thanks.”
And Seju doesn’t lash out.
She simply asks:
“Then what do you want to do?”
When Sumin still has to decide whether to rent, Seju keeps the tone light:
“Are you going to rent?”
“Or not?”
She smiles through it.
And that’s what makes this scene painful from Seju’s perspective.
Because Seju is watching Sumin build a life separate from her. Yet even while Sumin is moving toward that independent life, Seju is still the person trying to make that life easier for her.
She knows Sumin wants her own place.
So Seju gives her one.
She knows Sumin wants something that feels perfect.
So Seju makes sure she doesn’t lose it.
She knows Sumin doesn’t want to simply accept the house from her.
So Seju still leaves the choice with Sumin.
There is no demand for love attached to the offer in these panels.
It’s simply:
“You found the place you wanted. I’ll make sure you can have it.”
And that’s why I don’t see this scene as Seju trying to trap Sumin.
From a Seju-apologist perspective, it’s almost the opposite: Seju is still taking care of Sumin even when the life Sumin is building is a life away from her.
The tragedy is that Seju can give Sumin a home but she cannot make herself part of the future Sumin is building there.
And that contradiction is exactly what makes the house so emotionally important.
Seju buys the house because Sumin said it was perfect.
She offers to let Sumin live there because she wants Sumin to have what she wants.
But underneath that generosity is a woman who is slowly realizing that she can provide Sumin with everything except the one thing she actually wants: Sumin choosing her again. 🩷
Ch. 74 Part 1 — The Seju Apologist Take
Seju isn’t buying a house to possess Sumin.
She’s buying the one place Sumin called perfect because, even after everything between them, Seju’s first instinct is still to take care of her.
And perhaps that’s the most Seju thing about this scene:
Even while Sumin is building a life without her, Seju is still quietly helping her build it🩷
Unapologetically,
Seju Apologist 🦊
#BaekSeju #Seju #Sumin #WDTFS #WhatDoesTheFoxSay #SejuApologist #manhwa #manga #webtoon #WLW
@kanamezerro Exactly 😭 That’s what makes Seju’s gesture so devastating. She’s literally helping build a future that she knows she may not have a place in.
Ahhh, thank u so much for spreading it and for taking the time to translate it too 🥹🩷 It honestly makes me so happy knowing that my little Seju analysis could help u understand her from another perspective.
And YES, Seju does eventually fall in love with someone else but there’s a really important distinction here.
It isn’t really about replacing Sumin. It’s about Seju discovering that Sumin wasn’t the only person capable of loving her, and that she can open her heart to someone new after spending so many years believing her life and love were tied to one person.
So yes… our queen eventually gets another love. And honestly, this is why I love Seju’s later story so much
Seju deserved to discover that her world was bigger than Sumin🫶
Seeing someone share my Seju-apologist post and even take the time to translate it into Chinese honestly makes me so happy🥹🩷
As someone who loves Seju deeply, one of the things I hope for is simply to help readers see her from perspectives beyond the surface to understand the feelings, wounds, and complexities behind her actions.
Whoever you are, thank you for your effort in translating and sharing my words. It genuinely means a lot to me.
Our queen Baek Seju may be deeply flawed, but she deserves to be understood with a little more openness and compassion too. 🩷👑
Unapologetically,
Seju Apologist 🦊
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Heaven knows your name I've been praying
To have you come here by my side
Without you a part of me's missing
Just to make you my home, I will fight
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From Seju’s perspective, this scene from Ch 72 shows a rare moment where her emotional defenses come down completely.
She is not questioning whether she loves Sumin, she is questioning whether their love can truly survive forever. Her uncertainty comes from knowing that feelings can change and that the person she loves most could someday become distant, resentful, or no longer love her.
The scene also reveals how deeply important Sumin is to Seju. Seju reaches a point where she cannot even fully articulate what she is feeling. Her unfinished thought shows that this is no longer an intellectual concern, it has become genuine emotional fear.
What makes this particularly meaningful from a Seju-apologist perspective is that Seju is vulnerable without trying to control the situation. And for once, Seju doesn’t have to be the person carrying the emotional burden.
She wants to know that she will never be abandoned. She wants to know that Sumin’s feelings will never change. She wants “forever” to be something guaranteed. But instead, she receives the idea that love can be continually chosen, demonstrated, and reaffirmed.
From Seju’s point of view, that is probably what makes the moment so comforting: for once, she is allowed to be the scared one, and Sumin is the person reassuring her.
And that makes the scene more than a romantic moment. It reveals just how deeply Seju loves Sumin and how deeply the possibility of losing her terrifies her. For Seju, Sumin isn’t merely someone she wants to keep. Sumin is the one person whose loss could make everything else feel meaningless.
Unapologetically,
Seju Apologist 🦊
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Ch.64 (part 2) is exactly why I will forever be a Seju apologist because THIS woman finally says everything she should’ve said years ago, only to realize she arrived at the conversation too late. 😭🩷
She isn’t asking Sumin to forget what happened. She isn’t pretending she did nothing wrong. She knows exactly what she did and wishes she could go back and change it.
That’s Seju looking at the past and thinking, if I had another chance, I would do it differently.
And then she finally says the words she spent years struggling to say:
“I love you.”
NO DEFLECTION.
NO SARCASM.
NO HIDING.
Just “I love you.”
And Sumin’s response?
“You should have said it sooner.”
THAT LINE DESTROYS ME.
Because Seju’s biggest problem was never that she didn’t love Sumin.
She loved her so much that she was terrified of losing her.
When Sumin needed Seju to hold on, Seju thought holding on would make Sumin angry and drive her away.
So she let go.
She thought giving Sumin freedom was protecting their relationship.
Meanwhile Sumin was basically screaming internally, “WHY AREN’T YOU STOPPING ME?”
THEY WERE BOTH TERRIFIED AND BOTH WAITING FOR THE OTHER PERSON TO SAY IT FIRST😭
And then Sumin drops the most devastating confession:
“I didn’t want to acknowledge that I still loved you.”
EXCUSE ME???
So Seju spent all those years thinking she had lost Sumin…
only to find out Sumin was still fighting against her own feelings for her.
The love wasn’t dead.
It was buried under resentment, guilt, fear, pride, and everything they had done to each other.
And Seju just goes silent.
Because what is she supposed to say to that?
“I knew you loved me”?
“Then come back”?
“You should have told me”?
There is literally nothing left to say.
She can’t bargain with time anymore.
She can’t undo what happened.
She can’t go back to the moment where everything broke and choose differently.
And then Sumin says they were “cowards that never even ended things properly.”
THAT is the tragedy.
Not “we never loved each other.”
Not “you meant nothing to me.”
Not “I stopped loving you.”
They loved each other.
They were just terrible at confronting what that love actually required from them.
And YES, Seju made huge mistakes. I will never pretend she didn’t.
But Ch.64 makes the “Seju didn’t care” reading impossible for me.
THIS WOMAN WANTED TO GO BACK.
She wanted another chance.
She wanted to fix what she broke.
She finally admitted she loved Sumin.
She finally admitted she had been afraid.
And Sumin finally admitted she still loved her too.
THE TIMING IS THE TRAGEDY.
Seju didn’t lose Sumin because there was no love.
She lost her because by the time she finally learned how to say “please stay,” ten years of damage had already happened.
And THAT is why “you should have said it sooner” is basically Seju’s entire tragedy compressed into one sentence.
She loved Sumin.
She was afraid.
She made mistakes.
She let go when she should’ve held on.
And when she finally learned to hold on…
Sumin had already learned how to let go. 🩷
Unapologetically,
Seju Apologist 🦊
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