Monday, September 4, 2023

Yeon Woo's Innocence (manga until chapter 35)

kang/gang haesol, female lead
yeon woo, male lead
nam junhyuk, friend of male lead
im nari, friend of female lead
jung jinwoo, a schoolmate that is chummy with FL
ahn minsung, a student who rejected by im nari. he still has delusion. a delinquent.
kim yookung, friend of im nari since elementary
chung/chunga harang, a childhood friend of FL
yesuel, a classmate of jung jingwoo

1 ML is shy and has a huge crush on FL. it rain, ML forgot umbrella, FL lends ML her umbrella. ML wants to confess, friend of FL interrupts. ML fails to tell her.

2 with the field tri coming up, ML asks FL to go with him. junhyuk helps ML. FL rejects it, tells she's going with nari. FL alsi misunderstands that ML and junhyuk are a couple.

3 FL thought ML is a girl. ML explains. nari and junhyuk enters and says the 4 of them should go together. during the fieldtrip other classmates wants to join them.

4 their group got bigger. ML is separated from FL. during lunch break, ML felt insult that his classmates keeps telling how feminine he is. ML leaves to go to the wc. When returning, mL got into a lost and found incident and he got lost himself.

5 The original group went to look for ML. ML is being hit by other men, they thought he's a girl. junhyuk finds ML. they return back to FL and nari. FL tells ML they can come again. ML felt happy hearing those words.

6 sports day, ML is paired with FL for the three legged race. they start practice. they fall over.

7 ML wants to win for FL. ML practiced hard until sports day. unfortunately..

8 ML sprained his ankle. ML tries hiding. they all found out during the last practice
 ML is taken to the infirmary and given a two weeks non activity? permit? ML feels sad. ML asks junhyuk to sub for him. After class, ML feels sad.

9 during the sports day. FL and junhyuk wins. jung jinwoo approaches ML and asks if junhyuk likes FL. Jung jinwoonsays he likes FL. ML couldn't say anything as he laments over his inferiority. FL approaches ML and says she's worried for ML. Somehow this cheered ML.

10 after the sports day, ML feels conflicted on what jung jinwoo told him that Junhyuk might be interested in FL. they went celebrate for their second place win. ML still feel confused. Junhyuk confronts ML. ML asks. Junhyuk clears the confusion and says his type is im nari. Im nari appears and says she heard everything. after im nari explains that everyone already knows about ML's crush on FL, including FL herself.

11 midterms have just ended. im nari invites ML and junhyuk to a study session with her and FL.  next day, ML heads to the wc. he meets jung jinwoo. ML tells him that junhyuk has no crush with FL. As mc goes with his wc business ML spots im nari's pencil case in a trashbin in the boy's wc.

12 im nari confronts ML for his sudden attentiveness to her. ML tells her about her pencil case. im nari says to forget it and never tell FL about it. ML feels im nari is getting bullied. Junhyuk appears and asks ML what's up. the two then confronts im nari about it. im nari asks the two to swear not to tell FL and she'll tell everything. the two agrees.

13 im nari says it might be students who are jealous of her for always being with FL. after, the three hanged out. next day, ML saw someone from another class leaving their homeroom. Jing junwoo startles ML and reveals who the person was, ahn minsung, vp of the other class. next class, im nari once again is missing something. ML is conflicted as he made a romise with im nari not to meddle. meanwhile, in another class, a confrontation is happening.

14 jung jinwoo confronts ahn minsung and found a foreign item. the rest of the class judged ahn minsung poorly. during break, ML decides to confront ahn minsung, on his own. ML asks ahn minsung about what happened. Ahn minsung misunderstood that it was ML who snitched him to jung jinwoo. Before ahn kinsung cpuld beat ML, FL appears and saves ML.

15 Ahn minsung leaves. FL asks ML what is up with ahn minsung and nari. somehow ML did not spill? after class FL confronts im nari. next day, ahn minsung clears his name from his classmates. FL confronts ML. ML could not say anything, FL understood that ML made a promise with im nari to keep FL in the dark. later, they heard in class that junhyuk got in a fight.

16 junhyuk was in a fight with ahn minsung. ML and im nari inquired what happened. junhyuk tells the truth that ML and him looked out for im nari and found out about ahn minsung. junhyuk confronts ahn minsung and that's what happened. suddenly FL apears. im nari runs away, FL follows. ML and junhyuk had a convo. junhyuk says that ahn minsung wad bad mouthing im narinand that led him to hit ahn minsung which led him to where they are now. meanwhile, im nari confronts ahn minsung.

17 it was all because im nari rejected ahn minsung's delusional confession. ahn minsung tells he will make it hard for junhyuk during the school violence investigation and that there will nothing to implicate him. suddenly FL appears and saves im nari. ahn minsung leaves defeated in verbal debate. after, FL and im nari had convo.

18 a flashback of how im nari and FL became friends and how im nari gets bullied for being friends with FL.

19 flashback continues. after im nari and FL got separated for a year? im nari kept getting bullied. im nari also found her only other friend, kim yookyung is backstabbing her. later on, im nari decides to distant herself from her classmates and even from FL. she felt if she tells the truth to FL, FL would also leave her or something.

20 back to the present, im nari told everything to FL. the bond between the two became stronger. later, im nari and junhyuk grew closer. and somehow ML and FL grew a bit closer?

21 ML and junhyuk saw someone confess to FL. FL rejects it. junhyuk tells mc to confess to her. jung jinwoo confess to FL.

22 FL rejects it. ML feels inferior once more. during the school camp trip, ML decides to distant himself. later on, night time. ML takes a rest, junhyuk got invited to the girl's side to play truth or dare. Junhyuk got a chance to ask FL. she was asked what is her ideal type.

23 next day, ML is deliberately avoiding FL. afterwards, when ML is alone, the theater troupe of their class once again ask ML to join in their performance. they even told ML that he did nothing during the sports day. in the end, ML is obligated to join. Junhyuk found ML, he tried to get ML away from the performance but suddenly said some awkward things. ML leaves to ponder. as ML regained his composure and decide to return to the performance, FL sees ML. ML runs away.

24 FL run and caughter after ML. ML tells her what happened. FL consoles ML and tell him that she'll scold the theater troupe of their class after. Then a flashback of how ML truly fell in love with FL. ML got lost in a woids during school activity FL found him they're both lost.

25 FL did most of the work and they returned safely. back to the present, ML unknowingly and suddenly confessed to FL. unexpectedly, FL accepts the confession. FL tells ML that they must keep it between them, or at least ML can tell it to both im nari and junhyuk. ML believes he's dreaming. FL leaves. Junhyuk appears. ML tells his friend what happened. he was also surprised.

26 two weeks after, everything settled down to somehow like the way things are. ML begins to question if he's really going out with FL. finals are coming up and ML is thinking about his relationship with FL. junhyuk tells ML to ask her out on a date. ML asks her, FL accepts. three days later, exams are over and ML is feeling exhausted as his thoughts are on his dste with FL. in the day of their date. the two meet up, ML have planned a lot. FL then tells ML that the both should act as friends in the meantime.

27 ML suddenly felt dejected. FL explains she saw other schoolmates on her way and to keeps things a secret from others. ML immediately understood. they went to a movie. ML gets the ticket, FL gets the popcorn. as ML waits for FL, some dude suddenly tried hitting ML. ML is quiet about it. FL saves ML. before the movie stsrts FL advice ML is someone hits on him, ML should say he has a girlfriend. after, an accident occured?

28 after the movie went to tge arcades to play. due to ML's clumsiness FL got injured saving ML. FL's watch got broken as well. ML kept apologlzing to FL. FL tells ML thatbML tends to apologize a lot and even asked how she could make ML stop ML's habit. after, they had lunch. they had convo which led ML to think of his inferiority. After the date, ML feels happy but somehow not entirely?

29 ML tgen had a dream, FL is breaking up with him. ML wakes up, a month (or two weeks??) had passed after their date, the two have not been able to see each other. FL is always busy. ML is feeling down and misses her. ML and junhyuk meet up with their group, they are planning of going out on a trip for FL's birthday. FL is not present during their meeting. After the meet and planning, im nari explains that FL is with her childhood friend so that's why it was hard to get a hold of her. ML somehow felt down about it? as ML and junhyuk went on their way, they meet with FL she's with her friend, chung harang.

30 they went to the beach. chung harang asks ML to go with him to buy drinks. on their way, chung harang got hit on by men, she easily shoo them away. the men then tries hitting on ML. chung harang saves ML. when they return, they hand out drinks. ML tells junhyuk that he got hit on 4 times on their way to get drinks and back. later, ML and im nari are resting, suddenly men are hitting up on them.

31 im nari takes ML to get them tables by the beach to have their dinner? suddenly, the men who hit on chung harang and ML earlier came to them. fortunately, the rest of the group appears and shoos the rude men. after dinner, ching harang asks FL about ML. back in their rent house, ML and the rest surprised FL with a cake. afterward, the gifting commence, jung jinwoo's gift gave FL an expensive bracelet. ML decided not to give his gift to her, his inferiority once again kicked in.

32 they went to the scare course test of courage, now a couples course. ML is paired with chung harang, FL is with im nari, jung jinwoo is with junhyuk. jung jinwoo got hurt due to junhyuk's fear. FL escorts jung jinwoo back. when the rest if them returned they saw FL kissing? jung jinwoo??

33 they weren't kissing, FL is treating jung jinwoo's injury. ML's inferiority just shot up when even chung harang questions it. chung harang found out. next day, ML is feeling down. he feels like FL dating him is just her taking pity on him. FL notices it and approaches ML.

34 FL comforts ML. she even told ML that she'll help her to become better. ML felt determine to be better so that he can be confident being with her. that night junhyuk approaches ML who is still feeling down? he got fireworks for them to play with. FL is with  chung harang. chung harang then suddenly asked about ML. FL answered truthfully and says she's interested in ML.

35 chung harang insults ML and says jung jinwoo is a better match for FL. FL says otherwise and dislike how her friend insults ML. FL leaves to head towards ML. Junhyuk notices FL approaching and leaves. ML is surprised FL appeared. ML invites her to play with the fireworks he still got. ML then gave his gift fo FL, it's watch. after, FL asks ML when his birthday is. It gonna haooen next month, FL asks what ML wants. ML says he wants to go on a date with FL. she checked her schedule and obliged. after, the two went back to their shared house.

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