Another one of those “until the female lead shows up” tropes.
Rinse, reuse, recycle. Too common in shoujo isekai manhwa nowadays. I *am* complaining but I still enjoy the stories regardless.
I’m sorry but as someone who plays ice hockey seeing hananoi pick her up and stand comfortably straight completely messes with my conscience. On one hand I’m impressed that he can pull that off and on the other I find it too exaggerated and cliché.
Although Niina wasn’t faithful to his marriage at least he was willing to try talking about it. Albeit not in the most passive and composed manner he still brought up the subject and demonstrated his frustrations instead of Michi who’s on the complete opposite of the spectrum.