not really, I'm just laughing at her thoughts that her hard work is merely a façade and her conclusion is because she loved her senpai and now loves Ayaka it means everything she has done was not for any particular reason outside of keeping up appearances and using that to justify her refusal to get promotedI don't know if I'm understanding your comment right, so let me know if I'm not.
The point is that she did want this facade, originally (or accepted that this was what was needed to succeed) but now is second guessing all of that because of Ayaka. She says that she chose to do this, in this very chapter right after your quote. Then she wonders why she's getting cold feet now--all this while an image of Ayaka is in the background and Ayaka suddenly pops up in front of her.
She has no issue with the facade, really. She has an issue with her growing feelings for Ayaka. If Ayaka wasn't there, she'd take the promotion without issue. Ayaka has made her second guess everything, including her views of the workplace and whether her "facade strategy" was right. But it's not that easy to let go of long held beliefs especially since, as you said, her beliefs have led to her success. It's easy to think "why rock the boat when it's never sunk?" Ayaka's tenacity has forced Hiroko to seriously question 13+ years of life lessons, and that's not always an easy or quick thing.
they dropped black & white ??Remember. Sal Jiang dropped Black & White for this.
Which is not bad, but it makes me sad how they are trying to squeeze more conflict in the final run. Well, at least is believable.
Yikes. I might edit my comment after all.they dropped black & white ??
haha no worries, i saw the other comments after i replied. thank u for clarifying !!Yikes. I might edit my comment after all.
No, Sal Jiang was working in both series at the same time. As far as I understand (and as it was clarified by some other commenters) they put B&W in hiatus to finish this.
Not only did they go back to B&W. It seems that they didn't end the story in Vol 2, and just published a Vol 3. Apparently it's completed now, but status still "on going"
Sorry for the fake news.