Back to Work! - Ch. 26 - Difficulties Remain Even After Things Ended (1)

[MangaDex]

 

[cressthorne]

Thank you so much for the update 😍❤️💕

 

[Roiya]

Oof i get the pettiness she feels from the break up but she's only causing more pain for herself in the long run.

 

[Hina11]

Tbh its within her rights, she's the victim here and he's trying to make it seem like it was her fault- which is really not fair

 

[Andi22]

I don’t think her friend has good intentions, that’s a weird way to “check up on a friend” if you care about them- I think she was just trying to get the gossip. I think Noa is just incredibly naive.. I get her anger, she put her entire life on hold for this guy. She waited what, 7 years? Hopefully Noa will find someone who is better than that dirtbag. Thank you for the update 💗

 

[Lililily]

Petty party y'all! But yeah I know a guy like that guwoon too irl. Acting victim in front of his circle of friends while pretend he is the one guilty in front of the real victim just so Noa wont be too angry at him in that moment.

 

[Kuroku2]

@Roiya It's not pettiness she's feeling, her ex is practically sabotaging her personal life by telling everyone that she's this horrible crazy person and he's the victim. It can be devastating especially if not much people believe you.

When my parents divorced, my former dad kept painting this picture that my mother was this crazy person who wouldn't cook him dinner and kicked him out and he has nothing, blah blah blah. He told this to everyone they knew and the news spread around. Since we're a minority community, things are pretty tightly knit and people believed him since he seemed like a nice guy even when they knew nothing of my mom.

My mom had to keep telling her side of the story many times to the people she cared about, that he walked out on his own and took all the savings in his name and of course she cooked food for him, he just never eats it and just goes get take out or eat at other people's houses. Sometimes it wasn't enough and people would ask me what's the truth. In any case, what my mother felt wasn't pettiness, but rather a huge backlash of injustice. I believe Noa is experiencing the same thing.

 

[Coco107]

He didn't cheat. Anyone would be telling her friends about the crazy ex yelling at you and confronting your mother about you don't want them and demanding to be with them again. Why is everyone ignoring that he didn't cheat? And in a couple, two people are responsible for the relationship, not just one. I'll be so pissed if she came to my work and started screaming. Yes, he could have told her but we don't have his version, but he said he liked someone and that is not cheating, she asked and he told her he and the other girl had nothing and he wanted to end things with her first. She's no a victim, she is an ex (I guess some of you don't have one), he's an ex and you don't have to like them, she decided to beg for him to stay and made a mess of her life, that's her decision. He decided to move on, you don't have to like him but it doesn't make him a cheater. If a man did what Noah did, screaming and suddenly appearing in her job/university everyone would agree he's crazy.

 

[Roiya]

@kuroku2 I'm not saying the ex is an angel either and I'm sorry your dad was so terrible to your mom. I just think this situation with Noa and her ex isn't as black and white. He didn't cheat on her, it's just a crush on a coworker. He was a coward and should have broken up with her in a straightforward way earlier but his feelings changed and sometimes it's messy. Plus Noa did act kinda crazy, desperate, and clingy after the breakup, which I get also. Most people would be creeped out if an ex camped outside their apartment door begging you to take them back. She feels betrayed that his feelings changed but she lied to his mom and now on text. I just feel like they can blame each other all they want to their friends, it won't make her feel much better in the end. I feel for Noa. I really do, but telling people he cheated isn't going to save her reputation either. At the end of the day, their relationship is still over and she still needs to move on.

 

[its0k]

@Coco107 It’s a different culture, so it’s not so crazy for Asian traditions that Noa was so afraid of breakup (especially after 7 years) and that she talked to her ex’s mother trying to reason her wx through her. As far as I know there is a lot of misogyny and victim blaming in asian society, so women have a lot of pressure to keep up to high standards of hardworking, understanding and tender girls.
Also cheating is a wide range of actions, not necessarily only actual s*x. The ex was already emotionally attached to another girl and didn’t hide it, showing annoyance to his fiancée and ignoring her without her fault. We don’t know if he was only looking from afar at his crush or if they already had dates and flirting. Moreover he tried to hide that he’s in a relationship with Noa around his campus, that’s a really trashy behaviour when you have a fiancee whom you proposed to.
So I do understand where Noa is coming from, when she did nothing wrong and supported him for so long and then got thrown away when he got someone better and doesn’t need her help anymore. Now her 20s can’t return back and she has less options for a new relationship because of her age.
The only problem with Noa is no self respect and because of that she couldn’t read the changing mood around her and get alarmed about he ex’s changing feelings right away. It’s very typical for first serious relationships, when people don’t have enough experience in judging surroundings. But I guess Noa has learned it all a hard way. I hope she finds a good match and can finally relax and enjoy her youth and that geeky trash of ex should be known to his circle as an unfaithful selfish mama boy.

 

[Ai9964]

She's being paranoid, I'm not defending him because he broke up with her out of the blue just because he fell for another girl and he even avoided her instead of breaking up from the beginning. But telling everyone that he cheated her only because she's hurt it's too much.

 

[mukade]

Honestly it doesn't matter if he cheated or not because he was still a crappy boyfriend. In an earlier chapter Noa said that in 7 years he only visited her ONCE. It's pretty obvious he hadn't been feeling it for a long time but she was so blindsided by love that she couldn't see. You could argue that it's her fault for being delusional, but he obviously fucking knew she was suffering because of him and still decided to keep her at arm's length, which makes him a jerk. I'm sure that if he had broken up with her a few years earlier her reaction wouldn't have been this sad and pathetic.

They're both at fault here. As annoying as she was when he broke up, telling mutual friends about how ugly their break-up was is just stirring up unnecessary drama. Which is really a shame because I thought she was finally ready to let go and get over it. Now we'll have to endure at least 20 more cringey chapters of Noa fighting her ex because he couldn't keep his mouth shut smh.

 

[wispie]

even if he may not have physically cheated on her w another woman, he was definitely EMOTIONALLY cheating which is also bad (and sometimes worse). he was def flirting around and developing feelings for that other girl in his department while he was still seeing Noa and also blowing noa off. so I feel for noa, even if it wasnt a physical affair guwon had she probably feels betrayed on the same level as cheating

 

[toolep2]

Is it petty? Yes.
Did she go a little crazy at first? Sure did.
Did he really cheat on her? It’s debatable. What’s less debatable is that she thinks she was cheated on.

All that being said, he should think twice before he drags her name in the mud. Ain’t nothing more terrifying than a woman scorned. Give her a reason to stay mad at him. 👀

 

[Syhiro]

I think Noa had right to be insane aftee 7 years being together , she even thought of to marry him but suddenly she was cheated. She is mentally hurt and that guy is trash after broke up with her and even bad mouth about her lol he doesn't feel sorry at all. Urghhh

 

[Aeriandra]

It's going into troubled waters now. I understand Noa, her frustration and pain are very high. I also get her confronting him about it and I think it was probably important for her to do that. However, while it's upsetting to have him bad mouth her, doing it right back and in getting more friends involved will just drag things out and blow them up bigger. It's not about being considerate of him, but for her own sake she needs to break away. It's not easy, it's certainly a process, but right now she's still letting him dictate her thoughts and actions. He doesn't deserve to have that power in her life. Feeding a grudge will hurt you just as much if not more than the other person. I'm not expecting her to up and forgive him, but you don't extinguish a fire by pouring gasoline on it. That said, it's hard to reason things out in such an emotional time. I just wish she had a friend who could help her process things.

 

[ladylade]

I think she has the right to be mad and frustrated because in a sense, she wasted so many years of her life with him when she could have been with someone else.. and considering she is in her marrying age and not dating age (I know its subjective). dude just ruined her life coming on to her and just leaving after asdfghjkl years. sad cause she is older

 

[dogdog12]

Did he even cheat on her? I thought he only distanced himself because he’s as interested in someone else, which is still bad but not cheating.
She’s allowed to be upset but the way she’s handling this is so toxic and gross. I have a hard time sympathizing with her.
Anyways, thanks for the upload!

 

[GruntZone360]

@dogdog12 I consider it cheating since he was pursuing another relationship while already being with someone else before breaking it off with his current relationship. If he had broken off his current relationship and talked things out before trying to get with the other girl then it wouldn't have been cheating. In the end, he ran away from his current relationship so there for cheating by trying to get with another women while being in a relationship already.

 

[Writerfromanotherstar]

I don't understand how people are doubting that he cheated on her emotionally cheating is a thing,,, cheating is not only physical.
I also doubt that he hasn't crossed some kind of physical line with the girl that he supposedly likes 'in order to give her hints about him liking her'.
This cursing her out and lying about her is definitely to clean up his image before he tries to date that other girl, if he's not already