And there you have it. There are people capable of understanding what gossip spread to ruin someone sounds like.
@ItsHanabi I think what I realized from reading these school manhwa is that Koreans, like Japanese, are extremely collective. There's a lot of pressure to be accepted and respectable even in the postsecondary level.
But it is still shocking that the villain guy is able to keep picking on and isolating her and only her even when she is literally there for her job and he's not even supposed to be there.
@Ayajdbwmns I think he wasn't always acting right but not from bad intentions; more because he wasn't that clued up on the fact that he liked her and he's around such shitty people, his ability to interact with people who aren't using him was off. But he always respected any boundary that Hyejin set so he's obviously a good person.