if he was the one bad mouthing her and talking behind her about her rumors , would you say the same thing .
Yes. Like, full stop. What does gender even have to do with this?
you hate that he can stand up for himself despite his stupid friends pushing him to bend backwards for her
"pushing him to bend backwards" and it's just them encouraging him to try talking it out and let her explain herself at least once, and that
maybe there could be more to this than he's thinking.
Yeah she is still two faced , did she go back and confront her friends about him ? No she didn't , if he didn't hear would she come clean and say i said this behind ur back but i didn't mean it , no she wouldn't ?
You're right, she's also in the wrong here, and could've handled things better with her friends. Though her faults here are blown out of proportion, since she's actually been trying to fix things with him after she understood she fucked up. He's the one who's been more of a dick about it, if you ask me. He seemed like he didn't even want to give her a chance to say anything.
Seeing all the comments in this thread, I feel some people are kinda missing the point. No, I'm not attacking anyone's opinion on this, I am simply stating my own. Saying this just in case.
The problem here isn't that they have a long drama by itself, or that the characters aren't happy with each other 100% of the time. The problem is that none of this feels earned in any way, because everything happening in the second half has been accidental in nature, not sparked by any personal growth of the main characters.
There's nothing wrong with MC feeling hurt by what she heard FMC saying, I think most people would have also felt the same, were they in his same position (regardless of the gender of the people involved, I didn't think I'd need to say that, but oh well). It's another story though when, throughout the rest of the story, he doesn't try to do anything about it, and when pushed by other people he supposedly considers friends, and therefore supposedly trusts, he completely ignores only the things that go against the one thing he's now convinced himself must be true (FMC actually hated him this whole time, basically), and only listens to the one that confirms this notion (her friend warning him of "people like FMC" before he heard her in the classroom).
Again, nothing wrong with that from a writing perspective yet. Bad writing isn't writing characters with flaws or who do bad things, and good writing isn't writing characters with perfect morals that never act stupid in a way that could've easily been prevented and nerver cause or enter in any drama. the point is how you do any of this. In chapter 42, we see MC say that actually he knew FMC probably didn't actually mean what she said to her friends, and he was just too insecure and afraid to talk to her about it because he thought she probably liked someone else, and was afraid of being rejected. Great, so how does that get resolved? Does he try to face his fears and try to clear the situation with her at least once, or does he decide to move on with his life and leave it unresolved?
The events of the story have tried to say it's the latter, but in reality it's neither. What actually happens, is MC constantly tries to avoid and get away from her, they keep coincidentally meeting each other, until it finally "works out" because he just suddenly starts thinking about it for 20 seconds and realizes she actually probably liked him all along, and they get together. So what is the point of all this? What is the point of this drama, if the solution is "they meet each other by chance again, but this time actually MC realizes he was wrong, comes back to her and they make up"? neither of them have grown from this at all, despite the story acting like they did. In no way did they earn their happy ending, it just kinda happened to them.
In chapter 43, FMC thinks "But there's no magic like that", when referring to him coming back out of nowhere one last time, so they could actually finally make up. But, right after she thinks that, that's exactly what happens. So what was the point of that line? The story being aware it's cheap and nonsensical doesn't make it still happening any less so.
The point isn't even that this kinda thing
couldn't necessarily happen in the real world (though I would imagine it's unlikely at best, with all the coincidences that would be needed), but that there's no point in anything happening from a writing perspective. This drama just existed for no purpose. Or, if you want to be more cynical, the only purpose it did have is to just to pad out what would otherwise be a really short story.
