Gyah, I love you for the multiple release but I also hate that cliffhanger! Me too, I'm tangled!
Anyway, that author describes so well the ambiguous frontier between two feelings (here the friendship and love, but it could be two others as well).
And I see, LeeGeum expectedly works for gangsters. Obviously. Couldn't be anything else. Argh, so why did I feel a tiny hope being crushed? Tch. Well, now I'm desperatly hoping he manages his branch legally. At least, please. And he will go softer on the violence? Wishful thinking, right? But, hope doesn't cost anything... Please!😣