the thing i love about yoon se-ri and ri jeong-hyeok, is that by the end of the series, they were both well off alone.
se-ri was happy to be back to her own life, she was making friends with her employees, she had a good relationship with her mother and a (slightly) better one with her not-as-much-of-an-asshole-as-you-could’ve-been brother, and she was being healthy and just generally enjoying most of her life.
jeong-hyeok was finally doing what he actually wanted to do and what he loved—playing the piano. he had a closer relationship with the other guys and his neighbors, he was smiling more and caring about his own health and happiness as well as those close to him. he was no longer a part of a loveless engagement and i assume his relationship with his parents also changed for the better as a result of what all of them had to go through.
they both built lives outside of each other and were happy. they weren’t two parts of a broken necklace that necessarily needed the other piece to function.
what i love about them is that they wanted each other. they led relatively great lives by the end of the series and had grown into happy and confident people, but they still wanted each other in their lives. they were already great as individuals, but they knew that together they would only make each other better.
i love that we saw them longing for each other, but not at the detriment of their own, individual lives.
