my thoughts about eunjoo, changjun, that ass of a principal and the whole scandal (heavily spoilerish and heavily hypothetical text ahead, you've been warned)
hwan found his father's high school box and was obviously interested in the cassettes but don't let this distract you from something really sus: of course there were only the cassettes even numbered (the odd ones must have been written by changjun so they belonged to eunjoo) but there were also a cute custom keychain with a teddybear picture and a single baby shoe.
now, we know changjun must have time travelled a lot and messed up his memories etc and we know eunjoo was severly depressed; that fucker of a principal kept telling everybody that eunjoo was having inappropriate conduct (and i don't believe it in the slightest) and that she falsely accused changjun of raping her (which i don't believe again since they were in love, jooan's father told cein that eunjoo was a good person and so the whole -he rejected her and she made up accusations for revenge- makes zero sense)
we have seen a flashback of eunjoo talking in a very distressed way while that awful man of a principal creepily caresses her face and this fucker also keeps telling hwan about how much his father had to forget things focusing only on his studies bla bla
my conclusion after all this mess is that the "scandal" was that eunjoo and changjun were actually a couple and they were going to have a baby; i don't know how the fucking principal managed to manipulate changjun but this must have brought to two possible outcomes: 1) eunjoo was forced to abort, 2) the baby is hwan
option 1 is far more tragic but also ic for that fucker of a principal while option 2 sounds weird, i know, but it would explain why changjun couldn't stand his wife and tries to erase everything about her (my bet is that this wife who had to raise hwan like he was her son was brought to changjun by none other than that ass of a principal), (it would also make hwan and cein brother ;;;;) - it's just so weird to me how they had to make them have this conversation that sounded like
hwan: omg you look SO much like your mother!!
cein: aww thank you, you're the spitting image of your father instead
hwan: i know, i look nothing like my mother!!
you could tell me that maybe it's cein who is their son then but hwan is older than cein so it would make sense if he was the first son of changjun; hwan was taken away from eunjoo and no wonder she developed a severe depression, right? no idea about how she ended up with cein's father instead but it's clear it wasn't a marriage of love, hmmmm so yeah, in the end of the day it's always that fuckass principal's fault
hopefully season 2 gets released in 2025 to put an end to this madness brought to you by my mind wandering lmao
