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At the celebratory meeting at Haesoo's bar, a surprising truth about the Assistant Manager's identity is revealed.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"The narrator recalls the elementary school composition assignment on freedom and Lee Juyeong fearlessly filling the paper beside them. They describe the difficulty of loving Juyeong with feelings of fear of failure, jealousy, and self-pity. In the present, they talk on the phone with Jiin about the assistant job and preparing a new work. At the celebratory meeting at Haesoo's bar, a surprising truth about the Assistant Manager's identity is revealed.","key_events":["Group plans day-off gathering to celebrate Haesoo and Yoon Jiwon, Ahyeong arrives to drink with old friends.","Juyeong phones Jiin, saying assistant job is comfortable but new work preparations are stalled.","Someone asks if Juyeong's childhood friend turned friends-with-benefits is Lee Doyeong, the assistant manager.","Email from Dohun Lee to Doyeong Lee asking how they are is shown.","Narrator recalls elementary composition class on freedom, unable to write while Lee Juyeong fills paper intensely.","Narrator confesses love for Lee Juyeong, wanting them to stay but accepting they cannot hold them."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"IT WAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COMPOSITION CLASS.\nTopic: Freedom\nWE WERE TOLD TO WRITE ABOUT WHATEVER WE WANTED.\nMY HAND HAD STOPPED FOR A LONG TIME AT THOSE WORDS.\nREPEATEDLY DRAWING LINES WITH MY PENCIL AND ERASING THEM,\nI DO NOT EVEN REMEMBER WHAT I ENDED UP WRITING IN THE END.\n\nONLY THE IMAGE OF LEE JUYEONG NEXT TO ME,\nFILLING THE PAPER DENSELY,\nREMAINS STRONGLY IN MY MEMORY.\nHAVING NO CORRECT ANSWER WAS TERRIFYING.\nIT FELT AS THOUGH I WAS BEING TESTED.\n\nIS SHE NOT EVEN AFRAID OF FAILURE?\nI ONLY CAME TO UNDERSTAND AFTER WATCHING FROM BESIDE HER.\nTHE THINGS I PERCEIVED AS FAILURES\nWERE NOT FAILURES TO LEE JUYEONG.\nFALLING GRADES,\n\nCOMING IN LAST PLACE IN A RACE,\nAND FAILING TO BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE OTHER KIDS IN CLASS\nWERE UNIMPORTANT MATTERS TO LEE JUYEONG.\n\nWHAT KIND OF LOOK WAS SHE GIVING ME\nAS I STRUGGLED DESPERATELY TO WIN THE APPROVAL OF OTHERS?\nPATHETICALLY?\nPITIFULLY?\n\nDERISIVELY?\nOR PERHAPS SHE HAD NO THOUGHTS AT ALL.\nPERHAPS SHE DID NOT EVEN CARE TO THAT EXTENT.\nBEATING THE DRUM AND CLASHING THE CYMBALS ALL BY MYSELF...\nSELF-PITY REALLY IS A RELENTLESS THING...\nBEING AROUND LEE JUYEONG MADE ME ASHAMED OF MYSELF.\n\nI HATED HOW ENDLESSLY SMALL I BECAME.\nBECAUSE THAT FELT LIKE MY TRUE SELF.\nYET WHY DO THINGS ALWAYS TURN OUT—\nWAS IT YOU WHO MADE OUR CHILD SKIP CRAM SCHOOL?\n\nLAST WEEK WAS THE FUNERAL...\nWHY IS IT THAT ONLY THINGS WHICH HURT YOU KEEP HAPPENING?\nLEE JUYEONG, LET US GO.\nWHY AM I ALWAYS A STEP BEHIND AT CRUCIAL MOMENTS?\n\nJUYEONG...\nI LIKE YOU...\n\nI WISH YOU WOULD STAY BY MY SIDE.\nI JUST WISH YOU WOULD STAY BY MY SIDE.\nBUT YOU ARE NOT LIKE THAT, ARE YOU?\nIT IS NOT JUST ABOUT YOU BEING BY MY SIDE;\n\nYOU DO NOT WANT ME TO ONLY BE BY YOUR SIDE EITHER.\nLOVING LEE JUYEONG WAS JUST LIKE THAT.\nI COULD BARELY MANAGE TO HOLD ONTO WHAT FIT WITHIN MY PALMS,\n\nAND LACKED THE SKILL TO EMBRACE SOMEONE OVERFLOWING,\nSO I SIMPLY LET THEM DRIFT PAST,\nWAITING FOR ALL OF THIS TO PASS BY\nWITHOUT EVEN REALIZING IT WAS POOLING UP...\n\nReceived Mail\nForward | Delete\nReply All\nReply\nIt has been a while. Are you doing well?\nDohun Lee To: Doyeong Lee\nDoyeong, it has been a while, how are you doing?\nAs for me, things are going well without any incidents.\nUNNIE~! HAVE YOU BEEN DOING WELL?!\n\nJIIN~ IT HAS BEEN A WHILE~\nARE YOU VERY BUSY? I WENT TO HAESOO'S BAR OFTEN LATELY,\nBUT I COULD NOT CATCH A GLIMPSE OF YOU AT ALL.\nUNNIE... I RAN OUT OF BUFFER CHAPTERS SO I AM LIVING TRAPPED IN THE STUDIO LATELY...\nHOW ARE PREPARATIONS FOR YOUR NEXT WORK GOING, UNNIE?\nI HAVE HAD SOME THINGS ON MY MIND LATELY SO NOT AT ALL...\nOH DEAR, GOODNESS ME...\nBUT I SUPPOSE I MORE OR LESS KNOW HOW TO HANDLE IT NOW.\nOH! NO WAY, REALLY?\n\nWHAT SORT OF CHANGE OF HEART DID YOU HAVE?\nSINCE IT IS UNNIE'S WORK, DID YOU PERHAPS ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING LIKE XX?\nJust Kidding Lol\nDO NOT GO AROUND TALKING ABOUT MY BUSINESS ANYWHERE.\n......IT IS SIMPLY\nBECAUSE JIIN INTRODUCED ME TO A GREAT ASSISTANT POSITION!\nI AM TOUCHED~\nSOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE WORKING THERE WELL?\nI WAS WORRIED SINCE THEY WERE SOMEONE I DID NOT KNOW WELL EITHER, BUT I AM GLAD.\n\nMM~\nJUYEONG, IS THERE TRULY NOTHING YOU WANT TO CONSULT ME ABOUT?\nIT DOES NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE ABOUT MANGA.\nWELL... THINGS LIKE FRIENDSHIP OR DATING WORRIES...\nIS SHE IN NEED OF DOPAMINE?\nTHERE IS NOTHING LIKE THAT~\nYOU DO NOT HAVE TO FEEL TOO BURDENED~\nSHE DOES HAVE A SOMEWHAT PERSISTENT SIDE TO HER, THOUGH.\nI THOUGHT YOU MIGHT NEED A PLACE TO REST SO I BOUGHT A SOFA!\nIF YOU ARE TIRED, YOU CAN SLEEP HERE FOR A BIT!\n\nGREAT~ THEY TREAT ME COMFORTABLY AND WELL.\nTHAT IS A RELIEF~\nI WAS A BIT WORRIED,\nBUT I AM GLAD EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING WELL WITHOUT ANY ISSUES!\nJiin~ When Does Your Call End?\nAH, UNNIE, I NEED TO GO EAT DINNER WITH MY STUDIO FRIENDS,\nSO I WILL DM YOU NEXT TIME! BYE-BYE~~\n\nWITHOUT ANY ISSUES...?\nWITHOUT... ANY... ISSUES...\n\nSaturday, June 3rd 19:27\nHaesoo Regarding the gathering we planned to have everyone come together to celebrate Haesoo and Yoon Jiwon, let us meet on our shop's day off.\nTHE SMALL SECRET I ROLLED FORWARD,\nTHE SMALL TRUTH I TURNED AWAY FROM,\n\nYOON JIWON~!\nPILES UP AND GROWS INTO A SHAPE I NEVER EXPECTED.\nGO IN TOGETHER~\nBEFORE I KNOW IT, IT BECOMES TOO BIG TO HANDLE,\nTO THE POINT WHERE I CAN NEITHER TURN AWAY NOR AVOID IT ANYMORE.\n\nIT OVER- WHELMS ME.\nWAS TODAY NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A DAY OFF?\n\nTHE END IS COMING.\nOH, AHYEONG?\n\nASSISTANT MANAGER...?\nOH... OH MY, AHYEONG IS HERE? WHAT SHOULD I DO ABOUT THIS, FEELING SO SORRY?\nBECAUSE TODAY WE DECIDED TO HAVE A DRINK WITH OLD FRIENDS~\nAH...! AH... YES...!\n\nAH...\nI...\nAS FOR ME...\n\nI WILL COME NEXT TIME...!\nHUH...? WHAT DID I JUST SEE?\nLET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT... UNNIE JUYEONG AND THE ASSISTANT MANAGER ARE OLD FRIENDS...?\n\nHE WAS TALL AND HAD BLACK HAIR...\nCOKE\nAWKWARDLY COVERING HIS FACE...\nTHEN... THE ASSISTANT MANAGER IS...\nAHYEONG!\n\nSINCE YOU CAME, HAVE A DRINK AND GO.\nBESIDES, THE KIDS ARE NOT SHY AROUND PEOPLE ANYWAY\nUNNIE...\nIS THE NAME OF THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND WHO IS YOUR FUCKBUDDY LEE DOYEONG?\nHUH? YOU KNOW LEE DOYEONG?\n\nHE IS...\nOUR ASSISTANT MANAGER...","bubble_count":131,"pages_count":28,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"The narrator recalls the elementary school composition assignment on freedom and Lee Juyeong fearlessly filling the paper beside them.","spoiler_summary":"The narrator recalls the elementary school composition assignment on freedom and Lee Juyeong fearlessly filling the paper beside them. They describe the difficulty of loving Juyeong with feelings of fear of failure, jealousy, and self-pity. In the present, they talk on the phone with Jiin about the assistant job and preparing a new work. At the celebratory meeting at Haesoo's bar, a surprising truth about the Assistant Manager's identity is revealed."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/will-we-stay-friends-forever-1knhl2y6/chapter-18-39nq43","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Will We Stay Friends Forever? #18","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-17T05:37:38.706Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/will-we-stay-friends-forever-1knhl2y6"}}