Description Wherein Seulgi and Jongin fail to communicate properly after what she refers to a love confession and what he calls a 'mistake'. They do not understand each other and instead of a reconciliation, they decide to play a game where no one wins.
Carnation is the story of two lost bestfriends longing for each other with a heavy past and bright futures as idols. Now the real question is will they ever be able to overcome the obstacles and become more than two parallel lines going their way to reach the stars?
"Oh please, don’t overreact."
I'm not.
"It wouldn't have worked."
We could have tried.
"You know it too in your heart."
My heart has been aching for years now, that's the only thing I know.
As you're looking at me with those hurt and shaky eyes, my mind keeps replaying the scenes of our joyful past. What happened? Where did we go wrong? Like you said, I shouldn't have fallen for you. It was my first mistake. The second was to let you think my feelings had changed after all these years.
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Kang Seulgi: "Why do I always feel like we're playing a game where the winner is the one who hurts the other the most?"
Kim Jongin: "Sometimes, I don't know if I should apologize to you or to me in this relationship."
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car· na· tion1 kärˈnāSH(ə)n/ noun
a double-flowered cultivated variety of clove pink, with gray-green leaves and showy pink, yellow, purple, white or red flowers.
"I bought a friend a carnation because I was unable to tell her my feelings."
Note that the colors beside the chapters represent the color of the carnation flower with its special meaning for the beginning of each section (the meaning is explained at the end of each section).