multiple side characters start becoming insufferable. It seems like there's almost no one who treats the mc well? I mean he was missing for 10 years, but his "best friend" treats him like sh*t and his mom (who was originally portrayed as very loving) just lets everyone else walk all over him and doesn't correct any of their misconceptions about him or the situation. They have this new cook in the restaurant and for some reason the author thought it would be cute to make her also really look down on the mc? And the mom never corrected the new cook's misconception that the mc didn't know how to cook even though he was the whole reason why they had to hire another chef since he cooked for famous people and they got a lot of exposure? It's kind of confusing if you haven't read it yet, but the new cook is kind of "on loan" and technically works for this group where the son of the CEO is the one who tried our mc's cooking and is the reason why they're expanding the restaurant, so her not knowing that he can cook really makes no sense. I often overlook inconsistencies like these in manhwa because I'm sure it's hard to keep track of them all, but I feel like it really exemplifies the issues with the relationships in this one. Maybe the author really likes degradation? lmao

Anyway, tl;dr of this spoiler rant is that there is not enough actual connection anymore in the relationships portrayed for me to remain interested, and the disjointed plot does not make up for the bad characterization.