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Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You Episode 3: The Store Manager Steals the Show

Three days after Episode 3 of Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You aired, the show's official channel posted its usual post-broadcast highlight clip, and the 23 comments underneath barely mentioned the two title characters — the most-liked reply, at 142 likes, wasn't about romance at all, it was about how bone-deep relatable working the night shift is. From there the thread pivoted hard toward a side character nobody expected to become the main event: the store manager, who picked up a wave of "she's surprisingly girly" and "give me more of her" comments for a scene that was originally supposed to be about the two leads. By the end, one commenter had joked that the manga's real final chapter should be retitled from "the two of them" to "just one of them, alone," and another admitted, with a straight face, that a woman in her forties had never looked this endearing to them before.