Blending modes help?

Hi, I loaded a picture up and placed a white square with opacity "10%" to act as a "watermark". I merged it down and duplicated that square with the same opacity. Then I changed the second square to "subtract". They should cancel eachother out and I should be left with the original image, correct? But the result is a grayish/desaturated square. No values reached 255, so there shouldn't be any data loss. Can someone explain this? And how would I go about cancelling out the first square I made if this is not how to do it?

It's the best solution so far, as it seems to be the closest to cancelling out the square. But it's nothing I haven't tried already. I've tried every blending mode on the second layer with both white and black squares. They all leave a desaturated (not completely desaturated, but less than the original) looking artifact.
I just tried with an even simpler set up. I opened a 10x10 document, and filled it with the color (123,164,93). then i added a new layer of white, turned opacity to 20% and merged.Then I added another layer of white, turned the opacity to 20%, selected "subtract", and merged. The final image should be a 10x10 square that's (123,164, 93) but instead it's (119, 146, 100). And I just checked and that doesn't even return the same brightness value.
I tried different blending modes for the second layer and even tried putting the first white layer on "linear dodge (add)" thiking "well, since add is the opposite of subtract, it should work". Still, I never get the original color.
Is this a bug in just my software??? Have you tried doing this experiment yourself and it works on your end??? Is there a setting somewhere that I can adjust that should be adjusted??? Or is this a bug or issue that Adobe hasn't worked out? Maybe they need another blending mode called "super simple subtract"?? lol please help because I think this should be sooo freakin easy. The programming for it would childsplay! R - R, G - G, B - B... that's how "subtract" should work

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