Facts.
We all know that the author had a preference for Minhyuk and forced his participation into the story when in actually it had no relevance to the actual plot. If anything, just contributed to Sooyoung’s trauma. It would have been more interesting to see the emotional/mental development of Taesung with his story around his mother. But oh well, at least the author finally got wrapped things up with the third wheel and won’t make more extras with him.
Lol they even prioritised the mpreg story
i think minhyuk and his past did matter, just in a different way. his past made him believe that ppl in positions of power see those less than them as just passing objects of whimsy, and he was just another piece to be used. the ahjussi and sooyoung made him see that kind ppl are still out there in the world by protecting him, so he reciprocates by basically saving sooyoung almost every time something life threatening happens. no offense but taesung was such ass in so many parts of the story that sooyoung would've died like 3 times over if it wasn't for minhyuk.
but more importantly, it shows that no matter how much minhyuk tries and no matter how terrible taesung could be, sooyoung would still choose taesung. it really minimizes his contributions--ALL of them--to the point that his rapist-ass doesn't even get a footnote about assaulting sooyoung when he's mentally incapacitated. the vibe is very much, yeah you can save me you can fuck me over but you matter so little to me that it's not even registered on my radar. which is kinda ice cold.
minhyuk is technically the nice guy of the two (in very angry quotation marks mind you) but it's used to highlight how much sooyoung seems to really like his toxic bad boys.
Period
Taeseung taking care of his mother should have been in the main story instead of it being shown in the last bit of the side story, they could have had replace Minhyuk's sob story about him and his sister with Taeseung and his mother since Minhyuk's story didn't matter to the plot at all. It was just the author's favoritism, i am tired of it.
Should have explored Taeseung's feelings about his mother and his adopted father, y'know since he is the protagonist after all.
Anyways, i am happy to see Taeseung and Sooyoung together! My beloveds.