As in they're going to end up together, happy go lucky? Happens everytime I swear. It's a shame because the story makes me extremely disgusted. The way haeyoung practically conditioned him to this behavior is sickening. His father was abusive. He's dependent on them for money and validation. And I do not want to know what happens next. Seeing him sincerely made me wish he would just die, there's no particular difference.
The group theory reminded me of that one social experiment by Marina Abramović in Belgrade, Serbia. She essentially laid out numerous objects on a table and claimed they could do whatever they wanted to do with her. People were hesitant at first, resorting to more simple or silly acts but it quickly took a violent turn after the first person started. She ended up being stripped and slashed multiple times with a knife. It inhumane what people will do if given the opportunity to. Reading this is a shame because it could have been a psychological manhwa. But spoilers suggest otherwise.
me too
I kinda understand human more than before
nobody really knows what he or she is capable of not until they do it
I don’t like the ending of the novel, however I will say that this book gave me insight about humans and their behaviour. The villa scene was so gruesome and the way they all accepted to psychologically abuse Haewon is crazy but realistic, which is kind of insane to think about. I think group behaviour is a major reason why they normalized the sexual and physical abuse of Haewon because the ML kind of gaslighted the rest into thinking this was normal behaviour. If you think about it, humans are made to adapt socially to prevent being ostracized which aligns with why the collective acceptance of Haewon’s abuse among the group and their behaviour afterwards (acting completely normal like they didn’t just gang rape Haewon) is such a strangely natural behaviour of humans. It goes to show, any human is capable of extreme dehumanization or great empathy given the right circumstances. It explains why Hyunwoo as a character changed so drastically because he accepted that his friends abused Haewon, which led him into interpreting it as socially normal within their group.