If u read the omega complex I don't really see him as a bad guy
Novel Spoilers Below:
According to the NU Spoilers I’ve read, you are 100% correct
HELPPPP NO
Goddamn it
FR?
ELABORATE PLS????
Here is part of the Novel Updates Review that I saw:
Spoilers Below about MC’s Family & ML
Dohyun was initially hired to spy on isolated/bullied 14-year-old Wooyeon, earn his trust, and report back to his mother about what was going on with him.
More childhood backstory needed to be brought up in the beginning or trickled throughout, not dumped at the end. It completely changes the context of Wooyeon's loneliness and neglect as a child, the trauma he is set up to have prior is downright lighthearted compared to, "my mother imprisoned me at home to hide me from the world, every aspect of my life is controlled, I have zero privacy, and have no genuine relationships with anyone I can trust."
ML's POV kind of ruined the story for me. Aside from the deception aspect, Dohyun didn't just recognize/remember him, he knew everything about him and his past, and was playing mind games the entire time. That even the Yeon-a nickname is a contrived manipulation on his part and not a cute misunderstanding is nauseating.
I expected the 'kind persona is an affectation' cliche, but the smug self-satisfaction he gets from Wooyeon's childlike adoration, knowing that this kid is lonely and desperate for affection, is just way more black-bellied than I was prepared for. It recontextualizes all their earlier flirty interactions into being about satisfying his ego instead of actually developing feelings for Wooyeon. It turns out he didn't actually start having feelings for Wooyeon until so much later in the story than I would've guessed. And finding out he was actually getting off on it and encouraging it way back when they were 14-15 and 18-19 makes this feel 100x more groomer-y (NOT helped by how many times in the side stories smut Dohyun describes his body and mannerisms as being childish, I got the ick ngl.)
I can't root for a relationship where the ML was maybe going to deceive him indefinitely if he hadn't been caught? This whole thing would've been so different if at the halfway point, prior to the "I like you" he had confessed. Or before they had s*x. Or instead of rushing to A-mother to ask her not to tell Wooyeon before he did, he could have spent that time telling him.
Even his apologies feel so self-centered, and it's written as if we're supposed to blame the mother for revealing it, when prior to that he had so. many. opportunities. to. I'm pretty sure Wooyeon ended up apologizing more for misunderstanding that he was dating him under her orders and still reporting to her (a reasonable fear!! And what a terrifying one to have!!) than Doyun apologized for the years he actually spent reporting to her and the months since reuniting he spent lying to him.
The forgiveness was so rushed, and came way too soon. It felt like the author wanted to take a shortcut by using the "orphan has trust issues that make him kinda sociopathic" cliche to brush everything off. You'd think for how realistically devastated Wooyeon was shown to be, the author would take more than a couple of days of Dohyun harassing him to cave, but... nope! I would say it feels really inconsistent with how strong-willed Wooyeon has been up until that point, but I guess it is pretty consistent with someone who's been manipulated so heavily by ML since the age of fourteen.
He’s definitely not the worst ml in bl history, but very manipulative, especially with the context of their past
Oh man
After that description I feel like throwing up. Thank you so much for sharing this so I can choose NOT to read it. Seriously, life saver!
I read Omega Complex already. But, this one is kind of the exact opposite.
It's like the author realized Omega Complex is not toxic enough that's why they decided to make this story what's with BL manhwa authors though feeling like they're gonna die if they can't make stories without any abuse storyline in it fawk
ty i won't read this anymore
This rly is so strange and feels out of character from how he was portrayed in omega complex as someone who for the most part respected yoonwoo's boundaries and protected him without expecting anything in return. from what little was shown pertaining to the omega in this story it seemed like he genuinely cared abt the kid too. so its just such a weird choice to do what feels like a 180 for the sake of...drama??? idk sounds like bad writing if you ask me
Thats true. I kinda wanna lowkey diss the author coz what the hell? I was rooting for him too in Omega Complex.... He was such a stand up guy and looked so nice. idk what to feel yet about this. Whether I wanna continue or not. Guess I'll stick around for a bit haha.
It’s way too early in the story for anyone to say “bad writing.” My guess is that rather than him suddenly switching up, something may have happened in the 4 years they hadn’t seen each other. It’s clear because all the other students currently know dohyun to be on the colder side now. As opposed to how he used to be. It felt like dohyun was innocent in omega complex, but faced something that cause him to change. (Which isn’t unheard of in romance stories where a ML starts out all sweet before a time skip lmao)
Omg what ur so right Abt him doing a 180 for the sake of the drama, my heart is broken. Can't believe he became so manipulative
while I dont completely disagree, this review does say he was manipulated the mc of this story from the start when he was tutoring him which feels unnecessary to add if not for the sake of drama while disregarding how he's been established already as a character
I guess we’ll have to see for ourselves how manipulative he is?
Cause I’ve seen other people who have read the novel, think he wasn’t as bad as others may have portrayed him to be. He could be similar to the second dude from puppy love, where that guy was required to go after certain rich ppl and win seduce them
OKAY came back to say- I read through all of the comments and have seen some people have a different opinion after reading the novel, saying Dohyun is not as much of a red flag as others are saying. But I guess people have different tolerances of what they consider a red flag. Some people have read worse and have a higher tolerance and others may deem even the slightest things as bad.
Do note that often times, many of these spoilers are REVIEWS, aka have many opinionated takes. That’s their opinion on how the story was, not actually an an unbiased summary that specifically just relays info. I’ve seen way too many stories new readers avoid because of opinionated spoilers that purposely change details as well as exclude them. It’s always best to judge for yourself.
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The ages are a bit confusing as they seem to differ? Or Dohyun may have tutored Wooyeon longer? It says Wooyeon was 14 when he was tutored but I read the novel and it said he was 16. Age difference is 4 years, so currently Dohyun is 24, Wooyeon is 20. Negative opinions say that Dohyun manipulated him romantically as his tutor, all the way up to current time and beyond. Neutral opinion say that Dohyun manipulated him during his time as a tutor and after the job was done, has not been in contact with Wooyeon’s mom. The mom ordered Dohyun to MONITOR and take care of Wooyeon as his tutor, similar to Wooyeon’s friend. Never said anything about seduce.
More details can be read by what this user shared of their review:
https://www.mangago.zone/home/mangatopic/17324988/
i gotta such a feeling that the ml is gonna be soooo damn toxic...