Definitely about a toxic and a very human relationship. It has theme of trauma, family loss and how they treated a person who came into their life and slowly bringing colour into it. I remembered reading this back in 2019 ish and being so frustrated by the ml. Upon reread, my opinion still stand lmao. I can understand his pain but will never justify his actions.
To each their own but I personally love this manhwa for the complex storyline and not necessarily the "love" story itself. But also, you'll definitely see fans who romanticise the mc and ml's relationship smh but that just comes w the territory ig, e.g similar to fans of relationships depicted in Jinx, POTN, Into the Rose Garden etc.
For real heesu in class 2 is adorable as hell, this on the other hand gave a little hope at the start that mc’s empathy and sense of justice would rub off on ml and he’d stand up too and they’d go forward hand in hand but nope, he’s unfixable, bro saw his middle school friend be severely bullied to the point it broke him and he declared hate for yuri and still the conclusion he ended up with after that at the start of comic is “ugly people are treated bad so they develop ugly feelings thus I hate ugly people” instead of “let me stand up so bu;lying doesn’t happen and doesn’t turn people so broken”??? And all the way to the end he still acted nice for the approval of the vile bully girls, and just like middle school friend he ignored mc being hurt head to toe as if if he doesn’t admit it, it’s not happening, and even after everything they’ve been through, KNOWING mc’s true personality and their whole talk and declaration of being together no matter what, he still believes the vile girls that mc would say “nah nevermind it’s hard I’m tapping out bye”??? Seeing him being nearly raped in a dark alley he has no alarm bells saying step in save him instead he’s crying “how could you” and runs away? Literally not a drop of character development, if anything he’s worse and worse, not even talking about the side couples too being all cases of forgiving and accepting insane levels of betrayal in the name of love
I gotta ask, is this story supposed to be about toxic relationships? If so then it’s not bad, but if not…. I don’t understand how anyone could find this cute or fluffy. Yeah it had its moments but the amount of toxicity and sa in this story makes my jaw drop. That pared with the fact that the author dismisses it so quickly is so weird. To the people on tiktok that rated this above Heesu in Class 2…. Never rate again.