That’s YOUR opinion. Let me remind you that every person’s family is different, not everyone is blessed with a caring family. And if you think abandoning a child is responsible and part of “staking your future”… gosh the fact that people can’t sympathize with Inwoo is crazy. And you’re also forgetting that romantic relationships aren’t always sexual, they can be just as strong as family bonds, so I just don’t get it. Your moral doesn’t apply everywhere, your experience is obviously different so why are you speaking on topics like family if you aren’t familiar with these issues?
Ignore the idiots in your replies. They don't need a response, they need help. You are so based for saying this. Thank you for saying this.
I was gonna check this story out. Thanks to your comment I now know it will be that kind of a story. I seriously hate that romance genre writers casually keep demeaning families and friendships and putting trivial sexual associations above them. You want tension and competition in your story, do it among romantic relationships. Do not involve people's family and friends, unless it is to show romantic relationships peacefully co-existing in their right place in the hierarchy below one's family and friends. You are right. I have read so many shoujos and even some shounen that depict a romantic relationship during the story, that could teach these yaoi guys a thing or two about how to write a romantic relationship when you also want to include the characters' families and friendships in the plot.
Nothing and no one supersedes family. Romantic relationships are such a small part of your life and you have so many people, so many obligations, so much to live for that is far more important than that. We, as a society, need to get out of centuries of patriarchal indoctrination that the sexual association between a man and a woman should take priority. That mate-control, monogamy bullshit was forced on people to serve andro-centric, patrilineal reproductive interests and the administrative interests of a patriarchal society. That is not a natural reality of human condition. The bond between a primary caretaker, usually the mother, and the child, is the core unit of human society.
The whole reason that we are social creatures at all are for the sake of acquiring and maintaining kinship bonds. We need people to stop taking those kinship bonds for granted. Stop abusing the love and loyalty that your family holds for you.
Any problematic statistic that you bring up about familial arrangements are several times more problematic for romantic arrangements. If you can compromise for years and years to stay with an unrelated peer in a relationship where you are constantly treated like a child, expected to give up many of your freedoms, expected to grant privileged access to your household, your whereabouts, your social life, your professional life and your finances, don't whine when you are expected to do that for your own goddamn flesh and blood. Don't demonize getting treated like a child by your parents and then romanticize getting treated like a child by a stranger.
If you expect your parents, siblings, children, other members of your family and friends to be there for you no matter what, then you need to do the same for them. If you keep treating them as expendable stepping stones, then it is in their best interests to cut you off. People just bet on the fact that for a parent, to cut off a child, is easily one of the cruelest decisions they can be forced to make, so people keep trying to test the boundaries confident that they can ultimately force their parents to compromise. Stop thinking of that as okay or that you're entitled to act like that. You want to enjoy your privileges as a part of your family? You better start fulfilling your duties to them.
Another one in the trashcan. The heck was that "isn't one's life more important than family. You are wasting your life away if you can't get a lover". Of all the insane, brain rot! What sort of a statement is that. And why is it being presented as a moral of the story moment instead of a bro, you're unhinged and need help moment. Like, bro, dude, if your family hadn't wasted their own lives away, staked their futures, compromised their own selfish interests for your sake, if they had not chosen to share their lives with you, you'd have been lucky if you survived long enough to spew this kind of nonsense. No one needs a lover. Sexual relationships are completely optional and trivial but you would be no one and nothing without a family. Family is part of your life, the most important part of it.
This is why no matter what recent manhwas, manhuas and webtoons all together could not match the quality of a random manga from a couple decades ago. Because apparently all the writers have turned into horny teenagers without a brain or a heart who are able to spew whatever nonsense that comes to their mind before passing it through the sanity check that one's training and the editorial department would have provided. Something is seriously weird with the yaoi and shounen ai writers. Why is shoujo not nearly as problematic even though they also focus on sexual relationships, but this genre can't hardly last one story without dozens of problematic instances? Even yuri doesn't f**k up as frequently even though those are also stories coming from a historically stigmatized and fetishized homosexual background.