I see you point, which for narrative purpose what the author is doing is basically legit.
From a real life point of view, no one would just stay still and swallow all this inconvenience. Meaning we would report to our workplace the personal situation with this guy and the outcome would be different. Even further a real live version of Dan would just flipped and tell him properly to fuck off.
But yet again, narrative vs reality doesn't make it less frustrating.
I absolutely agree that the space and line between reality and fiction should be acknowledged, especially in a subject matter like this one. Plenty of the circumstances in the story are unrealistic, even if Dan was as much of a pushover that he was, the fact of the matter is a lot of the things he went through, in reality, have logical solutions.
My gripe is with people who cant distinguish between fiction and reality. This is a BL ffs, the standard for realism shouldn't even exist for a lot of these stories, and yet people complain about so many things that forces the story to comply with current societal standards.
well, i don’t think people (me) care whether he changes or not and by the looks of it that won’t be happening for a long while. what you’re saying implies that his grannies death will most probably used for “jaekyung’s character arc” and will lead the two becoming closer again. we can comprehend this very well but i still hate jaekyung. it isn’t about change, this story can go on for 700 chapters for all i care and jaekyung can become an actual saint and sure I’ll read how he changes but i still wouldn’t want him within 500 meters of dan.
People complaining that jaekyung hasn't "changed". I think it would be inconsistent for him to make a complete 180 in that short period of time. Also the point in the story for that to happen has yet to take place, that's why author has kept granny alive for this long. Her death will be the catalyst to push Dan on the absolute brink and then we will see how author will use that to shape Jaekyung's character.
Atp people complaining about everything just glaze over the story without using the slightest bit of comprehension.