The real heir of the company was forced to stay at home and marry an abusive cheating psycho... so you know.
Taeha an outsider was abused as well by her father but is ambituous enough and has brain to take over the company. While So Ah, who has the privelege as a heir cant even open her mouth to say Taeha's plan
Exactly. Taeha is an outsider, while Soah is the daughter. And who has more power and control to abuse you in your life? A stranger or your parents?
It is not a competition who is more abuse. The point is, both of them is a victim of their father. This drives Taeha to get revenge while So Ah doesnt do anything when she has more advantage being the daughter. All she need is to so speak up and it is not hard to gather evidence when she has resources (money & power - can easily access their hotel). But what she did is to drag an innocent and powerless Yoon when she can just hire a detective?? Is she poor? No. Is she stupid? Yes. Unless she's just acting like that and cooking something my view on her will not change. Everyone around her (Yoon, Taeha and his mistress) are doing something while all she do is cry and get angry.
No one said it was a competition... chill. As the direct child of the abuser, you know the parent? The one who basically owns your life, your meals, your education, your freedom since the moment you were born until around 20 years growing up?
It makes more sense they've developed learned helplessness (do your own research) against the abuser and just no longer fights back anymore.
You keep on comparing the longetivity but it's about the impact. So Ah might be afraid of her father because he is controlling and strict but he provides everything she needs. While Taeha needs to work his ass off. He is even taking medication when he was meeting So Ah's father because the humiliation he's been through keeps on flashing when he sees her father face and even when he's looking at So Ah. That's why he hates her. It was just after their engagement she stopped playing the piano because he wanted her to focus as full time housewife. But it will not stop her from speaking up. She got a courage by asking her father to stop instead of starting from warning him about what she heard from Taeha. And aftrer that? What effort did she do? Asking Yoon (a poweless man) to gather an evidence when she can do it herself with her money??? She just put him in danger then cut connection with him by lying for his sake??? She already involved him with her drama?? Her problem is so easy to solve because again SHE HAS EVERYTHING (MONEY AND POWER). Even Taeha needs her but he appears that he has the upperhand? Does it makes sense?
She doesn't have money or power tho. That's her father's
She has money compared to other characters. She's a heir but she has the least effort in this story. :/
Aight this'll be my last few replies. So, I'll just drop everything here so I don't need to come back anymore. Made this entire essay in 40 mins, oof:
You say that long-term abuse doesn't have as significant effect as scale of abuse.
- You undermine, or rather, you reject the psychological effects of what repeated and long-term abuse can have on people growing up, which prevents them from learning to ever fight back.
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"But it will not stop her from speaking up"
Again, trauma or neglect CAN actually stop a victim from being able to do even that.
To you, it's just "speaking up". To a victim, that means preparing for a beat-down (verbally, emotionally, psychologically, or physically)
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"It is not a competition who is more abuse. The point is, both of them is a victim of their father. This drives Taeha to get revenge while So Ah doesnt do anything"
Different traumas come with different effects.
>Taeha's trauma made him crazy and vengeful.
>Soo-ah's trauma made her forcefully obedient and submissive.
- Victims of physical abuse can develop the behavior to flinch, hide, run away from even the slightest movement from another person as a result.
- Victims of verbal abuse can develop self-doubt, self-loathing, and the inability to express themselves in front of others.
- Victims of psychological and emotional abuse can develop severe trust issues, anxiety, and depression.
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As I mentioned before Learned Helplessness is very common amongst victims of abuse or neglect.
Someone who has been powerless for 20 years under THAT same abuser, isn't going to suddenly be able to fight back at them.
Even being able thinking of ways of how to fight back is blocked from their brain at this point. (So, for Soo-ah, rebelling with Yoon might be as far as her trauma allows her to think of.)
(And no, again, she does not have any riches or power of her own. Her dad owns everything she has and can keep track of it, he'll probably even let Taeha manage her assets soon).
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You say this type of behavior doesn't make sense at all, but it actually really does.
(Granted, this is a revenge manhwa, and they can give unrealistic sudden bursts of self-confidence, strategy, and business competency to the main character whenever they want. But you just need to know that in reality, this is what abuse does to people).
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- You have a false notion about heirs and inheritance.
You could be a princess born to a king. But you could never really have a say in politics.
You can be considered rich and royal. But you can never buy things on your own.
>A princess can most likely never spend the money of the king without his consent OR the supervision of his servants.
>A princess is restricted from learning anything useful other than etiquette and beauty (like the piano).
>A princess cannot even run away if they wanted to, if they get caught they'd only be caged even more.
When the king dies, would the inheritance go to the princess? No. He'd rather force the princess marry a man he shares no blood with to entrust his kingdom to than his own daughter.
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Korea has chaebols, large-scale family run companies, which are empires in their own way.
Do you know how often a daughter of a CEO would inherit the family company once the father is gone? Almost never.
Do you know who's more guaranteed to become the ACTUAL heir of those companies? The CEO's son-in-law. (i.e. The daughter's husband. Not her.)
If a CEO has no sons, the son-in-law will be most likely trained to take over instead of their own daughter. The daughter will be gatekept from learning anything about business or the company. She'll be rendered absolutely obedient and useless by her own father as a pawn to be married-off for profit.
Blood doesn't guarantee you inheritance or becoming the heir. But patriarchy does.
Proven historically and currently.
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If you still don't believe that this kind of behavior and this situation (about abuse and inheritance) is common and really happens often in real life...
Then, idk anymore :PP you can just say that you dislike Soo-ah, but not that her behavior is dumb and makes zero sense, because what would that say about the many real-life victims who have developed a behavior exactly like her's?
What would it say about the real-life abused daughters of patriarchal men because they also weren't able to speak up or fight back, and ended up marrying the worst kind of husband there is?
That they were just too weak and dumb? That they were stupid for not suddenly rising up and taking over the company by themselves?
(Again, this is just a manhwa. And it it's very possible here for the MC to do all that. But still, her developed behavior from trauma which she represents, can't just be invalidated like that because she's blood-related to the CEO.)
I get your point about abuse and inheritance etc. But are we even reading the same story? So Ah is an only child which makes her the heir that's why her father is careful on who she marries and been decided by him since her husband is expected to lead their business.Her father believes doing this will make her life easy because all she need to do is be a good wife. And that's why she's the key on Taeha's success which she should have realized that she has the upperhand. What do you mean she doesnt have a money. She even bought a PIANO and CAN BRING A MAN to HER HOUSE. If she can do that freely, then why she can't hire a detective? Taeha and her father doesnt care about what she do as long as it will not ruin their hotel's reputation. I don't hate So Ah, I just hate how the author makes her looks like she doesnt have single braincell to think and realize that among the characters, she can do much more because she has the resources.
It's hilarious that Taeha looks like the heir of the company while the real one is acting like she can't do anything but cry in the corner. It doesnt makes sense. Even their smut, Taeha and his bitch has a lot, detailed and sexier compared to the leads.