Cain and Jooins relationship is so much of blind devotion, dishonest harmony and inequality and that's why I always thought it was toxic too. Most of the series both of them pretend the love triangle isn't a problem for far too long and that as long as they're with each other the problem will fix itself. I don't know why it reminds me of the nonsense of saying "as long as he comes back to me I'm okay". Unfortunately Cain even says something along these lines too. The issue with all this is how can you fix a problem when you aren't even willing to acknowledge it exists. Between Cain and Jooin a lot of uncomfortable and painful conversations needed to happen if they were ever to be anything. We all know the only tough conversation that they had was when Jooin rejected Cain which wasn't even fixing anything but just ending it all between them. Love isn't enough to fix problems that needs to be verbalised to be fixed. I do get that Cain was always fearful of Jooins retaliation but doing nothing when something could have been done is where he truly lost to Yahwi. I always wanted Cain to at least crash out on Jooin bcz it was Jooin hurting him more than anyone else but the creator hit us with the whole "Cain would never do that cz he's only nice to Jooin". I don't know why second love interest are often just written by default as doormats who should just take it until they are bent and broken. I hate how in manhwa they don't have agency and only exist to love people that don't love them back.
Cain and Jooins relationship is so much of blind devotion, dishonest harmony and inequality and that's why I always thought it was toxic too. Most of the series both of them pretend the love triangle isn't a problem for far too long and that as long as they're with each other the problem will fix itself. I don't know why it reminds me of the nonsense of saying "as long as he comes back to me I'm okay". Unfortunately Cain even says something along these lines too. The issue with all this is how can you fix a problem when you aren't even willing to acknowledge it exists. Between Cain and Jooin a lot of uncomfortable and painful conversations needed to happen if they were ever to be anything. We all know the only tough conversation that they had was when Jooin rejected Cain which wasn't even fixing anything but just ending it all between them. Love isn't enough to fix problems that needs to be verbalised to be fixed. I do get that Cain was always fearful of Jooins retaliation but doing nothing when something could have been done is where he truly lost to Yahwi. I always wanted Cain to at least crash out on Jooin bcz it was Jooin hurting him more than anyone else but the creator hit us with the whole "Cain would never do that cz he's only nice to Jooin". I don't know why second love interest are often just written by default as doormats who should just take it until they are bent and broken. I hate how in manhwa they don't have agency and only exist to love people that don't love them back.