Am I the only one who is thinking this?

Don't think so, Bum's uncle fancied the mum, but mum was with his brother. Bum's parents died in a car crash I think, there isn't really any thing that says she cheated, just the uncle abused Bum because he thought he looked like his old crush, and he wanted to spite his dead brother, that story is heinous enough. Sangwoo's mum didn't leave the family, she murdered her husband, sexually abused her son, and then died shortly afterwards according to the police, the circumstances of her death were not concluded yet. Having the two MC's secretly being half brothers seems like the most cliche plot, when the author is a better than that.

I didnt mean that Sangwoo's mom left them and had Bum later on, it's the reverse, since Bum is older by 4 years than Sangwoo. What I meant was, the mom prolly had Bum first then left and had a new family with Sangwoo's dad. And I don't think we're above anyone to say the author is better than making a cliche plot, isn't stockholm syndrome cliche? And that's the summary of this story. It's just executed by the author well. So I don't think Koogi can't use a cliche plotline, she's good at executing those actually.

I really don't think this is the case. Bum might be older than Sang-woo that doesn't mean that S's parents weren't together at the time, and the mum hiding a pregnancy and birth would seem a bit tricky. Even without this, it seems a bit unlikely that they are related. Just because Sang-woo projects his image of his mother onto Bum, because of his mental health problems, that doesn't mean that they literally are related.

ok, that's your opinion.

Or sangwoo's mom had a twin sister. I have no proof of that though.

It's my opinion too, tbh. There isn't really anything indicating that Bum's mother went back and forth between Sangwoo's dad and Bum's dad. Your only real argument here is that they were born 4 years apart and some characters look vaguely similar. Was the lady at the ice skeeing course related to them too? Since Sangwoo was hallucinating there too? "there is 4 years between them and Sangwoo makes parallels between his mother and Bum as he's been shown to do to others as well so they could be brothers". I don't follow the logic.

why are you putting words in my mouth? When did I say that Sangwoo's mom went back and forth with Bum's dad? Did you really read my post and comprehended it properly before posting?

when did I say "sangoo makes parallels betwenn his mother ans bum.." ?? stop making up lies.

She had to have gone back and forth for them to be brothers... She was with one, hooked up with the other and settled down with the 1st. Quite literally, she would've had to in the scenario you're pushing... As far as the "making parallels", you specifically mentioned how Bum looks like his mother... Tell me where exactly i confused anything?

I didn't "put words in your mouth", i paraphrased... Rather than type out literally everything you said word for word, as that'd be tedious, i paraphrased. I covered your entire argument, it's not my fault it has no logic and you feel defensive when people say so.

wow, do you even know what these --> " " <--- connote in grammar and writing? It means you are literally quoting the other person. That's putting words in someone's mouth. And for your information, how the hell does your mind even work? You can have your opinion but make sure you aren't lying about the one you're speaking to, if I didn't tell you you were lying you wouldn't have cleared up that you were paraphrasing me. Hello?

Stop lying.

Idk what you think that was, but it wasn't an argument. I guess we're done here? It seems you're just messaging me out of anger, all i did was disagree with you and say why, you're the one who got bitchy with me.

Also, i used the quotes TO indicate that i was paraphrasing a piece of what you said. It's in quotes, so you know it's about something you said. It seems to have worked just fine considering you registered that the quotes were supposed to be around what you were saying... When you paraphrase you can still add quotes to indicate you're using another's words. Normal logic would've led you to realize i was paraphrasing since i said what you were saying, but not in your exact words. Unfortunately i had to explain...

It's like, if i say "i'm the opposite of happy", you'd be able to paraphrase that as "he said he was sad" and you'd still put the writing in quotes to indicate you're paraphrasing something i said.

so now I'm a bitch because I called you out on lying on me? And please, you kept on pushing your opinion and even called me defensive because you couldn't erase your previous comment making up words I did not say.

Yes your opinion is not welcome unless you know what a connotation is used for. If you used that kind of logic in your college thesis, you wouldn't pass. Using connotation means you are LITERALLY quoting what the previous person said, if you are paraphrasing me, there is no need for " " because they are not use in that context. Unless you didn't know that? And I bet you didn't.

As for the actual topic, you don't actually have an opinion on it because all you did was rebut me by misunderstanding my post.

No ma'am, you do not use quotation marks to paraphrase someone. You can ask your professor about proper grammar.

Are you done? I didn't ask your permission to post. You're such a child getting THIS upset that someone disagrees with you when you can't provide any evidence of what you're saying. You keep saying i misunderstood what you were saying while not saying exactly what it was i misunderstood. I didn't misunderstand anything. I literally went over how everything i said was something you directly said, just not in the same words.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Idk what you're talking about when you say "lying", but let me clear a few things up:

I didn't call you a bitch, i said you're being "bitchy", as in you've had an annoying attitude with me since LITERALLY my 1st response to you. Now, I got something confused, the paraphrase of what you said was: "your only real argument is that they have a 4 year age gap and that some characters look vaguely similar". This wasn't in quotes. The other paraphrase that i put in quotes was of your "4 year age gap" quote and something Clouds said at the end of their 2nd response to you, they said "just because Sang-woo projects his image of his mother onto Bum, because of his mental health problems, that doesn't mean that they are literally related". I guess i got you two mixed up WITHIN THAT ONE SPECIFIC SENTENCE, i added in what they said at the end of what you said. I suppose i should apologize for that mixup, but before you try and act like me mixing you two up in that sentence means anything i'd like to point out that it doesn't. The rest was entirely paraphrased from what you said. Literally everything i said, aside from that one sentence about Sangwoo drawing parallels, was something you said. You can remove that sentence and my point still stands, "your only real argument is that they have a 4 year age gap and that some characters look vaguely similar". You keep trying to argue that me using quotes that sentence isn't correct because i was paraphrasing, but that isn't true as you actually can paraphrase in quotes (you don't NEED to, but you can.) and DIRECT QUOTES AREN'T THE ONLY TYPE OF QUOTES. That wasn't a direct quote, it was a paraphrased quote, but a quote nonetheless. It was a concept that the two of YOU, not i, brought forward. Yours being "they have a 4 years age gap, right?" and Clouds having said the other portion.

Let me give a few direct quotes from you:

"they have 4 years age gap, right?", "they kept on repeating that Bum looks like his mom that's why the uncle kept on raping him", "what if Sangwoo's mom was actually Bum's mom?!".

Looking at the quotes above, the clear implication here is that you're using Bum's similar looks to Sangwoo's mom as some kind of "proof" that they could be related, hence me saying "your only real argument is that they have a 4 year age gap and that some characters look vaguely similar" and "was the lady at the ice skeeing course related to them too? Since Sangwoo was hallucinating there too"? I was saying that if similar looks are enough for you as proof, then the ice skeeing course lady is related to them too since she apparently looked enough like Sangwoo's mom that he was hallucinating.

You had said "when did i say Sangwoo's mom was going back and forth with Bum's dad?", you said it here: "they said Bum's mom went to another man and left them, right?", "what if Sangwoo's mom was Bum's mom?!". If "Bum's mom is Sangwoo's mom" , "Bum's mom went to another man and left them" and your theory is that the two are brothers, you're saying she went back and forward at least once. Am i wrong?

I think you're confusing "quotation marks" and "quotes". A quote is always word for word and within quotation marks, quotation marks are used for various reasons.