we do see a little of his past in this chapter and how he talk about his past. to be fair we didn't see that much of uncle past either. the ex is not that much has a big "past" to me so they both, to me, very interesting just in a different way.
the problem with readers that I see a lot is they first judge the character has "good" or "bad" which should not be a thing. remember every character in this story have layers, the difference is how we see those layers.
Umm well I felt like you were undermining my comment and thoughts by saying 'hey you actually don't know what you're thinking lol HuanWen isn't the only character with layers' as if I don't know that. Like, was that response really necessary? Idk if that was your intention but it was received like that. So. Maybe better word your response?
Huan Wen and uncle are so interesting in the way they shield themselves from pain and been hurt or relationship.
they really are very interesting cause in the end of the day they doing the same thing in different ways. uncle protect himself by not showing his feelings and just go with the flow, thinking it will be fine cause I"m not serious so he can't hurt me while Wen not trying or open to relationship at all, he shut himself down before it even start to not get hurt. in a way they very similer so their talk was very very interesting one to see.
and I don't think we have the right to judge any of them, the only one we can judge is ourself.