Yes they ARE both victims. Most readers don't get that. Apparently reminding them of this fact is defending him they're FICTIONAL characters. Personally I don't think shipping fictional characters have to go through such moral screening tests but suit yourself. I'm more interested in the story than their "romance"if there is any..bad examples of relationships teach us just as much as "good and healthy" relationships. So this story is interesting in that way too.
YES both of them are victims but most people dont remember that. This manhwa isn't aiming for promoting a "healthy" relationship I think. But I think there's just as much to learn from examples of bad and toxic relationship than there is to learn from "good and healthy" relationships which also has been written quite a lot. Unrealistically so. GOOD OR BAD - this is what FICTIONAL stories are about. Shipping fictional people, personally for me, isn't something I do through "moral filtering" - I dont care how fucked up a character is as long as they have reasons for it and they somehow manage to do a character development to either accept or evolve from it. That's why stories like this are interesting. Imperfect characters are interesting - fucked up imperfect characters. Liking them doesn't mean you're condoning them. Personal opinion. This whole shitty situation is sooo disappointing.
Of course it wouldn't be reasonable nothing about this is reasonable. But we have to assume it would be reasonable for seungho because well, all he's feeling rn is utter betrayal and being made a fool of... to us it isn't reasonable, but I think I can see why he's acting so out of control it isn't surprising.
I dont get why people are mad...dont they understand nakyum literally lied and confirmed to seungho earlier that he HAD run away, unlike the readers, seungho thinks for certain that he was made a joke of...he became vulnerable, told him his feelings, and then got stabbed in the back. I'm very disappointed by the author trampling his character development before he even had a chance to let it grow....and as for nakyum, he's the most pathetic whiny uke character I've ever seen. He's a liar, he's a coward, and he has no brain at all. I'm thoroughly disappointed in this series. It seems to go in circles....even after 60+ chapters thers is no significant chatacter development, and all side-characters have been forgotten. The whole build up of the kidnapping thing fizzled out in just 2 chapters so what was the whole fucking point of even the assassin character???? I dont care much for the smut here because it is like in EVERY chapter and for no reason did Mr. Kim enter that shack...???? He would wait outside and ask seungho and he just barged in???? So damn illogical. Disappointing. And the fans in the comments ars so dumb and pathetic too...seungho is a complicated character, nobody remembers his backstory or the reasons why he acts so impulsively and why he is going out of control this instant???? Fucking stop reading it if you cany put 2 and 2 together