…you maybe think wooyeon (ch23+) is being irrational but u have to consider the fact he is being held captive…what else do you think would happen to a person being held captive yet also having an intimate relationship with their captor? of course stockholm syndrome. and it wouldn’t make sense to most people who aren’t in that situation. he is not psychologically well. he has been mentally and physically tortured by jaeha. he realizes that in his situation, the only way to get away from his prison is to grovel and apologize at jaeha’s lap and convince him he loves him. so that jaeha won’t torture him by leaving him locked up in a dark room indefinitely . it’s a common tactic for victims in captivity. and because he mentally unwell, he also manages to convince himself he loves jaeha, as a way to escape the reality of the matter or as a way to create this safe illusion that both him and jaeha are truly in love and happy or he will have to reckon with the fact he’s apologising and pandering to his captor. that’s why u jinwoo’s method of “rescue and therapy” doesn’t work. shouting at wooyeon that he’s a victim and that the man he’s convinced himself he “loves” is bad and will do more bad things to him cannot work. he is not operating on the level of mental stability that jinwoo is.
it may have many negative reviews but i actually enjoyed reading it. i kinda especially enjoyed jaeha’s and jinwoo’s characters. jaeha is blatantly and irredeemably cruel here you can say…however i think that jinwoo and jaeha are two sides of the same coin. jinwoo’s attempt at rescuing wooyeon leaves wooyeon trapped in his house with little agency(more than at jaeha’s ofc). but jinwoo also…in a way wants to keep wooyeon to himself. he’s just a little more covert and nice guy savior in his approach. and i like how the author was initially portraying jinwoo as a savior-type character just to later show that jinwoo’s advice was actually the reason and the catalyst behind jaeha’s brutal actions. he’s not innocent or guilt-free. however i think it’s easier to empathize with him and root for him because despite him kinda ruining wooyeon’s life, he reckons with his previous actions and kinda tortures himself in poignancy.
and quick question but what the fuck does jinwoo do..like for work. he’s never working and is always chasing after wooyeon. and he’s in his 30s so he definitely must have a career. why is it never brought up even in passing? we never get to really know much about him if it’s not in his proximity to jaeha and wooyeon. he just perpetually orbits around them.
i wonder how the author will take the narrative going forward because from the get-go this was giving psychosexual bl drama thriller…like it’s gay as hell but i find it hard seeing romance become a main theme in the narrative for now.
sir mugo what’s your glute workout routine. double cheeked up so aggressively on a friday morning…god bless.
it’s always so disappointing when parents cover up their children’s terrible & harmful behavior but what’s to expect when the child they raised turned out that way.
he’s quite pretty i kinda forget he’s not okay in the head…like omg how dare u torture him like that…that’s NOT cutieful of you.
gunjoon and his sunbae needs to sit down and talk and address the sunbae’s notorious fuckboy persona that’s going around and get clarification from his sunbae about what they both want from each other or gunjoon is going to worry himself to death.
“i know. that doesn’t really matter to me. i like you gunjoon” lmao.
dr kim kinda sucks as a scientist and or researcher because how do you inject the vaccine and the make an immediate conjunction. ill think he is being influenced by anti-rebel sentiments that are so deep ingrained that he doesn’t attempt to view the testing from a pragmatic perspective and he’s quick to dismiss the rebel’s vaccine as a failure. if dr.seok didn’t tell him to wait, he would have make a quick and inaccurate inference. it’s like he doesn’t know how vaccines work lol. he’s also very sus and giving rainbow city elitist it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
he’s so funny. he’s so arrogant and petulant and annoying and out of touch…but also really fun to read hehe
oh jinwoo is about to show his hole a true bathroom incident…
dohyun’s burberry trench…i want it..almost forgot he’s also a rich kid.
yes kim dan stand on business…refuse that meathead don’t give him an inch…not even a micrometer…jaekyung’s hair here looks cutieful…he’s giving dongsaeng…
at first, reading chapter 1, i assumed lister would be the male lead and he’d follow the same scum seme characterization that is the zeitgeist of bl manhwa but i was shocked to see another male lead come in and yeah…i like him!
lister could have been a more interesting antagonist if the author gave him some other qualities that sort of mellowed out his despotic behavior but he’s just outright a cruel person with the emotional capacity of a toenail. does he think pulling mc’s pigtails through torture is going to make him realise and reciprocate his feelings? he’s quite stupid.
however im not mad (thank god) that the author has not made this a potential love triangle scenario because it would have infuriated me to see sylhan even show an inkling of affection to the lister considering how cruel lister is to the point it overarches any positive trait he would possess.
“why didn’t you tell me u were hurt?”acting all caring…girl it looks fake as fuck…if someone knocked on lister’s head they’d hear an echo…of course sylhan can’t tell you because it’s your! fault! did lister expect him to be like “u hurt me and i also expect u to comfort me knowing your just going to hurt me again”???. ugh
i hope the story ends with the heo family getting ruined beyond repair so that all the nefarious hard work jungwoo and junghyuk put into the family’s business comes crashing down/is all for naught. i hope they suffer terribly too.
and i can now get why minjae dared to attempt to kill jungwoo. what would u do if someone is telling you that if you attempt to report or talk about the harrowing sexual abuse you went through, they’d kill you? that’s sickening tf i’d kill you first. i support minjae’s rights and wrongs.
jaehee’s blatantly stupidity n his one braincell being controlled by his dick makes him look like a punching bag he’s kinda dumb and cute id want to beat his ass too. he’s a fun n silly character to read but if i met him in real life i wouldn’t want to be with a 5 mile radius next to him he’s kinda insufferable.
he’s giving himbo here i kinda fuck with it like yeah do more stupid shit like trying to fix a leaking when it’s raining so that u may enter a precarious situation where u end up being fucked by mugo for 3 chapters.
