
The writer went out of their way to give you Haegyeong's backstory in order to establish that his behaviour is not because he is stupid, naive or a masochist. What he is is someone who grew up in an abusive household. That kind of environment literally rewires your mind. He had to get a restraining order even after his parents divorced. The only person who could truly understand his experience couldn't stand to see him. This left him vulnerable to a childhood friend who was nice sometimes but eventually indulged in abusive behaviour himself: isolating him from potential support systems, positioning himself as the only one who cares etc. When this is the environment that has fundamentally shaped your sense of self and how you look at the world it is incredibly difficult to break out of it, even when you gain enough knowledge to know that you need to.
Think about all the bad habits you have, the things about yourself that you know need to change and yet have done absolutely nothing about. Or you did and then you fall back into old patterns. If you're stupid, fair enough, but that's a you problem, no reason to project, seek help...
Anyway, I don't like Kwonlim either, he seems to have his own creepy agenda. Yuck. What went down in that family home.

Sweetie, he's trying to give your ass a break. Take the break!

I know it's super common in BL to present romantic sex as the no 1 thing rape victims want *right* after being violated. But they often (dare I say mostly?) want no sex at all (zero, zilch, nada) and I'd like a writer to acknowledge it once every 5 years or so. Even in this omegaverse scenario where pheromones are a factor and he has been trained into this kind of behaviour: allow him to accept the care being offered. They have water in Olden Times Korea, they can take a bath together.
Pipe dream, I know, obviously what his battered mind and body needs is the romantic baseball bat of pheremonal true love up his bruised and sore ass. ┑( ̄Д  ̄)┍

Yh I know wat u mean It’d be nice to find a story that projects a more ‘realistic’, different view than the ‘trend’ that is constantly repeating in the bl world cuz honestly tho in my opinion if your a true bl fan the erotic parts would not be the main reason to get u interested in a storyline, I just wish all the artists out there planning to draw/write romance stories understands that the erotic part is gonna be interesting and exciting at first but on the long run if u want ppl to actually read ur work u gotta have a decent storyline

This read like three seasons worth of story smooshed into one. Ricky's plot to use Jaewoo as a pawn to trap Rohan was the first. We could have gotten a more fleshed out story about that rivalry between Risky and Rohan alongside the whatever between Risky and Jaewoo. (That way an actual reason/motivation for burning down a whole town could have been developed !) Second season would be Jaewoo's rise as a mafia boss with Rohan. Right now he just looks like a kid who went to gym on a free membership trial please be serious. (We could have gotten more insight into Risky + Doctor's backstory too.) Then the third could be Risky and Jaewoo reunion as equals in whatever this nonsense Centineo blah blah is.
Sigh. I just skimmed the last 5 chapters. I'm out. Toodles!
Moonflower Gems you're the best. I took one look at that watermarked gibberish and tapped right back out in 0.5 seconds. Was relieved to get another notification. I have no problem returning for the best.
Facts