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He's the one ML everyone can agree is down to the core fucked up and everyone wishes he never get together with Dan.
It really takes a special person to make the main character of your story so unlikeable. Also even if they got together, no matter how many times he apologised or try to pay back for his mistakes, he's highkey abusive and a narcissist (and a rapist).
I'm reading solely out of spite and waiting for his downfall. Losing to Baek Jumin isn't enough.
Honestly I get Shin. Imagine being someone who lived in the slums all the while, running away from abusive family, having to work as a street mechanic to stay afloat. And then this "gangster" started taking interest in you, giving you protection, money, jobs etc...
Shin risked it all because he thought they were the same type of people -- people who are at rock bottoms, people who are struggling with life (in that case Jake being a gangster will be less of a choice but a means of life).
And it revealed that Jake was never a thug or at rock bottom. He was the only person in the relationship who's actually broken and pathetic.
Fr
you put it so beautifully!!! it’s not action of hiding who he really was, it was the betrayal of the false identify shin found comfort in. the whole time he was betting on a life partner who’d truly understand him but was again disappointed by people in higher power who’d always have an advantage over him
Ah. Thanks. Because I was like wtf is he mad about?! But yeah, that tracks.