I feel like the actual storyline of this manhua is amazing. The author did an amazing job at length, things weren’t dragged on and everything happened for a reason. This manhua showcased the real effects of mental illness and childhood trauma / abuse in characters like Yoonbum and Sangwoo, and it wasn’t glorified either, or mentioned like it was something to be praised, rather very realistically. The subtlety of Yoonbums characters descent into the realities stalkholm syndrome was amazing, and I never got bored reading this. This is really a 10/10 manhua if you can stomach reading something like this.
I’m so conflicted about Heonjae. I know he’s a bad person, he’s done horrible things and hurt people, like in the chapter where it says he cut someone’s legs of + wanted to skin Meyonggi alive, and you can see him declining through the chapters as well but I can’t bring myself to hate him especially since he’s clearly ill, and mentally challenged to some degree. If the things of his past didn’t happen to him I think he’d be a real sweetheart, and I dwell on that, but he’s fucking scary too.
This authors artstyle is so gorgeous, and meticulous I love it so much. It keeps me wanting to draw all the time.