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I don’t like the ending of the novel, however I will say that this book gave me insight about humans and their behaviour. The villa scene was so gruesome and the way they all accepted to psychologically abuse Haewon is crazy but realistic, which is kind of insane to think about. I think group behaviour is a major reason why they normalized the sexual and physical abuse of Haewon because the ML kind of gaslighted the rest into thinking this was normal behaviour. If you think about it, humans are made to adapt socially to prevent being ostracized which aligns with why the collective acceptance of Haewon’s abuse among the group and their behaviour afterwards (acting completely normal like they didn’t just gang rape Haewon) is such a strangely natural behaviour of humans. It goes to show, any human is capable of extreme dehumanization or great empathy given the right circumstances. It explains why Hyunwoo as a character changed so drastically because he accepted that his friends abused Haewon, which led him into interpreting it as socially normal within their group.