the author is desperately trying to redeam th MLs by giving them some hurt feelings and a sudden comradery in taking care of MC?? it's weird to see them so meek, and it feels like they just had a change of personnality because now that MC have had enough, they have to be forgiven for the happy ending.
this is the problem with all those ''toxic'' bl.. the author write ms such terrible people and relationships because it makes readers react and read in hope of a good ending for the MC. but then it comes to a point where the characters are just irremediable but the author still want to write a happy ending when they're all suddently good and at peace.
if the ML have to have a redemption arc because the author can't bear to end the story with terrible people then at least make it believable!!











so ML had more empathy for MC as a teen than he has now. he's actually treating him worse as an adult who had years to mature... didn't know people could regress in emotional intelligence, smh.
this flashback is nice but it really paints present-ML in a really bad light.
Ikr! It seemed like he has so much regret, but when they met again, why did he treat youngwoon like that??
Because over time he got more and more jaded. The modeling industry, drugs, sex, his shitty ass family. It all took a toll, part of him grew resentful that Yeon left while he was still stuck.
Hard to mature like an average person when he’s in a terrible environment surrounded by people that don’t actually care about him. ML had more empathy cause he was still innocent and had MC there for him at the time. He likely spent more years without MC
Still not making it good for his side though, 10 years and he's still make a bad decision when he met yw again. But what could i say, he's also protecting his family love onto yw as if yw is no different like "it's s easy to leave and started over", they really need to talk and seoin should knows that yw is not the same as his family
NOT protecting, i meant to say PROJECTING