They really don’t have much chemistry.
Fr lol
Tho this story is way more refreshing to read cos the uke is not a real pushover and never gets dragged along with the seme's nonsensical antics. Having an uke blushing everytime they see their respective ml (seme) is starting to get tiring to read, so this one is a really good read for me (≧▽≦).。*♡
I’d hold off on that assessment I’ve seen the raws and ML will in fact steamroll him eventually and our MC will just accept it. And will in fact follow the standard dynamic. I just don’t like the ML he’s extremely pushy and emotionally forceful later on but it’s framed as MC needed to change all along to find love, rather than just ML’s two faced and manipulative approach worked all along.
Romanticizing toxic behavior in standard in their heterosexual content so I’d expect no less in their queer content targeted to their mostly heterosexual audience/ readers. If it’s not made by queer people or with their opinions in mind don’t expect anything worthwhile. Same is seen in western media.
It's funny how many essays out here rationalizing Dr. Han because we've been conditioned to accept the bare mininum of human decency. Dr. Han is not a good person. The author can redeem however they like and there are those who will readily accept it. But given how this character has been presented, his priorities, his actions, and lastly his rational he is not a good person. The end. Why he'll be reawarded in the end despite this all could be answered by the patriarchy, male privilege, society's forgiveness of "men with bright futures". Buy why he's rewarded today is because this genre has decided his happiness is more important than of those he's harmed and affected for the sake of a happy ending narrative we continue to force for the sake of our "perfect fantasies".
The main issue was that he's never had serious relationships. I don't think it actually said he's cheated and stuff (could be wrong) so that in itself is not that bad. The thing as a tutor, yes that was obviously not good however it up to them to decide if they can move past that. So I think your analysis of him is honestly way too harsh. It just seems like he didn't really know what love was and didn't understand what to do when someone loved him until now. Because only having casual relationships doesn't make you a bad person even if people get hurt because they fell for him.
No one should care about his sexlife and this misdirection is actually getting quite annoying in how this justifies his behavior. His casual sex life is the low hanging fruit in this argument. It's his manipulation,gaslighting, and callousness that intersect with his casual sex life that is the issue. Seriously who cares if he fucks 1-200 people, what matters is his intentions have always been in his own self interest and others are justuseful as only necessary to pass his whims or current fancy. Having a threesome with people after you've already manipulate your patient who you already know and should be a conflict of interest nto being single by purposely giving wrong advice to ensure he's available for you to pursue not as a maybe but within the impression of a serious romantic relationship is scummy at the very least and disgusting to anyone with a moral compass.
It's not what's he's done before Hanghyuk it's what he's done parallel and specifically with Hanghyuk at various times in their now 6 years of knowing each other at this point that makes him a morally awful person. If you can accept thats fine, it's exhausting having to make excuses for shitty people but people do it everyday.
The enemies to lovers trope of let's fuck just because reasons, has to be most bizarre irrational reason for two people to fuck, when if you truly hated someone fucking them would be last thing on your mind.
I dont think he necessarily hates him, just hates that he's inferior to him. like he said he has an inferiority complex that was "planted" by him. its like your significant other cheated on you so you hate on the person they cheated on you with but its not necessarily that you hate the person but you just hate that your lover cheated on you with them so you push that on to them instead of blaming your lover, you blame it on them. he was mad that he was always second place and his parents took that out on him so hatred grew in him and he just blamed it on the reiji for his inferiority complex. sorry for the long as paragraph LOL.
Fucking weirdos the whole lot who love this plot.