okay so i’m going to be talking about the novel from a perspective of a long time korean manhwa/webnovel reader — this novel is (in my opinion) very well written. even if you don’t like the plot or the characters, the way the author describes certain events or the emotions/thoughts of characters is nicely done. because of this, i can’t help but feel just a smidge sympathetic toward the ML, who i agree is a terrible person who got what was coming to him (and honestly should have gone through more) and im sure others feel the same. that’s why when you just get point blank spoilers like “oh he’s horrible he did xyz” its so easy to be like “wtf who would read this? dropped!”, which is totally fine, but also there’s a lot of nuance being missed. of course, again i don’t mean to say the ML isn’t a piece of shit - he is! irredeemably so. but if you’re on the fence, i just wanna say you can still enjoy the rest of the story knowing this fact.
the ML is a classic “korean top” psychopath, where he doesn’t have emotions and don’t understand them. where i think the author does a good job is in how she shows the effect of being a psychopath on the ML — he knows he’s different and he gets shunned by his father, and he acts like he doesn’t care. but subconsciously, being treated like he’s inhumane and a monster terrifies him, so he does everything he can to prove that it’s okay, he doesn’t need these emotions, but he accomplishes this in malicious, unethical ways.
and he does horrible things! he allows taeshin to be gang raped and plays with the emotions of his ex fiancee, leading them both to kill themselves. he facilitates the rape of many people as well, where he allows for rich men to take sexual advantage of drugged/tied up individuals. he manipulates the people around him, and the emotion abuse the MC goes through is insidious. he gets the MC to a point of dependence where the MC is terrified the ML will leave him with lies and deception.
i believe the story does a great job up to this point. we see this twisted relationship and this cruel, calculating ML develop just as the ML wants. i personally think the story gets a little weaker when everything is revealed to the MC and he gets “revenge”. his initial attempts are clumsy and honestly kind of pathetic, which might have been the point but idk, i wasn’t really feeling it. ultimately the ML does go to jail, which i think is fitting, and as expected they do get together in the end (with complicated emotions, ofc). the finale didn’t really live up to my personal expectations, but overall i did have fun reading this novel.
also one thing that i thought was both fucked up and hilarious was there’s a part where one of the rich chabeols who are part of the ML’s secret sex dungeon club or whatever (lol) tries to piss the ML off by going like “i saw [MC] and he was super pretty i wanna have sex with him blah blah blah” and ML’s reaction is to forcibly kiss that guy and threaten to fuck him (which brings up another funny point where the ML pretends in front of these people that he has an std LOL)
LMAO THE LAST PART IS SO FUNNY, hes really a psycho. Usually the kiss would be unnecessary but he probably knows it would unnerve that guy
OMG!!! I’ve read the novel a year ago. I also loved the novel and I also think it was well written how the author portrayed a psychopath who wants to fit in the society (The ML). The mansion w/ secrets hidden in the hills, the drunk calls w/ the samgyup girlies, and was almost arrested for prank calling a prosecutor. I can still vividly remember all of this bec it was that good. And yes, I do agree w/ you the revenge part of the MC was kinda wonkie, bec the build up to that was really good. How ML thought he already had everything, it was perfect, his plans were all put into place, he had MC they’re leaving at the most expensive penthouse like a happily married couple. But, surprise, surprise… everything crumbled down overnight when MC found out everything. Then the wonkie revenge part happened. Lol it irritates me a little not the story but the MC he was kinda stupid in that arc, but I guess that’s how it’s supposed to be since ML will never understand what it is to be in pain if MC hadn’t done all of it. What wins me over was how ML was willing to give up everything for MC to win him back.
pleaseee can you spoil the revenge part for mee please
this is just my theory but i think the mc went out because he wanted to test to see if his hypothesis (that the ml know the future) was correct… come on yall like you guys are saying he’s stupid but you guys really couldn’t think a little bit deeper or read the subtext? also he has every right to be suspicious of the ml so far?
binge read the novel and yes it was a little cliche with misunderstandings galore but i freaking loved it ╮(￣▽￣)╭ i eat out this trope every time
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i read the raws on ridi yall
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Who is the seme
UGHHHHH the mc is gonna pretend to be an alpha after he presents…
which makes this even worse i love the art but the story/plot is absolutely killing me… they fr self sabotaging themselves and their relationship.. the omegaverse trope is also so unnecessary
rereading this again and the mc is so? hot? and pretty? and honestly i love that he has like an actual personality but also that he has a backstory (although tragic) that gives genuine logic to his actions. he manages to be hilarious too.
so we all know the two brothers (of our MC) are fucking right? like they are definitely not normal (also i hate them! sorry im just a simple reader they’re assholes) i’m pretty sure the older one is adopted as well (just a guess tho) but im not 100% sure i believe he was also sexually assaulted like the MC was, i wouldn’t put it past this manipulative piece of shit to be lying about it
No the two brothers aren't fucking. The father is hinted as being the rapist. The middle brother looks more like the dad so I think that's why the older brother doesn't like when the middle brother touches him. But the middle brother doesn't know what the dad did that's why he's thinks the younger adopted brother is psycho for attacking the older brother. The older brother knows what happened to the younger brother because they went through the same thing. It's a shared secret but the older brother is fuckinf weird about it. So something he said or did may have been the reason why the younger brother attacked him. The middle brother doesn't know anything and thats probably why the older brother keeps telling him to be kinder to him.
i… have a feeling they will get together especially with the latest raw chapter
I think ur theory of the older one being adopted might make sense but God I hope the brothers aren't gonna be a thing. I hate that lmao.
if you don’t mind being spoiled….. [SPOILER] when the MC gets brought back to the house, the two brothers talk outside of his door and the older brother like caresses the younger brother’s face (who blushes) and the MC sees this and goes “aren’t the two of them supposed to be brothers?” which. i think has a lot of implications.
Yuck!!! I hope theyre hes adopted then not that it makes it okay either way lmao.
i’m not saying it’s right but it’s not crazy that taekyung doesn’t want to convict his own mother… like would YOU send your mom to jail??? again… not saying it’s the right thing to do but it’s at least understandable
i just realized during a reread that it’s pretty much confirmed that this esper (kang fuckface or whatever) messed with taegun’s mind and manipulated him emotionally cuz in chapter 16 when the chibis are arguing with each other one of them says “well it’s actually good that eunsung is a guide because he can’t manipulate us with a power” as reference to this new dude