
i have a feeling the author is gonna try to get us to sympathize with jaekyung

No it can't be an excuse because it's already a story itself. She's not trying to justify anything because it's already a written story. Saying it's an excuse is illogical, and besides you can't really use someone’s trauma in the form of an excuse. So I don't really understand how y'all even brought up that narrative.
if this is supposedly shounen ai or whatever what’s up with the tags
Bc people are weird and put it down as smut when it isn't