Yes Jaekyung has an asshole personality. However, hes helped Doc Dan a lot. Paying off his bills, saving him from the thugs, being nice to his grandma, gave him a place to live and a job. It's not like hes beating up Doc or forcing him to stay against his will. It was a mutual agreement. Doc could have said no and Jaekyung could have found someone else to do it with. Like do yall really think an MMA fighter can afford being a softie, and Jaekyung has a lot on his plate as well.
He paid off his debt but Dan is paying that back with his body, whenever and wherever he wants. He doesn’t treat him like a human sometimes. just coz he spent some money on him and didn’t abuse his grandma he’s not bad? He doesn’t give Dan any respect. Hes beyond an asshole, he crosses the line many times but bc he puts a roof over his head it’s okay. Dan isn’t forced to stay with him but in a way he is, considering how he has to repay his debt to him which jaekyung paid on his own so that he can use him. I don’t know man.
Yes that was the agreement, pay off his debts and jaekyung gets some. Jaekyung went to the hospital when the grandma was sick and kept her company. If he was a complete asshole he wouldnt give a damn about her but he was actually nice to her. In the real world people arent going to pay off your debts for free, they will just look away. Jaekyung helped. Just cuz he doesnt romance him? Doc dan was getting beat up by the thugs on a regular basis and the last time they were all about to rape him. Jaekyung laid it out flat for him i need this from you, take it or you can go on your way. Doc weighed his options and went with what was better for him. Jaekyung doesnt have to let him stay with him but he does since he knows he cant go find a place. Doc dan now has money to help his grandma and for himself he doesnt have to stress about thugs or money.
Yes, he’s a great guy bc he doesn’t beat up Doc Dan. But seriously, some of you need to learn about power dynamics in abusive relationships and that consent and coercion are not mutually exclusive. Yes Dan agreed to J’s terms but what choices did he have? Does he feel pressured to make certain decisions?
Hard disagree. This is financial abuse as Jaekyung is making Doc Dan financially dependent on him. Doc Dan will feel pressured to give into Jaekyung bc he might lose his job, lose his home, and lose his grandma. If Doc Dan decides he no longer wants this arrangement, do you think Jaekyung will just let him go? Absolutely not. Consent is constantly needed, just because Dan agreed initially doesn’t mean Jaekyung has eternal permission to do whatever he wants.
Only difference between those thugs and jaekyung is that he’s rich, good looking, and has a career/reputation to uphold. You said it yourself, it’s a transactional relationship, so why do you say “he helps” as if it’s from the goodness of his heart? Sure, he’s not a complete asshole to a hospitalized senior citizen but that’s about all the credit id can give him. I’m only criticizing him like this knowing that this relationship will eventually turn into a romance. And I just can’t fathom how, when this is their dynamic right now. He just sees Dan as a tool that no one else can use. Just because it’s a transactional relationship doesn’t mean you can’t respect each other?
She always tried to please her ex and now when there is a genuine guy that likes her she's all like meh when he's trying his best for the relationship and she just takes it for granted. Yes he has baggage too, and I'm sure normal couples would be shocked to find out that the person their partner went on a business trip is the opposite sex. She didn't have to get all all insulted. Don't do shit that looks shady and then get upset about it.
I am looking forward to how the webtoon differs from the novel. I didn't like that in the novel Lize was still free and scheming and Cliff tried to still stand by her. It just didn't feel like justice. But now I feel like it might be better. I mean Cliff here knew from the start that she was conniving and still stood by her and it makes sense that he leaves to find her.
In the novel Reeze's ending wasn't freedom. She was sent away to a monastery. Cliff took over the duchy and a year later remarried another woman. Still a softhearted ending for both and not so much justice, but not near "freedom" either. I don't know, to be honest i dislike the ending of reeze and cliff endings in the novel, but surely i hate this manhwa deviation the most. Like what the hell is with this new system crap for cliff?!. The duke trying to make Killion the new duke?! Totally defaming the hard work Edith would've put on their new territory if killion accepts the tittle!!. Nah, the manhwa has become crap the moment they deminished killion's redemption arc.
Yes I know she ends up at the monastery but she still gets to do more evil things before she gets sent there. I like the webtoon, I mean the whole thing that he really loved Lize and ends up marrying someone else just cuz he needs to didn't really seem real. So I like this that he just said fuck it to everything and will look for the Lize he loves.
In his defense, not that I'm really defending him, but at the end of the day in the novel Cliff was also a victim to the brainwashing, it took him awhile for him to overcome the brainwashing because he truly loved Reeze. All the evil things he did to Edith was all in the scoop of brainwashing plus his love for Reeze. And even after killion and Edith moved away for their territory and Reeze showed her true greedy and nasty personally; Cliff (annoyingly) still stood by Reeze side and loved her. It wasn't until Reeze fucked up by giving and having that wrong child pass as the lost prince that Cliff started to downplay his feelings and slowly started regaining his mind. And he took a year before remarrying a new girl (not only because he needed a new duchess) but because he started falling in love with the woman, and he genuinely apologized to Edith for all the things he did to her. (Again not much justice for his evil deeds but he overcame the brainwashing).
While here in this manhwa, they genuinely made him out to be a physchopath who is madly in love for the 'author' and hinting that he was never brainwashed because he was 'truly in love' to the point where he was able to see a new system? And go after the author?. Like what? And now they probably going to make Killion be duke?, demolishing all the efforts and work that both Edith and killion (more Edith) did/put into their new territory? Naaaah man, thats not good. I can now say 100% that i definitely prefer the novel more than this shitty manhwa xD it was superb at the beginning, it became great in the middle but now it fucking sucks thats reaching its end. Now that i get a feeling that killion will have no other choice but to become duke I'll be dropping this manhwa.