
They didn’t need a side story, they needed a sequel. This author is really good at slow burn and ehh at fast moving stuff and they should have moved even slower then the main couple not juts because the brother didn’t like him but because he is secretive with his feelings due to his feelings of lack of control and this would also allow the ginger to be more fleshed out since I don’t believe he is so far

Sometimes I come back and think about the story because like her brother was really being abused in biblical proportions. I think it’s a damn miracle he just didn’t kill himself. Like he was being physically verbally emotionally abused at home as well as neglected while keeping up a façade for his younger sister. He was being physically and verbally bullied at school and no one really seems to care. Other than one bystander who like helped once, but didn’t really do anything else which like no hate to her, but like not good. Then he finds out that both his parents died in a car accident and then their last minute they are arguing about what an awful son he is. Like that’s so much. Genuinely that’s so much. I think it’s really weird that people can wave away his trauma when he is by far the character with the most trauma in the entire story. Like his sister went through something bad he went through something worse. I don’t like comparing trauma even situation, but I think it’s really weird. A lot of people are repenting to his sins and don’t care about his trauma when it is unarguably the worst in this entire story. I do think while being a great story it does lose a few points for the way character seems to interact with his trauma specifically because they go while you went through a lot that doesn’t justify anything you done and I completely get that however I feel like you just don’t take a story like that and completely push it to the side and I feel like a lot of them do that. Like it doesn’t justify his treatment of his younger sister, but after hearing all that I can understand him a lot more and I want him to get better not just for the sake of his younger sister because he is a victim who has no one? like has his younger sister, but I don’t think she’s gonna help him as much as people think because she is like a child. I genuinely think this story would’ve been everything if it had one more volume where it focused on him trying to get better with the help of the brother for rent. Because I don’t think he needs to be his older brother, but I think him just being there for him in a way no one ever has been would have done a lot like the firm believe he should adjust moved in with them because they cannot be trusted to be alone as the brother might hurt the sister again because healing isn’t linear, but also because the brother might kill himself, they both needed help and only the sister was able to receive it and I mean like yeah the brother eventually got better but like it would’ve been good to see that journey, even if it’s for a little.

I feel like a lot of people here either doesn’t have reading comprehension or empathy or both because I see a lot of people saying I don’t see how her being neglected makes her homophobic when that’s not what happened. Her being abused made her incredibly lonely and suicidal to the point where she had to move in with someone who cared about her or who knows what would happen. Took her to that she feels like she doesn’t want to experience it again, but she doesn’t want the people she cares about to experience it. She want someone she enjoy her life to be as lonely and suicidal as she was. She equates feeling like this because she was outside of the morm in this case were active in their children’s life. She doesn’t want ML To experiences because she cares for him and he’s already gone through so much she doesn’t want him to experience Homophobia because at the end of day, this is a small town. I imagine she thinks it’s even worse because it’s not like they are gay. They both have clearly dated women before See things they are opening up the gateway to homophobia that they don’t necessarily need to.
People are calling her selfish well yeah she’s using her story colors her vision of the world to see the situation. It’s the basis of empathy but she’s ending up at the wrong conclusion. She understands she’s wrong and she says she’ll stop, but she cannot in good faith support the option where they open themselves up to homophobia. Only problem with her way of thinking is, she doesn’t understand that there is benefits from them, opening themselves up this way because even though they will have to face homophobia, they can do it together and that’s clearly more important. It makes sense that she does not see the benefits of community in this way because like she said, she’s incredibly lonely. The only people we see her interacting with are two grown men double her age or a kid half her age. And the fact that she hurt one of the few people who seemingly care about her is probably eating away at her. Odds are she’ll come around to this viewpoint with the help of MC and probably go back to college or basically be adopted due to the over arching theme of parenthood in this story.
I feel like the situation needs to be handled with more empathy and understanding going into it because even though she is a fictional character, this is a very real viewpoint and this is a very real situation she found herself in the topic of neglect.

I actually don’t hate the brother or his motivations. By the Brother, I’m referring to the new antagonist or whatever not the main character. Him panicking and saying, “I love her because I used to teach her” is clearly trying to think on his feet right. Him and a couple other people have came to the conclusion They can’t rely on the aristocracy to always care for them because of situations around them and to be fair he’s kind of right because the region he lives in is one who is ultimately covered by a man who cares not for people, but for the law. Like he made it very clear if any of his children cross the law, he will deal with them in a swift and decisive way, and he had that done before. He is also worrying about his place in the system. His family is middle management, but if anything, they are lower management like they do not have the power. I think people are assuming them. Like they have more power than other people of the land, but out of everyone we seen so far, they have the least power. If he marries into this family, he will be able to protect him his sister and their descendants. If his sister marries into the family, she won’t be able to do the same. Where is he can extend the protection to her she can’t do the same for him so ultimately he will be in a worse predicament if he particularly doesn’t marry into this family. And if he doesn’t thing that is applicable is him turning down the entire system, which ultimately won’t end well because the one who controls the system isn’t even being touched yeah his family members might die, but him and his wife are fine.
The situation is a lose-lose for him but he also cannot rely on the empathy of people who have shown not to be empathetic towards him. Because it’s not like when he started speaking, they tried to find an end for the situation. They just shut it down. If he was smarter, he would’ve tried to come in the middle of his sister‘s relationship. However, his father is probably not gonna care because at least one of his children is succeeding. There is genuinely nothing he can do and no way he can get out of his situation and I will be surprised if it doesn’t end in his death or him going to jail and being erased and his sister not caring.
Woojin please come home.