
Damn although this doesn't excuse his actions, you could understand why oldest brother is the way that he is. He was just a child!! Unlike Minjae who prob had a normal childhood with loving normal parents before he was adopted, oldest was living in that reality since day 1. He most likely did not have any outside influence he could "trust" more than his father, and so his brain didn't allow him to process this crime on him and act to break free. Although obviously he didn't like and he knew it WAS wrong, his mind had given up and had accepted it as his reality. Then, well, you get a brainwashed child.
No wonder he thinks 2nd bro is "pure" unlike him and that he has to protect and make sure 2nd bro is still this untaited savior-like figure. So he fosters this obsessive borderline incestuous relationship to keep 2nd bro safe and at arms-length.
Damn no wonder he became the way he is rn and why he had abused Minjae. He literally was just a child who was abused and not able to get therapy. The dad is a monster.

Aww i cant imagine how hard it is to lose everyone you loved instantly. Then this person who is kinda like you now (an orphan) suddenly makes his presence known by seeing you almost kill yourself, then going out of his way to give you food. I get why Eunsung feels like those efforts are condescending and born out of pity esp when they haven't interacted at all before. Even if it wasn't nice to degrade Taegun about being an orphan, someone experiencing grief (and such a tremendous one at that) can't help but compare their grief to others in a "I have it worse than you" way. Ugh this is so good i love my pookies

Can someone remind me why Joohwan is not telling Sihyun he's single

something to do with him hiding the fact he's gay? he uses the whole ring and relationship thing as a cover so people won't bug him. I literally have no idea why the fuck he's hiding it from Sihyun at this point other than continuing the miscommunication. like dude he KNOWS youre gay you don't need to keep up the act with him when your cock is in his mouth

Him wearing the ring is not about him being gay. He's either bi or fluid since he's only ever been with women and the ML is the first man he's had a thing for. The ring is to keep a distance from people hitting on him or asking him inappropriate questions about his love life at work. I've seen multiple josei webtoons and mangas where that's a thing. Right now though, he decided to keep the miscommunication going because he realized that even though the ML thought he was married, he proceeded to pursue him and act as though our MC was some kind of manwhore. So he's keeping the truth to himself just to be petty.

in the novel he tried to explain how ridiculous sihyun's assumptions are but sihyun wont budge and said joohwan wont just say the truth to him so now joohwan is just being petty back to him he also dont like seeming like a virgin to sihyun who he assumed is experienced. so they're basically just dumb and dumber

i cant tell you much because novelib only has 24 chapters to go (it updated weekly until 40 chapters) and by this point joohwan, tired of being painted as a whore but unwilling to admit he was a virgin, has decided to lie to sihyun that he was dating the min actor guy but willing to be fwb with him and (he was seriously offended with the "golfing" accusations and said his body wont withstand that, the fuck is sihyun thinking) sihyun being the pettiest of bastard was rather unconvinced but he accepted the fwb deal and now joohwan is going through a bdsm list for sihyun

I love this backstory honestly. Not just to understand how Na Haesoo became so attached and in love with Kang Mincheol that she was willing to suffer years of neglect, but also to make Mincheol more complex and 3D. It's gonna be very interesting to know how Mincheol became someone past him would likely despise.
Can't we just be happy for a single minute!!!!