Shes genuinely fully justified on whatever choice she ends up making.

EXACTLY. Thank you. It's a relief to know someone is actually understanding fl's character

What he did to her brother was to push her sanity, it is working cause she is already questioning if the solution is killing him. He loved whenever she acted violent, like when she beat that disgusting teacher and he said "that is good, but that is not enough" or when she beat the cousin he was looking and smiling. Probably wants to push her so badly she will show her impulses, he said at the start that she seemed like someone that was pushed by people but repressed reponding back.

Yeah, he basically wants her to fumble. The more out of control she is, the easier she is to control, because this way she will turn everyone around her against her, making them misjudge and fear her and therefore isolate her. After she fully loses everyone, he probably plans to come back and collect the pieces, make her an offer she can't refuse (as it seems tho, even if hell turns upside down, she'll never rely on him). He underestimates the level of rage she's starting to feel towards him, he thinks that after she loses everything due to her impulsive behaviour, she'll be pliant and back to her pushover self due to pressure and loss of agency. Can't wait for his plans to get ruined lol

EXACTLYYY, u get it

Right?! Everyone is so obsessed with him yet no one talks about my girl

I lowkey think if she kills him he wins. That is probably what he is trying. If he wanted to isolate her he was closer to this at the start than after he did that to her brother. At the start she literally refused to believe the detective even after he said inseop was his suspect. She always went straight to him when she had any issue lr problems. She was already a person that had no one and he offering a hand made him her number one support. To isolate her from there would be so easy. I really think he is pushing her to act violent on him. He made sure to basically show it was him doing that to her brother.

No, i don't think so. He wins if he obtains her. He doesn't want to die, not even by her hands, i don't thing anything indicates he does and i'll explain why. He does what he always did with every object he wants. Only this time, a living person costs him a lot more than an inanimate object.

He was in fact trying to isolate her at the very start, from the moment he said he'd help her, that's exactly what he was doing. (Isolating her through messing up her workplace e.t.c)
The process was slow deliberately, as he was trying to do a thorough work by dealing with her brother as well. However his plans became more complicated in the middle due to the detective.
It wasn't never in his plans to isolate her before completely getting rid of her brother. An option with her brother still being around did not exist for Inseop. It's his policy to eliminate anything which relates with the object he wants to obtain,
And he wanted to do that in a way that would make him undetectable by the law.
He just played the long game, hence why he didn't push her brother down immediately that night, since it'd be less safe and efficient than using the diary method.
He wasn't trying to be obvious, it wasn't even in his plans for her to learn about the diary trick he always used, it's not as if he could control what the detective would disclose to her nor could he predict that she'd be meeting with the detective so often.
The detective wasn't a controllable variable to him. If he knew right from the start what the detective would say to her, he'd get rid of her brother in a different, less efficient way but less obvious to fl.
By the time he realised what was going on, it was too late to stop what he already started, which eventually led to the scene where he fully pushed her brother into killing the pedo and then committing suicide, hoping to dilute fl's perspectives and doubts afterwards, by playing the supportive lawyer, as he knew she was indecisive and easily influenced. He underestimated her.

Also even if she didn't fully believe the detective, doubts were still planted in her mind (we see that in the very next chapter after the detective tells her the first time that he's his suspect, she's in her house considering getting help from Inseop by contacting him, but she's stopped by the doubt planted by the detective) and the detective was still getting in Inseop's way, presenting himself as a threat to Inseop, even if Inseop didn't know the details of what the detective was saying to fl.
This, in combination with other factors, indirectly made her cut Inseop off temporarily and stop using his services at the start, which made Inseop angry and led him to impulsively kill that mother. By that time fl was already plenty suspicious, just too stressed to fully deal with it.
It was only at the very, very start, where the detective didn't disclose that he considers him a suspect and used another excuse to try and make her distance herself from Inseop, that fl fully ignored what the detective said. When he explained that he was the suspect, she didn't remain unaffected.

Inseop didn't try to make it obvious was him doing that to her brother at all. She came to that conclusion herself thanks to the detective, little by little. Even when she found out that Inseop was hanging out with her brother, Inseop tried to present himself as someone of help to her brother . As i said, Inseop wasn't originally fully aware that the detective had disclosed to fl the "diary" patterns that he noticed about him (Inseop). It was only later that Inseop put two and two and realised that she had knowledge and suspicions about it.

And if you are referring to the scene where he admitted it's him who advised the brother to write a diary, he did it because it would be far more suspicious if he refused it, since by that time, he already guessed that the detective gave her the diary information which made him a suspect. He's not stupid. He still refused he did it to his sister, hoping the confusion and "transparency" act would work on fl. He was clutching on straws hoping he could maintain his lie by keeping fl in the dark. Of course that was only until she left his house and she went hiding, where he realised that it was too late and that she knew everything. It's only in the latest scenes that he doesn't hide at all, because it's pointless.

But even if he doesn't hide for fl, he still tries to push her in a way that will make her easier to obtain. If she fumbles and commits a crime of any form for example, she will have to deal with the law. Inseop won't, since there's no solid evidence against him. He is hoping she'll be placed in an isolated by people and cornered by the law position, so that he'll be able to offer some means of a deal to her, which even if she refuses it, she'll still have lost everything and be at his mercy.

After she loses FULLY everything, her brother, the people who support her, her image in society (which is destructive for Korean culture) and her mental health, then she'll truly have nothing. Then she'll be ripe enough to be picked with nothing in the way. Even if he'd prefer her gashlighted into liking him, his priority was to leave her with nothing, so i'm guessing it'll just do to him even if she is unwilling, because in the end she'll be too broken and alone to resist and refuse. Or to ever entertain the idea of a free life, since it'll be pointless to her.

Which scene are you specifically referring to which made you think that he was purposely making it obvious it was him? Because i see nothing like that, considering each connected event and the manipulation tactics he used. It was only a series of unfortunate events which turned his plans to shit that exposed him and made him in the end go with the flow.

Either way, i'm not demeaning your view in any way and sorry if it comes off that way, that's not my purpose. I'm just explaining how the clues suggest otherwise. And i am enjoying conversation, so no hate whatsoever :D I just really like this story and have analysed a lot of scenes.

I dont think he is the generic yandere that wants just her. If that was the case he could hace proceed with what he was doing from the start where he was already her top one support, she even ignored the detective warnings, anytime she was desperate she went to her. From there to isolate her more would be too easy. But he didnt, he ourposely did that to her brotger and purposely made clear it was him. He wants to see her real self, that no one saw ever cause she surpress it. Thinking he simply wants her is putting him into the generic yandere role, honestly. He is more complex than that. He always love whenever she acts violent.

She will never be picked by him, all clues show she will end up trying to kill him. She was closer to him and more isolated at the begging than she is now. She trusted him much more than now, she had much less support than she has now. If he was simply the generic one that wanna isolate her and own her he would not have gone to her brotger in this way, making it clear it was him. That just made her lose trust in him and get closer to tge detective making her less isolated. But it also made her be pushed to a breaking point by being betrayed by the one person she thought she could count on. He wants to break her and see her true self.

He still wouldn't be a generic yandere, if he wanted to own her. He's not generic for plenty of other reasons. He is way more complex because of his psyche. Wanting to own her doesn't make him any less complex nor like the other yanderes, this is just literally what the author has been insinuating he wants throughout the whole manhwa. He's compulsively obsessive over specific objects, it's his defining quirk. I'm not going to refer to your other points, since i've already debunked them in my previous reply, and at this point we'd be looping over the same things.

I never said she will be picked by him at all? I just explained his objective. I even clarified that he underestimates her and throughout my previous reply i said that this will never happen (her going to him) even if hell turns upside down. Also once again, i gave a clear explanation regarding her brother.

You are giving me the impression that you are not fully reading my replies at all, so i'm not going to keep on looping this subject. I made my point and none of yours has been actually giving me a reasoning good enough to redefine mine.

Either way, i respect your right to have an opinion, even if i don't agree with it.

The author has been painting him as pushing his real self several times, he does it over and over and always looks satisfied when she loses control. If what you are saying was correct he would be simply dumb thing he is not to think making it clarr he was the one that did that to her brother would bring him closer to owning her. It made this goal much harder than the start. But it also pushed her psyche to finally question murdering someone that is what he has been trying to make her do from the start, stop repressing herself and showing what she truly is. I am not the one trying to redefine your point, you are the one trying to redefine mine. I was not even talking to you, you came to me.

I didn't say "redefine" with a negative connotation, i just insinuated that i was open to changing my view if given a good reason, that's just the nature of debate.And it is what you have also been doing, by debating based on your own view in the context of the story.

I disagree with your points, and no it wouldn't be dumb and at I explained why in the massive paragraphed reply to you, which i don't feel like rewriting and clearly, you also don't feel like genuinely engaging with. Which is fine, it's your right.

So let's agree to disagree.

I already agree to disagree since the start, you were the one comming to correct people? Lmao what. I don't care about your view, part of being a reader is having different views of the same work, that is the fun of it. That is why I dont go to other people trying to correct theirs, I am not the author.

My point wasn't to try to correct you? I offered my perspective, just like you did when you chose to engage with me and keep the debate going. I didn't force you to. And no, you didn't agree to disagree since the start, you straight up offered a perspective different than mine (and btw i didn't even originally disagree with you, just look at my very first response to you) and i just responded back offering mine, since you know, you engaged with me.
That's kind of what happens when you have a free will and start replying to someone regarding your view in a public comment section. You literally wrote back, responding what you think and i did the same.
Why, do excuse me for not agreeing with you
I never said you're not allowed to have a different opinion, i literally said i respect it, even if i don't agree. But i guess you didn't bother to read that either, which frankly speaking, isn't surprising.

And yes, i kind of got that you don't care about my view, you showed this in every way possible, since you were just repeating the same thing one sidedly, straight up ignoring what i wrote.

And you don't need to be the author to discuss the plot based on things you've noticed and what you believe is more likely. You say you're not the author, yet you fight with nail and tooth about what you believe is going on in the story as well so

But i guess go off.

I'm done here, already spent a ridiculous amount of time for nothing. I'm not planning to continue this any further.

I never asked you to agree with me, you were the one bringing "redefie opnion" out of nowhere not me. You spend that time cause you wanted to, ai did not force you, dunno why you complaining to me about that. "For nothing" what were you expecting to get out of this? Change my opnion? You are not entitled to that just cause you wrote a lot. Like?