i love this review. thank you. i'm still thinking if i want to read this cause i hate manhwas more than 70 chapters. currently on chapter 10. hopefully the won't be too much for me.
Glad to hear It! Let me know your thoughts at the end.
Your review perfectly captures what l've been thinking about this story. Indeed both were shaped by their trauma and pain and both decieved each other. MC by lying and ML by causing pain (but one sin is greater than other) but both regretted their actions. It may not necessarily be how I would have expected (ie ML being brought to justice for his cruel actions done despite him being prosecutor, which is weird like how come prosecutor does things like he did and get away? There's atleast someone who wants to expose him) but both sought refuge in each other and moved ahead
Thanks for your reply! I agree !
Saein’s biological mother and father looking almost identical is honestly weird. It’s never explained, and it feels distracting instead of meaningful. The story doesn’t give us any real logic for it, so it just comes off as confusing rather than symbolic or intentional.
And Saein’s mother’s death is another big unanswered question. How did she actually die? Why didn’t she pray for Saein’s biological father? The only explanation that makes sense is that her emotional bond was focused entirely on Saein — she needed to protect her son, not his father. Her priority was survival of her child.
What makes it even more tragic is that Saein’s father was locked in a basement for twenty years. Twenty years. That’s horrifying. His entire life was stolen from him, and we barely get to know his story. He deserved more narrative space, more depth, more humanity.
I also wish we were told whether the ML, Mr. Goh, actually recovered from his illness. Did he ever tell Saein (the MC) about his past? What shaped him?
When Saein tried to console him after his mother’s death, I don’t think the MC was really grieving her — she was evil. The real pain was about Mr. Guk’s sacrifice. Mr. Guk helped him all along and was basically a father figure to him, so that loss was what truly broke him.
The ML, fundamentally, isn’t a good person in the moral sense. He’s a deeply flawed human being — shaped by trauma, cruelty, and survival. His past explains him, but it doesn’t excuse him. At the same time, people react differently to suffering: Saein also suffered deeply, but they developed in opposite ways. That’s realistic.
What’s interesting is that when love enters his life, he changes — but only for the person he loves and for his family (his partner and children). He doesn’t become a good man for the world; he becomes a better man for them. He’s a flawed human being with his own priorities, and people like that exist in real life.
And Saein isn’t innocent either. At the beginning, he wanted to use him, even knowing it could put his life at risk. But what choice did he have? He was trying to save his mother from hell. Still, he never truly wanted to harm him — and he didn’t deserve to be treated like THAT. He’s just a human being, not a tool.
In the end, they accept (not forgive) each other. They accept their love. They choose to move forward together. Their life becomes theirs to live — not defined by revenge, not controlled by the past (or us).
It’s not perfect, but it’s a dramatic, emotionally traumatic, and entertaining story.
I love dark themes, revenge narratives, and morally gray characters — so for me, this was a compelling dramatic..flawed read (Liked it. Not bad).
Share some more reccomendation like this..betrayal and revenge.