I don't get why you got so many dislikes, 'cause you are right. Hands would have been flying then and there if someone had told drunk me THAT. Deceitful blonde b*astard.
Thanks for the solidarity
I think many people's standards are just wayy less strict when it comes to fiction and they're okay with letting many things go as long as the couple ends up together or there are some hot scenes thrown in. I personally don't see any point in that, i need to first like the characters as people to like the couple, but ig to each their own
I do agree with you
okay your comment is actually interesting asf and it's all good points but also I just wanna say, sadly this stuff happens irl literally all the time so this genuinely just seems accurate to how humans can be LMFAO
I strongly disagree.
Because Namwoo is the protagonist, we mostly see the story through his eyes, so we aren't really thinking of Groo outside of his relationship to Namwoo, but we just found out that Groo has dated his wife for decades (literally since high school). It's possible that Groo has loved her longer than Nam loved him. So there was never going to be room for Nam.
Hearing the confession now as adults, and being able to discuss it maturely, outside all the highs and emotions and selfishness of youth, must have been way less daunting for Nam.
Was Yeorum selfish in his love? Sure. But holding that grudge for a high school boy when you're in love with his adult self is kind of deranged.. especially knowing there was no malice behind it.
I do not care about Namwoo loving Groo and what their relationship could or couldn't have been, that is completely independent of Yeorum's behaviour and personality. These 2 people are not the only options he could have had, just because there was no room for him with Nam does mean he should just go to Yeorum, find literally anyone else.
And it's not a grudge for a high school boy, as I said, this was a choice and an action Yeorum KEPT making, every single day for many many years, while KNOWING the result was Nam getting and being hurt. If Yeorum had found him and come clean about this like 10 years ago, during or after university or whatever, I would have been wayyy more forgiving. But he didn't. He was too selfish and too much of a coward.
Also, even if the confession was less daunting by that point, he still had to be in pain and waste years of his life over a deliberate misunderstanding that was somone else's fault. Yeorum simply wasn't worth it, what exactly did he even see in Yeorum's adult self?
Lmao... I think more people need to practice removing themselves from stories because YOU are not Namwoo nor do you need to validate his choices.. you just have to experience them. You seem confused as to how Nam fell in love with Yeorum when the story shows them develop and intimate friendship over the course of them working together and Nam trying to get closer to get his book back.
Nam's selfish choice doesn't make him a bad person, it just makes him a human character.
Again, what would be the point of Namwoo holding a grudge over a past love that would NEVER have happened instead of moving on with the person he has affection for in the moment.
Whether he would have ended up with Yeorum or not, hating Namwoo in the present for that decision doesn't match the Namwoo we know in the latter story.
Bro, I'm not even inserting myself into the story remove myself from what lmao?? I'm literally just critisizing the character, the writting and the chemistry I didn't feel THEY had. I'm allowed to not like a character or a story I experience and express my opinion about it The 'development' and 'intimacy' we were shown wasn't nearly enought for me, for it to make sense narratively and emotionally, that's both a writting issue and also my personal preference as a reader.
He's not a 'bad' person but he's not really all that 'good' either and from what i remember there was no redemption to make him likable to me after everything. And AGAIN, the 'grudge' is not about the 'past love', it's about Yeorum's long-standing BEHAVIOUR and his personality.
Well, Namwoo doesn't exist by that logic.
People forget that fanfics exist and how they are created.
BUT even if you were to directly place yourself in the story and apply your moral code onto the imaginary situations it is valid and still okay. Actually that is the best thing when reading, you develop empathy, learn something new about yourself and how you would handle different situations, you question things you'd never thought about or experienced outside of the story. That's one of the reason why I don't get when people cheer on abusive and rapist characters (mostly male leads), 'cause where's the empathy for the abused and raped???!!!
The guy in this story might not be a abusive but he still is a deceptive and sneaky. Right, he did all that when he was younger, but it doesn't matter, cause he woke up every day and actively chose to stay that way. As mentioned from the other commenter he never had proper redemption, the story just directly jumped into forgiveness bs. And that makes the storytelling lacking and plot unconvincing.
Yeah, no. Fuck this and fuck him. That was super disrespectful and messed up. Blond dude is a selfish, entitled and cowardly brat. He was not young enough to handle the situation that poorly and all the excuses in the world won't change that basically he just didn't want his crush to confess to someone else. And after doing nothing about the wrong confession he also proceeded to do jack shit about his own feelings, for more than a fucking decade?? So not only did you let him suffer all these years by making him feel the person he was in love with purposely ignored his feelings and was being an insensitie dick, you did it all for nothing too. At any point in those 14 years you could have come clean, but woke up everyday and decided not to. Fuck you.
And Namwoo is pathetic both for forgicing him so easily and for liking him. Like, okay he remembers your coffee and he's kind of nice? How low are your standards?
I wouldn't go as far as to say this was Bad, but it's definitely not good.