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He didn’t WANT to see a meaner side of Ho-in. He wanted to be punished for what he did and what he was doing. Ho-in was so patient and accepting despite it all which didn’t help the fact that he felt he didn’t deserve Ho-in in the First place. He wanted to be yelled at and beat up so at least he wouldn’t have to feel like he was just hurting Ho-in without consequences. I will say selfishly he only thought of himself in trying to relieve his own feelings of guilt.
I know his reasoning well but my point is basically your last sentence.
I can't lie, i loved ho-in's relation with woojin, taesoo, hell even kyungman, than when he was with chunwoo. The story is realistic I'll give it that but I still hate chunwoo for hurting ho-in and even after that he was selfish and wanted to see meaner side of ho in and made him suffer with jealousy rather than bringing it up directly to him. I had a friend like Chunwoo, she regretted doing smth in her relationship but her boyfriend couldn't care less of it and was just happy being with her and loved her, but still she couldn't get over the fact that she did that and I had to console her a lot for it, so I really do get Chunwoo but at the same time I cant help but hate him. His character was bland for me, the only thing I liked about their relationship was maybe the sex scenes, it was alr, other than that their relationship felt too fast and too angsty and yeah i just didn't like it, more so cuz it had potential. Also, Chunwoo SA'd Taesoo was so fucking uncalled for?! As if Taesoo doesn't already have enough emotional baggage, gosh they did him real dirty. I get his relationship with him was messy or whatever but you can't justify sexually assaulting someone because they frustrated you. I really hate Chunwoo.
I wanted to see more of Taesoo and Woojin but atleast Woojin got his own story so that's something, also he's such a great wingman ugh i love him, ho in should've treated him better icll, he looked out sm for him. Sighhh whateverrrr.