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Exactly! He's overthinking's final boss
But I can't dislike him for it. He's very careful exactly because of his sensitive personality.
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I think one other thing to take into account for Mincheol, is that besides some sort of 'trauma', he's probably just inherently quite sensitive with low self-esteem. Initially, we assumed that he was this super hot, confident guy with some issues. But the point of this chapter is that he was always putting up a front.
It's a pretty steep contrast to other MLs who have huge egos. Mincheol essentially looks like every other hot ML, but is actually very sensitive and cowardly. Every other character has overlooked what happened in their first year but Mincheol has taken it to heart. Its probably bad, but not THAT bad, but Mincheol's brain has just into overdrive on it and clung to it