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Economic conditions very much shape choices. It's not sudden but after enough time, if becomes obvious how much people have changed. Love can't thrive where there's poverty and by poverty I don't mean just struggling to make ends meet. I mean this, what they had. Idk if it's bad but I ended up shedding a tear for the young him as I read this chapter because no matter how much of an asshole he is right now, it's undeniable that he went through utter shit since childhood.
I think the reason the creator made Mincheol handsome is because the creator wants us readers to know that the difference between Taeha and Mincheol is money and wealth. Now what if Taeha was in Mincheol's position? This is what Na Haesoo thinks all the time. Will Taeha do something different if he was in Mincheol's shoe and treat Haesoo like how he treats her now? Does money and cruelty of the world dictate how evil people can be? That economic conditions shapes our choices in life