this shit is irritating me holy yap

...i think you might be projecting a little bit. from the beginning we are shown how much they mean to each other and how much he goes out of his way to care for her and spend time with her. esp the recent chapters??

yes the typa men you are talking about suck but this story isn't about a man like that

yep all he did was mess with her emotions by saying that he dk if he can commit while still having sex with her on top of the misunderstandings

girl..be serious please

Yeah, definitely projecting

saying what literally happened in the story is projecting apparently LOL mgg users swear they know your life based on a comment mind you i don't date males so... next caller

i get what u mean but i think thats a pretty surface level way of looking at this.
is he perfect? fuck no, far from it. is he makings stupid ass decisions? absolutely
BUT despite how frustrating it is to see, he clearly seems to spiral pretty easily
one thought becomes another and then goes down this whole overthinking rabbit hole
the way i see it is that he is giving her mixed signals because he's giving HIMSELF mixed signals, he wants her close and clearly loves her but is scared he'll lose her and thinks a friendship would outlast everything else but then he knoowwss thats not what he truly wants but all in all hes kind of a wimp
so
his dumbass doesn't truly know what he's doing, he THINKS he's making the best choices and got it underwraps but clearly he dont


ive read other stories where the guy is aaccttuuallyy borderline the spawn of Satan tho so maybe thats why im only mildly annoyed with this one

intentions matter. mincheol isn't NEARLY as calculating about any of this as the type of men you're talking about. he's hurt haneul repeatedly and made shitty decisions time and time again, but he's never had anything but her best interests in mind. i can't believe i'm talking about mens' mental health (ew) but mincheol undoubtedly has problems. he's got an inferiority complex, self esteem and abandonment issues that he's struggled with since he was a child. he understands things differently from others and makes sense of things in a way that's influenced by his own lack of self confidence. however, even through his own struggles, you cannot deny that there have been a plethora of instances where he's shown his honest and sincere dedication, love and care towards haneul. hell, even in this main issue of being unable to commit to her, he's doing it FOR HER, via a warped and twisted definition of it sure, but he thinks he's prptecting haneul by doing so. even in his worst moments he's always put haneul first before himself, and that's what has eventually led to this stagnation in their relationship. he's nowhere near guilt or blame free, but you cannot deny that he's never meant to do anything to hurt haneul. this manhwa isn't about men who are calculative and planned in their actions, it's just about loving someone who's struggling mentally. the fact tbat you interpret it as the former is almost definitely influenced by your own past experiences and biases, which is fine. i'm sorry about whatever happened to you ♡

you must of missed the part where i said i don't date men nor have i had a situationship i'm going to hold your hand with a glove when i say this just bc someone has an observation it doesn't mean they've experienced it by that goofy ass logic everyone who makes an observation about anything ever is projecting despite not having the experience

even if you aren't projecting, you have a shallow ass take. people beg for complex male love interests in shoujo/josei comics and then people have takes like yours on Mincheol.

in my personal opinion, Mincheol is the quintessential overly dedicated self-sacrificing love interest. in dramas he would be the second ml who cries and gives up on the FL, but since here he's actually the first ML, we get his character explored in depth and see how much even characters like him who want nothing but good for their loved ones hurt them.

calling him manipulative, especially manipulative in the context of wanting haneul for her body is stupid when we see the shit he's continued to do for her way before they even slept together

so now you finally understand how goofy you sound when you say i'm projecting

ig all the comments below mine were also projecting huh?

notice how you said "in my personal opinion" ? keep that same energy to others who have their own thoughts

just bc he's insecure and does nice things for her it doesn't mean he can't also use her for her body which is literally what he's doing when he's sleeping with her but can't commit

+ "shallow ass take" meanwhile you people assume others are projecting based on a comment i'm not taking any of you seriously

beautifully said! yes, people really do beg for complex male leads and then interpret them so wildly incorrectly that it really goes to show that they're not actually ready for that one trendy opinion they've been seeing all over the internet. media literacy is at an all time low when people see a self-sacrificing, mentally ill character so well written and still form such a surface-level understanding of them. i'm not even responding to op anymore because their ridiculously defensive and argumentative tone in every reply just screams denial at this point, but if you've had dozens of people quite literally point out and spoonfeed you all the details (that you should've picked up yourself if you weren't reading with your eyes closed) to completely disprove this notion of "only using haneul for her body" and you STILL refuse to accept it, i don't know what to tell you

girl bye you mad af bc you can't use the PrOjEcTiNg argument and now you look dumb af being passive aggressive piggybacking off of what someone else said yall so unserious LMAO yes pls stop clogging up my notifs