This still pisses me off. Don’t get me wrong, Hyesung deserves closure but it genuinely feels like they’re rushing through it just to get it over with. Like why was Hyesung so accepting of it when it was revealed his whole family betrayed him! I mean he was the victim and traumatized by his mother that just the sound of her voice made him want to die only to find out his husband and son were meeting her behind his back and couldn’t understand WHY Hyesung didn’t want to meet her???? And now all of a sudden he’s just okay with meeting her again?? I would’ve understood if this happened after a lot of long discussions about it and resolving his feelings about her but it feels like they just skipped over his feelings to just go to the closure part and it really makes me upset. It’s been a while since I read the main story so I don’t remember the details but this was a HUGE part of Hyesung’s story on why he felt that he couldn’t be a good mom or deserving of any kind of relationship. It was something that had taken deep root in him that nothing could resolve that just felt like they glossed over. Family trauma like this can’t be solved so easily and would take years of consideration and therapy. I love this story don’t get me wrong but I feel like this sequel has done damage to Hyesung’s character either because they don’t want to focus on him here too and his character is too deep and complicated, or they are tired of writing Hyesung’s story, but at that point just don’t include it at all, it was resolved in the first one with him meeting her once and resolving never again. Hopefully that all makes sense, I stayed vague since I don’t remember the main story as much (I should reread) but I know how traumatic this is to Hyesung that they’re just glossing over that at this point they should’ve just never had the grandmother in the story to begin with if they weren’t going to do it right It was the one thing I LOVED about love is an illusion, that even though Hyesung was annoying at the start, his character was realistic due to all his trauma. He was just scared and lonely because he felt no one would truly love him even when Dojin did and Dojin would NEVER do something that would make Hyesung think otherwise, but here it feels like their dynamic is just a shallow version and they got rid of the complex, realistic characters I loved from the first one
This still pisses me off. Don’t get me wrong, Hyesung deserves closure but it genuinely feels like they’re rushing through it just to get it over with. Like why was Hyesung so accepting of it when it was revealed his whole family betrayed him! I mean he was the victim and traumatized by his mother that just the sound of her voice made him want to die only to find out his husband and son were meeting her behind his back and couldn’t understand WHY Hyesung didn’t want to meet her???? And now all of a sudden he’s just okay with meeting her again?? I would’ve understood if this happened after a lot of long discussions about it and resolving his feelings about her but it feels like they just skipped over his feelings to just go to the closure part and it really makes me upset. It’s been a while since I read the main story so I don’t remember the details but this was a HUGE part of Hyesung’s story on why he felt that he couldn’t be a good mom or deserving of any kind of relationship. It was something that had taken deep root in him that nothing could resolve that just felt like they glossed over. Family trauma like this can’t be solved so easily and would take years of consideration and therapy. I love this story don’t get me wrong but I feel like this sequel has done damage to Hyesung’s character either because they don’t want to focus on him here too and his character is too deep and complicated, or they are tired of writing Hyesung’s story, but at that point just don’t include it at all, it was resolved in the first one with him meeting her once and resolving never again.
Hopefully that all makes sense, I stayed vague since I don’t remember the main story as much (I should reread) but I know how traumatic this is to Hyesung that they’re just glossing over that at this point they should’ve just never had the grandmother in the story to begin with if they weren’t going to do it right
It was the one thing I LOVED about love is an illusion, that even though Hyesung was annoying at the start, his character was realistic due to all his trauma. He was just scared and lonely because he felt no one would truly love him even when Dojin did and Dojin would NEVER do something that would make Hyesung think otherwise, but here it feels like their dynamic is just a shallow version and they got rid of the complex, realistic characters I loved from the first one