I kinda feel bad for Hyeon because he has all these problems and genuinely needs therapy. ...

I kinda feel bad for Hyeon because he has all these problems and genuinely needs therapy. His uncle could've gotten him help, as Hyeon called him out for, but didn't because of the stigma in Korea. Then only offered it when Hyeon's mental health deteriorated to the point it was going to affect his career, but the uncle had already taught him to look down on help through his previous actions.

If you think about it his story is genuinely tragic. He was forced into fame as a baby, his mom committed suicide, his dad was abusive, and due to the fame he was never allowed to grieve properly. Then because he's a more feminine man he was constantly sexually harassed and he couldn't even defend himself when they retaliated with rumors. A person like this genuinely does not have the opportunity to learn what is normal as they have never experienced normal. It reminds me of real child actors or even children of family channels that grow up with a lot of "problems" due to their fame. Again all this with no therapy and no one on his side.

I think he should still be held accountable and apologize, but in my honest opinion his actions do not make him as irredeemable as some comments make it out to be. He makes homophobic remarks (despite being gay) because his only interactions with gay men have been through the lens as a victim of sexual assault. Now is that correct? No. But when you consider Korea's already negative societal perception of LGBT plus his own traumatic experiences it makes sense why he projects those feelings onto the younger gay actor. Especially when he hasn't even worked his own feelings out yet.

I think why this is so interesting to me is that Eunho in my opinion is also not blameless here. I understand why he may have ghosted Hyeon due to his situation, but I dislike how he downplays how genuinely traumatizing it was for him. He knows of Hyeon's various problems and still works into the system of not getting him proper help due to his actor status/stigma. He already knows that Hyeon cannot sleep without him, to the point of Hyeon begging, and actively decides to leave. I think Eunho"s faults are to an extent lesser than Hyeon's, and I do see how one could make the argument that Hyeon is not a therapist. However I would also make the argument that if you are participating in a system that prevents Hyeon from wanting to seek professional help, you also can't tell him to go to a hospital once he's become codependent on you without kind of being a dick.

I feel like Eunho gets a pass from many of us in the audience because we can probably relate to him more. He's poor and had sick family he struggled to take care of. It's easier to put ourselves in his shoes and see where he's coming from. I would like to say if youre here you're probably not a billionaire actor lol. But I do think his lack of relatability and wealth makes us a lot more critical of Hyeon. It's kind of ironic but there's a panel that criticized the people who claimed well who cares about his trauma he inherited a billion dollars. And I feel in many ways we as the audience are doing the same by disregarding his story due to his weath.

I've read other stories where there's an asshole rich guy and I feel like usually it's rich guy is asshole to completely innocent twink. Then author wants them together so they are like well here's his redemption in the last 5 chapters. Hes not a bad guy hes just traumatized trope. Whereas I feel this story had pretty early on emphasized that Hyeon is an asshole, but also established his background early. Idk maybe I'm putting too much hope into a BL at 2 am in the morning lol