REAL REAL REAL
glad someone else gets it. it's so frustrating because i'm not even willing to reread it like i usually do for stories i really liked because of how much he gets in the way manhwa authors have to make good use of their time in how they tell these stories, and scenes that could've been spent on literally anything else were wasted on the author looking me in the face and saying, "these characters forgive him, so why can't you?" like...i don't take any issue with there being bad actors in these stories, but my issues start when the author starts asking for me to forgive them for what they do. like bro YOU chose to make him a rapist (in a scene that added and did nothing for the story, no less!), why is it on me to move on from that? so irritating lmao
i finished it~ sans the side stories because i'm not putting myself through that. there's a suspiciously daewoo-shaped elephant between the 7/10 this story is and the 10/10 it could've been. it's really bordering on a 6/10 because daewoo is such a deterrent to this story, and his involvement in the plot that suddenly got switched up to dole out the blame to other parties and shift focus off of him holds it back by so much it isn't even funny. there are genuinely one too many scenes wasted on him because the author desperately wants you to forgive him for something they never had to make him do in the first place if they weren't going to commit to him suffering any consequences for it. and that's really the worst part about it for me: nothing happens to him at all for the amount of problems he caused and he gets everything he wants in spite of it all. it's almost comical. it's upsetting because beneath this really ugly sheen, the story is more than serviceable, but the commitment to making sure that nothing happens to daewoo fills me with a sense of foreboding for the author's future works the main couple is sooo lovely, idk why they couldn't just focus on them alone lmao.