Seriously you should read the beginning again after their past it really hits harder
Also I like how it is portrayed that cheol could bear every thing but what minyoung did was the straw that broke the camel’s back, that made him unable to face things and run away, the same happened to me I mean I had to deal with a lot of things but it never really affected me well it did but I could push it to the back of my mind I mean until one last event and since it’s been difficult to not run away from things when I feel the slightest bit of anxiety, I mean it’s hard to break from that cycle alone (fortunately I’m not alone) but for cheol trauma really affected him to the point of being a bum
Oh and also revenge is cool and all that but being happy is really the best revenge you could ever do to your abuser, walking away and still living a happy life I mean, that’s why I don’t like minyoung’s plan, bro you don’t need to do all that (even though it’s karma and really satisfying and they deserve the last bit of it) I think after cheol ran it would have been better to support him or run away and not let him rot in a depression cycle and still trapped in trauma same for minyoung he obsessed over revenge while leaving his beloved behind, finally the abuser won they succeeded in making you miserable : And you won 14 years of 0 happiness, it’s like those rich parents working to make money for their children but never seeing them because they are « busy » bit your kids want you not a new yacht
After reading their past I went back to reread the beginning, man I’m crying for cheol he is so pitiful (I really teared up), I totally get how he feels wanting to run away form the hurt, from reality, from his family, bro could never express his hurt and resentment, from minyoung even (that psycho) while also waiting for him even when he is not coming (bro I can’t forgive him for leaving cheol for 14 years ) because he is feeling conflicted as the only person he ever loved and who ever loved him who promised him the world betrayed him but at the same time not being able to let go of his love for him because that’s all he ever had, you really feel that he never had anyone by his side and the only one he had made him miserable and never apologized even though that’s all it would have taken to make him feel better, I get that minyoung have this grand plan but bro your lover has been miserable for 14 years, why not get him with you and plan this at the same time, I mean it’s not a year or 2 but 14 ??? I could never get past that, same goes with that hypocrite of an uncle go fuck your self you and your son I mean it took you 36 years and a talk from someone half your age to realise that being a bystander is shitty ??? Indifference is abuse too, it’s like cheol’s mom but from a further distance, For me he is as abusive as the rest of the family even though he at least care about cheol and I won’t call it love because if it was love he would have protected cheol since he was a kid, he is a coward and a hyprocite it took him having a child himself to think that if the same thing happened yo his « real » son he wouldn’t have let it go, man cheol is never the priority, even minyoung he didn’t think about cheol when he did what he did but about himself he is selfish because not once in his actions does he think about their effect on cheol while cheol always puts minuoung’s well being first but i have to admit he is the only one for cheol the only one who loves him and makes him the first in something even, and don’t get me wrong I love him one of my fav characters