Aside from the obvious absurdness of the story and the characters thought process this was quite interesting especially cheolho's backstory and the arc with nam-in, contrary to some comments who mentioned that the arc established cheolho's love for jintae I think it showed us the glimpse of the probable story if cheolho was never denied treatment in his childhood by his monster of a parents like ofc he wouldn't be completely normal but atleast he would be so much better than the present him and maybe he could have enjoyed the company of anyone who matched his freak and craziness in that level like nam-in or any other person. Actually My view point was the same as others during the start of nam-in's arc but the scene where cheolho was finally running back to jintae leaving nam-in where he said that he still can't leave jintae because he was the first person to ever reciprocate his feelings made me turn my gear back leading back to my current opinion, cheolho is stuck in his first love even most normal person carries the fragments of that feeling or the person throughout their whole life now imagine how it would be for a person like him it's magnified like 100 times, jintae would be the only one for him in this lifetime and this is where it get's interesting if it were someone other than jintae in that position during high-school would cheolho feel the same? For me it's definitely yes I mean the story could have turned out in a different way but the outcome will be the same and this thing is what makes this story different from regular bl's in which it's always how the mc and ml are the only one for each other they fall for that person because they are THAT person (I hope I'm making sense ) but in here its completely opposite, their whole love story is based on conditioning and don't get me wrong I love stories with the initial tropes it's the trend for a reason but later like this one feels like a fresh air as for jintae he was the typical teen character with internalised homophobia his character's inconsistency with alone to no depth made it so obvious the author didn't care much for his arc. If i wasn't hell-bent at venting my frustration here while being so bad at articulating my thoughts into words this wouldn't have been so long and I really need to stop taking fiction so seriously omg
Aside from the obvious absurdness of the story and the characters thought process this was quite interesting especially cheolho's backstory and the arc with nam-in, contrary to some comments who mentioned that the arc established cheolho's love for jintae I think it showed us the glimpse of the probable story if cheolho was never denied treatment in his childhood by his monster of a parents like ofc he wouldn't be completely normal but atleast he would be so much better than the present him and maybe he could have enjoyed the company of anyone who matched his freak and craziness in that level like nam-in or any other person. Actually My view point was the same as others during the start of nam-in's arc but the scene where cheolho was finally running back to jintae leaving nam-in where he said that he still can't leave jintae because he was the first person to ever reciprocate his feelings made me turn my gear back leading back to my current opinion, cheolho is stuck in his first love even most normal person carries the fragments of that feeling or the person throughout their whole life now imagine how it would be for a person like him it's magnified like 100 times, jintae would be the only one for him in this lifetime and this is where it get's interesting if it were someone other than jintae in that position during high-school would cheolho feel the same? For me it's definitely yes I mean the story could have turned out in a different way but the outcome will be the same and this thing is what makes this story different from regular bl's in which it's always how the mc and ml are the only one for each other they fall for that person because they are THAT person (I hope I'm making sense ) but in here its completely opposite, their whole love story is based on conditioning and don't get me wrong I love stories with the initial tropes it's the trend for a reason but later like this one feels like a fresh air as for jintae he was the typical teen character with internalised homophobia his character's inconsistency with alone to no depth made it so obvious the author didn't care much for his arc. If i wasn't hell-bent at venting my frustration here while being so bad at articulating my thoughts into words this wouldn't have been so long and I really need to stop taking fiction so seriously omg