I also see where he is coming from psychologically, but he very explicitly has romantic feelings for her, that he “kept trying to swallow” after being called family by her.
Sometimes it seems he is well aware, sometimes the story acts as if he doesn’t know? That aspect just seem like wobbly writing…
Not him refusing her, that I get, but him sometimes seeming sure sometimes not. At this point tho, he just ruined their relationship anyway lol
I think his inconsistency makes him human. Like when you break up with someone and you don’t want to be with them but hearing about them being with someone else still hurts you. It’s irrational but it happens.
He has romantic feelings for her, and he may have wanted to be with her once when they were younger but he never acted on it then and he’s never going to act on his romantic feelings now. Why didn’t he act on it when he was younger? Because Dahye didn’t see him that way then and he locked away those thoughts and didn’t think about being romantically involved with her again. He coped by being with other ppl. He never thought they would actually get together though, he just had romantic feelings. He avoided thinking about that. He rationalised keeping men away from her by saying as her family he can’t let unworthy men near her. Now that he knows that Dahye does feel that way about him? He can’t handle it because romantic relationships have never worked out for him or for the ppl around him, they’ve always been less important. But being friends with Dahye? He can do that forever.
Sorry, I guess my reading comprehension is ass. He seems well aware of what? Sure of what? That he has romantic feelings for? I don’t there’s debate there, he does and has for a long time. Aware of her feelings for him? I don’t he was until she confessed.
No,no, you’re good.
Yeah aware of his own feelings. Sometimes he’s like uhh why do i care so much about her and the other guy? And then sometimes he’s like im madly in love with her and can do nothing about it.
My point was just that he just ruined their relationship anyways lol that childhood friend complex had a similar plot too i dont think is unrealistic, but it does make the reader like the character less
Fuck it, I literally can’t predict a thing in this story, lifting her up to get her to eat was NOT platonic at all. And it really does seem like they are going to make elder sis a cartoonishly evil character. Disappointing. And Beomseok’s reservations about entering into a relationship with Dahye makes sense. Losing Dahye because they broke up is too much of a risk with everything she means to him. He’s never seen a romantic relationship go well in his own life since he was a kid. Makes sense he’s jaded. Also he seems to have serious self esteem issues. He needs to have some courage, if they are truly great friends they can weather a break up and go back to being great friends. But he’s young and traumatised so he doesn’t know that. And he doesn’t have much but what he has is precious so he’s scared to gamble.
I’m not convinced of blonde’s interest in Dahye, it seems like insta love and his reputation is being non-commital so what the hell is happening here??? Dahye is his ultra special exception unicorn and she changed him instantly by being a quirky gorgeous girl????? Disappointing if true, I feel like the author would have changed the story they planned to capitulate to the naver reader’s dumb protestations.