Someone else talked about this, and I agreed.
I mean, imagine going to war and fighting, killing each day to stay alive--where, don't mind the dramatics--each second of life is precious because you have no idea when you'll end up dead on the ground like the others, be in the next day, next week, or next year. the next day. War is ugly.
Then, back in your home country, you're forced to marry some sheltered aristocrat girl--and this girl in question is by all the guy's standards, quite pathetic (by pure definition: miserably inadequate, arousing pity). When she killed herself, he probably thought, "I fought with my life on the line in war, and this girl killed herself just because someone didn't love her back?"
I mean, compared to all the blood that's shed in battle, unrequited love really seems trivial in comparison. Hence his distaste. He'd fought to survive, and for his country and its citizens, and yet this "life" that he'd paid blood, sweat, and tears (etc. etc.) for was thrown away by the original fl just like that.
EDIT: The reply below made a valid point, so I'll paraphrase my answer a little, here.
Remember: we' are not in that green-haired guy's place, nor have we seen the horrors he had. To a guy who's fought for survival, and who's seen the worst of the world, "love" is a trivial and abstract concept compared to surviving the next day. Because what does love matter, when you could die anytime? And what do her actions make of his own experiences? Days of no food and blood and horrendous sights hadn't kill him, yet something (in his view) as small as unrequited love was enough to kill her?
To us, the readers, it's obvious the original fl was manipulated. But to him? The green-haired guy didn't know that. Being readers, we cannot expect him to have known that--nor should we be pushing our (modern day, so to speak) values onto him.
1. he's THICC, like JUICY THICC like LITERALLY CURVY THICC THICC THICCCCCC
2. HE LOVES DICC!!!! HE LOVES DICC DICC DICCCCCCCC
3. he's got PUffY INVERTED NIPPLES (which are so cute and squishy!)
4. he's got GAP MOE! super introverted normally + but very open about sex!
he's perfect. author's gotta give him even more dicc. i support!
"he wouldn't resent me."
yo we're stepping into dangerous territory and i don't like it. here's hopin' he was talking about sex, and not Yeonwoo's state of affairs.
we couldn't even get an extra chapter detailing their newly relationshipped life ;- ;;;; no kisses???? I JUST WANTED KISSES DX
SO MUCH SUSPENSE AND TENSION??
then suddenly "the hands were real, malice sth sth, the end" I GOT PLAYED MY PERSONAL INVESTMENT GOT PLAYED Σ(っ°Д °;)っ （/TДT)/ I rlly expected sth psychological but it turns out it was just murder
Where be the trauma
No fear, no nausea, no nightmares, nothing?? Not even flinching????? Where are the typical symptoms of trauma? Not even the mildest ones? AND THEY GET TOGETHER???
me: hello 911? Yeah I'm missing a sharp dose of realism in my veins right now. Please send help.
This be me the whole time
ITS ALWAYS WHEN SHT GETS GOOD, THAT THE MAIN CHARACTER MAKES SOME fOREBODING STATEMENT T^T
The ending felt like a Deus Ex Machina.
It's like the author built up all the tension, and suspense, and horror while leading us to expect something big or a plot twist or even just a revelation... then just went "oh yeah, those hands were real! people were killed! the end~".
Nothing ended up being explained, not so much as even a hint. An open-ended ending could be what she was going for, like "I wonder what is in their future?" but instead it's just straight up confusing.
I assume the author probably didn't even have an explanation, so she just pulled out a "and everyone was murdered!" and called it a day. It's like when authors say "and it was all a dream!" after writing an epic adventure or something. It takes all my emotional investment and steps on it because it's telling me that my investment had been pointless.
Sadge. I really had expected something mind-twisting the way things were going, hoping for something unexpected, but my expectations were dashed with the typical.
yaoi with innovative storytelling? you're asking for too much lol
Wow this was exactly what I was thinking but you explained it so well. I was so disappointed at the ending too. Well in general I don't find many stories with a really satisfying ending. But one of my favorite endings belongs to Moritat. It just blew my mind. If you haven't read it I highly recommend
Yea this perfectly explains my feelings. It’s like there was all this build up to some twisted ending, but nothing really got resolved, they faced no consequences, there was no real inkling to like anything here. Feels very much like ‘it was all a dream!’
Bruh this and hotel phyrne got me both disappointed by the ending. I was more invested with the latter, like the story was great for a yaoi but then at the end author pulled a “hey it was all a dream” on us lol
it was innovative till the last few chapters （/TДT)/
+1 ;- ;
oooo is that the manhwa with the rose heads and the multiple copies of the uke? I rmmbr that one being very mind-twisty. I never followed up on it though, what was the ending?