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I wanted to read this after the artist's other manhwa (Night Maze) and was nearly put off by the comments. It's not as bad as I feared, though, and this is one of the few times I'm glad my curiosity got the better of me. I think I'd have been more frustrated without the spoilers, tho.
As for the characters, on the one hand, it's not like the ML never did anything wrong, but it's hard to feel bad for the MC when he's partially the cause of his own misery. Like the dumb characters in horror movies who make all the wrong decisions. Not that he deserved anything that happened to him, and I understand his low self-esteem is probably the real reason for pushing the ML away and not just pride, but at some point I started feeling sorry for the ML seeing how desperate he is to keep someone by his side who only ever thinks of leaving him while they're together. Because the MC was always thinking of leaving, even from when they were in high school and the times they were happy.
It's a nice, angsty story with a few triggering scenes (for me, the r*pe, not the very deserved violence on the perpetrators) and good art. My only real complaint is I wish the artist had done something about Seungon's crazy eyes. Especially when he smiles sometimes and his eyes are opened wide, he looks just as creepy as the blond villain.