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This is actually so good. Yooju really, truly, is living in a nightmare. But I'm intrigued by all the characters and their complexity. The way the madam switches between loving and being a stone cold bitch, only to show a bit of heart when no one is looking, and the way Seunghan pulls a similar act but genuinely is interested in Yooju. And that's probably because of the world they've been living in, but they're shooting themselves in the foot by making Yooju so distrustful of them.
I think my favourite character so far is the brother, mainly because he genuinely seems like a good guy so far, he genuinely seems concerned about what Yooju despite not knowing much about her. I don't know if thay will change in the future, but I want to see more of him.
It's wild to me that the response to his (very sick) partner's alcoholisn is... physical abuse. Hair grabbing, sex as violence, etc. Mind you, I don't condone the lying and smuggling in drinks at all. It's incredibly fucking rough having someone close to you act that way. But this is worse. Seongjae physically punishing his partner, especially when he knows full well Seungwon is fragile, is not an act of love or concern in the slightest and shows that he genuinely is an unsafe person to be around. The reason I'm so baffled by this response is though is because it's so counterproductive to what Seongjae wants, which is to keep Seungwon healthy. It'd make a lot more sense if he gave him a different punishment than a physical one.
On Seungwon's side, I suppose he has technically known Seongjae is unsafe all this time anyway and maybe that in combination with doing numbing himself so he doesn't get stressed and have an episode is why he's convinced himself it doesn't phase him that much. Glossing over it all is wild, but fawning is also a survival mechanism, just like fight or flight.
I'm really interested in how they're going to detangle this mess of Seongjae being abusive and Seungwon being crazy traumatised.
Honestly though I'm also so glad seeing an isekai going all in on the trauma angle. I've always felt it's unrealistic to not have the protagonist be messed up in such a scenario.
The issue is they don’t really touch on it at all, not bc the ml didn’t want to, but bc the mc didn’t. One of the bottles were spiked with date rape drugs and the mc never knew until way later bc he just put off the issues which ended up hurting both of them. Not to blame mc for anything, this was just genuinely an unfortunate turn of events
Can I ask you to please give a warning if you're planning to go into spoiler territory in the future? A lot of folks, myself included, prefer to find out details as we read ourselves.
I also do not understand your response in context to what I just said, to be entirely honest.
Sorry about that, replies don’t have the option to include spoiler warning so I completely forgot about it, that’s my fault. To avoid spoiling things more I’ll just keep my explanation vague then. Mc wishes for the ML’s love and the stability that comes with it so much that’s he’s ignoring the other’s flaws, which in turns hurts himself and the people who love him (including ml). Willful ignorance and blank forgiveness isn’t good nor healthy for their relationship. That’s something they’ll have to learn to overcome.
That's fair.
Also I'm so sorry to say this, but what you're commenting, even if vague to you, is still considered spoiler territory. I'm not sure that's something you can get away from when you've read ahead tbh.