I really want to like this story, I really do. But there's something about the plot keeps giving me conflicted feelings :(
MC had been living his whole life like a jerk, then mission happened and he's fatally wounded, while laying there dying he suddenly regretted having treat everyone like shiet. And I was like: Huh?? Just like that??
After MC returned to the past, his personality did a 180 degree spin and now he acts like a complete different person. Like someone from another world had transferred into MC's body, who already knew how the story went and tried to change his doomed end. There's no transition or the build up where MC gradually realizes what he did was bad or his obsession for ML was unhealthy, he just wakes up one day and becomes good. Idk, the change in his personality felt so abrupt and artificial. #-.-)
that's my problem too. i mean, i would've appreciated it more if the author at least made an effort for a slowburn character development. bcos really, with neuroplasticity and everything, if u made a habit of being "bad" and whatnot it's not going to be easy changing. change is a working progress, i think if that was woven in the story it'd have more depth but maybe that's not the goal of the author. i come across this problem almost always with transmigration or going back to the past stories. i think we lowkey just have a higher standard and maybe give too much credit to this type of manhwas lol.









Gosh I'm so pissed while writing this. The story started off strong but went downhill fast after season 2 that it's not even funny. (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
MC doesn't truly care about Yiheon. Like wth with these so-called revenges? By being buddy, hanging out with Jaemin, the very bully who had driven Yiheon to his death just weeks ago?? Like that's still not enough, he even be friends with the classmates who spread rumors and socially distant Yiheon?? Even at home, he ruined what's left of a relationship Yiheon had with his father by acting like a damned brat, which led to his mother being forced to go to the mental hospital. The one thing he can do is to live a better life for Yiheon, by studying hard and go to top college, gets a good job and builds a good standing in the society, proving to everyone that he's no longer some loser, but alas MC sucks at studying and there's zero improvement even after 50 chapters. But hey, the author let him be good at sport so he's not totally useless!
Ppl saying that Sekyung's just as bad as Jaemin yet he's the only one who actually gave a shit about the real Yiheon and constantly felt guilty for not being able to help him that day. Nobody is perfect and Sekyung's still a kid with his own problem, but at least he showed that he tried and wanted to do something to help. He questioned MC's twisted morals for protecting Yiheon's bully and that guy's like "that's two different things, I will take care of my personal affair on my own" and then what? Being half asses about it by saying some lame warnings to Jaemin and acting distant, only to come crawling back looking for him like a dog when the bully missed school? Because MC understands how miserable it is to live a life lack of proper education?? Like wth do you care about how he is going to live his life, are you his mom or something???
In this world nobody has to face their consequences. And because everybody loves the new me so what they've done in the past can be forgotten. I bet the author hasn't gone through the same hardship or even studied about it and ended up creating such dumb of a plot like this. This Bl doesn't deserve its high rating. Ugh.
tbh i don’t really think he has much of a relationship with his father. that relationship was ruined the moment his dad has an affair but decided to abandon yiheon. plus, i don’t think he was being a brat, how much longer was he supposed to suck up to that woman? and he was always dumb even as a gangster so i personally think it’s realistic that he’s not some genius after possessing yiheon’s body. it’s not that he sucks, he has good grades in other subjects, it’s just math that’s his weak point. he’s improved from when he was a gangster, he’s not gonna jump from being an average student to the top student just because he studied
" how much longer was he supposed to suck up to that woman? "
Suck up long enough so that he and his mother doesn't have to rely on his father's money to get by. If you live by their money, you live by their rule. It's simple, I'm sure a gangster in his 40s should understand something like that.
" it’s realistic that he’s not some genius after possessing yiheon’s body"
I never say that he's a genius and never say that he has to be good instantly. what I'm saying that he should try harder for his future. If you know you can't study, try something else. If MC's good at sport, take that path instead but he keeps denying the clubs offers to study, only to get nowhere. And the story never states that he has good grades in other subjects, their scores are simply better than his math's scores. If his math is 30, then they're around 50-60.
" he’s not gonna jump from being an average student to the top student just because he studied "
That's.... really what study means. You have to spend your effort to study to be good. Every top student has to study, more or less. And because Mc's dumb it means he has to try harder than the others if he wants to success and take his revenge. MC has his motivations clear from the start, but he doesn't really stick to it. But then again, I'm not going to expect much from someone who be friends with his bully.