exactly like if he knew that that happened we would have known about it waaat earlier in the story because we’ve reading things from chiwoo’s pov..
fact is hwan had sex with chiwoo when he was heavily intoxicated and anyone who tries to defend that is literally saying that taking advantage of a drunk person is okay...
Im not justifying, im drawing a line on what i believe should be considered rape. I did say that not giving a verbal consent is possible. But I said as well that you need to be in a proper mindset.
The hard part is drawing the line on what is a proper mindset to be able to give consent. Like if you cant even tell whos fucking you then something is clearly wrong or if you have trouvle moving normally
Did you even read what I said?
I literally wrote that it seems likely that even if Chiwoo was highly intoxicated, Hwan probably was not aware of it / Hwan drank as well and he is half awake.
And its possible we never knew about it because chiwoo thought it was a dream all along.
We have no way to tell how intoxicsted both are yet.
And that's why i made it clear in my comment that i "believe" that Chiwoo isnt too drunk and Hwan is probably drunk as well.
Meanwhile you just decide to guess and act as if its facts and proceed to insult those who thinks otherwise.
remember that we’re reading things from their POV. we’ve been seeing things from chiwoo’s pov from the beginning so if he remembered this then we would have known this happened ages ago.
like the previous chapter, this is hwan’s flashback; meaning he remembers this happened.
regardless of how drunk hwan “might” be (which is probably not too drunk at all, literally look at his actions he can’t have sex like that if he’s as drunk as y’all are trying to say he is) it’s no excuse to take have sex with someone who’s even more intoxicated.
“meanwhile you just decide to guess and act as if it’s facts and proceed to insult those who thinks otherwise”
you’re doing all the guessing here? you literally guessed in the same reply that you’re accusing me of guessing??????
i’m not trying to look forward into anything so if it ends up a dream or something then that’s whatever but as a reader i’m gonna make commentary of shit by chapter... and the way everything went down in THIS chapter was super rapey and hwan is the devil.

Just because one person is drunk doesnt automatically make it rape...
First of all, Chiwoo got drunk by himself
Second, all the alcohol did was give Chiwoo the confidence and the confusion (he believes its a dream) to do the first move and go with the flow for the rest
He understand whats going on and didn't give any signs that he was against it (we even have access to his thoughts)
Third, it seems very likely that Hwan doesnt even consider Chiwoo might be too drunk to give a proper consent. Because he himself is half asleep and he drank as well.
I believe rape should be called when someone is forcefully or mentally (blackmail / manipulation / intentionally taking advantage of someone who is not in a proper mindset to be able to refuse / fear /...) forcing themselves on someone.
We dont know to what extent Chiwoo is drunk, but I highly doubt he is at a point where rape should be used. And even if it turns out he was dead ass drunk, i believe Hwan isnt trying to take advantage of it.
Chiwoo didn't say anything, aka he didnt ask for it or agreed to it verbally. But he initiated a kiss and didn't give any sign that he wanted to stop. Also, just because you asked at the begining, doesnt mean you have consent for the whole thing. Yet most people arent verbally asking if their partner want to keep going every 5 seconds. Because its common sense that the other person will do something (verbally or physically) if they dont want to do it anymore.
Therefore, after being kissed by Chiwoo, Hwan started to go further, and considered Chiwoo's going with the flow as consent.