I think the novel does it better because it provides much more context but he has a lot of abandonment issues and also guilt being the only survivor out of his entire family, on top of meeting only shitty alphas and having a shitty uncle that only wants something from him and constantly pimping him out, it makes more sense why he wouldn't believe a dominant alpha be into him. Not to mention, his friend who always put him down can kind of give you an idea of his self esteem.
Yeah.. I've read the spoiler too.. personally, i mean.. with lack of social skills.. it wasn't easy to perceive what people think of you.
Lmao.. not spoiler.. i mean the Novel. I've read em
Anyone mentioning the novel makes me wonder if we read the same thing lol. I know the translation isn’t the best, but he’s clueless in the novel too! So much to the point that it’s something even the brother picks up on.
I don't take it as clueless. I just think hebhas super low self esteem and then pair with an alpha that isn't super communicative due to his own issues where he has to seek help from a therapist on how to show his emotions more...It makes sense to me. We can interpret things differently.
I disagree the ML did not make it obvious at all he was talking about the mc. the ml knows the trauma the mc has been through and how he doubts himself so much and believes no one would date him yet he kept making allogries about a "special someone" NO DUH. all his life he's been told that he's been worthless and no matter how many people you fall in love with they're all gonna leave him for someone better and that's been proven to be true time and time again by his past lovers. The ml did very little to confront this and only when he finally says "ITS YOU" does the mc finally understand that his love was requited because you cant say things in a round about way to someone with a personality like that and expect them to read between the lines and assume, maybe if everyone hes ever met wasnt such a hypocrit hed be able to get the allogories but thats not his character. I'm tried of you guys always blaming the mc, you have to remember we as readers know EVERYTHING characters don't. we heard the full conversation but the mc only heard part of it, we know the "fox" is the mc but the mc believes its actually a fox. as someone in AP literature the lack of perspective is so frustrating
Thank you, I have yet to see some else bring up the ml not being obvious enough. I personally think that was the biggest contributor to the confusion. Like the whole fox thing. The mc clearly mentions how he legit thinks it's a real fox and the ml just plays along with it rather than say no it's you. The whole pregnancy happened cause the ml took the mc drunken talk ( that he can't even remember) to heart and stopped using birth control without telling the mc the idea of having a family ( the mc was still using birth control after all since he was never given the memo). Heck the ml own body guards bring up how the ml is like that to all his fuck buddies and he shouldn't expect anything. The ml never defined the relationship and others kept pushing the mc down so I am not surprised his misunderstood it all. ....to the ml credit though, I like how the miscarriage makes him more vocal and expressive. It really made him realize that he needed to communicate more with the mc. Bit yeah I hate how people make the mc out to be an idiot. Cause he is not, a ml who doesn't define anything, communicate, or clear up anything plus all the shity people by him, plus his trauma really messed him up.
Oh an one more thing... the night the mc was going to the hotel with that uncle's friend should have been a clue to ml. Heck the ml thought they were already dating yet here is his partner going on a sex date with another guy. He should have tried to define and explain things there but he let the misconceptions snow ball the entire time.
oh thank goodness i thought i was alone in thinking this. The ML pissed me off so much with the constant allusions and not directly asking Seoyu to date or even get married. Especially considering the way in which they got together. It was purely physical at first so how was Seoyu supposed to know the situation changed when the ML caught feelings???
He can be both insecure and clueless though? I don’t get why people mention this as if both c ant be true.
Exactly.
You don't develop cluelessnees, its just how people are. His cluelessness unfortunately partnered up with his insecuritie. I've yet to meet someone this clueless in life and i know/known a few people who who were left unable to fully trust peoples feelings towards them because of trauma or bad relationship. But none have been THIS clueless. Second part of my comment explains why i felt disdain towards it, clearly its a plot device (used in many korean dilms/series/webtoons), exaggerated misunderstanding/miscommunication/cluelessness.
I get that someone commented before that "he's not clueless, trauma from bad relationship etc and being essentially pimped out by his uncle, has pushed his coping mechanism etc to not think so highly of himself, which is why he can't see that the Alpha likes him " BUT NO. this was too much, he was simply clueless. Not believing that the Alpha liked him, cool i can understand that. But not putting two and two together when he was CONSTANTLY speaking about him???? Like damn.
Kdramas/Webtoons have me wondering if Koreans just like misunderstandings LOOOOOL! Cos the miscommunication tropes are rampant in yalls entertainment. To the point that it's romanticised ┑(￣Д ￣)┍ like... lives could literally be saved if some or all of these characters, would just SPEAK TO EACH OTHER.