
Chapter 21.5 Q&A, that's "where the hell" blud.
He's called Seo-in's rival in english translation and in korean "sub gong" which means the sub-top or 2nd-top/2nd ml...
So yeah the guy picked up the child, helped him when he had no one and now has the hots for him. Add the fact that he feels indebted to Taegu and sees him as a really important family like figure and there creepy and yikes.

Everyone first of all even if the older man is confirmed as the second ml, he could really just be called that but used as plot device for the mcs to get together. So far Hes been a great man much more helpful than ml. And hasn’t raped him or emotionally abuse and manipulate mc. Hes only a safe spot for mc. to try to find flaws in him just so u can root for ml is funny. We all know ml is endgame, no reason to bring anyone down just bc they like the rival more. Also predator is crazy… ml is a rapist, loved orgies and was a druggie in the past. We can’t be judging ppl for their preference when this is all just fictional men anyways

Seo-in being trash and Taegu being creepy can be both true at the same time.
We all already know about Seo-in, so no need to go into detail about him here. But Taegu being confirmed as the 2nd ml by author means the grown ass adult who picked up a homeless, beaten child at his lowest and helped him is now into him. And Yeongwoon at the very least feels indebted to him and trust him which can easily make for power imbalancebetween them. So yeah people have the rights to be creeped out by this premise alone and it has nothing to do with how maron red Seo-in has been.

Yeahh right! I forgot about that and i mean if i think about it i shouldn't be surprised since he is a gang member and all but it's genuinely disgusting he pimped out the actor he is mentoring, it's obvious why Seo In sees him as typical trash. Another thing is that Haeyool looked like he was picked up from a bad past too, so for Taegu guy to still exploit him like that is terrible

Yea so my point is why are we even complaining lmao. Why are you so mad? Just fictional, at the end of the day if the rival being a potential groomer really sets u off idk why ur here when it started w a very red flag ml who is just as trashy. We haven’t even seen anything yet of the rival, so calling him all creep stuff is funny to me. Author could always change her mind. I’ve seen a lot of authors promise this and that and never even bring it back up
Are you forgetting the ml did the exact same thing? He made sure the third rival got raped jusy bc he got jealous and set the guy up. Stop trying to bring morals and values and stuff over here on a pirated website with a bunch of glorified rape, murder, loli and shota stuff. Funny as hell, go ahead and be mad and pop a vein over it idc just think u sound goofy

Again, Idk how your long whatabotism essay has anything to do with the points we have in story currently which can validly creep out people about a character. What does morals or any of the other things you've yapped about have to do with the fact that you're here bringing up Seo-in being absolute trash in a discussion about people not wanting to see a possible creepy attraction that can come off as very off putting or pseudo-pedophilic for them. Idgf about what you wanna read or not or whether it's fiction or not, your comments have been just attempts at veering off a very straight forward reply thread about Taegu by bringing up every other thing you can grab your hands on just to state your unrelevant to the discussion point for whatever reason.¯_(ツ)_/¯
Also people can pick and choose what their limit is to toxicity and fucked up story elements and when/where they'd be willing to read which. No one's "mad" as you wanna believe, it's just a group discussion about plot details that any consumers of any media in any form always have.

Sure ok, says the one that’s piss about the rival being a potential red flag, I’m talking about how hypocritical it is. You’re mad about the rival when the ml is just as worse. That’s my whole point. We’re going into a story with all the male leads being all toxic. Limit to toxicity is crazy… like the ml is a rapist and sets someone up to rape someone else but only the rival is creepy. I’m cracking up at your logic and how u have the “right” to be creeped out… like that’s your concern with how the story has been playing out ok… sure lick and choose what fits your wonderful morals ig. bring logic to a fictional entertainment story and be upset about a rival being a red flag not like the ml isn’t one too but whatever floats your boat and your justice bs

Girl no one’s hypocritical cause no one even brought up the ml. If you wanna talk about his ass go make ur own comment.
“Bring logic to a fictional story” WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT LMAO?? If you don’t wanna discuss don’t go into the comment section because I promise you, people are gonna have opinions based on their morals
I see people saying that the old guy is confirmed to be crushing on the MC, is this true? Like that’s a whole new level of low if that’s true wtf