Gosh i hate the mc very much now... he don't deserve the ml at all.

same! that was just evil, he knew rik's situation was worse than him

The audacity to even say he should whine like him and when he did the first thing you did was reveal his one vulnerable on public. Its was so disgusting the way he preach the night before that rik shouldnt do this or that and look who tf is much worse than rik. Geez im so boiling and i bet he didn't even apologise for saying such thing publicly and just go hide and try to play victim again.

you will never truly understand a codependent relationship with a parent till you've lived it. what jinhyeong did was awful for sure, but he's a child who lost any safe spaces after rik betrayed him. sometimes you want the person who hurt you to hurt just as bad, and thats an awful trait to have but... do realize this was what his own father has done to him since he was a child. thats the brilliance of this arc! it truly shows the affect family (blood or not) has on you.

Ty the comment is so sad, they’re both fuckass middle schoolers, they’re 14-15, it kills me so much

That's funny bcs i live exactly like him probably much worst bcs im the middle child that needs to be absolutely perfect with a damn strict asian parent that literally resort to not only mental but also physical abuse. Ntm we have this culture of where the parents is absolute and we must love them at all cost no matter what. I experienced the same fawking agony like him to choose them or myself. That what makes me love this story at first bcs i can relate with him so much. But i dont fawking suck my parent ass even tho i depend on them. I just live with it until i can absolutely escape from it. And i don't fawking betray my friend especially the one who help me no matter how small the help is. Mind you my parents hate my friend lifestyle but idgaf. Thats my fawking friend and i will appreciate them for that not like this damn mfs mc. In the end everything is abt how you choose your life and mc choose to be shitty to s1 who kind enough to help him escape from the shit hole cause he deep down he just a spoiled rich kid with high ego.

Omg u are u and he is him im glad u didn’t respond like him but u cannot blame him for it—

i understand you as i am also the middle child in a strange household. what i meant by dependency was emotionally! in HIS eyes, his father is his everything. the thought of leaving his father after reliving what "had been", completely changed his view on the future. this is dependency. their relationship was built upon a facade where rik was utterly jealous of him. and as rik had said, he found jinhyeong absolutely pitiful. he helped him escape temporarily, and then shot him back down, which isnt his fault either because he is just as traumatized, and clung to jinhyeong in an unhealthy manner. theyre both unhealthy honestly, but the person they clung to didnt match the others.

I mean good for you, still can stand your ground despite the abuse. but you're not the standard here and everyone react differently toward abuse. it is true that what jh do is crossing the line but with so much the author have shown, havent you understand his circumstances? all that and what you've got is just "he's just a spoiled rich kid" smh

couldn't have said it better myself

Geez i told you i experience the same fawking thing. Even now i can't completely ditch them and still need to go back occasionally eventhough i hate it bcs that's just how it is. But i still didn't betray ppl who hurt me like that. Yeah i also got a 'safe space' that secretly snitch to my parent how i act in school. Got me down so bad but all i did was ignore them after that, not take revenge. Yeah its start with jealousy but it already become real for a while before the mfs decide to shot him down first in front of the person he claim he loathe. And again this thing with rik happened the result of his own choice of betray him. Yet instead of own it up and muster courage to apologise properly he ignore it unlike song rik my boy. He don't even give him any chance to mend it but straight up shot him straight on his one deep wound when he knew that it will hurt him much more than what he get. I will always stand by my op that the mc is a fawking trash.

"your boy" bullied the kid he apologized because jinhyeong wanted to cut ties... yeah what jinhyeong did was trashy. no one is denying that. but you're forgetting the layers of mental abuse and manipulation he went through. you could experience similar, but no one is ever the same. as another commenter said, you are you and he is him

I just give my answer bcs op claim i wont understand him bcs i didnt live like him when i did. Fawk off i don't even need your validation abt me not being the standard around here bcs ofc this kind of life shouldn't be a child standard life. And he is definitely lower the damn standard around here. There's ppl might experience much worst shit around here but they still wont did what he has done. Yall need to stop validating his action just bcs he is a teenager with emotional childhood trauma. He is shitty for his action and he deserve to be condemn by it. Same goes to song rik he could just ignore him after the betrayal and not bullying him but at least he try to own it up unlike a certain mfs.

Still my boy try to own his fault unlike a certain mfs. Just bcs you suffer mentally doesn't give you the right to hurt s1 back. and you are right he is him and i am myself thats why im not arguing and pushing my opinion on other ppl comment who won't acknowledge his wrong and give him the free pass bcs ik not everyone will not feel what i feel reading the story. I expressed my own opinion on my own comment

who are we to judge whose life experience is worst. both leave an unimaginable scar toward each other. some people even kill themself for something that most people think is a small thing but who knows what the person feel. both of them deserve no condemnation cause we clearly see how and why it is the way it is...

i don't think you get the point the author was making. however the "experience worse" thinking is extremely harmful. what matters is what it means to the person and how they are affected by it which is exactly what the author is showing. rik didnt own up to anything. he was clinging to jinhyeong out of fear of being left and that's understandable since he had been left many times in the past. rik acted impulsively. jinhyeong ALSO acted impulsively. the art actually portrayed the guilt that he felt after saying what he said. youre free to think what you like, this was merely a conversation of different opinions

Its not at judging its abt relating to their life experience and judging their choice. And yeah ppl kill themselves over every little and depends on their choice. Condemnation is necessary so ppl can reflect themselves and learn not to repeat the same thing. Life is a lesson however its your choice how you decide to live with it.

+1 to every single comment of yours. Human emotions are complicated. The guy himself admitted to the fact that he's no victim and gives back double of what he gets. Getting bullied, then emotionally manipulated at home, then losing his only friend, then that friend asking him to abandon his father and ne like him-- it's all way too much, especially for a high schooler. That explains why the ML's personality shifted so much. His mom was right, kid has trauma. Things like that cannot be summed up in one simple understanding.

Its not abt who experience worse but its abt relating to the experience and how different the choices everyone take. It might come for fear but he is trying to mend it and mind you publicly when bothof them hate it before the mfs shot it down.
We can see he realised and try to understand the mfs pov that night where he gaze at his back. And i will say this again but my opinion will not be changed no matter how many time we exchanging our op and i didn't hope you will. Everyone react differently bcs we live differently but this is how i feel

its not about relating to the experience either. its about empathy. as i said before, he is mending it impulsively out of fear. he isnt much better than jinhyeong and thats what the author seems to be conveying. they are similar, but not quite the same. they are impulsive, traumatized, and clinging to people they depend on emotionally. they are trying to be mature when theyre just children

Agree human emotion is complicated thats why i criticised and condemn his action and not gloss over it bcs he has trauma and got bullied. What he did is wrong and i hate him and his choice for that bcs he could definitely do better. He is still a shitty person to me from my pov. But yeah i don't forced to agree with my opinion.