I agree but he did it in a way that went beyond what was implied
Not only did he use as a conduit for his unkept rage and resentment.. he also dauntingly played in her life by lovebombing her.. he could’ve just kept gradual appearances.. especially when he knew she was just a puppet as well..
I also sympathize with his revenge story as well but I feel like it went beyond revenge and felt like he was also punishing her for being associated with that family. I do agree that he fell in love halfway and started reeling back his aggression. Too little too late
The fact that he was also trying to knock her up….. like fr dude? Can you imagine, “yeah dad hated grandpa so much that he only made me to ruin mom’s life so she’d killed herself.”
Erm I haven’t gotten to the part where he fell back in love, I didn’t read the novel but I assumed that would happen anyway. But yea I agree with you, it’s just that outside looking in it’s really easy to see that he went too far. I also think that just in general manhwa readers have a warped perspective on things like revenge. For example, if he just offed her parents himself… this story wouldn’t exist. Like that revenge wouldn’t have been seen as “too far” but in reality, manipulation and love bombing is objectively better than murder. I think ppl who think it was too far is applying manhwa logic while I’m not using manhwa logic.
i get that he had to do what he had to do in order to satisfy his revenge, and he got it in the end, i just want him to stay away from mc because of the amount of emotional damage he caused her. i mean, the stress of his abandonment after all the lovebombing made mc miscarry :( and the 2nd ml is just so nice lmao i don’t see ml and mc being together unless they just brush off what happened lmao… i feel like it’s more manhwa logic if they still get together despite all of the trauma that happened. i see your side, if he was the protagonist, we’d probably root for him more, but knowing how hurt mc was, i can’t in good faith root for them :(
Speaking of the novel—please send the link lol
Guys really unpopular opinion what incheol did wasn’t that bad to me. Maybe it’s just me but I feel like his revenge was justified. Manipulation is bad and not excusable but his plan worked… I mean his parents offed themselves. If I was in his situation I would have caused ww3 like my parents mean so much to me I would go even further than incheol. Also, I feel like I read a manhwa with the opposite plot where the protagonist actually was the one who got revenge like incheol and I liked the story. You gotta do what you gotta do and while I sympathize with FL, there was no way out. Literally everything in her life all her experiences and how she was treated led to this moment. If she was raised even 10% better than she was, if her parents didn’t hate her for being a girl or doing diving, or if she turned out like other traumatized chaebol kids I feel her story would have turned out so differently. I am excited to see the female leads revenge tho. I am a little bit tired of the whole underdog who gets revenge stories. It’s the same formulas over and over again, but I think the author did a good job at making readers sympathize with fl.