REAL.
"but its fiction!!" fiction influences/impacts reality.
"but its how victims cope" honestly its not; victims dont cope through rape culture, and no its not exposure therapy as exposure therapy is where you confront trauma-related feelings, memories, etc. if you want to count this type of book as exposure therapy or wtv; then you'd be okay with people criticizing it for its rape fetish and recognizing that it is, in fact, rape.
humans sympathize with fictional characters all the time. that's why art, movies, shows, and books even have an audience.
regardless, you can sympathize with a six year old kid getting abused while recognizing that it doesn't justify his actions as an adult. which is what most comments are saying anyway
You guys feeling sympathy for jaekyung, a fictional character, who has done bad things just because we finally learned what his backstory is and what caused him to act like is lowkey concerning im not gonna lie