100%. You can also see by how much he internally wavers despite being the one most strongly affected by the dark magic how much he did love the fl before everything happened. Love Tan as the ml, but definitely tragic for ian
I feel bad for Ian he deserves better
personally I agree that he take the hardest hit among all but we didn't really know he's really like bfr the dark magic, it was always by how people remembering him. I wonder if he's always been feeling insecure and it just highly intensifies. I also wonder if he sort of become like "the new demon lord" since his aura(?) essence(?) sorts of worse than Tan himself.
Surprisingly, the person most wronged by her black magic crap is the former ML, Ian. The way they’re describing it, it might be harder to reverse than it was with the dragon and the former second ML. I know if I was Ian, I’d kill that blonde bxtch in a fit of rage. How are you going to warp someone’s entire being simply because you think you’re entitled to some shxt.