I laugh so hard every time someone starts picking on the authenticity and psychology of the story. Guys, the plot is incredibly psychologically thought out. Adults really think and act like that. As for ML...
Here it is important to pay attention to the clues about his childhood. A super-inadequate tough father who abused him, an equally inadequate older brother who seems to want him to die. And - the absence of a mother figure. Such guys often fall for older women.
And here, for the obsession to blossom, it didn’t take much - she showed him care and kindness, purely maternal. And for him it was so abnormal, unusual, that the “suspension bridge” effect occurred, or how girls fall in love with the firefighters who saved them. Puberty added sexual attraction, and we have what we have.
Plus the guy is a little uh ... neurodivergent due to his traumas and terribly romanticizes all this. It is important to him that she chooses him, it is important for him to be loved. And she is exactly the person who knows how to love like that. He wants Minchol's place for a reason.
I laugh so hard every time someone starts picking on the authenticity and psychology of the story. Guys, the plot is incredibly psychologically thought out. Adults really think and act like that. As for ML...
Here it is important to pay attention to the clues about his childhood. A super-inadequate tough father who abused him, an equally inadequate older brother who seems to want him to die. And - the absence of a mother figure. Such guys often fall for older women.
And here, for the obsession to blossom, it didn’t take much - she showed him care and kindness, purely maternal. And for him it was so abnormal, unusual, that the “suspension bridge” effect occurred, or how girls fall in love with the firefighters who saved them.
Puberty added sexual attraction, and we have what we have.
Plus the guy is a little uh ... neurodivergent due to his traumas and terribly romanticizes all this. It is important to him that she chooses him, it is important for him to be loved. And she is exactly the person who knows how to love like that. He wants Minchol's place for a reason.