My theories so far

It goes without saying that this storyline is morally abhorrent.

Anyway, I present my theories through a psychological and capitalistic lense.

First things first, this story will NOT be about romance. In the slightest. This story will be more about the lives of the ultra-mega wealthy chaebol’s and how they will balance power dynamics, control, and possibly the internal politics of the Hotel’s heir-clave (derived from conclave LOL), ALL while a poor (and i mean it in the economic sense) man is brought into the middle of it.

The first thing we have to do as the audience is detach these characters from our typical understanding of humans as empathetic, social beings. Rich people are not the same as the typical person in two primary ways: their styles of living and their interpersonal relationships. Every relationship is 1000x more transactional, superficial, and driven by material gain and/or often twisted desires. Just take a look at any billionaire is our world to confirm this.

I agree with another commenter about the mother being evil. We can debate her motives once we get more information, but one thing is clear. She is not a good mother. Subjecting your child to watching/hearing you have se>< can be considered se><ual abus3. If our main character were younger, she could have very easily been emotionally and mentally scarred for life. I’ve read cases about this in real life, it’s really sick and saddening.

On to our main character, she’s clearly not all mentally well. The ways she “crashed” out and harmed herself is a clear indication of that. We might find out more about these impulses later. My best guess is that either something traumatic to do with her childhood or, given the circumstances of her ultra-privileged upbringing, it’s simply one of the quirks she developed under the circumstances of her upbringing. This specific analysis is heavily influenced by my recent viewing of The Piano Teacher. Ha.

In regards to, her situation with her childhood friend, they seem to be casual sexual partners more than anything. Again, no romance. Just a physical outlet to let out the many stresses of their absurdly privileged lives. I’m being a little sarcastic here, but it could be said wealthier children tend to lack proper emotional support from their parents out of an overemphasis on materialism.

It’s obviously implied that Yeonwoo and her will start messing around eventually. This is where the power war between mother and daughter/ daughter and man will be played. There are definite bdsm undertones to this story.

Now, Yeonwoo. Given that he most likely worked as a prostit*te (is there a male-gendered term for that?) before he got picked up by MC mamma, we know he’s probably lived a hard life and sees mom as a way out. Him begging and crying signals towards his past of abu$e, explo1tation, and other things of the sort. Out of all the characters, I believe he will be the one to display the most “humanly” behaviors: like love. I predict he’ll fall in love with MC, but more so along the lines of Stockholm syndrome given the power imbalances.

Overall, the art is gorgeous and I think this story has the potential to portray a very raw display of the ruling/capitalist/burguoise class literally toying (;O) with the poor/working/exploited/ proletariat class.

Interesting.