i feel bad for the mom but let’s not forget she abused and neglected a child just becaus...

let's not water down the meaning of "neglected" and "abused" she didn't let her study, have things her brothers got(exp. Egg on food) but never did she abuse the girl by hitting her or telling her harsh words about her body or things. The mother had a line and did not want the girl to go over that line. when she did the mother reacted with her safety mechanism because she thought that the girl was a psychopath. Never did she neglect her. She has said to the girl that she is not her mother (although a bit harsh since she feared the girl) but gave the girl her freedom in what she did, on the exception of not working at moonlight(?)

Correct. When you water down abuse nothing is abuse. You have to grow up with abusive parents to understand

"cruel and violent treatment of a person or animal."
also I did not say to water down the meaning of abuse in neglect to break up what they mean but rather to not misuse words with powerful meanings.
as it "waters them down" making them less powerful for the people and as such not as important anymore.

but neglect is a form of abuse though… ahrin is a special case because she’s crazy but she might have grown up normally if her mother was actually present in her life and raised her and didn’t influence her brothers to also bully and ignore her when convenient.

how can you expect to be taken seriously when you vibe check a literal 6 year old and decide she’s a psychopath so therefore you neglect her for years and wonder why she actually turned out to be a psychopath. no therapy, no developmental help, didn’t even send her to public school to learn from “regular” children on how to act. i didn’t water down anything, you just want to feel bad for your favourite character without acknowledging she did anything wrong so you can feel like you’re supporting a “good person”

newsflash, no one is a good person in this story and that’s the point.

when you let blatant favouritism be flaunted in your face for years at your developmental years, that is neglect and emotional abuse. i’m not misusing shit bruh don’t use your dumb therapy speech on me when you don’t even know what it’s like growing up with parents who favour your siblings over you.

Girl bffr she did not give ahrin freedom, she simply did not care what she did and that’s literally neglect. How does a child activating her safety mechanism justify immediately tossing her away and pretending she doesn’t exist? Do me a favour and read the first chapters again and tell me she wasn’t fucked up for that. Ahrin doesn’t seem affected by it because she enjoys chasing people for the love of the game but if she were to tell the audience straight up that the way she was treated when she was younger made her feel hurt, we’d all feel wayyy more differently about the mom. And two things can be true at once, people can feel bad for her but also acknowledge she was not a good person. Personally, I support women’s right AND wrongs but i agree with op, some of yall act like she didn’t abuse a kid ┑(￣Д ￣)┍

right? she essentially put ahrin in a fancy birdcage and people wanna call that “freedom”… people didn’t even know she existed as part of the family until she became an adult. she wasn’t allowed to go outside or interact with literally anyone but her housekeepers, father, and her brothers, but even her brothers were discouraged from being around her.

Indifference isn't the same as neglect. Arin still could attend classes but was not officially part of them. And mom did hide her away but didn't say anything about freedom. If arin wanted she could get a driver's license. The one who doesn't have freedom is anna

“ahrin listen closely, your father only brought you here because he took pity on you since… your mother abandoned you.”

“it must be because there’s something wrong with you right? you're just a burden to us, so no one really likes you. so it shouldn’t come as a shock that you will be treated differently from my beloved children.”

“all rights for rare moon’s group business’ are my sons, so i will never forgive you if you ever harm them. if you want to cry, just go ahead and do that, it’s only us two here. this room is soundproof anyway. at your age, there’s nothing else you can do but cry.”

you tell me, is this appropriate to say to a child? is this not emotional abuse? she was clearly fine with making a child cry, even emphasizing the room was sound proof so no one would come comfort or save her.

i wasn’t arguing who has or doesn’t have freedom, i was arguing that you can feel bad for anna without brushing past all the shit she put ahrin through as a child. it is not normal to treat a child like that, no matter how rich you or how oppressive your husband is. i can’t read the comments and pretend to agree she wasn’t a horrible person at the start of the story and only now has begun to be more relatable or sympathetic. her backstory and more development of her character leads us to feel more understanding of her, but that doesn’t mean she suddenly no wrong.