girl when did this happen???
Chapters 210-211 (new updates) still a long way to go...
girl where!!!????
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eh there are so many signs that cheoljin has a super traumatizing and rough childhood that minwoo has no idea about where he's learned to only present the side he thinks people want to see and is super suspicious of people's intentions with a massive fear of abandonment. hints of people objectifying him and him letting ppl objectify him to survive even as he is disgusted by it..like it seems like he was literally a boymom for a good part of his school life thinking of ways to take care of his sublings and escape poverty bc his parents were absent. with the recent chapters it's fascinating to see his super perfectionist/controlled side break
down and being so much more young and vulnerable and irrational in front of only minwoo.
with this author always there are two sides to every story, she always tells the pov of one person before switching to the other and then you realize everyone is a fully fleshed out being with reasons for acting the way they do. i for one am soo curious about finally getting to cheoljin's pov and his side of the story
Hi! this is why I said I hope I'm mistaken. I do like this story but for the character of Chul-Jin... he's autodestructive. He's not even that version of himself that you mention. He's worst. He's a grown man who keeps making the same choices again and again. And ok, you may say that age has anything to do with healing from past wounds or traumas, especially because experiences tend to repeat themselves at any age, reopening those same wounds... but he chose to find present Minwoo and bring him back into his life and did everything in his power to make Minwoo fall in love with him again.
In this particular case, he lead Minwoo into believing that they could start anew. It took a LOT of patience, struggle, denial, conflict... for Minwoo to drop his defense, get over Norman, get over his own trauma with Chul-Jin and his abandonment and past rejection. Minwoo's reactions toward the mention of Chul-Jin were very visceral. But Chul-Jin fought hard to change that so he's more than responsable to actually act according to his words but no, he manipulated the hell out of everyone and when shit hit the fan and he got exposed for his lies, he chose to 'break up' in the most cruel way possible. But Minwoo was not letting him go, like in the past, so he actually used violence against him (season ending part 1). I do hope part 2 clears everything.
I agree with everything you said about Chul-Jin and his past, why he may be like that, but the moment he used violence, he became an abuser, which he always was tbh, and I was done with him. Especially because those early signs that you mentioned attracted me to his character but this is where I draw a line. I do like conflicted, morally dark characters.
Not saying Minwoo's a saint, the early bed scenes are quite forceful but there was consent from Chul-Jin, because, again, he was doing everything he could to capture Minwoo's heart which included being in a position (bottom) that he was not used to, enjoyed to or wanted to. That was a sign of his 'love'.
And, this is a work of fiction so I get why we as readers may permit so many liberties, like being understanding of a character actions being a direct reflect of his up bringing or the lack of it, but in real life, not matter what a person's past is, it's inexcusable for them to treat others badly and not being responsable for the damage they caused.
But like you said, there are two sides and I hope I'm mistaken because the storytelling takes a while but it is top notch and I love how this author portraits emotions. It reliminds me of Lucky Paradise, which I absolutely love it.
Oficially, I'm done with Chul-Jin. I don't even care about his past, his reasons, his actions... mf just gashlight, manipulatives, the hell out of everyone. Minwoo knows that, still he accepts the crumbs of his 'love' or whatever lie Chul-Jin tells him, or even when Chul-Jin is confronted with the true, he still fucking lies and Minwoo... is a fucking idiot. So done. So dissapointed with Minwoo really. He'll eat dirt if Chul-Jin told him it's choco powder or something. He's that gone for him. He's not gonna let go of Chul-Jin, not even when he got hurt because of him (he protected Chul-Jin from a knife attack). Chul-Jin even wants to escape, again, like the coward he is and not confront the result of his actions, so he does what he does best and he tries to break Minwoo's heart for a second time instead of accepting his wrong doings and appeal to Minwoo's good nature because he knows Minwoo will do anything for him.... but Minwoo's not gonna let him go a second time, not even when he's getting beat up by Chul-Jin, because he believes that Chul-Jin loves him but he's afraid or something.... *sigh* He may love him so so much if he's doing all kind of things to break up with Minwoo so he can be free of pain even when he's the one inflicting the pain.
A while since a hated a couple so much. Still reading because sometimes the other couples appears between chapters and overall this is my soap opera but *sigh* I'll wait for part 2 of the season ending. I hope I'm mistaken.
And Sungtaek's dick is scary in the uncensored version but kudos to Norman if that's his jam and he can take the titan cock. Pair of lovely freaks.