Responses
Wow thanks for the novel perspective!!! I didn't even know it was one first
realll i hate how the manhwa is making raon seem like a shady guy when he's actually trying to help mc get away from his abuser lol apart from the forced kiss, he literally was just a fool in love :(( and I've seen a lot of ppl hating him bc he named mc but imo that's the best part of the story!!
This has fallen off for me. Feels too different to the novel and like a budget version that's trying to improve things by making small changes but is just making it worse and writing itself into corners.
Maybe I'm wrong but from my memory of the novel mc and raon don't kiss. They aren't explicitly together in a romantic relationship, it's obvious raon wants to be but mc is just kind of ignoring it. they never do anything particularly romance related past when raon force kisses him while drunk. That was the only kiss I remember between them in the novel - it's been a while though so I could be forgetting something.
Raon is a lovely guy in the novel, so nice and patient and understanding. The conflict comes from mc making the choice to go back to garon anyway and how that choice has no real logic to it outside of 'but I think i miss him and like him' call it brainwashing/Stockholm syndrome or w/e it just felt more understandable in the novel than here...
Though granted he doesn't go back with the intention of being with garon, he just wants to live solo on the mountain so it's not quite so weird that he leaves Raon. Plus its more from a sense of guilt for not reciprocating feelings than wanting to actively go back to garon.