The first couple (childhood friends one) is insaneee bc I really like the bottom (xun?) and his constant insecurity. I think ppl get tired of his dramatics but it makes sense that he continues to dwell on every good experience/happiness coming to an end given his abandonment and abuse by his fam which caused him to grow a bit twisted (he himself is aware of his "addiction to heartache" which is his inability to be as comfortable w enjoying the present as others and I honestly get him). It's interesting that a lot of his insecurities are also him being childish like he's not as put together as he appears to other or would like to appear and it's cute lmaoo. anw I like that every time he goes back into his miseries and the top is more or less used to it and knows how to deal w him (▰˘◡˘▰)
I understand the general political plot in the background and why incheol was deployed into that town but can someone explain what the advisor Cha and rep lee (the woman boss) are up to?? Esp rep lee I don't really understand her but I can tell her importance as the character in power
Copy pasted my reply from another thread:
Rep Lee said the party members have to unify and work together ("we have to come together as a unified collective") -> hinting that there is internal conflicts in the party and that some party members are sabotaging each other.
Incheol knew it was orchested by Rep Lee and Advisor Cha, just doesn't know the reason why.
Isolating Incheol -> cut him off from all party meetings and activities to keep him in the dark, also making it seems to everyone else that he might be in trouble for "something".
-> Incheol is going to be the saboteur. Rep Lee will likely says that she's keeping him away from the party due to him being corrupted/conflicts against other members/going against the values of the party/ect.
Don't know if that meeting in the next chapter is going to go well for him either, it might be an ambush (maybe they're going to spring an internal investigation on him?)
Tbh the ambush is my theory and they probably wont do that. Anway, I think they scapegoat him despite his usefulness is precisely because he's too useful. He has a lot of dirt on him in the past from being Rep Lee's right hand man, which makes it easy to blame it on him. Powerful people never gets caught because their lackeys are the ones who do the dirty work and shows their faces at the scene.
I love chapters like these w gyeol, jayu jae, the siblings. I just wish they developed some more about her friendship with the girls like most of the time they're not there and we cannot see any actual funny moments or anything that they have an impact on the story or the characters. And for me the most annoying is the Russian guy. Anw I still love many of the chapters and i need to see gyeol romancing. Just wish the author can improve how they handle a large cast like the one they introduced
I really disliked Helena at first but after they gave more depth into her past and character, how she really is just trapped into the palace and how truly alone she is there despite having so many ppl surrounding her bc all they see in her is just what they WANT to see.... I just couldn't. The crowned Prince is a gigantic idiot tbh, he just does what he wants to feed his ego. I hope both "eris" and Helena can have their own peace










Y'all acting like sohee is forcing him to do anything or harassing him, breaching boundaries is if she stalked and followed him home it's NOT a highschool girl being persistent and a bit annoying at worst when he didn't outright say he disliked her (they didn't eat lunch tgt, go home tgt, etc., after gyeol said no). Y'all lovee the male characters for their quirks but not the girls if she's a little bit different than the goody goody booo
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There's different kinds of boundaries for each person mæm, in this case, gyeol clearly set his own up, blatantly even.
U can argue that, but it can also be said then that not all boundary breaching is the same level of serious. Her bothering him a bit (after what she deems to be a not proper rejection) to hang out and then leaving after getting rejected again is annoying to gyeol at most. Yes a grown adult would be sensible enough to know they should take the L but they're literally kids here and the story is obv going the "yeah he rejected me but I was really rediculous and kept chasing and it worked out" route with this pairing (a common trope in romCOMS but even teenagers know not to do that).
I just can't stand that the readers keep going "leave my boy alone" as if his character isn't just going to be cardboard without this arc and even the over eager jumping to prove sohee is doing to him what Mr. Stalker did. All I'm saying is that readers have way too low of a tolerance for female characters and their quirks they can only accept a palatable one like jayu
Anw with the new chapter it's clear sohee bothering him wasn't causing him that big of a distress other than mild annoyence so clearly he himself isn't that strict Abt his own boundaries as y'all are. He's introverted and stays isolated doesn't mean other people making him open up is gonna give him PTSD
Yeah, it won't. There's many perspectives you can get in the chapter from both POVs — probably since we all have different experiences. However, there clearly were overstepped boundaries there. Though I can't say for sure abt what the intensity is on gyeol, I'd say there's no harm in acknowledging and respecting it. Esp if we were to relate this irl, not all people are built the same. Whether gyeol or sohee, being respectful and direct won't cost much. ( ̄へ ̄)