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Hee-seo: "You're lying..."
Me: "... and you're insane??"
It's ridiculous, but maybe it's a step towards getting him help. I'm really delusional because we already know how this will end up in a worse predicament for Mr. Cha. People like this need help and the sooner the better. He's just enabling Hee-seo's erratic behavior by enabling him. I know Mr. Cha has his own personal demons to fight but he's stable enough to get them both help if he tried, he just won't. They're both victims but while Mr. Cha isn't being held literally captive, do something? It's kind of making me a little sick romanticizing this behavior and I love reading toxic things if they're written without the rose filter. This seemed promising that the relationship would be portrayed as bad overall but this chapter really changed that. Maybe it's the lack of tone, but it seems like this was supposed to be a good moment (Ch. 36) and not actually showing how messed up it is to sympathize with your abuser.
Genuinely, anyone who can't separate reality from fiction or find this to be a redemption or cute scene with a broken person, I beg you to look at this outside of their warped relationship because it's not okay.
I'll keep reading but this chapter actually triggered me and made me feel pretty anxious as I had a relationship where I could relate a lot and that's not good and still is obviously effecting me. Oy vey. (｡•︿•｡)