She sits at the bottom of my reincarnation Female leads. She just has no real game plan.
I'm not saying I know exactly what she should have done but she KNOWS that homeboy is a maniac. She really just sat there thinking "Oh no, I don't want him to be sad! I can't tell him." And now he knows and he got stab happy. And, as crazy as he is, I don't even feel like he'd really care about her having soulmate somewhere out there. He'd probably just wait until a soulmate shows up and kill him.
What it comes down to in the end is that the creator clearly didn't know how to express things in a way that made this make sense.
There are 101 stories where the second ML has no romantic interest in the main character but the first ML still feels jealous. This didn't accomplish that because Alex was definitely in the camp of wanting to plow Jin.
Then at the last second, "Oh well Alex has a boyfriend." And? That doesn't mean he can cross certain lines and it suddenly means nothing. Honestly, it would have been better to just double down on Alex liking Jin. Then Jin could have said that he truly only saw him as family and was in love with Hamura. Then Jin could have apologized to Hamura and said that he would stop running away and Hamura could have talked about how he felt inadequate. Then they could have made up.
Stories like this really have no meaning if in the end, they still end up together. All of her growth, her trials, and struggles, they mean nothing.
She ends up with the direct result of the reason she had to suffer for seven years. And, maybe I could accept it if the reason were because she had a goal to be empress or if she agreed to stay with him but told him she would never love him. Maybe if he had a good reason. But this "I've always loved you" route? Nah.
Like, he was pretty clear with the other two guys to begin with but they didn't listen. I think the other guys were overstepping by not respecting his very reasonable boundaries.
One guy he already dated and wanted nothing to with. Another guy, he had a one night stand with. That's as far as he wanted that relationship to go. He told him "Keep pretending like you don't know me". He even said that he could get into trouble just by being close with him because of his job as his nephews teacher. He was pretty clear.
The only one he wronged was Zach and he owned up to that.
It's not really that I like Seth more(I do though). I think it's more that I just didn't really like Sam. Sam wasn't a bad character or a jerk I just... couldn't connect with him? I don't know. I just didn't feel like this was Henry AND Sam's story. I also don't feel like I ever understood Henry's love for Sam.
Obviously, you go into stories like this and you know who the main couple is. And the whole story is setting you up to want them together but I never really wanted them together. The more I learned about Sam, the more I thought he was just kind of toxic for Henry.
I don't know, how can a relationship where you support each other your entire life be toxic?? I understand who liked Seth more but if you really think about it I think that would be more toxic a relationship where you are constantly compared to the first love of your love because you look alike
Henry's relationship with Seth was absolutely toxic for him but on some level, they both knew that and went with it.
Sam KNEW that Henry blamed himself for his accident and for ruining his baseball career and Sam still waited years to tell him that he never really liked baseball nor wanted it as a career. What's even crazier is that Sam was really going to go into a baseball career for Henry. Yo, that's crazy. Because of his feelings for Sam, the only real relationship Henry ever had was with Seth. And Henry's primary support system is Sam's family. I'm not calling Sam a toxic person but clearly, their relationship with each other stunted them both in a lot of ways. In real life, you'd call their relationship an unhealthy emotional dependency.
I wouldn't call a real relationship the one in which just one of you is in love and the other one is just trying to catch up with your feelings and treat you good just because you are a really good person and because he would have wanted to be treated that way by the person he really love.
Besides, yes their relationship is a bit messed up but at the end of the day it's just normal if you think that one of them is so dense that can't even recognize his own feelings for his best friend and the other one is just so scared of loving and losing his first love that even knowing that his feelings were reciprocated he never said anything and even let him get married without a word. I have to say that when I found out that he always knew I was really mad.
Her sister is blind to her surroundings with no consideration for how Violet might feel about her and the prince is unaware of his position. So in the first round of the story, he blindly protected her and didn't think about the consequences because he doesn't have to. As prince, only a few select rules really apply to him. He can make a decree but he doesn't really here about the backlash. That combined with her father's blatant disdain for her, it's no surprise what violet resorted to.
Homeboy could have just pretended he was apologetic or he could have just ignored Naoto and left him alone. Naoto wasn't gonna say nothing. They both could have acted like they didn't know each other. But no. He wanted to double down, on his jerkery.
Now he's on the floor, upset.
That happens a lot in baseball. A few inches off and you better watch out. Those balls and bats are first class weapons in the hand a pro athlete. They can absolutely heal from these injuries but they really hurt.
Pro's throw baseballs at 50mph-95mph. If you get hit, it HURTS.
It's short sweet and too the point. There's no super big conflict and there's no weird misunderstanding that takes an unreasonably long to to hash out. And, while it's got a rich chaebol type main lead, the story isn't full of outright outrageous spending.
I'm not saying Jinah is innocent or anything but he ain't a mastermind is all I have to say. He didn't set out to have sex with the boss's son.
He just wanted to be a kiss up. And even then, he really just ended up being average nice. Like, I laughed because he was like "Looks like, you made more mistakes. Welp, guess you've got overtime :)" and the uke was like "Why are you being so nice to me?" Like, those are some low standards.
This did not age well xD