
I dont fully understand the hate on Jaekyung?? It feels too forced for me. i wanna know why you dislike/hate him

I dropped this thing idk how many chapters ago now because I was just getting bored but Iâll offer my two cents.
I donât think the hate is forcedâpeople are legitimately frustrated with Jaekyung and how heâs written as a character. From the get-go he demonstrated himself to be an incredibly toxically masculine and abusive figure (or just toxic in generalâviolent, imposing, cocky, selfish, etcâŚif you donât agree with these things then idk itâs truly a âyou might want to rereadâ moment, and/or we interpret him and his actions in fundamentally different ways), and what makes it worse is that heâs doing all this against a character who canât and doesnât fight back, at least for a good portion of the webtoon thus far. I personally think it wouldâve made for a more interesting/tolerable dynamic if he was matched with someone who could match his energy, like Heesung, or if Jaekyung was shown to be more, you know, actually attracted to Dan outside of him being his fucktoyâŚ
For me personally I think I wouldâve hated him no matter whatâor at least I wouldâve just been ambivalent towards himâbut the thing that made him especially grating to me was the fact that 60+ chapters in we STILL didnât have any rhyme or reason behind why he behaves the way he does. Like no backstory or anything to explain why heâs such an asshole. With Dan at least we were given pretty much everything we needed to understand his character and why he makes the choices that he does (even if he himself feels flat and shallow in his own way lmao) but with Jaekyung, at least where I stopped, we donât know anything about his background. So heâs an asshole lacking depth, which is how you write a stock villain in a childrenâs cartoon seriesâŚnot the main love interest in your adult webtoon, lol. Hence why the hatred for him ends up being so extreme. Thatâs what I think, anyway.
Kim Dohyun is like the god of restraint or something. Dude's really good at holding back. I'd be on my knees