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.... As long as you acknowledge that they are absolute shit. Characters that are legit horrible people and that author treats them as such can be rich and three-dimensional. Appreciating this does not make you a bad person.
However what DOES make you a bad person is making excuses for the abuser. Taeju is a horrible person. He’s a rapist, an abuser, and an asshole. No amount of character growth can make this relationship okay. This man should be in jail, at the VERY least, and should not be given the benefit of the doubt literally ever.
They should not be together, even if he goes full 180 and becomes a fucking saint.