So Jeonghan is one of the most toxic personality types ever. Let me explain why:
1) He dates someone for 8 yrs and not once during that relationship did he ever share his deepest insecurities with his significant other. Then switched it back to Kangwoo and said he didn’t love him enough. Apparently he developed no trust or communication with his SO after 8 yrs.
2) it is so conceited and downright wrong to judge Kangwoo’s emotions like that. I get that his own indicators likely led to it but everyone expresses love differently and Kangwoo will probably have high insecurities going forward if he (HOPEFULLY) move on to love someone else because now he will feel like the way he expresses him emotions won’t be enough or be felt by the other party
3) Jeo basically assumed that because he confessed first his emotions were stronger. But it is damn near impossible to be together with someone you don’t actually love for 8 yrs.
3) He decides not to give Kangwoo a reason for their breakup after 8 year at first until Kangwoo consistently begged him. Then decided to emotionally torture him by making Kangwoo think he slept with someone else. Peak toxic
4) He constantly acts like he needs sympathy and is the most miserable person in the world but he didn’t even want to talk out his issues with his SO but instead chose to talk to friends and the guy who clearly has the hots for him.
5) he never really pushed Gyu-whatever away even when he was in a relationship (and even acknowledged this himself) because he’s a POS
6) he uses Gyu-whatever to drown his sorrows and constantly think about his ex while they are together physically which is not healthy
7) not two hot weeks it seems after breaking up, he thinks he’s already beginning to love Gyu-whatever? Dude that happen right after he almost had a panic attack after seeing Kangwoo? How shallow are his emotions??
I know someone is going to say “oh but he has mental health issues”. Yes. I agree he seems to maybe need some healing in that department but , and I cannot stress this enough: Mental health issues do not give you a free pass to treat others like shit. If you guys are around someone who is treating you the way Jeo treats Kangwoo, not accepting accountability for their own flaws and making things your fault: leave them. Your mental health is your own responsibility and theirs is their own. Don’t try to fix them, it will wear you out mentally. That is what therapy is for.
Sorry I know that was a lot but this character made me channel my inner English major.
Couldn’t have said it better
Clap. Clap. MOTHERFUCKING CLAP.
My only hope is that this story gets constant hype and updates all the way until it ends. It’s sooo good
This is such quality relationship development. We actually get to see these character mature together emotionally and damn I feel blessed. Took so long to find a quality smut
Not only is this blatant sexual abuse and absolutely disgusting but on top of a horrifying rape, this wealthy guy uses his connections to further oppress those who are desperate and poorer simply because he can. This is literally him screwing with the direction of people’s lives as they try to bette themselves through education but since he has the money, nothing will even affect him. It also pisses me off more to think that the author likely is going to try to redeem this character in some way like this POS deserves any sort of happy ending or happiness.
I will read in the HOPE that this shitty guy gets what’s coming to him.
I don’t understand the logic here really from Chanwoo. It’s not like he took the dom/sub gig with MD because he needed money, but because MD was totally his type and he wanted to bang. By that same logic, he starts dating this guy because he’s his type and he wants to bang (although he doesn’t know anything about this new guy). By Chanwoo’s logic, he should be cool dating MD because it’s not like he pursued MD wanting a strictly professional gig, he just wanted the sex.
I guess maybe he’s gotten a bit more attached to MD so he doesn’t want to jeopardize their current relationship with an emotional one, just in case they may breakup? Doesn’t seem like a good enough reason because MD clearly isn’t like the normal trash guys Chanwoo usually dates.
Chanwoo you sometimes confuse me.
No. No. I’m still holding out hope that the title is just trying to play with me and she ends up with the emperor from the OTHER nation.
Apparently he didn’t know about the assassin that was sent and he emit total ML vibes. I’m gonna have faith that in 2020 author are not still bent on giving up shitty MLs
1) why would you have a kid near a cliff and not hold his hand!??? I’m not blaming her but c’mon. Even if he ran away, they were too close to that cliff to begin with. The way my anxiety is set up, I can’t even stand to see little kids walk alone in parking lots without holding hands with an adult
2) DUDE HOW TF could you leave your weeping wife at the funeral alone. That was the moment of truth to support her.
3) I heard the excise but you had NO business hugging a naked woman. (Did he actually confirm whether he slept with her or not)
4) why would you take her parents word on her not wanting to see you when you know they don’t like you. You had 5 more years to seek her out and it took her coming back to you
BUT overall, I actually think this was a decent read so I’m pleasantly shocked
Omg yeaaaa, mostly the part where he was hugging the naked person, I mean y was she naked, I kinda get y he was but why was she, and the fact he didn’t clarify it right away when she mentioned it was like whattttttt (╬￣皿￣)凸 (︶︿︶)＝凸
they put the kid grave on a cliff they took the new kids near a cliff and let them run off on their own like really bitch (╬￣皿￣)凸
1) Yeah. When situations put me in questionable spots with my kids, if they weren't holding my hand, I was in between them and the danger. I know she was distracted by her anxious thoughts, but in a potential danger area, you leave the area or set your thoughts aside till you are safe... but sometimes you don't realize it's an issue till something wakes you up. Usually it's not a permanent lesson.
2) Agreed. No excuse. Statistically, the death of a child has a high chance of being a marriage wrecker, and his leaving only compounded the problem, but kinda amazed she wasn't in the hospital for quite awhile after the fall. Was there NO communication leading up to the funeral?
3) No, he didn't. He explained (if not clearly) he was was majorly drunk, his cousin threw him in a cold shower (and you see she got wet in the process), then in bed. Evidently she took off her soaking clothes before returning to tuck him in and he started crying and clinging until he fell asleep, but you think a sobbing guy would be kinda obvious.
4) I understand where he might give up FOR A TIME considering he thought she was in her room refusing to talk to him, but yeah. If he was SO in love with her, you think he would come back in a year or so to try again after she'd had some time to recover and step back into life.
But yeah. Despite the unrealistic confluence of incidents, I agree. There is just enough realism to the the emotions to make it a halfway decent story. I think Nikos can take a big part of the credit for stirring up those emotions.
I mean, he just seems like another guy who can’t stand to be told no by a girl he wants so he tries to wear her down until she accepts him. (Tbh this is my most disliked type of ML because it’s too close of a parallel to toxic guys I’ve encountered: guys that think women owe them affection just because they want her)
She rejected him multiple times with a solid reason, like not being able to get over her husband and he tells her that she’s just not able to get over a “childish first love”? Also him saying that her only remembering good things about her husband is unnatural, but I feel like if someone really lost their true love, it would be realistic to mostly remember the good over the bad in hindsight (also they were technically still in the honeymoon phase). Also dude, you’ve never been married or in love so how would you even know whether that’s normal or not? Like for 97% of the story he doesn’t know anything about her dead husband but he constantly tries to talk shit about a dead guy he doesn’t know a thing about just to have sex with a woman = trash personally.
He’s not the worst ML I’ve encountered in these stories by any means, but he constantly demeans this woman’s feelings just because he wants her to hurry up and get over her ex so he can f*** her. Like she DOESN’T OWE YOU ANYTHING. Then they tried to casually defame the character of the dead husband in a couple pages to somehow justify this toxic behavior by the ML. So if her husband had been a good guy which justified her being unable to move on, then we can agree that’s he toxic?
Um. No.
Totally agree with you. Toxic is the best adjective to describe this character. Blackmail, bribery, tons of unwanted gifts; I think that is called "Stalking," which is apparently perfectly alright, as long as the stalker is sexy and rich. For a one-night-stand playboy, he also has all of the endearing qualities of the incel.
My other grip is the brother. His attitude seems to be, "Sell yourself to this a**hole for my sake, since I completely f***ed up the finances of our company that I won't let anyone else touch." Having a sister myself, I think he should be thrown into a shark tank with a string of pork chops around his neck.
The other story for this is wayyy better. The story for the brother and his wife is 10/10. The brother is a great ML. This guy...somewhat lacking. He got better but towards the beginning I felt like he was feeding her insecurities with his words and reactions more than he was helping them. Props to the FL for hanging in there despite her trauma