Spilt milk over mom's sorrow and all that but if she was THAT remoresful, how did she even have the guts to go thru the process of dating, lying, and marrying someone else who even had their own kid? It really erases a lot of possible empathy towards a similarly grieving person as much as it makes her remorse self-gratifying while dragging everyone else.
And I could argue that the author did well in using this 3rd pov for Shinwoo to be enlightened that he is also hurting ppl who loves him when he continues to "punish himself" with negative thoughts. Meaning "they have the same self gratifying destructive coping mechanism." However, he was the one abandoned...Shinwoo is the guy who holds on until they walk out of his life... but the mom never took initiative to go back, to actually punish herself by receiving Shinwoo's explicit hatred, to submit herself and apologize face to face. No! She just unironically comforts her guilt by shutting other people, neither confronting her past nor appreciating her present.
Reread: i was too indulgent. The woman literally had everyone suffer, or at least triggered their suffering, just coz she was suffering.
She hated ppl finding their happiness just because she couldnt...and the men had their emotions tragically played. Main couple was saved when the girl left, but now... the other guy has to suck it up as he lost both
Fck. NONE of her revenge was justified coz she retaliated to the wrong people and then she has the nerve to think she'd regret leaving the family who cornered her all the while ruining one life and almost ruining two more. -- and ig that makes a typical villain, it just doesnt feel good knowing she doesnt feel regretful at all, those tears were just her pathetic feelings clutching at mr. Yoon whom she shackled to be miserable with her.
Mr. Yoon wasnt strong enough and now he's literally tied to her... and the misunderstandings, jesus christ, i was really immersed in the drama the first time lmao. I still liked the dialogues but a lot of the pain were too intensified and unnecessary. If it wasnt for the two female coworkers, i'd think the author is like the typical bl writer who makes women a nuisance or utterly bitter.
I mean, the moment he goes on removing his mask out of self confidence is already a lapse of judgment but even his bias for humans is so funny. How big of a hubris do you have to spare a general who uses his men as bait and talks about dinner as his army dies? Listen to the damn dwarf who got conned by that shit. Even the wotch knew to kill the hero! And u call yourself a genius strategist, have some tact to know who to save. Like the ruler of the city they wanna trade with talks about "demons are demons" as if humans aren't any less, or rather, even MORE devious and cunning. Like ma'am, you've got HUMAN pirates coming at you and you draw the line with "demons"?
Sure, im just stopping at 17 and could be missing more of its substance. But with an FL so warped in her fears and supposed affections, it's so draining to read her perspective. It could be the execution because Ive read a number of MCs with similar fears but the author highlights her cowardice TOO MUCH. I'm at a point where I could almost root for the "goddess" who knows what she wants and go for it, and ive only seen her twice. This story basically reminds me that roles exists because some characters can't handle being anything else and the author washes her out to be exactly like the common cannon fodders. Right now, her status is solely because he latched on a "scent" and has been obsessed to claim it to himself, hence he has deeper emotions for her as she constantly show hesitation and runs away from him. 17 chapters, there should at least be some more concreteness to his attachment but because the author is SOOOO focused on her fears, it's so draining and monotone.
I dont even understand anymore whether our MC wants to be with his lover or uselessly cover about the latter's reputation when he already knows that no matter if they are indeed together or not, these fools will STILL make it difficult for them. Like he tells his lover to maximize what he already has but he himself go round and round with this dirty politics that brings nothing but useless antagonist highlights coz these lovers still serve them with "excuses to threat them".










Why does she have to be... pathetic? Like great set up of skills until its:
1. Flustered by her white lotus friend (or naive idk, her tactlessness is vomit inducing) wanting to date their mutual guy friend (who doesnt even remember a gift he gave, unless plottwist it was another guy)
2. A useless dad and younger brother...sure, let's add some bleak household to the stack of dreariness
3. Come...dy? Meh.
I really liked the premise but i dont find myself wanting latch myself into it esp when she isn't so daring herself. No contrast