Comment by Psychologist on Stranger Than Friends - Chapter 97

Comment on ChapterStranger Than Friends - Chapter 97
Psychologist
Psychologist ·1 year ago
Ch. 97
The author made the mind of this bas**** (the boss) so twisted that I had a mixture of frustration and anxiety while reading. But more or less I'm beginning to understand what's going on in that shit**** of his, at least I think...
I am sure that the boss is not infatuated with or romantically interested in Hyeok, but has only been sexually attracted to him for a long time, in fact: if you are attracted to a person and you are aware that the latter you can never have, or you plan to have, it is logically natural that you become totally obsessed with it (if you are predisposed to this kind of behavior). Because this person becomes the idealization of your object of desire, but not affective, but the one in which you simply enclose all your sexual fantasies and desires. It is no accident that the Boss says that Hyeok depicts his type, but it ends there, he cannot go any further (Affectively or romantically). In fact, he in this chapter wants Hyeok to take Dajeong's place so that he can use him as such an object and then throw him away. So apparently there is something with Dajeong that bothers him and that he does not consider "fun," that is, a feeling within himself that he does not understand. In my opinion, it is as if he cannot regard Dajeong as a mere object as he would with Hyeok, despite the fact that the boss is using the former as a substitute for the latter (but in my opinion, such behavior he adopted only to hurt Dajeong and enjoy his suffering). Most likely, within himself the Boss harbors some sort of affection for Dojeong and is therefore annoyed or frustrated by it because in this way he cannot or he feels some sort of displeasure in treating Dojeong as a mere object to be thrown away once he is fed up with it. He wants to make it suffer, enjoy him suffering, use him, but not to the point of throwing him away in the future (!?)

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@Psychologist  i think you're right. And I think the author will use that as a way to have them end up together, which i hate. Whether the boss holds affection towards DJ or not, what he's doing is unforgivable (imo).
Psychologist
Psychologist ·1 year ago
@Lybellulla Look, I was quite interested in this side story because I like to read works that tell about toxic relationships and the power dynamics between the protagonists. I come from Sadistic Beauty (BL), Jinx and others. But I didn't think this story would get so twisted and frustrating that I would hate this much the Boss, although I still interested about his so twisted and shi*** mind and how he will behave or think in the future, but really I'm so fuc**** annoyed with him that I would never want him to end up together with Dajeon (who is just naive, innocent and suffers from abandonment syndrome). Dajeon needs to give him the heave-ho and tell him to fu** off forever.
@Psychologist  read the next two chaps I'm telling you it's more than his obsession with heuk. He's fuc**** mental that's what he is. I don't wanna spoil much but I read two chaps ahead on yaoitoon, they have bad translation thou but you'll understand wth is going on