@mrbakanstar I think it's a combination of three big things. First, the MC is a naturally kind and forgiving character and thus it makes sense that he would forgive his mother, though I think that's unrealistic. Second, his mother has died while he's still young so he never got to have proper emotional closure with his own mother and has likely done little to no actual work dealing with his grief causing conflicting and confusing feelings to cloud his objective judgment. Third, I think Japanese culture plays a particularly large part of the authors characterization of the MC. It's not the most complex personality and Japan has a large importance on not just respecting elders but also respecting parents regardless of if they're good parents or not. I think this actually informs the developement of the MC and side characters developement, actions, and personalities than anything else, which can be hard for me to tolerate as a child of abuse myself. MC's mom real s*t neglected the f*k out of him and should not have had custody of her own child, but the manwha brushes it off regularly by saying "if you want to be the best then you have to sacrifice something for it" which is patently untrue, because the author doesn't want the MC's mother to be portrayed as the awful person she is for sacrificing her child for fame.