Comment by Anon on Stranger Than Friends - Chapter 99

Following up my previous comment, Sihyeon's father was definitely the reason why Sihyeon's the way he is now. You don't make a child watch adult activities, much less watch as you're having an örgy, then fix your eyes on the child of a lady who thought you were in love with her? That isn't just abuse, that should be a jail sentence. 

It's a case of Sihyeon resenting his father for the way he was, only to do those behaviors himself. He may hate his father, but they're one in the same. Yes, his father traumatized and abused him, and now Sihyeon's taking that trauma and putting it on others. It's incredibly unfortunate, and it does make me feel awful (no one should have to grow up that way), but he's still got plenty he's responsible for. He knows he's hurting Dajeong, he knows his lüsting for Yi-Hyeok is inappropriate, he's well aware that what he's doing is very wrong, but he refuses to stop and had no remorse. Like I said last chapter, Dajeong needs somebody to intervene, but I don't know if he's got that support. The longer this goes, the less he'll be able to break free from it, and that's just a painful truth. 

This is sort of like Killing Stalking, in that this isn't romance, but a horror story that just so happens to have homoerotic scenes. This isn't red flag, this is black flag. Just because he's pretty does not mean you'd want him irl, because you've got a pretty good chance becoming Dajeong.

That being said, this is some very compelling writing. It's twisted the meaning of the title to take up a different meaning, where the first story (and second to a degree) leaned into their pre established friendships, but this one leans more into the fact that they're basically strangers who've crossed paths again after years. The author was building up to this being a story in the first one, so I can appreciate they put work into telling this.