Guys I don't like wookyoung, neither am I trying to justify what he did, but last night I was rereading this and I feel wookyoung has changed a lot, I noticed the shift from the wine incident, he slowly realises that he is in love with him, and he can't see him in pain and he tells Minho that he loves him, while in the initial chapters when Minho asks him why are doing this, does he expect Minho to love him, wookyoung laughs at that,, again after the gangrape incident all of us expected him to torture Minho, because that's what we would have done, but he has changed and instead begged Minho to look at him, which is very ooc for the wookyoung of the first chapter, also I think a lot of his character development is lost in the translation,, again not making any excuses for him, but he has changed a lot, again in this chapter the translations made it feel like he was verbally abusing Minho, but he was actually just frustrated that Minho would go so far as to kill himself, and that's the reason he is ready to leave him
Comment by Satosugu on Sadistic Beauty BL Sidestory - Chapter 36
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Which is why good translations are so important. Bad translations can completely tell the story in a different way, especially when it comes to character development.
Also, I forgot to put out that when Minho wanted to have s**, Wookyoung was taken back a bit instead of going in like a rabid dog like he normally would in the beginning.
I mean yes that was him in the beginning...but in the end, it was going nowhere, and decided to let him go. That's why he said to get out of his house. He rather loses the person he ends up loving than see the person he loves die. That is the beauty of the story...and I think when Minho thanked him for saving him...I think it was both metaphorically and literally.
I did say that this comment wasn't made to justify his actions, but just to point out that his character has undergone a massive shift, he is still obnoxious but not as bad as he was in the beginning,, like at the start he was truly a sad***, then he became an obsessive lover and in this chapter he has overcome that obsession as well, so I just pointed it out
You got a point, however Wookyung could have got closer to Minho in other ways rather than kidnap, abuse etc
Yes he could have approached him like a normal person, but instead toyed with him, another thing this story is definitely an improvement over the previous story, his sadism is waning now but Doona was a bi*** throughout the story
Finally some people who are nutral. Like seriously the translator translated these parts in such a way that the readers would read the manga from their (translator's)-perspective. But if I'm being honest here I actually don't want minhwo to go back to wookyung instead I really want wookyung to ask minhwo for a second chance say that he is truly sorry agreeing the fact that even apologizing would never be enough but still to give him a final chace to repent for the crimes that he committed. A chance to repent in a way that minhwo wants him to not a repentance from his(wookyung's) perspective. Now weather Minhwo wants to stay with him or not us his choice, no matter want feelings can't exactly be logical;never! Weather they end up together or move on separately as per Minhwo's say I'll be happy as long as it ends with wookyung agreeing his mistakes and Minhwo getting what he wants. And ofc a good translator translating the stories.