@lol 3. I don’t “make it sound” like anything. But by your own admission, Haegu has indeed raised her in a psychologically unhealthy environment. Her intentions are irrelevant. The objective reality is that Mian was kidnapped by the woman who murdered her parent in front of her, then raised in a household where she is constantly subjected to and surrounded by the aftermath of murder, and is in fact actively encouraged to immerse herself in the infliction of violence. To compound this (and I presume no psychiatric intervention whatsoever to deal with the previous), there is no way for her to repair any kind of normal attachment because she’s enmeshed in a forced deception of the outside world, whilst said murderer (and now guardian) also spends the rest of her childhood saying her job is to grow up and take revenge by killing her. There is no earthly reality where this string of events would not be traumatic and formative, even if Haegu had the most angelic intentions (which she didn’t). I assume for now that Haegu making Mian an instrument of her own self-loathing was out of guilt for inflicting the same suffering she experienced as child, but it was a selfish choice in the end, regardless of the reason. She at least could’ve not killed the man in front of her. She could have placed Mian in state care, failing that. She did not take any of the other kids she rescued, mind you. So if her top priority were actually Mian growing up into a functional, adjusted adult, then the story would never have happened.