Comment by Cmr on Wet Sand - Chapter 97

@Cmr guyss chill 😭😭 too many hate emoji

@Cmr Ppl don't read this story properly, don't care about Ian's mental state or what he deserves istg and it's so sad. If this weren't a recovery story, Ian choosing his abuser might still be more reasonable, but the message here is simply "sc*** recovery and return to your toxic roots." lmaoo😭😭 The 'se**' mafia boss who broke the main character's legs so he wouldn't leave him just bc he wanted to follow his dream, threw him in jail and tied him to debt, gave him guilt-tripping and an inferiority complex, and never experienced a redemption arc, was chosen instead of the one who first taught the main character what hope for futureis, yay!! I wonder if the fans who defend TJ by saying "but theirs is real love" also encourage on their homegirls when they want to get back together with their exes?

@luvformery TJ is not an abuser. He never told the two guys to break Ian's legs. He told them to stall Ian at the bar and Ian was drunk and fought with the guys and jumped from the balcony and hurt his ankle that way. Tj joined the gang to be with yw, and then he wanted to become strong and powerful in the gang to protect YW from getting raped, tortured, drugged up by the likes of David Kim. Tj killed Mr. Jang to protect YW. Tj didn't through YW in jail, the law did bc he murdered in self defense, but the witness across the hall saw YW drag the gang member back in his house when he was trying to escape which throws away the self defense angle in court. So YW had to go go jail bc the prosecutors and judges decided that not TJ, bc they still live in a world with laws that have to be abided by or you go to jail, like bffr. Tj left YW after Jason's funeral to protect YW, so he wouldn't get involved in gang affairs, bc TJ thought that's what YW wanted and during that time he was under TJs protection from the sidelines. The time TJ was gone and Ian had his situationship with Jo, he couldn't stop thinking about TJ, longing for him, yearning for him bc he's been in love with him for 19 years.

If you want to talk about abusers and predators, legally, Jo raped ian. After consensual s**, Ian passed out and jo kept having s** with him, came on his face, and then cleaned him up, which in court proves he knew he was unconscious. This is ra**. Cleaning him up doesn’t change that, having had consent before Ian went unconscious doesn't change that. When a person is unconscious and you have s** with them, that's ra**, and that makes you a rapist. So yes, Jo is a rapist. It's a good thing Ian doesn't know bc he is a ra** survivor and this would further traumatize him. Also, Jo is also an abuser bc he strangled Ian when he was mad at him, and then called him broken, and sl** shamed Ian. Jo is an abuser, rapist and predator. Meanwhile TJ saved yw from David Kim, he was the only one who stayed by his side, esp in that deep homophobic gang environment , he helped YW get off drugs and stay off drugs, he protected him by becoming powerful so no one would ever hurt YW again, and he has always been there for him and loved him deeply just like YW loves TJ deeply. They are both in love with each other deeply and have been for 19 years. They are each others true loves and soulmate and want to be together forever, till death does them part and then to lie next to each other eternally.

@Ally Jane Don't twist the story for your own desires??😭😭 Yeah, it was true that he didn't tell them to "break his legs," directly but his intentions was still keep Ian by his side so he couldn't go to racing sponsor so he told them to beat him up and guess what? Ian couldn't make it. And through the story we even saw Ian's leg problems.

And about the joining the gang; even Tj himself said he always desired power and that's important detail for his character. He was an orphan, alone, weak so he wanted to climb in the top(I don't even mention the reason Tj is orphan contected to Ian so that's why Ian felt guilty, responsible towards him,) and that's okay, humans are selfish him being selfish and wanted to be powerful made him complex. But NOT things he did to Ian. Ian still believe Tj got messed up gang affairs bc of him bc how Tj came to rescue him by chance and even use knife instead of gun so he could get a scar and guilt-trip Ian more, he, himself said these things, not me.

And let's not forget how he treated Ian when he was in the gang(since you insiisting he did this to protect Ian from drugs or selling his body,) Ian, who got in the gang bc of Tj was had to see Tj flirting, sleeping with girls since that's what made gangsters powerful, he became increasingly isolated and was almost relapsing into his drug use and sleeping with others habits.

Regarding the prison issue, we saw scene of Ian was beaten up and begging to leave the organization, and even though they said they could easily drop the case against Ian with bail, TJ throws him in jail and ties him to debt (Ian was still trying to pay off this debt in the early episodes) so that Ian won't leave him and the gang. So there's no nonsense about TJ wanting to protect him, lmaoo. If he valued Ian so much, he would have set him free after he got out of jail. All of this I'm saying comes from TJ's mouth, nothing more, nothing less. He even admits after these flashbacks that he did it out of selfishness, not to protect Ian, saying, "I kept you around longer than I should have, now I'm setting you free," but that redemption arc didn't even last long and you're still infantilizing him. Ian will never be able to prioritize himself as long as he's with TJ, accept that.