this entitled piece of trash just won't quit beating the same tired old drum. if you want to live with him so badly go be reborn as a decent person in your next life
in what ways are people acting like he's real? it's part of fan/reader culture to over-exaggeratedly extoll the main characters' virtues for comedic purposes, but I haven't really seen anyone take it further than that.
Videl Campbell: alot people that read this mahwa need stop actling like he real lmao it becoming borderline creep...
maybe we're desperate for her to have some agency and finally DO something major to move the plot and that's why we were happy even with that anticlimactic (and slightly pathetic) reply
To be frank, you ain't missing much. His only narrative role is to carry out the toxic obsessive romance the author had in mind and nothing else, so he is mostly shown to be motivated by nothing other than selfishness. From what I remember,
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after they get married he takes the opportunity to indulge in his lust whenever he wants, no matter how reluctantly she accedes to it (and, in multiple situations, even despite her saying she's not in the mood). The FL is stuck in this quagmire of a relationship where, haunted by a lifetime of the people who're supposed to care for her exploiting her, believes that she's "in love" with him for the second time. I can't blame her though. Once in a while, he throws her a crumb of what could be reasonably misconstrued as affection: taking her on a date or two, and also...and... oh, wait—yeah, that's about it. Lol
Notably, other than her maid, the only other person she meaningfully interacts with is the ML, and this is by his design. He controls and monitors where she goes and why, who she meets, and has the power to keep her under house arrest and deny her visitors (which he did do at one point). Even with all those oppressive measures, he misundertood that she's in love with someone else and thought she was planning to be with this illusive imaginary man after their contractual marriage period ended; his solution to that was to replace her contraceptives with dud pills and baby trap her. Now, unbeknowngst to him, she was planning to conceive that same coincidental day anyway to guarantee she'll get her son back, but the motive and act itself was so evil I genuinely never got over it.
eivicidiiefyi: @bibliophage could u give me some spoilers
i know i don't have it in me to be a sub bc if a man told me to sit on his lap and get spanked i'd have to cut off his d*k and balls with my favourite victorinox chef's knife. soohyeon seems really into it though so all power to him
I hate "interventions" like this. It comes off as so patronising and doesn't help anybody. The person with the trauma was the one shaped and changed by it, so don't you think he's already reminded himself a million times to be on guard? A simple, "hey i'm worried about you, please make sure to stay sharp even if he seems like a good guy, and I'll be here if you want to talk" would have sufficed.
is it just me or did the first scene between Prinz and the Third Prince give off weirdly homoerotic vibes? all I've been reading these past few days is BL and my wires must have crossed somewhere
I'm not sure why people have such trouble seeing why this hit Mincheol so hard. It was very clear the whole time leading up to his accident that he was already burning himself out, and as if that wasn't enough Haneul wasn't even at his school to cheer him up. Since he's not as sociable this left him completely alone, at a time where he was already self-deprecatingly ruminating. He clung to baseball hoping it would give him confidence to stand beside Haneul but in the end all his efforts and pain were for nothing. That's already devastating, let along the rehabilitation for the injury, and Haneul falling off the stairs and being hospitalised was just the cherry on a very stacked depression cake.
there's forbidden romance stories that immerse you so deeply that you understand why the characters are helplessly trapped in each other's toxic orbit but on G** i've never gotten that from these two together bc the ML makes me want to tear all my hair off.
even while they were kissing this was my face the entire time:
brutal truth #4: in real life, chatgpt will not be puppeteered by the author's narrative intentions, so there is high chance that it will not tell you what you actually need to hear. there's also the fact that, in the process, you'd be handing over highly sensitive information to a tech company with little to no incentive to protect it.
the way they have zero chemistry in real life kills me not even a single pleasant conversation or the occasional fun banter to bond over, just awkward dinners and chae yoojeong deceiving the MC (and for no discernible reason either)
