AlMa

No matter how hard they try to make viewers sympathize with Lhong, I'll never sympathize with him. With proper character development he could be redeemed from lying to Tharn's boyfriends about him cheating on them or from spilling the tea about his ex-boyfriends to Type and making him jealous. But setting up a rape on a high school kid (or generally on anyone for that matter), is not something any amount of traumatizing past or character development could ever redeem/excuse. Nor is blackmailing the kid with the video of the rape. He's just utterly gross. That would make him a perfect villain if they didn't try to force viewers to sympathize with him. It made me so mad, that in the scene when he talks with his sister and says he should just die (or something in those lines, I don't remember how exactly he worded it) I was like: "Yeah, you should. Please, go ahead". That's a reaction I've never had to any other villain ever.

Exactly. The show was easily 10/10 for me until the last episode or two. So many things unexplained and conversations they should've had but didn't and instead we get some pointless fairytale scenes and it's dragged out to its maximum. And the cameo with the real author... I get what they were trying to do, but no, you should never end a story by telling your viewers that it's all just imagination. It's the same as ending a story by main character waking up and realizing it was all a dream: so all the stakes were fake and all the emotions viewers went through were pointless. It's cheating your viewers