genuine writers getting wrongly accused of using ai because of witch hunt and proper grammar/structure in their works must be what being a woman in the 1600s who is wrongly accused of being a witch because she can read and is intelligent feels like

oh the way chaeha flinches away from his abusive uncle when he's told to just take whatever is thrown at him versus the way he bites back when ju taeseon says the same thing to him in his own apartment... that's it that's the point of this dynamic in one dialogue. because chaeha is someone who has lived his whole life taking it. he takes his uncle's abuse, he takes society's fingerpointing, he takes his coworkers bullying him all with this sort of meek detachment. he doesn't care. he can't care, because if he cares it will break him. but with ju taeseon he wants. chaeha wants to be seen and respected by this man specifically, and that wanting turns into teeth and biting and it hurts and i don't deserve this. something he has never, ever vocalized to anyone else in his life. taeseon's "hatred" of chaeha, ironically, makes him more of a person. it gives him someone to feel at. the wanting brings chaeha back into his body. the wanting forces him to care.

and taeseon. ju why would someone like you respect someone like me taeseon. his hatred and anger towards chaeha is thinly veiled self-loathing; i want someone to suffer as i have suffered, i want someone to see me not as an efficient prosecutor but a child carrying decade(s) of grief and anger inside of me. he doesn't want to make the world fair, he wants its unfairness to swing his way for once. from victim to vengeance. he doesn't want to be the hero. he doesn't want to be looked at. he knows his reasons and he knows they're not quite noble. chaeha takes his trauma and pushes it down, down, until he can almost pretend it doesn't exist. taeseon puts it into everything he touches. into his personal life, his profession, into chaeha. he's almost childlike—i want you to feel. i want you to feel what i feel and the only way i can show you where it hurts is to claw at you. chaeha spends his whole life pretending his wounds have healed. taeseon pokes into the soft skin and shows him that it hasn't, again, and again, and again.