Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint - Chapter 123

Is it just me or does Yoo Sangah-ssi suck major ass, I want the plagiarist girl to end up with the mc

I’m finding it completely plausible that his mother was also the author of ‘ways to survive’. (a) writing about the physical and pyschological horrors of surviving a chronic dv situation could be akin (~somewhat) to writing about the horrors of surviving an invasion/apocalyse; (b) if we were to assume she wrote her memoir of being a spouse murderer in order to raise money to support her and her son after the fact, then perhaps she wrote of being paid coin in recompense for horrible acts in ‘ways to survive’ as a way to explain to her son why she had to write her best-selling memoir and air their dirty laundry for public viewing.

The primary discordant note here is that, from my own experience, my own mother’s memory of such past events were markedly suppressed compared to my own. She remembered the beatings as occuring maybe 2 or 3 times a month, whereas my own memories of those events as a child were of them occuring 2 or 3 times a week. A counseller once told me that since we remembered the violence from different perspectives our perception of the frequency and severity of said events were different. I had the PoV of a child watching their mother/protector being basically tortured, so the events were magnified. My mother had the PoV of a parent & spouse trying to keep her marriage together, so the occurences in her mind were diminished, so that she could bear through the ordeal she had to live.

So, to my mind, to have a mother who not only publishes a memoir, but, to her child’s eye, does so in a manner which embellishes the violence (in comparison to the child’s memory – which is the impression I get from what the MC says) is weird.

But then, the MC’s mother didn’t choose to continue to bear through dv – she decided her spouse was irredeemable, and so, ended him. So maybe what I feel as being a discordant note in the story is not so discordant at all.

It seems some readers have misconstrued the MC’s reaction to his mother. From what I read, his anger comes from her having wrote the memoir, not from having committed the murder. He seems to be ok with the dead dad aspect.