nah I don’t like her. It is MCs and his family decision to forgive her, and quite fits their character I guess, but as a third party, I would have liked to see MC from now on completely disregarding her and giving her no chance to return to her mother role (such as caring for big northern partner and smiling as if knowing who he likes or that when they were young they sometimes saw ML outside of their house guessing he was interested in one of them). Yes I agree to another reviewer, it would be a little bit more calming, if the mother really decided to push MC to do that, believing that ML would protect him and all. BUT nevertheless, it was still wrong of her. Okay, she may have mental problems now, but yeah... still wrong.
It was kind of revealed that MCs father did treasons because he really had no power against the one who blackmailed him, and would only end up destroying his wives reputation, and so went to prison and told her to not tell anyone. But with how crazy she became to protect her husband, did she really have to push her child into the limelight like that??? Like yeah, I also don’t want to force her to publicize her traumatizing expectations along with ruining her reputation probs, but was really her only second option to use her children as a bargaining chip??? Anyways, I’d not forgive, but I guess I can understand, since MCs character is more forgiving. My precious baby needs to loved more by alllllll

That scene where he cried in the utility room after MC left was so heartbreaking, but I loved it, because you could really see that he cared.

Some dubcon aside, at first it seems that the ml's this all-powerful petty guy getting revenge on MC, but MC didn't even remember who he was. Lol. He turned out to be more immature and clueless about his feelings than malicious.

The mc's character felt breezy, fresh. Nothing to complain about. He has his own life outside of his family and ML and he works for his aspirations. He's forgiving and loving which, err, usually not my thing, but it works out because he's not completely spineless. I like that even he had moments of frustrations with his mother, although he had chosen to forgive her in the end. (Sidenote: It's nice that they gave a reason for his mother's crazy antics. Not a fan of her, but I sympathize with what happened and a part of me likes to think that she knew ML wouldn't treat MC badly anyway.)

My only complaint is I demand an apology from ml's father, that other father, and the media companies for their malicious speculation and mistreatment of MC. But maybe I'm just too petty heh.