Jae Chan past lifetime wasn't a bad person at all. At the ending we will see point of view from woojin past lifetime. Actually woojin loves Jae Chan. But they misunderstood each other. Woojin thought Jae Chan hates him. Jae chan thought woojin hates him. Later Jae Chan death became the catalyst which woojin reverse back time just to bring back his love (Jae Chan) to life but woojin himself suffer collective amnesia which he doesn't remember the 1st timeline.

Just like how he still thinks he can use his body like he did in the first life. It was quite pathetic for me since he thinks he is capable but then resort in using his body to climb up like he did in the first life but of course didn't continue in the second life because the ML was more present. He was promiscuous and slept around anyone who looks like woojin while hindering any chance of woojin having his own. That would have been okay but he acts like some type of pure beach regarding ML in the 2nd life.

I don't find him lovable or excusable. It's not that he was better he just didn't do his underhanded method to get ML's attention this time around. What he is doing in the second life is just what a decent human being should be doing given the information he holds having lived the life once. I don't understand why author's make characters like this and then give them whatever reason to make them pitiful like they had been miserable than others to justify their actions. No reason can be use as justification specially when you know there could have been other solution than his decided decision. I just don't like him and the ML here seems more like a cannon fodder than anyone else. They could have just made this no CP.

MC could hide from the kidnapper because he had an esper ability to make him invisible. But I thiught he was just good at hiding until a few paragraphs later its explained that he has an ability.

Being from a family with strong Esper tradition, when he turned out to be a Guide, they basically considered him tr*sh. His older brother treated him as his plaything and got off on mentally manipulating him (literally, with mind powers) and both verbally and physically abusing him into forced guiding. His father considers guides something below him and would cover up everything for the brother while MC keeps working hard hoping for some recognition from his family he never gets.

We learn that MC in his first life has later on actually been going to a therapist/counselling/trainer to be able to get better. It even makes sense he was previously obsessed with ML since he was like the bright sun in his shitty life. So it's honestly understandable he couldn't be some happy go lucky saintly selfless person (which his how he views the supposed love interest of ML from previous life, really puts her on pedestal and constantly compares them to call himself unworthy). He trusted wrong people and did various things because he thought he would never have any chance with ML otherwise, ironically that pulling them further apart.

actual sex? As so far MC is avoiding it - I was astounded that while he has slept with many in his previous life and seemed planning to do so after rebirth to get backers, everything he did was in fact non-penetrative. With how toxic and power-focused the guideverse is it surprised me he was actually able to find partners willing to respect that.

(though by that point in this timeline, he's such a yandere for MC that you already know there's just no way he truly hated him originally, and it's not as surprising as it might've been earlier in the story.)

And, ok I lied... I wasn't just crying a bit... when he wished to not remember anything as he turned back time because his life felt empty and dull for all those years after Jaechan died... full-on bawling. ^^;

They were never really dating and there were reasons he had to pretend they were. (And they are actually related.)

[thinking of you angel]

skills as an Esper.

it was basically a bit fantastical and insane that the CEO's wife wanted to bomb this whole island and basically got away with it and other multiple insane things because she was in some kind of absurd power struggle with the CEO of the big pharma company.

Second, it was also insane and fantastical that despite knowing all those crimes, it was basically implied in the story that there was no point prosecuting her under the law and her husband could keep her in check through basically house arrest.

Furthermore, her husband is also a P.O.S. (piece of shit) who also funded a ton of human experimentation and child ab*se and whatever else, in CONJUNCTION, with a literal president/leader of the country also funding for terrorist groups and bombing/attacking his own people...???

Now, if this plot took place in like, medieval times with an Emperor of Korea, or something, okay maybe that passes. But I mean honestly... a bit unbelievable that none of these things got exposed earlier.

Espeically that story with the ML losing his eye bc of terrorist threats. I couldn't help but think of Batman/Arkham and comic books. It felt that the author wanted to emulate that genre... but it really broke immersion.

Furthermore, some of the characters on the side of the "good guys" knew this for years and didn't do much about it.???

At the end of the story, you find out that in the first life, the ML only destroyed his father politically and took over because he was so distraught/sad after he lost his love... I would have loved if other things factored into his decision to overthrow rich and powerful criminals, but it was clearly written by the author to make it seem like he only destroyed his enemies as revenge for losing his first love/crush rather than the B.S. those leaders put the country through.

In the rebirth life, at the end of the novel, the MC/ML also clearly know that the CEO, the CEO's wife, and the president are all pieces of shit, but basically, 2 of the 3 are still jumping around. And the only one who got publicly persecuted (the president) was bc his daughter decided to step in (unrelated to the MC/ML).

This kind of apathy was really odd seeing as MC tried so hard to save more ppl on his rebirth.