episode 7 | The Worst of Evil (2023) episode 3 | The Manipulated (2025)

if i had a nickle for every time one of jcw's characters provoked a bully into beating his ass to suit his own agenda, I'd have two nickles, but it's funny that it happened twice.

every time Taejoong crafts some kind of tool or weapon for his revenge with his big brain and skilled hands he gets 10x hotter

i mean seriously, my man's got both the brains and the brawn (and the looks). So far between ep 2-10 he has:

  1. Improved his hand-to-hand combat skills in order to fight back against his abusers;
  2. Plotted a prison escape using keen observational and organizational skills that allowed him to walk right out the front door (only failing because he was given literal rat poison w/o his knowledge)
  3. Copied the necessary keys for said prison escape using gardening foam and welding skills he learned during his incarceration;
  4. Out-smarted Yohan's racing game by doing a bait-and-switch with his car and the motorbike;
  5. Reinforced his car to survive until the switch was made obvious, again using the welding and automechanic skills he acquired in prison;
  6. Escaped the island and destroyed Yohan's racetrack all while being pursued by every other prisoner and shot at by Yohan;
  7. Created his own surveillence system to track Yohan's employees while they tried to frame another innocent person;
  8. Stole the cell phone needed for Yohan's next frame-up, thereby forcing Yohan to abandon his original plan and come up with something new at the last minute;
  9. Modified a nail gun and turned it into a dangerous weapon to use against his enemies;
  10. Jumped his motorcycle onto the literal wall of a highway tunnel and then leapt from the motorycycle into the rear of a moving van - surviving it all in order to stop Dokyung from escaping

The question is not what will he do next in order to continue pursuing Yohan and get his revenge, but HOW will he do it? And the answer is probably in such a clever and intelligent way that no one else has ever thought of it before💥

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