#which should be eye opening that they chose to protray him as a villain here

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Gosh Song Han is so scary because he could be a real person. His evilness is basically domestic abuse to Ansu. While you rarely meet Shougu's 5th uncle or Prince Qing in real life, you definitely can meet a Song Han. A guy who acts like he's a victim, that everyone in the world is against him. Who silently pushes your friends and family away from you, isolating you to only depend on him. (In Song Han's case, I believe he 💀 Ansu's brother) Making you doubt your other relationships, sometimes even your own perception of things.

Like, from Ansu's POV, he's this unfortunate guy who's been kind to her, he's never been cruel to her, except those 2 times which he explains as him not being able to control himself, which you know, should have been a 🚩, but we'll leave it first. She sees herself as his only defender against the world. The only one who believes in him. While all this time, he's been using her.

One more point, I think the reason Ansu doesn't see that his behaviors are red flags, is because of her family and how they treated her. We can see from this episode that while she works hard on their business, her parents still see that she's a woman and no matter how hard she works, the business will belong to her brother only because he's a man. They don't value her. Because of this, she starts looking for love from somewhere else, aka Han. The way he treats her makes her feel important, needed, valued, wanted, all the things she lacks from her family. We also have to remember that she doesn't know the whole story like us and Shougu/Song Mo.