Now for the Choi Jeong Ho, I would say he is the only one who is actually a victim. Although I didn't like the…
I am sorry, but this thinking is just horrifying. She manipulated the boss into rescuing her(sensing that he was a good person), and let him go to prison for the crime of saving her. It’s ok for her to destroy everyone in her path in order for her to climb to the top??? She blithely said it was the boss’s decision, and she did not feel sorry for him. She is disgraceful and conniving.
This is not a complex character. She is just a person who had a terrible upbringing, and uses her unfortunate childhood as a tool to justify her sociopathic tendancies. It’s always “you made me this way”, “I was abused as a child”. The narrative is not complex --this character always triumphs; there is no moral dilemma or conflict of conscience within her. That’s not complex, that’s a sociopath.
In her life, she always wanted mother love. This love was given by in Gang's grandmother, there's a hope in that…
There are not two conflicting versions of Ahjin; the only version we see is that of a textbook sociopath: someone who cheats and hurts others without an iota of compunction. She has never once exhibited a conflict of conscience or moral struggle as she destroyed everyone on her methodical path to the top.