or, and here me out, the MC isnt a psychopath and has no desire to cause the deaths of countless people he fought all those years to protect to get revenge. im sure theres tons of chinese manwha you can read thats more your speed where the MC is an immoral fuck who slaughters entire clans of innocent people because some lower member said a mean word to the MC.
This. He literally outright
said he wanted revenge.. which seemed to somehow elude a lot of people here who are acting like he's some insufferably-soft MC spouting idealistic bullshit about forgiveness.
Don't get me wrong, I love me a good revenge story even if it's somewhat revenge porn.. but in my book the only acceptable kind of revenge is the kind that:
1. Isn't complete overkill or a revenge act utterly disproportionate in comparison to the motivating wrongdoing
2. Truly cuts deep and makes the target of said revenge genuinely
suffer for their crime(s)
3. Doesn't intentionally involve collateral damage and/or harm to innocent people—only way this possibly understandable or acceptable is if there's additionally a motivation to do greater good and not just revenge.
MC would've surely had to violate the third condition I listed—maybe even to the point of slaughtering his own former comrades—in order to be allowed to walk away.. should he have given into his rage and physically retaliated against that mall Santa-ass king and his bitch of a daughter.
Remember:
True & morally-acceptable revenge is NOT for the
weak incapable. Maybe not even for the moderately-capable. Usually, these are conditions that are absurdly hard to truly meet in a lot of circumstances and typically would require some serious plot armor for a happy ending with absolutely no negatives.