Aside from the rape (which Yuta started first), I still fail to see exactly what Seunghyun did wrong here. He's not the one who sold Yuta into prostitution. He only met him in the golden pavilion and was supposed to sleep with him but decided to become his friend instead. Yuta was the one who caught feelings and got all weird about it because of his own internalized homophobia. After the separation, Seunghyun sent someone to look for Yuta but got tricked, he didn't knowingly abandon him.
Yuta returns 10 years later and goes on this childish tirade, trying to "annoy" Seunghyun but only ends up making himself miserable instead of just coming clean about everything that happened to him and getting some much needed answers from Seunghyun.
Yuta felt like he was abandoned and has EVERY right to feel angry about it but it doesn't justify anything he's done. He's the one who overestimated his relationship with Seunghyun, they were not dating or married but he had these high expectations, despite knowing the kind of person Seunghyun was.
Yuta getting involved with the Kujo family and being repeatedly raped by Tetsu might have been unavoidable to some extent but it's still not Seunghyun's fault that any of that happened.
Seunghyun's only issue was his internalized homophobia in the beginning and he fact that was trying to degrade and humiliate Yuta for having feelings for him but aside from that, he hasn't done anything wrong.
Let's all face is, Yuta is the crazy one here. He has A LOT of issues. He's been through hell but it's really no excuse for his behavior and how he keeps trying to complicate things for the sake of attention.
If she should be trying to get revenge on anyone, it's the family that sold him, Seunghyun's organization and the Kujos.
What I find most annoying is the fact that he tried to force Seunghyun to kill him. Imagine trying to get revenge on someone by putting your death on their conscience, knowing full well that they love you and have endured a lot of your bullshit. That's the most selfish and insensitive ever.
Yuta probably only thinks he wants to die because once they remove the fragments, he becomes well again and has to think of everything he's done, he'll realize he was wrong and there was no justification for his behavior.
Cause how can you confidently say that a complete stranger you met and knew for a couple of months not turning the world upside down to search for you after you got separated is a good enough reason to cause so much chaos? You and I know it's not normal behavior.
Even parents abandon their own kids, husbands divorce and cut contact with their wives when they become terminally ill, lifelong friends can just cut you off and there's nothing you can do about it. Yet, you don't see these situations giving rise to a villain arc.
I know this is a fictional story and there's no need to take it so seriously but it really upsets me how some of you hypocritically nitpick everything Seunghyun says while trying to paint Yuta as some of kind of angel when he's the whole fucking problem.
Dude is such a masochist and dead set on self destruction that they didn't even need a main antagonist like Pilwon in the original Pearl Boy.
I only read this for the art and the sex. The story is a mess and is very poorly strung together. I doubt it'll even have a good ending.
Yuta raped him first. It was still rape even if penetration was not involved. Seunghyun had no responsibility for Yuta, like I said, they were weren't in that kind of relationship. So even if he suspected the green haired dude was lying, he didn't feel the need to turn the world upside down to search.
Yuta is allowed to feel any kind of way for being "abandoned" but his actions are still very unjustified.
I'm not defending him. Seunghyun murders people for a living, he's supposed to be morally gray. I just hate that you're nitpicking. Say they're both fucked up and leave it at that. Yuta has been through a lot and while I sympathize, he keeps causing problems for himself. It gets exhausting trying to support someone like that.
The yuta raped him first was right, I just remembered the panel, but raping him back was not Nobel of him to do so, and he is also shitty for the abandoning part, that's why I don't think their should be any end game, like they are utterly toxic to each other and them reconciliating just from one romantic looking conversation under the rain is not realistic at all, I'm saying yuta deserves a peaceful death of another partner cuz that guy just ain't it
Yuta doesn't want to die and he doesn't want to leave Seunghyun either because he's obsessed, probably because the only happy memories he has are those innocent days spent together with Seunghyun in the golden pavilion. It's sad but Yuta and Seunghyun should not end up together. After the surgery, Yuta needs some serious therapy. Probably years of therapy before he can even consider getting into any kind of romantic relationship. His idea of love has been extremely warped due to trauma.
I've said many chapters ago that the author did not have an outline for this story. I'm an author so I know. She just thought up concepts she thought would be a hit and strung them together very poorly. There are so many plot holes in this story and every time she hits a block, she quickly goes on hiatus to try and come up with some type of annoying/unrealistic explanation for the chaos.
While pansting can be good for creativity, you need some kind of framework in every story. I tried writing a book without an outline (I really hate writing outlines, characters have a mind of their own so a lot of things end up changing) and it flopped so I had to abandon it.
I learned the hard way that outlines are important even though you don't follow them closely because we get a lot of ideas during the writing process and it keeps us from writing down the craziest twist we can think of (purely for shock value) because you'll end up writing yourself into a corner and leaving plot holes everywhere.

And just like that ladies and gentlemen, the top gets to get away with it with soft words of apology and not get a taste of consequences for his actions, what a waste