Also i might forgot if it happened or my mind just refuse to remember this shitshow, but did they file a missing person at police?
If my fiance would go missing i would go INSANE and try to find him, social media, police, anything. And since he still using his og name wouldnt the police find him? Or idk.
They DID go to the police and file a missing persons case. That's part of my point, they literally went to the police but Taesung couldn't just sit still so started searching for him with his family's resources too.
I feel like (and I might be wrong about this) the police wouldn't bother looking for people with the name "Haebom" because nobody thought he ran away. I'm sure I'm not explaining this properly but the police wouldn't look for a runaway adult.
As an adult you can just up and leave (rude and disrespectful to the people in your life but still) since you ARE an adult and can take care of yourself.
So if the police was officially looking for him/ keeping their eyes open then only because they thought he might have been abducted.
But then they find him and figure out he only ran away. Of course if I thought my Partner was dead and then found them I'd be over the moon with my happy feelings but the pure and utter rage I'd feel finding out they weren't abducted but just ran away-- and then for Haebom to go "I was just being childish"...
I'm starting to agree with the other commentators. This should've been a different story or an AU.
Honestly I'm still not over the fact that Haebom officially went missing for literally half a year. I mean, sure everyone thought he was still alive but if someone I loved went missing, I'd think they got kidnapped or killed. I feel bad for saying this but I don't think I'd be able to continue hoping for SIX months.
I know we have no idea what happened to Haebom and I'm sure it was horrible (as it has to be in order to justify this mess) but I genuinely cannot get over how Taesung or his friends must be feeling and how Haebom seems to have no empathy for them. It just got kinda glossed over or ar least it doesn't get portrayed in a way I would like.
Did I maybe miss something? Because it feels like it was common knowledge Haebom ran away and the only question was "where" not "omg where tf is Haebom he suddenly turned into air WHAT happened".
From the other character we get the emotions appropriate for the first scenario even though we ARE in the second scenario...