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I honestly wouldn't call it love. Neither of them know what love is. Dohun is obsessed with fulfilling destiny, destiny which he has associated with Yuwon. Yuwon's biggest drive is guilt, not love. Not to mention that they are extremely codependent on one another. I actually like Seongmin. If you consider both of their high school POV, Yuwon genuinely has had no other friend except for Seongmin. Though I am bearing in mind that Yuwon is an unreliable narrator and nothing has been revealed yet from Dohun's pov, their friendship truly seemed like a much needed break after years of isolation and bullying. I do think that Seongmin might have had feelings for Yuwon.
I think we all know that Seongmin has feelings for Yuwon, it's so obvious from my perspective. Okay, I get it why you can't call it love. But mate, if you think love should start from a healthy relationship, that's just the basic form everyone knows. But yeah, we'll see what happens till the end.
Where did I explicitly say that love should start from a healthy relationship? I was talking about the main driving force/motivation for the two characters– why they do the things they do, feel the things they feel. In that highschool chapter Yuwon had the realization that his feelings were indeed guilt, not love. Which to me, was true relevance amongst all the ambiguity.
This obviously carried on to their adulthood and became their dynamic. I'm not just questioning the existence of love itself, but how *true* it is born from such circumstances and motivations. So I wasn't denying that there could be love. I just wouldn't call it love.
And the reason I mentioned Seongmin was because you had a problem with him questioning Yuwon's love. I was offering perspective from an outsider's (actual friend) pov, regardless of their personal feelings for the person involved.
This would be my favorite manhwa ever. The art style suits the story, the storyline is amazing, and the writing is so good it makes the story peak.
I knew from the beginning that yuwon's pov wasn't 100% true. I thought he was trying to build a wall between himself and his weak side. Even the way he thought the bullies stopped bullying dohun whenever he was around felt weird, I mean, he doesn't have anything special, so why would they act like that? And now, from dohun's pov, all those scenes finally make sense.
I hope both dohun and yuwon get well-written development until the end. I don’t really expect that they get a happy ending, but who knows? If yuwon can genuinely live in his “real life” and accept himself, and if dohun can trying to be more open and stop trying to handle everything alone. Ok, I know his family situation might put yuwon in danger if he knew it, but please, you guys are a couple and you can't have the way of thinking so individually. Maybe this is why I don't like seongmin, cause he once asked "do you genuinely love him?" at first I thought about it too, but as this story goes along I know they really love each other. They just have mental struggles that make them unable to do things normally, and this way of storytelling makes them a toxic couple. I hope they can untangle it in the end. I really hope they get a happy ending, either individually or together, I wouldn't mind it, but the fact that they always have a life path to come back to each other is like the sign of being happy together forever.
The only one who's still gray for me is seongmin. idk man, i just can't accept him in a good way...