ML suffers from delusions. He cope up himself by imagining a friend and he yearn for his friend. One day he realises that his friend is no more, so he finds someone to replace him.(our mc)
Ride of emotional roller coaster, MC finds out what ML was doing, he rejects him straight out (huge shout out to his self respect.) ML redemption and he realises that his friend was his delusion. He never had that friend. The one he only ever truly loved is the MC, he only imagined his friend to cope up himself because of his loneliness. (There's a term for this syndrome but idk what it is.)
Later on they talk have communications and settle. I say this is such a brilliant story for me. I really enjoyed it so much. Although there was slight angst and scenes where i almost gave up reading and screaming at the ML, overall it was a good experience.
Read it long time ago, I thought they uploaded side chapters but it was just official translations

hi! i read this so long ago and forgot pretty much everything except the heavy emotional baggage i felt while reading it. if anyone could help jog my memory so i can enjoy the epilogues with minimal damage that would be much appreciated