Jaeyi set up his friend to be ideums instructor and I doubt he knew his brother would be there
I just checked and the day ideum went was the brothers first day working there so ml wouldn't have known
So not nearly as bad as setting things up, but still self-sabotaging in his refusal to talk about what’s happening or why he’s upset. Arrrgh…
Hell, even a, “Hey, your instructor is my brother, sorry I didn’t tell you before. He has a history of sabotaging my relationships and hobbies, and I think he’s targeting you to try to hurt me. Would you please not see him outside of class?” Like… say the thing. So much easier for all concerned than what I fear will happen next chapter.
Did Jaeyi know his brother was going to be the instructor for the class, or was he substituting for someone else? I can’t remember. (I think he took over last minute…?)
If he knew, did he set this up as kind of a subconscious “test” to see if Ideum would/could be into his brother?
Either way, it seems like a terrible idea to have set him up to swim at the place his brother works if he had any idea he would be there. Almost like self-sabotaging with his fuck buddy as “bait” in a longstanding rivalry. It’d be incredibly screwed up of both Jaeyi and his brother to involve Ideum at that point. I think I must be misremembering.
But anyway… I am once again begging characters to talk to each other. This could be cleared up in like two sentences.