I think the beginning of that, like the very seed of it was chapter 79, when heejae found out that garam couldn't hate him. Garam basically said that he was doing everything he could to hate heejae because he didnt want to repeat the mistakes he made with youngjo (implying that he had not-so-platonic interest in heejae), and he asked heejae to help him nurture that hate, because garam couldn't do it by himself, and it floored heejae. That continued to chapter 81 when heejae came back from his successful performance (that garam refused to watch) to an empty room, feeling lonely and soothing himself with the recording of garam's jeux d'eau. And then garam saw heejae's chopin and fell in love for real, which led to heejae reciprocating that feeling (though he denied it at first).
I dont get why heejae is obsessed with garam's jeux d'eau i cant remember anything aside before chapter 3 is this a sign for a binge rearead session
Since my memory is fuzzy (which is crazy because I binge-read this not even two weeks ago), I need someone to tell me when Heejae started seeing Garam in different light as in more intimate, someone more than a frustrating student, more than a gem he wanted to polish and showed off. I remember him kissing Garam after Garam said, “I understand the loneliness in your sound,” but were there any subtle moments before that? Or was that really all it took, Garam’s words hit a nerve, because that was what he wanted so badly to find again, someone who could read his soul so after that Heejae just started seeing him differently? Because in Garam’s case, the guy saved him, and there was even a phase where he was stressed out over hating him, and other things mixed around it’s understandable how and why he fell for a guy who was also his teacher.