They could literally find hundred different yaois with this same plot but without the internal homophobia. The ‘childhood friend I thought was a girl turned out to be a boy’ is such a common trope and a lot of them just move on from the initial shock and eventually start dating. Literally Love Stage the anime They need to hop off this manhwa’s ass for being 2000’s accurate if they can’t handle slow burn. God forbid Eugene is confused and in denial, let him figure it out.

People in the comments hella mad over a teen with a different ethnicity tryna fit in with the US peeps in a story set in 2010s for not figuring out and sorting his feelings