this age gap and the older one being the one saying suggestive things and crossing the boundary of a 6th grader hyung to a 3rd grader kid is really inappropriate. like sorry the development stage is so different and all kids in elementary school think 6th graders are cool and mature so the ml giving special treatment like buying ice cream and helping with hw just creates more power imbalance. there was a kid in my grade that when we were in 8th grade was dating a 5th grader and there were like allegations and shit. even 2 years is an age difference that feels noticeable. like this ml is ridiculous what does your grown ass have to say about 2 middle schoolers watching a movie? pack it up
girl being born from an affair doesn’t make you a even morally gray person, he doesn’t even KNOW or care you were born from an affair. Even if my parents were serial killers and did bad stuff that would have shit to do with me I’d live my life without thinking I was remotely unlovable cause of that. I hope the author actually goes somewhere with this and shows how the ML was conditioned to believe he was unlovable like actual life experiences
I mean we can easily assume how the family treated him since he was small. like, the environment is very important for a child growing up, and he was a treated like a bastard. that's not actual life experience? I vaguely remember that even his mother ignored him
and he doesn't know that joohwan doesn't care!! probably convinced that this is important for some reason
the author can milk this for all it is honestly, like this BL was the blueprint of how to do childhood friends to lovers RIGHT back in my day. like and Haebom was adopted into their family but it was never made weird and even with this crazy plot out of nowhere it STILL clears all the stepbro BL's in it's sleep.











the way this author depicts the relationship the mc had with his father was actually so heartbreaking. like I woulda taken care of him while mc was gone I’m just devastated for him