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Yeon-oh bringing up the fact that Jaehyuk couldn’t/wouldn’t say he liked him even if it wasn’t true hurt, but at the same time, it was better he didn’t say words he didn’t mean.
Anyway, I was just rereading chapter 58 of Night Song, and there it’s the opposite. We have Jaeshin begging to be told those words, even if the prince doesn’t mean them.
Just found it interesting that in this story, we had the bottom wanting to hear those words, and around the same time in Night Song we have the top asking for something similar.