Nobody's feed

I was rereading, and stumbled upon chapter 41-42.
For context, I never not thought Jaehyuk *liked* Yeon-oh. To me it was blatantly obvious from early on, even if he himself didn’t realize it.
Now, knowing that he really did *like* him, and rereading those chapters I mentioned above, how could we read it as anything other than mutual liking?