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This kinda makes me realize that Jaehyuk is an anxious attachment while Garam is more of a avoidant. They aren't entirely those things but it aligns with them in many ways.
For example, the phone call. Jae was willing to wait hours for Garam to say something, begging inside that he would just reassure him. While Garam wasn't willing to say a single word.
Garam ran away. He ran away when they had one very serious fight. He says Jae is compulsive but he is continuing to make compulsive decisions. It's just Jae makes them outta love while Garam makes them out of anxiety/fear. He avoids what is tough.
I feel bad for both of them and can understand both sides. If it weren't for this chapter I'd be completely on Jae's side. But Jae is starting to piss me off too. He's just being petty because he's hurt and feels unloved, he can't outright cut of the love of his life so instead he's doing this immature friends BS.
They're opposite in so many ways that it will be hard for them to work out if they can't come to a compromise. Jae needs to chill and respect Garam's boundaries while Garam needs to try a little harder at showing his affection to Jae and reassure him when he needs it. Also stop running from his damn problems.
They both need to just fucking talk like damn adults.

I gave up on this story the instance they had sex. It was so unique and interesting at first. The plot got me excited for so many different possibilities for a romance to spark between the two. And the whole small touches makes me remember, it's cheesy and doesn't make any sense but it was interesting and good for forcing proximity. Them having sex just made all that small progress jump to 20 to 80 in an instant and it was a waste!! Like bro this was giving me slow burn vibes and it has so much potential to build on the momentum. It just fell right into the topical BL slop that has the characters going at it within minutes of knowing each other and it ruins any tension or romance to bring momentum to the relationship. It's bad writing and the author messed up the story even more by showing us very clearly that this dude only sees his ex in the main character and is not over him in the slightest. Also the ml basically sexually assaulted him like every other ml in BLs, so much potential just to have it fall into the same category or shit BL.