this just proved to me that it isn’t JUST vengeance that drives juyeon, but the pleasure of making himself indispensable to jiwook. yes, he wounds him with the same humiliation and pain he once endured at his hands, but then he takes it further by isolating jiwook until juyeon becomes the only place left to turn. as uncomfortable as it is to admit, i think the fact that jiwook didn’t choose him (referring to their past) is the greatest wound juyeon has carried all these years, buried beneath everything else, the anger, the resentment, and all that vengeance (more like longing) that ultimately pushed him to this point. he just wants to be chosen. anyways im sticking around out of a morbid curiosity but this is hard to stomach.