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If Jian was mc and this was marked as a tragedy… it would have been the most gut wrenching, angsty story of all. The tragic end of Jian, the sunfish of cuckoo birds. His story would have ended with him imagining a life being raised by his mother and biological father, Jitae being his childhood best friend, studying abroad with Jitae, becoming Jitae’s assistant at the company, being happy and dying with a smile on his face. Then the side stories would have expanded on this imaginary dream world: a stereotypical bl with Jian and Jin being a slow burn and Mieum and Jitae being the hot mess side couple causing waves in Jin’s otherwise peaceful life.
BUT this isn’t a tragedy and Jian is not MC. I suspect we’ll find out he’s faux dead. He made a last minute change of plans to fake his death and have someone rescue him from the water. Jian will run away with his obsessive lover Jin or stop him from a suicide. (This is the only way to explain why Jian was late to getting to Mieum, he made a comment on getting to Mieum 2 chaps ago. How did Jin show up to Mieum before Jian when he left first and knew where Mieum was? Plus, Jian made the plan and probably picked the location. I suspect he intended to die if his mom didn’t give up, but he made a last minute change to fake it instead.)
Jian’s mom is now thoroughly ruined for murdering her own son. And so the whole story will come down to a bit of poetic justice for her, Jian’s birth and death are parallel to her rise and downfall.
This is what I’m hoping and think will happen too!
He had a bulletproof vest on cuz he was covering his stomach with both of his arms at the end, so that no one would notice he’s not bleeding from the gunshot wound. He directed Suryeon’s hand/the gun where he wanted the bullet to be aimed at. He will disappear and either contact Jin or Jin will find him after a while, my guess is the latter, cuz in the previous chapters he made it seem like he wanted Jin to live his life without him cuz he doesn’t think highly of himself. So when they can’t find his body, Jin will get suspicious and start searching for his body and then find him, possibly after a few years. Kinda like the ending of Mania!
I dunno if we’ll see his isekai story though lol