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.
Honestly….MC is dumber than a doorknob. Author is trying to set up future mistreatment with mc’s stupidity and the couple’s future lack of communication. And that’s okay, not all comics need logic.