preferably midway through the arc... its been a good while since i reread this and i forgot what happened after the AU. i knew from the comments that there’s a time travel/time loop shenanigan going on but AHHH please help me out(/TДT)/
Ok basically! [heavy spoilers]
In a previous chapter Bihwan was told by the guy with piss colored eyes (his older brother) that Minchan is a vessel for Bihwan’s man. He is a fragment of his soul, I think, and B’s older brother is wanting to make it whole again. Biwan wants to tell Minchan, but his brother kind of threatens him/scares him against telling Minchan the truth to avoid him having a mental breakdown.
Bihwan was told during this that Minchan would essentially no longer be himself, it would be like a soul consuming another. And it’s rlly interesting bc you can see he’s both yearning for Seo back but cannot just easily let Minchan disappear
So cut forward, we’re in the fucking shit of it all now. Grandmama is just airing everything out for Minchan, and literally—Minchan has had his entire reality shattered. He’s hearing that his family (both his grandmother and ??? Idk what even piss eyes is to him) are seeing him as an empty body essentially. And on top of that, the guy he’s been with KNEW and lied about it (yes not to hurt him, and yes, Bihwan loves Minchan buuut) to avoid having to choose.
Piss eyes used powers on Bihwan, to force him to make Minchan drink a vial that causes the soul unification to “begin the end” of Minchan.
But after this happens, Minchan as Seo (I’m sorry I do not remember how to spell his name) is forced into a dream in the place where Bihwan was trapped as a kid. He is where all comes back to, so nothing in this place is moving on a reasonable time scale.
Seo is offered the ability to escape that place, or save someone from that place
Seo see’s Bihwan as a kid and decides to save baby Bihwan (▰˘◡˘▰)
and then Minchan wakes up and tells adult Biwan he had a dream about Seo and Biwan cries.
Nearly right but I believe technically Minchan is his own person- Seoho’s soul was shattered and locked out of the reincarnation cycle, as we just saw, he was in the room of nothingness- it wasn’t possible for any part of him to be reborn.
By some crazy billion to one odds, Minchan physically resembles Seoho, which is why he was targeted by Jinmu (the brother) to be the vessel for Seoho.
The human soul is made up of seven (?) pieces (or smth), and Jinmu implanted one of Seoho’s soul fragments into Minchan’s soul when he was a little kid. That’s why Minchan carries Seoho’s soul “scent/signature” (which is what originally tricked Bihwan).
The reveal forced Bihwan to choose between Seoho and Minchan. He chose Minchan. But then he was met with another dilemma, whether to tell Minchan that his whole life has been manipulated for this purpose. All the suffering Minchan’s undergone made his mental state fragile to the point Jinmu was betting on Minchan being broken down by the revelation of the truth and the returning of his memories that he’d basically offer himself up as a vessel (because he wants to die).
Now, Jinmu has presumably implanted Seoho’s other soul fragments into Minchan’s body and ofc, Minchan knows the truth. So it remains to be seen whether Minchan will fall apart and how Seoho’s repaired soul will surface…
In the meantime, Minchan thinks the reason Bihwan didn’t tell him the truth right away was because Bihwan was deliberating over who to choose- him or Seoho, so he’s feeling betrayed by that.
this is THEE re of a lifetime