I meant to like this sorry
Huh, you didn't get the deep mental trauma of their past? MC still afraid being ostracized, the deep guilt and trauma the accident of his best friend caused him that unknowingly reminded him again when Sihoo asked him that if the accident didn't happen, will he be with him instead of hyung. The depression, the effects of the actions of the parents to the mental health of their kids, the effects of bullying...
I got the story, yeah. I just think the tone was very muddled and the focus was not where it should have been.
honestly this story is pretty meh. it was super interesting in the beginning but i feel like the author didn't really go anywhere with it. the first and second seasons feel like completely different stories. the first season is he's been hallucinating his dead best friend for years and is viciously bullied because of it and then the second season is like oh yeah none of that even mattered in the end have a generic love triangle instead. it just feels incredibly cheap and contrived the more i think about it.
i know people can write whatever story they want but i just feel like it would've been so much more powerful if Sihoo had actually been dead and there was more time spent on developing the main couple. the fact that his only friend for most of his life has been a fucking hallucination and how he navigates having a real relationship after that is a way more interesting story to me than just two guys fighting over him tbh.