You can't be secure in a relationship with a partner who doesn't spend any time with you, express any verbal affection, or show any signs of liking you outside of letting you fuck him. If I had a partner who brought a work colleague or friend to our first date after I had told him I was feeling insecure I would dump him. You can't have a partner who trusts you and is secure if you are constantly putting them last. In this last chapter Taejoon holds the pink haired guy who just confessed to him close and protects him after already bringing the same dude on their first date. Even if Taejoon doesn't love pink haired dude, he sure doesn't respect or take care of his own relationship at all. I get that he's a good person who cares about his friends. But ifTaejoon had urged the other two to talk to each other instead of bringing all their honesty to him to confiding in him in the first place, the second couple wouldn't be suffering this much. If they keep relying on and confiding in Taejoon they aren't going to learn to rely on and confide in each other.
I understand your points, and Taejoon was definitely in the wrong for bringing pink hair along on the date, but that was the third or fourth attempt at giving him advice. Hongyeon kept interrupting every time before that. He knows that Taejoon regularly gives romantic advice to his friends and coworkers so it doesn’t make sense for him to assume he would stop just because he’s in a relationship. If Hongyeon hadn’t interrupted, it would have been finished with one work lunch meeting. It was the same with Mun. Hongyeon kept interrupting, then inserted himself instead, and put barely any thought into it and inadvertently created a misunderstanding.
I get that he wants to spend more time with Taejoon, but he’s the one creating more work that gets in the way of that. This is the eighth meeting to try to get this couple together. Hongyeon interrupted, abruptly ended, or took over every single one without actually helping sincerely. It’s not like Taejoon is perfect, but it’s Hongyeon’s jealous and controlling tendencies that keep preventing the situation from improving.
His mentality doesn’t even make sense. So Mun and pink hair have the same aura which means that they will get together easily without any help, therefore Taejoon’s help isn’t necessary. They’re obviously going to start dating and be smitten with each other according to him, but he also acts like they might try to get with Taejoon at any moment.
He and Taejoon also have the same aura and yet there are problems. It’s almost like they’re all complex individual who aren’t mindlessly drawn solely to an aura. And his jealousy is ridiculous. Never trust an SO who gets jealous of family members.
Hongyeon has no respect for Taejoon as an autonomous person. It’s understandable to be upset that your so isn’t spending enough time with you, but Hongyeon’s solution is to basically throw a tantrum and ruin all the meetings, even after Taejoon explained what he was trying to do, why it was important to him, and that it probably wouldn’t take up much of his time (it literally would have taken 2, maybe 4 short meetings to get them on track, but thanks to Hongyeon, we’re at twice that count and an even worse position when they started). If not for Hongyeon’s interference, it’s very likely that those two would already be happily dating thanks to Taejoon’s advice.
Hongyeon just gets more and more obnoxious with each chapter. It’s clear that he really doesn’t trust or respect his partner. Everything he’s done to interfere has created more obstruction and drama between Mun and Hayun. He brushes off Taejun’s desire to help them get together because their auras are the same so they’ll obviously end up together no matter what, but somehow also gets insanely jealous of any interactions Taejun has with Hayun and Mun, who is his COUSIN. So which is it? He acts like they’re destined soulmates, but also like they’ll somehow have an affair with Taejun. Taejun could have gotten everything sorted out in just a couple meetings, but Hongyeon interrupted 3 times, said he would do it instead (which Taejon trusted him to do), then half assed it, caused a stupid misunderstanding, and is still prioritizing petty jealousy. He’s so needlessly jealous that he kept indirectly preventing the people he considers “threats” from getting together, and if they had started dating (which would already be happening if Taejoon had been able to do his thing) and focus on each other. Hayun is now heartbroken, and leaning on Taejoon more, while Mun is frustrated, so also leaning on Taejoon for more advice. He’s just a selfish, distrustful partner and he just keeps going downhill. I just feel like even though he is affection, he treats Taejoon more like his property than an independent person who happens to be dating him.