Bro same
I get it fr, when he first appeared I immediately thought he was just gonna be there for plot and the drama aka love triangle that make problems for our main couple, he feel so random, you don’t see him calling hwibum in the early chapters(unless I miss some details), only after he was already introduced, but I don’t wanna judge or assume, cause maybe he’s the person who save hwibum from jumping to his death in that one chapter, who knows
I don’t think it could be the childhood friend who saved him bcs Hwibum very slecifically remembers that it was someone with jet black hair who saved him, in which hwibums childhood friend does not have, I mean yeah maybe he dyed it during those years but Hwibum would’ve remembered if it was his friend that saved him rather than a random person
The "friendship" with the childhood friend feels SO forced, like I don't get the point of this supposed love-triangle when it's just a dude practically begging for scraps... I find it kind of hard to believe that he's important to Hwibum at all lol