reading it made me cringe and second but i'm honestly appreciating how it wasn't a "oh yes, Bad Evil Man is gone now! we can be together forever!" not everything is magically solved when you cut off a toxic person! he needs to put in the work. especially someone who has been lacking an identity up until now
despite everything i'd be lying if i said i wasn't lowkey rooting for them tbh. i thought the connection they shared at the beginning was sweet and unique. woojin wasn't just a regular fan, he saw a piece of himself in taehwan's role! and taehwan for the first time in his life felt appreciated for along with his insecurities.
i know taehwan literally says something like this at some point but like god, this really gets across how kind people who genuinely have a positive effect on your life can also end up ruining it. and vice versa! i liked that the author didn't try to deny that minho loved woojin. it'd just that love isn't always healthy or good. when you think about it minho and woojin are like two sides of the same coin. i mean everyone does want them both out of taehwan's life lmao. god i'm rambling so much and for what
let me preface this by saying that woojin is a walking disaster
the thing is. i don't really think it's about lingering feelings. sure, it's believable there's some (though in the end, personally, i believe he doesn't love minho and he is aware of this fact by now.) it's about being able to prove it. coming to terms with the fact itself? saying it to his ex's face? took forever to do it, caused a lot of damage, but he did it
proving it to someone else, though? how is he going to do that? by cheating and lying woojin not only betrayed taehwan's trust but also drained his own faith in himself. he loved taehwan so much, he expressed it, yet that didn't stop him from hurting him. how is this time going to be any different? what if he ends up being wrong again?
at this point what holds him back the most is not his life with minho but himself, his own bad decisions and being able to come to terms with what he did. i don't know maybe i'm wrong or reading too much into it, but i just think this is such a cool moment