something to do with him hiding the fact he's gay? he uses the whole ring and relationship thing as a cover so people won't bug him. I literally have no idea why the fuck he's hiding it from Sihyun at this point other than continuing the miscommunication. like dude he KNOWS youre gay you don't need to keep up the act with him when your cock is in his mouth
Him wearing the ring is not about him being gay. He's either bi or fluid since he's only ever been with women and the ML is the first man he's had a thing for. The ring is to keep a distance from people hitting on him or asking him inappropriate questions about his love life at work. I've seen multiple josei webtoons and mangas where that's a thing. Right now though, he decided to keep the miscommunication going because he realized that even though the ML thought he was married, he proceeded to pursue him and act as though our MC was some kind of manwhore. So he's keeping the truth to himself just to be petty.
in the novel he tried to explain how ridiculous sihyun's assumptions are but sihyun wont budge and said joohwan wont just say the truth to him so now joohwan is just being petty back to him he also dont like seeming like a virgin to sihyun who he assumed is experienced. so they're basically just dumb and dumber
i cant tell you much because novelib only has 24 chapters to go (it updated weekly until 40 chapters) and by this point joohwan, tired of being painted as a whore but unwilling to admit he was a virgin, has decided to lie to sihyun that he was dating the min actor guy but willing to be fwb with him and (he was seriously offended with the "golfing" accusations and said his body wont withstand that, the fuck is sihyun thinking) sihyun being the pettiest of bastard was rather unconvinced but he accepted the fwb deal and now joohwan is going through a bdsm list for sihyun
Can someone remind me why Joohwan is not telling Sihyun he's single