Not exactly.
Spoilers obviously
Haesol and Woojin aren’t related, but because she looks identical to his mother (who was basically not real but a photograph given to him that made him conditioned to think he had a mother who loved him as a means to control him), she was identified as a potential weakness. Woojin leaned into that and publicly dated her on a contractual basis so that Jaechan wouldn’t be identified as his actual weakness and get targeted by Black Swan.
So they weren’t lovers in the past life, but they aren’t siblings or anything either.
WHAT. I saw Korean novel readers told me they were related :O
Check chapters 179, 180, and 192 of the novel.
Summary:
179-180
Woojin was created as part of a pharmaceutical company’s secret breeding experiments to produce high level espers. All the kids were manipulated to have a specific weakness they could be controlled with, and what they told Woojin was that he was the only one of them who actually had a mother. They gave him a photo and told him stories about the fake mother. He actually broke free of the constraint, but he had to pretend this mother was still very important to him. So when he meets Haesol, he’s shocked at the resemblance and he decides to use that to trick his enemies with her permission.
In chapter 180, he explains that he could never fall in love with someone who resembles his mother so closely.
In chapter 192 you see them meeting in the original timeline from Woojin’s perspective. You see him propose a deal with Haesol and it explains that they never even held hands to guide (only contactless guiding). It says:
“Instead, he decided to think of the guide Nam Haesol as a younger sibling since she looked very much like his mother. Nam Haesol decided to respect his fraternal feelings, and as a result, their cooperative relationship went very smoothly.”
So it’s a sibling-like relationship with no biological connection.
Wow thank you that is so clear! Could you give the link to the novel (in English) please?
So anyone worrying abt the girl (ml’s lover in the past) don’t worry. They weren’t lovers. They were related. In the first timeline, after death, ml never recovered from his death even tho he was a piece of shit.