i think the first scene depicted how mc wanted to escape the crushing reality of losing his loved one by drastically imagining suicide to ease his pain over dealing with the fact of seeing his lover die in a fire. at the last scene, it was revealed how the monster was actually the burnt, disfigured, and unrecognizable face of his lover which made him connect the idea of him to a monstrous being that made him fear this unknown man because that wasn’t the side of him that he knew. so i think, mc actually was caught in the fire trying to save his dead lover; survived, then was in a coma with that dream of accepting what had happened and processing the fact that his lover was hiding something grotesque from him.
Omg I’m going to cry
Wait so at the last scene mc was in the hospital bed because he did jump on the first scene right?