Just to reiterate I think if koogi really wanted to put it in fine lining that sangwoo was dead don’t you think she would’ve actually shown him idk dying cause technically they didn’t show it. Just some old ass lady saying she put a pillow over his head lik um Okay did u suffocate him? did u strangle him? or did just throw a pillow over his head I think that if sangwoo the antagonist through out this whole book was going to die koogi would have let him die in the fire the epic final battle between seunbae and sangwoo I mean shit their basically arch enemies but no An old deranged lady “suffocated” him
That’s what I’m saying the actual tragedy of this ending is sangwoo letting bum think he was dead bc him did betray him in the end he let him think he was dead but knew bum wasn’t going to betray him again and he knew he would keep thier promise that if sangwoo dies he would die too except sangwoo not really dead
Guys..I know this might sound crazy but here me out. I don’t think sangwoo is dead and here’s why..
I think the person that was laying down in that private room is sangwoo because when bum said sangwoos name he smiled. Why would he smile at a name you don’t even know. Also remember when that old lady who “killed” sangwoo was like “after I put the pillow over him he finally stoped saying bum ,or not I might’ve kept hearing him” Aka he might’ve still been breathing when I stopped. Also when the old lady had that flash back of killing sangwoo the person in the flash back and the person that smiled when bum called his name have the EXACT same bandages. Idk I think koogi wouldn’t just throw random shit in the ending I think him smiling at the name sangwoo means something and it means that it might be him. I think sangwoo finessed his was in to getting people to think he’s dead . I think all these little hints actually means something. Like if the lady 100% killed sangwoo I don’t think she would’ve said “oh or maybe he did keep saying bum Idk”