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If you like psychological, messed up stories, here's one for you. Otherwise, please don't read it cause it'll be a waste of time for you and not be able to appreciate the story fully. There are warnings from both the tags and the comments, please don't bash a story or the author when they tried really hard, especially when they actually wrote the story that fulfills the criteria for the tags.

Minjae was dumb to think karma wouldn't bite him back in the ass, his childhood was sad and I get why he doesn't want to be involved in stuff that reminds him of his past, but apart from the scene where we see him dreaming and crying out sorry to Eunsung, we don't see him feel guilty at all, and so as pitiful as he may be, he's still at fault for Hyukjoon's pain and frankly, does deserve what was coming for him.

Eunsung did not deserve to die, especially because of a child's jealousy. Taehyun fell for the wrong dude, but he did rape Minjae (Where are his parents lmao). Also would've liked to see how he and Minjae started their physical relationship (it was mentioned, but to me it felt lacking that we didn't get to see their origin, would've been nice). Sunho deserves a lifetime of hugs after all that, he was only a mere catalyst in the rest of the characters' eyes. Taehyun only felt guilty for Sunho, but doesn't truly care for him. That chairwoman should go to jail for child abuse.

I thought it was kinda funny that Hyukjoon put in so much effort and even fucked his son's killer, it would've been much easier to just, you know, grieve. I don't think he really had time to grieve Eunsung or feel sorry for himself? I think the first thing he did was go in shock, denial, anger, then planned his revenge. That's the only way I could see him being able to think of something like this. Saw his suicide from a mile away. Hope he's doing well with his son now. But the lines, "But, now that I see your tears... it doesn't fill me with relief [...] I guess I loved you a lot more than I thought," plus the author's note, "someone who's consumed by hatred may grow to feel new emotions that make them hesitate on their path of revenge," "new emotions" may have referred to the love that Hyukjoon has grown towards Minjae, think it might have referred to the obsessive feelings of revenge that may have grown into some form of love (since it was BL, probably romantic, but for me I think it was in between familial love and romantic love)? I'm not sure, just that Hyukjoon unknowingly started to care for Minjae. But because Hyukjoon "chose revenge," as stated in the author's note, his yearning for revenge for his son was much stronger than whatever he felt for Minjae.

Also, through autopsy, they'd realize it was a suicide not a homicide, so Minjae wouldn't be sentenced to jail, maybe he'd be detained for a while, but other than that he wouldn't suffer any consequences apart from the pain of losing Hyukjoon. Hopefully Taehyun can afford a psychologist/psychiatrist for Minjae so he can get his shit together. Yes, Minjae was a jerk to Taehyun, and even acknowledged that he treated Taehyun poorly, but he really has no one to lean on anymore (we don't see any other person call out to Minjae after they started as student teachers, so this is only an assumption, though I think it's safe to say no one else is close to either of them), and really he just needs therapy. Actually, scratch that, they all need therapy. But the story was well executed, the characters were all sympathetic, Minjae too (if you dig deeper and read thoroughly), personally, even to the point where I could empathize with them, and I would definitely recommend it if you wanna see angsty stuff with a bittersweet ending.