
im rlly shocked by ppl saying hes a black flag. cos for me hes not even half the red of mls like edge of ambiguity or even backlight. trust me ive read the novel. ofc it could just be my opinion but i just cant imagine him as bad as some ppl r claiming him to be
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as for the ‘abuse’ he made jun go through, even jun thought he deserved it (to a certain degree ofc. he thought he served yohans anger and even felt bad for seeing yohan cry. yes he cried). that happened when yohan was seeing red after jun sort of forced him into a situation where he had to directly confront his family(a very religious and homophobic one who r obsessed with saving face). he attempted to assault jun and broke his arm (the 2nd one was unintentional since he even broke the fall that couldve hurt jun and used his own body as a cushion when the two fell to the floor). he did all that cos he thought jun did all that to mock his family situation. its actually a ‘jun thing’ to do cos jun himself has been playing mind games with yohan (at one point he even added his fingerprint to yohans phone lol. dont get me wrong i absolutely love jun as an mc) after that yohan turned his back to jun at school and since the ‘king’ stops supporting the rest of the school who have been jealous of jun starts bullying him (it was nowhere near as bad as what taesan went through tho. probably cos yohan himself did nth except ignore jun. its more of a psychological torment than physical and ppl didnt do it openly more like stealing shoes and making subtle condescending comments and a ball to his face at PE) until jun encountered one of junwoos former lackeys that lost their power when yohan became ‘king’ and boy did jun beat the crap out of him (he also got hurt ofc but this part of the novel is so refreshing cos now we have an mc who didnt need the ml to come save him)
anyways he ended up at the hospital and yohan keeps visiting him. oh i forgot to mention, after a few days of ignoring jun and found out juns feet bandaged (jun hurt his feet after he had to walk home n slippers cos ppl stole his shoes) yohan actually started to talk to jun obviously feeling bad. his goal is actually to make jun cling to him and start talking to him the way he did with junwoo (yohans always hated junwoo for constantly having juns whole focus. this is shown in the epilogues btw) but ofc jun didnt give in at all and he even ignored yohan completely when yohan started talking lol lol. at the hospital they sortof made up? and things went back to how they were before their fight. but now juns changed. hes matured and he’s become independent. he wasnt so scared of the hierarchical system and instead saw the bigger picture which is his own future and focused on nth except maintaining his grades that dropped thanks to yohan and the bullying he went through.
this part is also so good to read cos yohan kept trying to assert his dominance but jun was smart as hell and didnt let it faze him. long story short one of yohans lackeys betrayed him and asked jun to fake confess to yohan so that he could record the thing and spread it at school. jun ofc was smarter than that and stuck with yohan which earned him yohans trust. eventually they finished high school and then theres this thing jun found out abt yohans family (im not gonna spoil this one cos even this shocked me lol and i dont want to ruin ur experience) to sum it up yohans been lying to him abt sth (not completely lying but exaggerated a bit) all to earn juns sympathy and attention which he later admitted to wanting so badly) jun found out, misunderstood and thought yohan completely made it all up. felt betrayed. decided to leave all behind and didnt even bother sharing his college admission test results making ppl including his teachers think he failed etc etc when in fact he went into a prestigious university. he kissed yohan on impulse btw lmao and after that disappeared. oh yh before that he splashed coffee to yohans face saying he hated him. yohan visited him all drunk and pathetic but juns been feeling betrayed and turned him away. the kiss happened, he cut off all ties and connections which made yohan lose his mind ( jun found out only after he met yohans sister later)
he moved to the college dorms and purely by fate yohans his roommate (and yes its purely coincidence and yohan had nth to do with it. in fact yohans been completely miserable after jun ditched him saying he hated him) the lackey that tried to videotape the fake confession ( he got beat up by yohan and got expelled) has been trying to find jun and when he found him he splashed acid at him saying he wanted to destroy the face that yohan liked but yohan covered jun, the acid disfigured his back and three fingers. yohans family dumped him completely into juns hands (jun had a talk with yohans father and found out some things again) they made up and jun let yohan live with him in the dorms.
so yh yohans bad news but not THAT much of it cos unlike other mcs, jun himself is far from a helpless and weak little person. he can handle himself rlly rlly well. and in fact he’s probably one of the very few mcs who ACTUALLY got away from the ml until ofc fate brought them back tgt and not the ml himself. yohans bad but hes also down bad for jun. the yearnings there and in his defense, jun is also super good at acting unaffected towards what yohan does which completely drives him crazy. in fact theyre both crazy and theyre both red flags. read the novel and youll find out about the whole power struggle between the two lolol. both r super manipulative but in my opinion i think i find yohan not as bad is probably cos jun can actually handle him. yh he went thru hell cos of yohan but eventually it was yohan who started to make up with jun. in fact even then jun asked to be simple classmates which ofc infuriated yohan lol. after the bullying jun became even stronger mentally and saw through many things and lastly jun in fact used yohan to maintain a peaceful hs life after the incident changed his behavior towards yohan. and after he ghosted yohan before college yohan became so docile when they met at the dorms and listened to jun when he lashed out and told him to leave the dorms looking all sad and miserable
i recommend yall to read the novel. nth is more entertaining than two mcs having a power struggle especially when theyre both cunning af. dont let those cmts saying yohans a black flag stop you cos like i said its not as bad as that AT ALL. im not defending yohan i just find it a waste to not pick this up cos the novel is just super good. at least for me it is. and the mc. i just love love love mcs like these. physically strong mcs r good and all but this one has a strong mentality even WITHOUT any traumas associated to his past.
btw u can find the novel translated on novel light or novel bin and the korean one on booktoki. the translated versions stop at 19.2 so use a VERY good translating app for the rest of the chapters. try not to miss out cos its even more than what u read. some things r only implied and u have to pick up some others on ur own. the same way u need to when reading novels like passion. have a nice read guys ^^

"in fact theyre both crazy and theyre both red flags." this is what i seek in BL manhwa actually LOOOL
THANK YOU FOR THE SPOILERS i was about to drop it after seeing someone spoiled that yohan is a black flag but this comment saved me from doing allat. the story is actually pretty interesting and now i cant wait for the manhwa to catch up the novel!
my ocd could never tolerate