I CANTTTT i thought this was a normal system player fantasy webtoon and i didn’t read the yaoi part in the title. SO THIS WHOLE TIME I WAS READING THIS I WAS FIGHTING THE AIR ABT HOW CUTE THEY WERE TG AND I EVEN STARTED GETTING SUS CUZ THEY DREW THE MC NAKED W THE ML. i even said in my head “The author definitely made bl before” and “Damn this looks like a bl” THE ONLY THING MAKING ME DOUBT STUFF WAS THAT THERE WAS NO ROMANCE BETWEEN THEM (yet).
I think maybe just a little. just a hunch. Based on the first chapter that he is a genius he just doesn’t know?
Your right. He is a gifted genius, however due to his mother pressuring him more even if he did well instead of encouraging him. He got a trauma and thinks he's not good enough. So basically it was the mother destroying his self confidence. I think