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Put that weapon down sir

Novel spoiler for these who are curious about Dohyun: (from NU)
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So ML knew MC’s mom since he was like 10(?). He met her at an orphanage and she happened to sponsor him. She found a family to adopt him. His family loves him. They kept in contact throughout the years but their relationship wasn’t exactly affectionate (?). Anyways one day the mom contacted him and asked him to tutor MC because the mom is worried about him and having someone close in age would maybe help MC open up about his troubles. ML knew from the start about everything and he agreed cause well the mom is his benefactor? He expected MC to be a brat spoiled by the almighty mom but he met a quiet and shy MC and kinda quickly took a liking to him and started worrying about him and everything. He was pretty genuine about how he treated Wooyeon besides how their tutoring started and him getting updates from the mom, when Wooyeon got send home from school because he beat up the bully. He was always worried about him being alone and all that. He was also feeling really guilty the whole time and when Wooyeon confessed ML knew he needed to draw a line and then disappeared. he has been feeling guilty about it since!

So after they met again and MC asked him if he was an alpha. ML first didn’t know it was MC but when his friend told him shortly after that the name was “Seon Wooyeon” ML immediately recognized him and started chasing after him but our MC was quicker and gone. ML really seemed like he wanted to repair the relationship (?) but when they met again at that drinking party MC “pretended” like he didn’t know him, so ML hesitated and thinking MC didn’t recognize him but he was always thinking about confessing and all that. He was nice to him because he felt guilty but also worried and besides that everything was pretty genuine though he could have been less ambiguous lol. none of his actions here were manipulated by the mom. i don’t think he was in contact like that with the mom after he quit tutoring him.

ML was always really torn about confessing to being hired by his mom back when he was a tutor and recognizing him and not saying anything. Of course him not confessing at any earlier point of their budding romance is the cause of their conflict though. happens around 3/4 into the story around chapter 70-ish