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From a novel reader: even though Zhenya and Taekjoo never do tell eachother 'Iove you' in the novel the author says that they do love eachother and will confess to eachother in the future outside of the novel.
I know zhenya is a BLACK flag rn but trust he does get nicer to taekjoo (though not saner)
Zhenya is a madman till the very end of the novel and will probably stay that way his whole life but he does love Taekjoo (confirmed) and does become caring towards him despite still being a physcopath. Zhenya obviously has done some pretty unforgivable things but I like when relationships work out and when a character becomes nicer (I believe in second chances idk I'm just a sucker for romance) and the author decides that Taekjoo forgives zhenya anyway.
Zhenya likes to go places with Taekjoo, in the fifth novel (extras) Taekjoo goes to a highschool reunion and zhenya follows where Taekjoo and zhenya get invited to the wedding of the girl that had an unrequited crush on him in highschool.
They're relationship at the end of the novel is actually quite nice there's just quite a bit of time till it gets to that point (