Monster In The Mist
lacks empathy suicidal/homicidal former sunbae woon x trying his best to survive/save the world hayeon -ever since the mist virus outbreak hayeon and his friend have been fighting zombies and trying to get to the capital as the outer districts have basically been forsaken; mc and his friend both went to a prestigious uni d/t them being geniuses but were class b citizens -they eventually get there (after saving some others) and the crew gets captured while mc gets taken by woon, his old sunbae who has a terrible manipulative personality -backstory: they were sunbae/hoobae in uni until mc researched the first virus outbreak and found a cure; turns out ml actually survived the original outbreak b/c his mom was able to lock him away while the rest were culled; he cuts off mc for not obeying him and then the second/current outbreak happened -mc wants to make a cure and save everyone while ml has a grudge against his father, the pm, and wants all of the class a citizens to die (incl himself, as he infected himself to study the virus) -tons of political drama with not much romantic plot other than ml somehow doing a personality 180 and becoming super possessive of mc -mc's friend heads the rebels/revolutionaries and works w/ ml to overthrow the gov, mc makes a cure for the mist and works on a cure for the virus -happy end
A Trace of the Wonder