Well I want him to take revenge, even if they fall for each other. Maybe he could almost ...

Well I want him to take revenge, even if they fall for each other.
Maybe he could almost kill the Mc, and believe he killed him,
But then ml survives and they re-enconter each other maybe a couple years later in a complete different setting. Mc has finally moved on on the countryside and ml goes after him saying “you killed the old me and had your revenge, let the new me move on together with you now”.
Or not. Or it will be just tears.