Actually I didn't know if I'm the only one who noticed but they exchanged their eye colors from their past lives lol
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While I completely agree with what you are mentioning, I have a different point of view on the ending.
I really like ‘psychological’ / ‘obsessive’ type of stories with an ‘enigmatic’ ending (this is also because I do not appreciate ‘Tragic’ ending with deaths to begin with for example nor ‘happy’ endings when the story themes do not match the ending itself).
This kind of story cannot end well, and we readers know that, but the author gives us a smoke screen of happiness. By the end of this story the Uke is Happy, the Seme is Happy. They are happy, but they are not.
Now it is us readers that can choose how to imagine after this sort of enigmatic open ending: the Uke will remain happy for all his life with the seme, but just because he fell for the latter manipulation (the seme keeps on faking his nice persona) . Alternatively we can imagine foreshadowing the fatal ending when pretty clearly the UKE will realise the whole manipulation and most probably will make the same choice as his previous life by killing himself.
All in all the UKE cannot escape seme and Seme cannot go over his obsession neither in last or future lifes - thus this cycle of dark love and dark happiness, which matches the whole story idea.
Obviously I do not mean to convince anyone that this kind of love is good (absolutely not), but I just wanted to express my point to why I like these kinds of stories and kinds of enigmatic endings
Completely agree with your perspective
I feel so bad for the mc cause he thinks he’s crazy but he’s been right all along and his past self is trying to warn him each interaction and dream.
The ml is a complete psychopath in the past, worse in the future because he knows who he is. He wanted this even in the past once he lost the mc. He knew who he was even before that swim meet, he planned every single thing after that, every action he took was to soothe the mc into thinking otherwise when he still is the psycho he was back then. He’s isolated him by making him seem irritated at places, making ppl think he’s the nice one, making him think that he’s the only one that can be relied on. This dude is charismatic, intelligent, and obsessive. I knew the overcompensating was cause he was who the mc said all along. I can’t wait until they come across someone who can truly prove he’s the psycho and let the mc win in this life, he doesn’t need to be tormented again. It’s no fair that he gets the upper hand once again.