biggest issue was the fact that he wanted to break mc to have mc. like yeah part of that was junils brother but he was messed up regardless. not to mention he was the epitome of "only wants something when it's gone" if nokyoung ever went back he would've gone back to being a pos
He was having sex with other people while leading the MC on with the promise of a future relationship. It really looks like he had no feelings for the MC until he couldn't have him anymore. He was constantly manipulating him, making all of his decisions. Not to mention that he encouraged MC to be on an extreme diet to match the body type he liked, seeing the MC refer to his teen self as chubby, that didn't come out of nowhere someone put that thought into his head. All of that was happening before anything with the ML's brother. And if he really cared about MC he wouldn't have sent him to sleep with another man. He could have sent other actors to hit on the ML and if he cared about MC that's what he would have done. He sent MC because MC would do whatever he asked without question or making demands. He's a shit person, don't feel bad for him.
Someone remind me of what bad things Hyunjae did in this timeline that wasn’t due to being manipulated by ML’s brother so I don’t feel bad for him plz. As far as I understand their relationship started with mutual interest. Hyunjae is clearly in love/obsessed with MC and MC said something about ”don’t make me regret loving you” which implied there was a time he did love him. Then MC breaks everything off and Hyunjae is heartbroken and becomes even more manipulated by ML’s brother. I know he did horrible things in the original timeline but I can’t help but feel bad for him in this timeline because he doesn’t even know anything about all that.