But he isn't following his own rules. He is a manipulative piece of shit. If he really, only wanted a physical relationship then he has no claim over MC and who he interacts with. He has no right to be jealous. And he is planning to styring along MC just so they are official in a sense that MC won't go with Woori but ML doesn't really love MC, he only wants a relationship status so he can stake a claim on MC.
But I don’t agree with that the manipulative part maybe a little bit but both the male lead and the MC are adults The only thing that could be considered manipulative is the whole hair desensitization thing and even then he never said the sexual part was a part of the desensitization they both as grown adults choose to have sex and it even shows in the last chapter the uke wants to have sex and initiated he wasn’t manipulated into having sex with him it just so happens that getting his hair touched turned him on and he’s not shrinking him along. He actually has feelings for him, but probably doesn’t know how to process them yet at this point in the story. We still have a whole story to go for him to develop. It’s called character development. And who knows if he has his own side story trauma just because the Ute is so fluffy and we like him doesn’t mean that the male lead is automatically going to fall in love with him or put his past stuff aside right away they have time to fall in love and develop a relationship
And that’s why you say because they still have time to develop a relationship and we still have a lot of story to get through he never did anything so horrible that we should just write him off when we still have a whole story to read the story just started and he’s not stringing him along because again he was honest he could’ve actually strung him along, but he didn’t
Y’all need to get it together sitting here acting like the male lead did anything horrible it’s crazy cause he did it. He acted like a bitch when the only thing he ever actually did was set his boundaries straight and be completely honest with the uke and the uke literally agreed to the kind of relationship they have even if he wants something more or y’all love him because he’s so innocent and cute he still agreed to the relationship. It was not forced on him.