Unpopular opinion: the MC is in the wrong and needs to apologize properly, but all he want...

Wait maybe I’m forgetting exactly what MC did but I don’t remember him being all that bad?? Like he used him as inspiration for his story. Practically every author bases characters on real people they know. So why is ML calling MC disgusting for it I don’t understand. The very most I would do is break up and call it a day, and I definitely wouldn’t berate him over it FIVE YEARS LATER. Idk maybe I missed something and it’s deeper than I thought.

This is precisely why I cannot take some of the takes people have seriously. They made it sound like Dohu has done some unforgivable sin. We have other manga with assault and cheating, but apparently something like taking someone as writing inspiration worth getting ghosted for 4 years. Also, Dohu has apologized. When Juheon asked for space, Dohu gave him that as well. When Juheon accused Dohu never said "I love you" first, now Dohu kept on saying it straight to Juheon's face. Like, what more do you want Dohu to do? Dohu has suffered enough.

No exactly and it’s not that serious to call for a breakup either , like??? If you love the person enough , I don’t think something as trivial as using you as inspiration would make you want to break up
But I think the reason mc even started dating ml is because he wanted to experience it himself , ml is upset abt that ig, "you don’t love me,you only dated me to use me " but calling him disgusting and being all salty abt it is too much

I feel like ML has some trauma about people approaching him just to use him, but yeah how was dohu supposed to know about it??? he did approach hom from what i remember to use for inspiration, and said from begining that he likes him (he meant as an interesting person not that je has a crush on him) and ML took it as direct confession (somewhat understandable, but also along the way he did understood that dohu is kinda socially paralysed so he should've known better) and then never gave dohu the leeway to explain and hust decided in his head that dohu (whom he knows is socially fucked) is the same as everyone else and just cut him off. don't get me wrong, I actually like that dohu is the one doing the chasing this time, since it's forcing him to slowly go out of his comfort zone and try to understand ml, which means we're up for some character development, but o don't get the viewer anger for dohu, he's literally putting in the effort to overcome his shortcomings which ml knew about, all because he admitted he loves ml.

Someone said, Juheon might have mistaken Dohu for his stalker.
Assuming that's the case, In Juheon 's POV, alleged stalker Dohu, approached him, lowered his guard and used him in his fantasy. Since writers take detailed notes of their inspirations, "Character building" and "World Building", the notes would appear stalker-ish since it's inspired by a living person. Juheon's feeling of betrayal might have stemmed from him questioning if all of those warm fluttering events that happened between them might be fake. So despite knowing Dohu's personality, his doubts, fueled by the circumstantial evidence, were stronger. Thus, he judged Dohu as a manipulative sick, fck.
If that were the case indeed, then it would make sense that after five years he still hate Dohu that much because he would be under the impression that he was harassing him for all the times Dohu tried to reach out to him, which were pretty stalker-ish without context.
Then the scene of him asking Dohu to quit would make more sense, because he thought he was following him, which wasn't true despite Dohu entering the industry to get a chance encounter with him and get a move on, their meeting after years was truly a lucky encounter Dohu was waiting for. However, Juheon doesn't believe that because he's still holding on to his preconceived idea that Dohu is his stalker, and that was made stronger when his apartment was wrecked after spending time with him and his manager probably mentioned to him that Dohu refered a new residence that he knew was closer to Dohu's, or mainly because Dohu refered a residential area after his apartment got wrecked. How timely was that?
But without those deductions, I don't understand what's wrong with being used as an inspiration by an artist to their artwork. Every artist has their muse, mostly their love ones. I'd understand if the argument was Artist wasn't seeing the muse for who they are but to me it was just the trigger and Juheon's anger wasn't about that at all.

I 100% get what you mean and agree with you. But, the actual problem with the mc isn't that he's being arrogant. He genuinely can't figure out what he did wrong cause he can't comprehend feelings which is a real medical condition.
But that being said, there are readers who are saying that juheon (the seme) is the one who should apologise and want Dohu back. Which I absolutely hate and disagree with.
During these 5 meetings, Dohu should really try to explain what actually happened and clear the misunderstandings. Dohu has problems comprehending emotions but juheon on the other hand, is very emotional and somewhat rational. So I have a feeling that if Dohu can just clear the misunderstanding from his end, juheon will definitely try to see the bigger picture and will surely want to accept Dohu again 'cause let's be for real, dude is actually more head over heels for Dohu.

so if someone uses you, don't explain themselves properly and say "oh! sorry I can't understand my own feelings that's why you will be my lab rat to help me>>.Will you smile?

you are just blind because it is the mc if it was the ml your judgment must be different

Blind? If I’m missing something then tell me, I genuinely don’t understand what he did so wrong. Also why does it make a difference if it’s the MC or the ML?

Using the person you're dating for your book and to understand your feelings is very wrong, especially if you don't explain yourself and apologize properly.

The more I see argument like this the childish Juheon becomes. How can he explain and apologize when Juheon already drew up conclusion and didn't give Dohu time to process the flood of emotions Juheon dumped on him and disappeared.
If he's angry because he used him for inspiration that shouldn't have took him years of ghosting him. Clearly, there's a lot more going on Juheon's side that it simply because people approached him for simply their personal interest. Not all interest are shady like he believed, because if it is, then people befriending others because they picked their interest must all be fake. And if writing to process one's thoughts and feelings is such a crime, writing journals must be a devil's act. RL Writers who used their love ones for inspirations must be demons then.

yes, a self-respecting person draws a line by distancing himself. I don't know about you but the ml is 100% right

I disagree. Yes, it's right for him to distance himself, everyone has the right to protect themselves to anything deemed as harmful, but he wasn't 100% right.
Both of them are in a relationship, be it clear or just a situationship, the most sane take is still talking it out and end it clean rather than having an emotional outburst and held onto that state for years. If distancing was what's needed in that situation then he would be living better instead of miserable. What he did was avoidance disguised as what you think as self-respect. That's why Dohu called him pathetic.
And while it's Dohu's fault this misunderstanding between them started, he's not wrong for trying to understand what Juheon's thinking. It's normal for people to want to understand and relate to people they have relationships with. It so happens that he process things differently than normal people and his mind only caught up with his feelings when Juheon's gone.
Juheon just disappeared without hearing him out, he has right to his feelings too as Juheon has with his.