The Subplot Of This Novel Is Peculiar

This work contains explicit sexual content intended for adult readers only, as well as suicide/suicidal ideation, dubious consent, grooming, and the use of female-coded sexual language for male characters.

An ordinary office worker, Cha Jeongwoo, transmigrated into a BL novel his younger sister had been reading.
Thankfully, aside from his age, educational background, and college classmates, not much had changed.

He drew a firm line between himself and the main couple, insisting that whatever they did to each other had nothing to do with him. But after repeatedly running into the novel’s second male lead by chance, he found himself unable to stop noticing the guy.

" ...Jeongwoo. I'm sick."
"...I hurt so much. I feel pitiful, so don't push me away."
"...Does it hurt that bad?"

Why did he find himself worrying about the guy, who was often unwell, and give him a summer cardigan?
Why did he peel the tattered bandage off his injured fist and replace it with a new one?
Amid the questions that piled up one after another, he kept denying that it could be what he thought it was. But in the end...

"So I, toward Min Siheon—this novel's sub-top... I like him."

To think he saw the guy as more than a friend and had even developed feelings for him.
It was a hopeless unrequited love.
Knowing that seeing Min Siheon now would only make his heart ache even more, he decided to keep his distance for a while and endure it. But then....

[Jeongwoo, why aren't you answering?]
[Nothing's wrong, right?]
[Can't you please pick up the phone?]
:
:
[Cha Jeongwoo. Contact me before I really come to catch you.]

Original Novel:
R19: RIDI, Naver Series, Bomtoon, MrBlue, BookCube
R15: RIDI, Bomtoon, MrBlue, BookCube

Official Translations:
English

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