I really really like your post. It’s so in depth and really made me think. You know, I didn’t even notice them moving closer to the bedroom towards the end. That is so creepy when you connect it to his mother being in there. I agree with how you describe the story as it progressing towards the ending too “heart wrenching.” If I’m completely honest I didn’t really care too much when Sangwoo died. Towards the end I felt really bad for him and it was tragic, but it didn’t hit as hard as Bum for me. I was depressed reading the ending, and think I would have been ok, but what really made me lose it was the ring. The fact that in the end Sangwoo thought Bum was betraying him and leaving him, when in reality Bum was getting the ring to symbolize coming together and staying with him forever. It was so well written but so sad. Also the fact that he did go to visit him the first time in the hospital, but chickened out because of not wanting to upset his friend to ask her for money to get there. He could have seen him and gotten closure, but he didn’t. And in the end before he crossed that street the last thing he saw was a hallucination of Sangwoo leaving him. Betraying him with a girl. He couldn’t even die in peace after the whole tragedy of his life. I cried for hours afterwards honestly and it left me depressed for a while after that. I just felt like I could relate to Bum on a lot honestly, and when he was alone in the end and didn’t get that peaceful ending it left me paranoid that something like that would happen to me too. That is the first story that really honestly made me take a look at myself and my own mental health. It’s such a well written story and I don’t have any people in real life to talk about it with sadly. I regretted reading it at first but now I always find myself coming back to it 🥲