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I will be real with you, I was a bit confused

MC reunites with his tutor from back when he was still in high school and the LI was already in university. It is really unclear what the age gap is here, just a few years or sometimes steeper? It never really gets mentioned.

MC does some experiments with the LI at his new workplace and has to answer a bunch of personal questions. during these he confesses to LI and we see some flashbacks, where we learn that after LI threated him to study better, MC actually turned around his life, and fell for LI

now we get to the confusing part - apparently, LI was only tutoring him as part of a school experiment about at-risk kids, which involved making the MC get attached to him. however, MC found out about this back then and still was in love with LI and was greatful to him about helping his sht get together, even if it was through lowkey manipulation and for selfish reasons

and apparently at their reunion LI fell for him too, and only did this new experiment to make MC fall for him?

idk, but they were both into the whole manipulative experiment thing, so I guess they do belong together