The separation of Military Enlistment is a cruel thing but it could also provided something Jiyong and Seunghyun both seem to need: time and space. The space to decide what they mean to one another and what they want for their future. Fate and emotion can only go so far to help them, however. In the end whatever paths Fate provides, it is only by choices made, or taken, that they can be walked. 

Jiyong knows they are doomed, knows there is no hope, and yet he aches for Seunghyun.