Mingyu is a nightmare of a roommate.

Wonwoo already knows that Headmaster Kim has it in for him. When you’re the son of the Kim family’s sworn enemy (who was the previous Headmaster before Headmaster Kim stormed in and sent everything crashing down; it’s complicated, he knows), it’s not hard to figure out. Their families haven’t hated each other since the beginning of time, but it sure feels like it. He had lessons centered around everything he shouldn’t do as a future company heir, and it all featured the Kims as a prime example. Even Wonwoo’s bedtime stories consisted of propaganda about what the Kim family did wrong.

Honestly, Wonwoo has long mastered the art of indifference and would have explicitly continued Not Caring about stupid family politics, if it wasn’t for Mingyu.

Kim Mingyu. Headmaster Kim’s adopted son, golden retriever personified, worst roommate to ever exist.

No matter how hard Wonwoo tries, he can’t understand why Headmaster Kim insists on sticking the two together. No matter how much he hates Wonwoo, this is his son he’s sacrificing. He’s just placing a bonfire right next to dynamite. They’re a disaster waiting to happen, and knowing them, they’ll probably burn the school down before they graduate.

But it’s times when Mingyu gets up at o’clock in the morning (of course the is a morning person) and has no conception of how to do anything quietly, that Wonwoo wonders if maybe this is actually part of Headmaster Kim’s grand plan to make his life hell. Moments when Mingyu attempts to belt out Adele songs in the shower even though he is most definitely not a singer, when he spends all night loudly typing up his assignments, when he mixes up Wonwoo’s clothes with his own despite Wonwoo’s wardrobe clearly only consisting of black, Wonwoo wonders if Headmaster Kim knows how fatally annoying his son is without even trying.

Even though you’re supposed to stay with the same roommate for all four years at International Eastridge Prep, Wonwoo can still ask for a roommate swap. This probably hasn’t occurred to Mingyu yet, because Mingyu isn’t a thinker and Wonwoo’s the only one who actively voices his dislike for their arrangement.

But every year, Wonwoo decides to stick it through one more time. Even if Mingyu is impossibly inconsiderate and obnoxious, the reason why Wonwoo is so perpetually unhappy is not Mingyu’s fault at all (at least not directly).

The worst part about his roommate being Mingyu, who always falls asleep first, who smiles with his entire face, who never fails at reminding Wonwoo to eat three meals a day even if they aren’t talking to one another, is the constant reminder that Wonwoo can’t have him.

Mingyu is a nightmare of a roommate, and Wonwoo is the moron that’s painfully in love with him.