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His "friend" is one crazy mf. I don't even feel any sympathy for him. He's a sucidal gaslighter who manipulates the MC. I actually wished he got ran over by that car when he tried to kill himself to make the MC feel guilty. But what does the author do. They make the driver of that car this psycho's love interest. Might just have to skip the chapters about them. Not rooting for a happy ending for this psychotic bi***.