yea can someone explain what this whole rumor situation is, im confused after reading this chapter?
So one of the childhood friend pair, let's call her A, saw her crush, B, confessing to MC's childhood friend. A got pissed and tried to get back at her by spreading rumors of her on LINE. Soon after the fact, A felt guilty, and went to MC to apologize (or maybe he found her and she broke down, I don't know at this point). MC, then, instead of forcing A to confess to everyone what happened, took this situation to his advantage to make
him be the anonymous gossiper on LINE to make himself look bad, directing all hostility that was on his childhood friend onto him, instead.
A week passed, and MC decides to draw B to him by saying his crush, A, was dead, and I don't know what MC was trying to go for at this point, but A had enough out of guilt, put a stop to it, explained everything, before she and B prostrated to MC and his childhood friend in apology, in front of everyone in class. Thus, the slut-shaming rumors around childhood friend have ended while MC's reputation with classmates is kind of on the dampened side, but feels this is as good as any to cut further ties with his childhood friend, but she ain't having any of that, leading to events on ch. 14.
Yeah, even after laying it out, I still didn't understand half of it, either.