My ex reached out after 1.5 years of no contact

The story

I manifested my ex back after 1.5 years of no contact.

He cheated on me, I caught him and obviously dumped him on the spot. Because the confrontation and dumping occurred via text, he didn't say anything back, didn't reply, just blocked me. He isn't the type to ever apologize for anything anyway, he's an ass to be honest.

Well, even though I knew I was never going to take him back, I really, really wanted an apology and to see some remorse on his part, even though I knew he was in a relationship with his side piece. So I started watching YT videos on manifestation, came across Lanie Stevens, came across Neville, read some of his books, did meditations (I am not good at those). My biggest help was Lanie Stevens and a YT manifestation guru. I learned about affirmations, aforemations, law of assumption. At this point, I just assumed/felt that he was going to contact me. I was having internal dialogues where I was telling myself "he is obsessed with me, he can't stop thinking about me, he is overwhelmed with guilt, I am the best thing that ever happened to him, he messages me so much, too much actually". I wasn't even consistent with all this. Using Lanie Stevens' Pussy Whip, I did some visualizations here and there.

One day, I heard the sound of my email and something told me it was him. It was. He had unblocked me on Hangouts too (the app we used to talk on), and the email was just a "hi" (he was testing the waters). By then, I was over the whole thing so I replied, it was during the Covid restrictions and awfully bored too, so I didn't mind having him as a friend.

For almost one whole year, he called me every night, and messaged me through the day. Obsessively. He had parted ways with the side piece.