Yes!! Grateful for you guys, conversations like this are so rare here
I agree that nakyum did everything he could to avoid the situation, he tried so hard. :c While yoons flawed world-view primarily hurts others, nakyums primarily hurts himself. He’s in a situation where he has no power, and the only way he can get a little leverage is to understand yoon and others. He shouldn’t have to but might be the best he can currently do for himself. No matter what though he doesn’t share fault in what happens to him.
I agree nakyum did what he could to avoid the situation, he tried so hard :c While yoons flawed world-view primarily hurts others, nakyums primarily hurts himself. He’s powerless and the only way he might get leverage would be to understand yoon and others. He shouldn’t have to, but might be the best he can do for himself in this situation. No matter what though he doesn’t share fault in what happens to him.
Oops, Sorry for double post
Yes!
Again, this is not what I meant, that's why my reply was adressed to the poster (and not anybody else who might misanderstand what I say).
You didn't misinterprete it. Nakyum is indeed clueless and that'll play against him whether it's with Yoon, In Hun or others, he needs to see over the appearences people can keep as face. He's too attached to that teacher that we all know is faking talent and wisdom.
I don't know if he needs to let go of his purity for that, but he needs to grow for his own good and perceive people for what they are.
He also have to get proper (scholarship) education to avoid being duped by someone like In Hun.
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Pretty much the first thing yoon did when he met nakyum was grab nakyums hand a put it on his dick and y’all surprised he’s crazy? Yoon is consistent, he is an accurate representation of his time period/social standing and I respect the author for developing him fully as a real person. She made him do things that readers won’t be able to come to terms with, something most authors would hold back on because they care more about their character being likable than realistic. She didn’t make the second rape porn, but instead portrayed it in a way that even without understanding what’s being said you can feel the emotional impact of the scene. Enjoying yoon as a dynamic character isn’t the same as seeing him as a morally good character who’s done nothing wrong. He has a lot of depth, and the dynamic she developed between nakyum and yoon is really interesting.
Yoons entire life has revolved around his social status, rank has determined everything. He’s never been rejected or even told no in his life, because he’s always been surrounded by people hoping to gain his favor. All these people were lesser nobles too, way higher in rank than nakyum. Yoon even said himself that he’d never embrace someone on nakyums level, and wouldn’t have even considered being rejected by him possible. The idea that nakyum could prefer inhun to him would also be an insult he couldn’t understand, anyone else wouldn’t even look at inhun because his status is so low. But nakyum insults yoon like no one else would dare and only treats inhun with sincerity. Even though the expression wasn’t for him, when yoon slept with drunk nakyum it was the first time sleeping with someone who was in love and not just trying to use him. Doesn’t make it right, but he’s obsessed and confused. Even yoon gets that he messed up, or at least it seems like it from him brooding in the bathtub and then going back to nakyum. But the boy is clueless and handles that wrong too. He keeps reaching out to nakyum in the ways he knows how and failing because his world view is wrong, and I’m interested in seeing what he’ll have to go through to grow as a character.
The old servant is also a surprisingly well written character, and proof that the author knows how to make characters change and grow. In the beginning he views nakyum similarly to the rest of the servants, with a decent amount of disdain. Why wouldn’t they dislike him? He’s as low born as them, meaning he should be struggling in the same way they are. While they are working hard he’s living however he wants and all he has to do for that life is paint, yet he’s not grateful for it. They don’t see his reasoning, or anything else that goes into it, just him rejecting a life they all wish they could have. The old servant is the first to see the reality of his situation and understand that nakyum doesn’t have it as good as it seems. Sympathy and compassion allowed him to change his views towards nakyum in a really realistic way.
This author is really talented and even if you don’t like what she’s doing with the plot of story how well she is handling the craft of it so far should be acknowledged. This ended up long sorry, if you’re still reading thanks for making it this far lol