So if this is true, then this means: they all (Jihwa, green robe guy) underestimate SH's intelligence because they only saw him having sex. However, he will hear somehow from Jihwa (after getting caught) that the green robe guy was the one who introduced him the hired killer. So he will know for sure. For me, the biggest villains will be In Hun and SH's brother.
SHs brother is a bad guy?
This is a theory of mine. He has been introduced and we saw little from him. However, I see the encounter between him and In Hun (the teacher saw him from afar and saw that the brother smiled after receiving a letter) as very important (cliffhanger) in my opinion. There is some tension between SH and his brother. Since In Hun is a hypocrite and has already planned to betray SH, I can imagine that the brother could conspire against his brother. If SH dies or is condemned for a crime, the younger brother could become the successor.
My theory was that SH was outed as sodomist in order to save his family from the purgery... so it saved the family, yet at the same time, they had to leave the court as the father quit his position which means in the long run, the family is declining. So I can imagine (if my theory is correct) that the father wants to stop this non-sense and to have the younger brother take a position as official. But for that, he needs SH's return to the family.
But wouldn't his brother be in a better position if he was the heir and held the admin position as well? Others have before him.
I am sure in the 10 years SH has been out of the family he believed that this would be the natural order of things and now that his father either repented or sees further use of SH, SH would be seen as usurping lil' bro's future. Also, even when you live with your relatives it doesn't guarantee a familial bond but 10 years out of sight after you were outed of it for "dragging" the family's "honor" through the mud is not going to make does fragile ties get any stronger.
I agree that that encounter of IH and SH's bro foreshadows an association.
Things don't just get thrown for the Hell of it in this story.
I love to watch oriental historic drama or movies ... Chinese, Korean, Japanese. There is always a emperor, lord, king with a lot of concubines or wives. Many times, the real good drama is among the wives: betrayal or a big plot involving the struggle of power to see who become the mistress of the house. There is always the sweet, naive one, the crazy jealous, easily manipulated by emotions and then the real villain, sly and conniving one who always tries to eliminate all the other wives/lovers. This is just like the gay version of it, lol. Nakyum is the sweet, naive new lover who steals the lord's heart and leaves the other wives behind. All the other wives get jealous, the previous favorite one is the most emotionally unstable and end up doing something stupid (Jihwa) because another 'wife' knows how to use the situation to try and get rid of both at the same time. (the green robe guy).
I just loving this harem drama with Seungho's sister wives, lol.
I know I am supposed to hate Jihwa but I can't help but feel pity for him for being so easy to manipulate. He is by no means worth of pity though because he is a spoiled, vain man and like a good bitter spurned lover, his humiliation is not only because he probably feels Nakyum has what he never had -- Seungho's falling for him -- but on top of it, he lost to a lowborn. Still, the poor sap is being manipulated by the real smart, conniving wife : the green robe lover. He lied to Jihwa, hiding the rumors about Seungho really being taken by Nakyum, knowing Jihwa would end up going after Seungho with high hopes and end up desperate like now.
Now he is there egging Jihwa on, saying that if he doesn't do anything and have Nakyum killed, the lowborn will end up as Seungho's mistress of the house. He probably calculating that the best opportunity to get rid of two love rivals at once.
Green robe guy without even a name is the real villain of this story.