
I want to commend Kyungsoo for how he handled the situation. He told Chowon what he heard and knew and gave Chowon a chance to say his version of events. His decision at the end of the conversation was a factual/logical statement resulting from the facts given by both versions. That's how conflicts as adults should be resolved.

Very true.. I'm glad he confronted Chowing like that. I wouldn't blame him for saying he's scared, I would be too and the fact that Chowon acted like he still thinks Dojun is his and is still planning something is very wrong. I don't blame him for leaving after that, to be honest I would be too, thinking that I wouldn't be able to do anything and just let Chowon realize what's best for him, himself

Yul's reaction just made me hurt. He has self-esteem and self-worth issues and Luan knew it because he's been investigating Yijun and Yul for quite sometime now. Right from the start he (and so did I) questioned Luan's interest to him but because Luan showed him a bit of kindness and gentleness he thought that whatever Luan's doing can't be that bad.
This is definitely on Luan. Sure he says he can't live w/o Yul and stuff but this is the 1st time in my reading of yaoi that I don't trust this seemingly sincere confession of the seme. I will always have this nagging feeling that he'll toss Yul away.
As for Yijun, sure he's a bastard and all of that but at least Yul knew that right from the start. There was no pretense.

Maybe being extremely dominant in a gender causes them to have hormonal imbalance that maybe causing temper issues.
I know of someone in rl who had hormonal imbalance and was really quick to anger and borderline violent. When he sought medical help, they gave him a medicine to balance his hormones and that really help with his anger issues.

And here I thought Wonje shooting down flying birds in front of Heun was evil. But this! Cutting wings?! Feeding it raw?! Beheading?!
I hope the Crown Prince grows up to be the total opposite of his dad/Wonje

Wonje was truly, very evil. The one who cut the wings & fed it raw to the envoy, then beheaded him was the past wonje, not his current self. The current emperor hasn't done anything that extreme yet. This story highlights how disastrous bad parenting combined with immense power can be. Scary thing is, this can apply to real people in real life too. *shudder*
Time to reread