I feel like the direction this story is going in is that eventually, Sam-Myeong is going to have a massive mental breakdown and become an extremely broken, vulnerable shell of himself from all the sexual abuse (guilt from feeling physically pleasured by rape and a man), all of the plague patients who died due to a lack of his care bc he’s trapped in the palace (guilt from feeling like he’s directly responsible for multiple deaths), and the revelation that his dad was murdered.
But I want to believe that if this does happen and SM ends up so mind broken that he maybe develops Stockholm syndrome it won’t be glorified or seen as romantic, since this story isn’t tagged as romance >.< I’m trusting the process!
Yeonwoo is about to blow up the relationship bc he won’t just open his fucking mouth and TALK to his boyfriend oh my godddd. These past 3 chapters have been so hard to get through. I miss when they were lovey-dovey with each other ;-;
The plot is plotting though and with the way things are going right now, Yeonwoo is gonna end up pushing Hwibum closer to Hyuk







Fuck Jaekyung and the chasing arc, I’d rather see Dan go to therapy and heal. The poor guy is completely falling apart :(