
Everyone is crazy and selfish!! Geez For now I just love how the little crown prince enjoys playing like a normal kid when he's with the uke. I'm also glad the emperor is not being petty this time and letting them spend time together. U know you can be jelly and not kill peeps so yeah, you're on the right track emperor. I need my uke safe and sound until the end. He doesn't deserve shits from the ruthless emperor, his molester brother, or anyone else! Must protect at all costs!!

Compared to SH of POTN at least the seme here is doing something! Even if it's pretense to change he said, still he doesn't deliberately hurt our precious uke and is trying his best to do good so uke would like him. Also, uke seems to become more beautiful each chapter my heart is soft for him ♡(´˘`๑)

At least something is progressing. Honestly I am very close to just drop Painter bcs of no development. He literally assumes everything and won't let the uke talk nor he listens. The only thing which it saves it for me rn is that the drawing style is deliciousbut honestly I just feel like dropping it and coming later after there ar emore chapters in Painter, lol.

You really can't blame Seungho this time though. He did ask him and NK wouldn't even speak. I mean, Nakyum has the chance to say it. He's scared by Jihwa and the killer? Well I have to say Seungho raping him and treating him like shit is even MORE SCARY than being bloody murdered. Heck, everyday suffering is more mentally breaking than being killed. I say boy Nakyum should just say what happened instead of taking it like this and suffer, making the already mentally unstable SH even more unstable. But I don't think that's happening soon, yes? Sigh... Guess I have to rely on Mr. Kim to drive the plot to a better direction again. Hopefully he'll say or do something good.

NK can say what happened and I believe SH wouldn't hurt him like this? Both sides are willing to do the deed. As seen in the last chapters when they did it, it's consensual. Nakyum may have developed Stockholm Syndrome and that's awful, but he is already forming feelings for Seungho regardless whatever kind or how deep or long. If not for this incident where he's been kidnapped, I do believe there will be more chances for them to understand each other more. Seungho even let him know about his feelings before the kidnapping. For people to show their vulnerable side, that's already more than sex and abuse. All Nakyum has to do is say what happened and he still doesn't. What do you expect SH to do? He's never felt proper love, always paranoid, suffers from all the medications he's taken for years, and now for once he's shown his vulnerable real self to someone, only for that someone to 'run away', what do you think you would do? If that were me, I'd be badshit crazy and felt miserable to death. He's already unstable in the first place. Lying or hiding things can only make it worse. The best thing NK can do is to be honest, tell him what really happened. Like I said, being tormented/abused like this everyday would be far worse than dying.
I'm not justifying nor covering Seungho up for being crazy and raping him like this, I'm only pointing out the fact that Nakyum has an option to be honest and say what happened instead of being scared of dying under the hands of Jihwa and the assassin and having himself tormented and abused by SH.
Just when you think this story can't get any cuter, a puppy was introduced ( ̄∀ ̄)