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It just looks awful for the Painter. How can even Yoon keep going that long? Is that physically possible. Wouldn't they need food and water? Hydration is important. Wouldn't it stink so bad after a point.
Wouldn't they need bathroom breaks?
And who are the poor servants who have to clean all that up?
It just seems physically impossible to go that long without eating, drinking, or even using the restroom.
Was this mean to be hot? Parts of it were, but I can't believe Yoon never let up for that long.
I find myself rooting for the Shady Teacher to succeed in his revenge on Yoon. He's a bastard but if he **cks Yoon over I'll cheer him on hard. I know he doesn't care about the kid, but please let him make Yoon suffer like no one has suffered before.
How does the Painter recover from the emotional trauma of this? He's being turned into Yoon's personal sex slave.
I just don't see where this story goes that's positive beyond Yoon get a knife through the stomach. The painter will be hurt for life by what he's experienced. He'll probably never want to paint sodomy again after this. It won't be something he fantasizes about, but something he fears after what Yoon's put him through.

Like seriously, why didn't he first try to bargain with her. He jumps straight to threats. Shouldn't he at least try to be like, "What do you want?"
If she's like, "I'd like a cottage to call my own."
"If you help me, then it will be yours."
Girl: Cool. Oh and a title."
Emperor: Sure, babe.
Girl: And lots of money!
Emperor: Done.
Girl: Perfect. Then I better help you! I could benefit enormously.
Instead he's like, "Marry me or PRISON!"
Coz that'll make for a really good accomplice. Not. :/

The carrot is usually what you offer before the stick. And I definitely don't think that was the best solution.
However, in shoujo it's often seen as too "calculating" if the heroine were to agree to do something for financial gain. So the male lead usually threatens first to show his "dominance" and so that she can remain an innocent who is being forced against her will.
This way she remains like a child. Because she did not choose to help him, she avoids traits like cunning and working for her own self-interest. The male lead can't see her as a schemer because he made her agree. He made the decision. She didn't. It strips her of any dark traits, yet also takes away complexity.
But I still like it anyway. I mean this is just for entertainment. I just wish sometimes in such stories like this the female lead had to face real decisions and weigh if something was worth it to her.
He does what is best for him and the female lead just goes through the story all "la-dee-dah" and "tee-hee~" because she has to be kept an innocent.

Yes usually, but it's not always the best thing to do, specially now when the one you are making the offer to have something they can use as a threat. Even if they offered her everything she want now, what proofs did they have that she wouldn't use what she know later on as a threat to get more? Also you have to take into consideration that's she's extremely poor, with peoples like that you can never be sure how they would react if all of a sudden they see a huge amount of money. So yeah, starting with a threat was the best in that situation, it scared her and showed her that her knowledge wouldn't help her in fact was that knowledge was bad for her instead and than at the same times gave them a safety net.
We as the readers know that she's innocent and never would do anything like that, but they know nothing about it, they did an investigation but you can never knew another true personality so easily, some peoples can hide themselves their wholes life without anyone else realizing their true personality.

Starting with a threat is almost never the best in a situation. People are much more reliable when they feel they've chosen to do something than when they have been threatened into it. People doing a job because they feel they'll gain something are more reliable by far than someone doing it because they're scared of imprisonment.
In fact, because she's poor they'd be more likely to try money first on the assumption that she would happily jump at their offer. They'd also have better leverage over her.
I absolutely disagree with your premise. That is not how things work. And they would have to be the world's dumbest people to live in the society they do and have no sense of whether they can make a deal with someone or not. People like that size up others and figure out what their interests are. The only surprise is when people don't act as they expected them to.
The surprise would be if a very poor person turned down an offer of a lot of money.
People who live in such high stakes political words are very adept at figuring out people. They have to be. It's their bread and butter. It's do that or die.
Also the whole point of having him threaten her is so he can be the "dominant" male lead. That's why it's so common in these stories. The real reason why shoujo heroines are rarely made offers is so they can remain "pure", innocent, almost child-like characters. It has nothing to do with "they didn't want to offer her money because they don't know how a very poor person might react". It's because the trope is to proof that she is "not like the others".
Shoujo heroines like her have to be kept as pure girls who don't make real decisions. If he offered her money and she accepted, she would be "like the others" and if she refused she would be "stupid". To avoid this nuance and complexity of her weighing such a choice, the writer has her coerced. Then she can remain pure because it's not her fault. There was nothing she could do but be helpless to her circumstances.
This lets her be a damsel who slowly melts the prince's heart through her innocent nature.
I don't mind. I read these stories anyway, but it's silly to act like we don't know why its being done this way.

So adult dragon dropped some hints of what is going on. Jin and he are connected. Whatever he is attracted to, so is Jin and vice-versa. He can't use Jin's blood because it's cursed so he needs an in-between. Somehow that is Suu.
Suu is being immunized against the dragon's venom and his body seems to becoming tolerant of it to the point that in the later chapters he doesn't faint or pass out at all. In fact, when he jumped out the window to escape the dragon he was able to recover from it without healers or Jin. He threw up and had a fever for days, but he was able to recover without dying.
Jin's servants comment that the dragon feeds on Suu but not the point of death. It drains him to his limit and then lets him recover. The dragon also says that not only does he intend to "become one" with Suu and put some of his power in him, he also intends to take him to a "higher place".
The dragon said "You eat Jin. I eat you". Apparently Suu is gaining energy from Jin's regenerative blood and the dragon then feeds from Suu. I guess Suu is like a water filter at the moment. He filters out the poison. Since he started making out with Jin he seems more resistant to the dragon's venom.
Jin seems increasingly obsessed with Suu even though he hides it a lot. He intends to keep Nadan as leverage over Suu. He even tells Suu that he'll pardon Nadan if Suu agrees to stay and take care of the dragon.
However, I don't think he really plans to let Suu free at all. He also is hella jealous of Suu's love for Nadan and seems to want to kill Nadan for that reason alone, but keeps him so as not to lose his leverage piece over Suu.
He also seemed rather angry to learn that Suu has been saving up to get him and Nadan out of Rahan. Suu wanted to cross the borders. It's clear Jin is more attached to Suu than what Jin can accept. He's not someone used to being that attached to someone. I think on one hand he wants to kill Suu and on the other he can't stand the thought of not having Suu where he can have him.

I believe that Suu found out and figured out quite a bit while carrying out Jin’s errand. Saharah revealed himself to be a dragon, which Suu had a difficult time accepting since he doesn’t even believe dragons truly exist. However, this was confirmed by Jin.
Suu realized that Jin is in fact the Crown Prince, which is why the royal consort found it so amusing, making up the story that the crown prince “favors” Jin. Suu confirmed his hunch though his and Jin’s ambiguous conversation, without directly asking.
Nevertheless, everything that Suu has recently learned is ultimately rendered null and void since his memory was wiped once again when Jin healed him.
...Although I question whether his memory was actually wiped this time, since he is building up an immunity to possibly both the poison and healing side effects. Jin also knows how well Suu is able to “play dumb”, since he admits that he used to frequently do the same.

Thanks for the input guys!! As the story goes on it gets more and more complex or should I say everything is getting more clear. I'm looking forward to the next chapter to see whether he did in fact lose his memory or is "playing dumb". Either way I might read over the last couple of chapters and see if I missed something.

It seems everyone's forgetting about what Suu was thinking before I assume they did it, or something happened anyway, and then he lost his memory. He's really hungry again.. his mouth feels sandy.. it seemed even that he was looking at Jin as a food source. Either Suu is slowly developing the symptoms of Mara, or he developes symptoms every time Sahara feeds off of him, and every time, Jin heals him.
She really knows how to drive the knife with her horrible cousin and fiance.