
I still don’t understand why Yama is so adamant on the present timeline to sleep with 704, he didn’t show interest in him in the beginning at all. Did as the years went by he became attracted to 704? Or is he trying to piss of Geumsun? Yama is such a mystery. I’d like to see an spin off about him!
And about Geumsun and 704, Geumsun definitely knew and liked him before, I’m just not sure if they were lovers or not.

This story.... had the potential but somehow it’s been lost and just left an empty, kinda disgusted feeling after reading it.
I wanted to see something like the main character slowly start to reverse manipulate the therapist, to use his apparent weakness and push and pull behavior to snare him in a web of sorts. Let the therapist thinks he’s in control while he slowly gains the upper hand or something.
I wanted to see him gain real confidence and start to use it again his brother and college bullies, to become seductive and manipulative. That’s the victorious psycho route I wanted to see.
The good route would be, of course, for him to find real help and become independent of his father and far away from all the people in his house. It would be great for it to happen too.
But what I’m seeing is..... MC still just hates himself and lives by the will of others. The feeling of “liberation” is ironic because he’s not free at all, he’s right in the palm of the therapists hand, still is just doing pretty much everything the doctor wants — I feel like whatever he asks of MC, MC would happily do no matter how disturbing — and now the brother is probably gonna join in the porn. Oh well. Not the character development I wanted of this psychological one. No matter if on the psycho or the good route, all I wanted was for him to gain control of his own life and triumph all over these horrible people.
Since we’re never actually gonna be shown explicit sex scenes or have it heavily implied like in Palace of Bardo over here, we can only speculate. I still wonder if Ji Ning raped Bai Qingyan after he captured him, and if they did it after Qingyan lost his memories.
What came to mind in this most recent chapter was when Qingyan asked if Ji Ning felt his heart in pain when he saw his whip marks. That made me think that they must’ve had sex after Qingyan lost his memory, or Ji Ning just saw his bare back but didn’t touch him (which I don’t think is very probable. In a context that Qingyan shows his bare back, especially at that historical point of time, it’s a very intimate thing to do — and with Ning’s temperament, I personally think they must have done it after Qingyan lost his memories. Now if Ji Ning raped him after the capture, before he got amnesia, I’m still not sure).
same thoughtsss!