
poor shin.... imagine being raped by your lovers father and then being kidnapped and poisoned and then becoming disabled from the poison and also being seen as incompetent for the childhood he never chose and then also being sold in to sex slavery by his parents and then having your lover take the same position as your abuser. but ya know he won’t accept wolfgangs love so he’s an asshole amirite

What? Have we read the same thing?
Was shin raped by the king? I don’t think so, he escaped that night with the blindfold with something sys put in it for the king to sleep. And he said to Wolfgang that he was his - meaning he didn’t do anything to him.
He wasn’t sold by his parents into sex slavery - the nobles were forced to leave their kids there.
He choose Wolfgang for the position and Wolfgang only acts how Shin orders and it’s all to create a better future.
Now... with all of this I’m not trying to say Shin didn’t have a traumatic and painful childhood because he did. I’m just saying that somethings you said I didn’t get.
Anyway... I don’t think he’s an idiot, I understand why he acts how he does but I also understand people’s frustration with him. But Wolfgang himself said - he knows he loves him <3 sooo... I loved them both and just want them to have a happy ending after all this angst. I hope Shin will be able to accept his love and feel loved how he should <3

He wasnt raped cause when the king ordered to sleep with him he poisoned the king to fall asleep and went to wolfgang. Wolfgang then marked shin and when the king saw the mark he punished shin by making him nakedly stay in the snow.
Shin used that to post that he got ill from that punishment and stayed with his father. Not going back to the king.
So he didnt sleep with the king, his first was taken by wolfgang during coup d'etat

That's quite a ton of incorrectness you got there that the others are clarifying so I won't comment on that. What I will comment on is Shin's reason for being near the Old King. He was there as his father's proxy in the palace,not in his official position of course, but in his presence as insurance of sorts. It's hinted at the beginning that the Old King had a sexual interest in Shin's father due to their looks. I speculate Shin knew if the old king ever got his hands on his father he would probably rape him to death (not even kidding). But Shin while having his father's features was not of age. He was young enough that even a pedophile like the old king wasn't willing to sexually assault him yet (Oh god remembering this makes me feel icky.) In conclusion it was to protect his dad cause the Old King was a serial rapist who would have kept Shin's father as a sex prisoner like he did those young kids.
the order is confusing me