Also another thing I picked up from Yeonwu’s inner monologue in today’s chapter after reading rn it's that after Rosa takes off Jaeon’s shirt and gets on top of him he says “There was a scent. An expensive one… The kind of smell I’ve never once encountered in my trashy life.”
The way I interpreted it is that he notices the scent when Rosa gets closer to him. But what I’m unsure about is whether he’s referring to Rosa’s own scent or the scent lingering from the shirt she was wearing.
It’s kind of tricky and I’m hoping we get more of his inner thoughts in the next chapter to clarify.
Because depending on it this scene could hold different meaning although I do believe he meant Rosa's own scent.
Which suggests that maybe he subconsciously distances himself from her because he sees her as belonging to a world he doesn’t fit into(kinda valid tbh). And considering how much Yeonwu’s mental health has deteriorated over the years that interpretation wouldn’t be surprising.
He said that the scent was fresh, clean, sweet, and expensive, while remembering his encounters with Rosa. Including the first time she slapped him after finding him in her closet holding her bra up. He was just remembering anytime she walked away or by him. So he most likely talking about her scent vs the old lady scents he must have encountered a lot at the host bar. That mixed with sweat and body odor.
Yes kinda went over the fresh and sweet so he is definitely talking about Rosa's scent here not the shirt's. But I don't think he just said that as to compare with the scents of the older women but also like said above I think he is distancing himself because of their social gap? Sort off it gave me that vide...
I don’t think Yeonwu was as clouded in this scene as some say at least not in the same way he was that night at the party. Suryeon drugged him the night before but by the time Rosa found him, he seemed relatively sober?He was coherent enough to think about Jaeon and connect the dots between him and Rosa just from seeing the shirt and even hold a coherent conversation in the middle of everything unlike that night at the party that everything was a blur.
What confuses me though is the contrast in his reactions. At the party, even while high and being dragged around, he showed very clear signs of trauma with disgust on his face, goosebumps, physically pushing the gardener and that rich woman away. His body language screamed rejection. But with Rosa here there was none of that same visible resistance aside from the verbal one. He didn’t react the same way at all and that makes it questionable...Why couldn’t he push her away the way he did with the others? But ofc by that I don't mean that what Rosa did wasn't pushing his boundaries and leading to non-con.
I just feel like there might be more going on internally especially considering their shared past.
Also his line in today's chapter “Thanks for the help. I will… just think of it like that… so let’s stop here before someone hears” felt less like distress over what was happening and more like concern about being caught and a plead.
And then there’s the moment where he finishes right after Rosa degrades/insults him. It almost seems like he’s developed a response tied to humiliation which could well connect to his past trauma when working at the host bar and the mother’s behavior towards him. Which is sad but also feels like an intentional detail left by the author maybe to explain the future bdsm acts? Idk...