i agree 100%, it'd make the story way worse if it just completely ignored the story just to rush their relationship like that just because readers can't read something without sex every 3 chapters.
it's genuinely so gross how much people normalize what is quite literally porn addiction, with how much they demand every single story to become porn for no reason.
calling it "smut" is just a way to mask that these people clearly have an issue, when they can't enjoy something without graphic sex scenes...

And here I am, not as hungry for smut as everyone in the comments cause honestly I enjoy so much their interactions without leading to sex. Changdeok is completely unaware of any possible feeling that isn't brotherlike towards Jongwu, and it's okay. It's only been 26 chapters, for a manhwa with an actual story to tell it's not that much. Like, hell, I waited like 80 chapters for payback, I would gladly wait for it here too. I wanna see them communicating, talking about their lives and cohabitating, I don't want their first time to be only cause Jongwu drank Changdeok's blood and he got horny, I would like Changdeok to be aware of his feelings for his first time with Jongwu... But that's just me.