Ben was looking for a drug ring connected to Ian. Very vewfinder-type falling in love=ian got a boner trying to choke Ben to death during their first encounter but genuinely loves how innocent he is.Ben is held as a hostage in exchange for info on the CBI mole in ian’s org, but the director basically says to keep Ben, giving up on him.Ben is constantly trying to figure out if Ian is a reasonably good guy or not (as far as mafia goes) after realizing Ian is not directly tied to the drug ring, but recognizes even his own CBI agents have murdered people, he’s opposed on principle as we see from his target practice. So basically he doesn’t mind Ian killing people if it’s because they betrayed him or were otherwise dangerous anyway.Ben is conflicted about his own loyalty to CBI because they killed his mother, but also acknowledges she was secretly mafia which you will have potentially missed reading the quick translation. Right now Ian and Ben were happy but Ian is trying to basically clean up the dirty business around him and exit the mafia to be with Ben. Ben is conflicted because he does like Ian but has had some obvious trust rollercoaster issues with him, but wants to not let Ian who he now sees as reasonably innocent die/take the fall for things he didn’t directly do. Yes this is all ignoring that he genuinely killed the white haired politician, but it’s grey because he was bought out anyway,,, so by Ben’s moral compass, is okay because Ian killed someone who wasn’t fully innocent. To some extent, Ben and Ian are forming a relationship from physical compatibility first which is a fairly …”classic/traditional” BL trope?
but basically some very key points:
Ben was looking for a drug ring connected to Ian. Very vewfinder-type falling in love=ian got a boner trying to choke Ben to death during their first encounter but genuinely loves how innocent he is.Ben is held as a hostage in exchange for info on the CBI mole in ian’s org, but the director basically says to keep Ben, giving up on him.Ben is constantly trying to figure out if Ian is a reasonably good guy or not (as far as mafia goes) after realizing Ian is not directly tied to the drug ring, but recognizes even his own CBI agents have murdered people, he’s opposed on principle as we see from his target practice. So basically he doesn’t mind Ian killing people if it’s because they betrayed him or were otherwise dangerous anyway.Ben is conflicted about his own loyalty to CBI because they killed his mother, but also acknowledges she was secretly mafia which you will have potentially missed reading the quick translation. Right now Ian and Ben were happy but Ian is trying to basically clean up the dirty business around him and exit the mafia to be with Ben. Ben is conflicted because he does like Ian but has had some obvious trust rollercoaster issues with him, but wants to not let Ian who he now sees as reasonably innocent die/take the fall for things he didn’t directly do. Yes this is all ignoring that he genuinely killed the white haired politician, but it’s grey because he was bought out anyway,,, so by Ben’s moral compass, is okay because Ian killed someone who wasn’t fully innocent. To some extent, Ben and Ian are forming a relationship from physical compatibility first which is a fairly …”classic/traditional” BL trope?