i def see where youre coming from and i think it may be clearer when official translations come out… do know this though, seongmin is deathly afraid of yuwon finding out about his true feelings (from raws), so do what you will with that information
Cool, that's good to know. My main frustration while writing this is the reader is somehow supposed to operate under the fact that seongmin schemed for over a period of 2 years to deliberately isolate yuwon without ever once tapping that. No wonder dohun is the seme here bro you are useless. But i guess he's like, the schemer who yearns.
Maybe i misread past scenes, but seongmin's motivation is difficult for me to wrap my head around. Does he genuinely not see yuwon as a friend? Or is he saying he /doesn't/ consider yuwon a friend to "cover up" wanting to sleep with him just so dohun doesn't slime him out? But he clearly doesn't care what dohun thinks. And at the same time he's kind of asking for permission to cuck dohun—if only in a goading/teasing/"you can't please him therefore i will" way. So like, what's up? What's with the lack of subtlety all of a sudden? /Does/ seongmin even want to sleep with yuwon? It feels like a redundant question, but at this point, i'm questioning his presence in the story altogether. He feels like three different characters rolled into one and it has nothing to do with yuwon's unreliable narration. Beyond the wonderful art, I'm a bit iffy on this chapter and what purpose it serves in building yuwon's world as one devoid of real connection.