I love fluff, romance, and drama as much as the next fangirl, but I definitely needed this dark and twisted story in my life. Kudos to the author for coming up with this beauty.
As rapey and cringey as the sex scene between Seungho and Na-Kyum was (the former taking advantage of the latter's inebriated nature and his OBVIOUS pining for the dick bag teacher Inhun), I think we got to see a break in Seungho's creepy, a-hole mask the moment he kissed Na-Kyum's eye after the painter had his orgasm (or is it just me?). He briefly went from wide-eyed, eager rapist consumed with satisfying his own needs on an unwitting victim, to a slightly 'gentler' lover who somewhat caresses Na-Kyum at the end (even going so far as to cradle our baby pudding's head as he brings him down on the mattress in one of the last panels of Chapter 21 :3). He could have easily just gotten off and treated the painter like every other young noble he sleeps with. But he's become a little more - I dunno - 'attentive'? It could be from Na-Kyum's words of drunken happiness directed at the teacher, but Seungho may have been imagining that they were being said to him instead. In any case, it's quite a contrast from his intimate scenes with Jihwa wherein it's almost always fast, rough, and unhinged once foreplay's done.
What Seungho did to Na-Kyum is inexcusable, to be honest. Rape is never okay, and it definitely sucks that the artist's first time had to be in such a manner (want to hug Na-Kyum so bad). However, how things are moving in this manhwa shows the duplicity of Seungho - he takes glee in treating others like pawns and seeing the pain he causes them, but there is a part of him that is gradually turning into the opposite the longer he interacts with Na-Kyum - though he'd probably prefer dying than acknowledging it. He is a contradiction. He is most likely at a crossroads about how he feels and acts now that a variable has been added to the equation that is his mad, liberated world. It is upsetting that his first intimate contact with Na-Kyum had to be his evil side rearing its ugly head, however, it is the direction that Byeonduck wants to take the progress of Seungho and Na-Kyum's story, and we are all along for the ride with our mixed emotions on this particular scene. As sadistic as he is, I can't wait for further development of Seungho's character, and how this can possibly cause a shift in his and Na-Kyum's toxic patron-artist relationship. The change is not sudden, and I appreciate the author for giving us just little jabs of it in every chapter.
Also, I have the unsettling feeling that this is one of those stories with a tragic ending. The teacher and the scorned lover might join forces to bring down one or both of the main pair T_____T. Just have to wait and see how this all plays out (PATIENTLY WAITS FOR THE AUTHOR'S HIATUS TO END) though.
I love fluff, romance, and drama as much as the next fangirl, but I definitely needed this dark and twisted story in my life. Kudos to the author for coming up with this beauty.
As rapey and cringey as the sex scene between Seungho and Na-Kyum was (the former taking advantage of the latter's inebriated nature and his OBVIOUS pining for the dick bag teacher Inhun), I think we got to see a break in Seungho's creepy, a-hole mask the moment he kissed Na-Kyum's eye after the painter had his orgasm (or is it just me?). He briefly went from wide-eyed, eager rapist consumed with satisfying his own needs on an unwitting victim, to a slightly 'gentler' lover who somewhat caresses Na-Kyum at the end (even going so far as to cradle our baby pudding's head as he brings him down on the mattress in one of the last panels of Chapter 21 :3). He could have easily just gotten off and treated the painter like every other young noble he sleeps with. But he's become a little more - I dunno - 'attentive'? It could be from Na-Kyum's words of drunken happiness directed at the teacher, but Seungho may have been imagining that they were being said to him instead. In any case, it's quite a contrast from his intimate scenes with Jihwa wherein it's almost always fast, rough, and unhinged once foreplay's done.
What Seungho did to Na-Kyum is inexcusable, to be honest. Rape is never okay, and it definitely sucks that the artist's first time had to be in such a manner (want to hug Na-Kyum so bad). However, how things are moving in this manhwa shows the duplicity of Seungho - he takes glee in treating others like pawns and seeing the pain he causes them, but there is a part of him that is gradually turning into the opposite the longer he interacts with Na-Kyum - though he'd probably prefer dying than acknowledging it. He is a contradiction. He is most likely at a crossroads about how he feels and acts now that a variable has been added to the equation that is his mad, liberated world. It is upsetting that his first intimate contact with Na-Kyum had to be his evil side rearing its ugly head, however, it is the direction that Byeonduck wants to take the progress of Seungho and Na-Kyum's story, and we are all along for the ride with our mixed emotions on this particular scene. As sadistic as he is, I can't wait for further development of Seungho's character, and how this can possibly cause a shift in his and Na-Kyum's toxic patron-artist relationship. The change is not sudden, and I appreciate the author for giving us just little jabs of it in every chapter.
Also, I have the unsettling feeling that this is one of those stories with a tragic ending. The teacher and the scorned lover might join forces to bring down one or both of the main pair T_____T. Just have to wait and see how this all plays out (PATIENTLY WAITS FOR THE AUTHOR'S HIATUS TO END) though.
And I do hope that Inhun heard them (づ￣ ³￣)づ