THIS IS AMAZING THANK YOU!!! I agree with everything except I do feel really bad for jihwa... I didnt like him at all before but after this chapter I felt like crying... just imagine if this story was told in jihwas perspective since they were children & in the end someone random (nakyum) ended up being who seungho fell in love with... Id be pissed. Even if he’s crazy & selfish I can’t help but feel bad for him ): hopefully he realizes seungho’s happiness if with nakyum like you said & that he lets him go <3
Thank you for explaining how shitty Jihwa is
I couldn't understand why people suddenly started to sympathise with him. Like did everyone forget he is trying to kill someone?
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(this is just my take)
i don't think jihwa knows everything about lord song. they both were probably affected by him, but in different ways? whatever jihwa's impression of lord song is, is different from seungho's. that's why he was able to use it as a prank (despite how mr kim got nervous over it). he probably doesn't even know the extent of the things lord song did seungho.
i think jihwa's in the dark about a lot of things concerning seungho. he only knows the surface. he's not familiar with seungho's trauma, but he's probably familiar with a few of the events that caused it.
It's okay to be angry and jealous, but to plot murder against someone innocent??
Like Danae said, if Jihwa knows what SH has been through, then he should be happy seeing that SH is finally starting to fall in love and is starting to change. He knows he is gonna hurt SH a lot by murdering NK, as his dream showed, yet he still hasn't cancelled his plan. This isn't love. To him SH is more like a precious 'toy' that he used to have and which has been taken away from him. He's being very immature and probably doesn't even know what loving someone actually means. Perhaps the assassin will teach him a thing or two..
God i know! imagine if i’m the news today you heard a murder occurred because someone got fuckin JEALOUS!? are you kidding me???? all y’all talking bout “i feel sO bAd for hIm bEcaUse—“ you feel bad for someone who attempted murder because he’s used to getting what he wants in life? is that right?
the garbage. i cannot even fathom the type of garbage that needs to sit in your brain for you to be okay with the thought process of “oh no :c my crush doesn’t like me anymore :c let’s kill his crush instead >:3” are you serious.
you gotta understand the time period lmao. ppl back then used to kill others for shits and giggles or if they annoyed them. jihwa having nakyum killed wouldn't have turned any heads, esp since nakyum's a lowborn (same goes for when seungho randomly killed that messenger in ch.1 and tried to kill inhun in ch.27).
Just because something wouldn't have turned heads doesn't make it any less wrong. Just because I undErstAnd doesn't mean I agree. There is no universe where jealousy is a good reason for murder." A fight? ok ok i still don't like it but ok. MURDER?? Premeditated paid assassination attempt??? Bro.
I get it. It's still wrong.
I was waiting for your comment and as always, you delivered! So much sense and amazing analysis of the events! Thanks for that! I second your opinion regarding Lord Song. He was probably the one in charge of the conversion therapy. That's why Seungho (and servant Kim) seem to be terrified just by the mention of his name. At some point, Seungho will have to go back to his old town and face that man, his father and all the people who made him endure this terror. That's the only way to find peace. We're not 100% sure yet, but I somehow feel relieved the author did not base her plot on child sexual abuse. It would be very disturbing and it would also make SH unforgivable for what he did to Nakyum. How could he rape him knowing he had endured the same thing while being young? It did not make sense since the beginning.
ik, i never said it was a good reason.
Oh yeah. He straight up RAPED Nakyum. And (although it added to the plot and I ADMITTEDLY and VERY BIASEDLY - my bad, y'all lol) did not disapprove near as much as I do with bitchass Jihwa's assasination attempt of Nakyum, what Seungho did was heinous too. I'm not trying to justifying anything.
Awful people doing awful things? It makes them trash. They're wrong for that.
Poor Nakyum. I feel so bad for him. He's literally subject to the games these rich people play, and if we look at history, chances are, this happened to TONS of people who could do nothing about it, too. :/ Sucks.
EJKENAJEKS does anyone else remember that scene before PoTN went on hiatus? It starts with the youngest Yoon brother leaving and Seungho's servant (Kim) hands him a piece of paper. Then if we link it with another scene where Seungho's dad is holding Nakyum's painting (it's the painting where SH is sitting and 2 guys are embracing him). SH's dad looks mad. I think it would match up with your comment OP!!!
The story is becoming more interesting.
I agree with the conclusions from most that the pieces of the puzzle are about Yoon father finding out Seungho homosexual tendencies and based on the ignorance of the time plus maybe his own cruelty and pride, tried to do everything to 'cure' his son of the disease.
Young Seungho's face and neck are bruised, so probably he got a beating right away. The he was dragged to the doctor. As the doctor said, he couldn't really see anything wrong with Seungho, he looks healthy and bright so all he could do was to give some random medicine. Yoon father then decided to give some other more drastic treatment and from what the doctor said, that involved some kind of isolation .... and whatever other horror young Seungho was submitted to in order to be cured. We can see that Seungho literally went mad with the method. Probably tried suicide as we see the knife in the scene. I know a lot of people are talking about Lord Song being someone who molested him but I think Lord Song may be some kind of 'authority' that his father entrusted to cure his son as if he was the patient of a mad house in need of a cure for his madness. That's why Seungho says he hates old bearded man ... Then when the cure failed, finally Yoon father disavowed his son by cutting his top knot and banishing from his house. Seungho's 'disease' is called contagious so Yoon father probably thought Seungho could influence his brothers.
Also, Jihwa apparently got caught with Seungho --- and Seungho got the blame for passing the disease to Jihwa. In any case, we know that Jihwa was lucky enough not to have been subject to the same treatment, although he must have known what was happening to Seungho all that time. That's why he knows Lord Song and he knows why Seungho is unstable as he is.
On a note, I know people are feeling bad for Jihwa because he has an unrequited love for Seungho but let's see the difference here: Jihwa's problem is not that he was sent to some kind of dungeon and subject to torture and lost any sense of humanity and goes around hurting people. His affliction is that he loves someone who didn't fall in love with him and he is using this as excuse to assassinate his rival, what he is doing only because he considers the rival below him, a lowborn. Also, forgotten in all the 'poor Jihwa' thing is that he is using Seungho's trauma to betray him. Jihwa excuse in all this is to say that he is entitled to Seungho's love because he has loved him. It doesn't seem that at any point Seungho ever promised or indicated that this was reciprocated in emotional level so he can't even blame Seungho for something that he was never promised to. Basically what Jihwa is doing here is to say: if I can't have you, nobody can. I reserve my pity only to the extent that unrequited love sucks but besides that, fuck Jihwa until he proves his affection to Seungho by leaving Nakyum alone. Out of all people Jihwa should know that the only hope for Seungho is to find love. Jihwa wants to be the one but that's not how it works. Jihwa is still in the phase that he is thinking more about himself and if he can't be the one, no one else, even more a lowborn, can't have what he wants.