Taesung is daddy. But I don’t want them to end up together. Maybe he’s going to kill o...

what do you mean seungho--

The guys name isn’t seungho? My bad

You're reading Painter of the Night, aren't you?

Sooyoung?

So you prefer Minhyuk? The one who had a history of being an abusive and sadistic partner to his ex/sex partner? The one who assaulted an unconscious Sooyung? The one who once imagined how arousing it would be for Sooyung to be writhing in pain as he fucked him? You prefer Minhyuk over Taesung whose only biggest mistake at the moment is getting Sooyung stabbed which he obviously didn't want, and who has showed throughout the chapters as someone who really "cares" for Sooyung and has never been physically abusive with him? Okay.

I agree with YaoiisLife. I was just making sure I was getting the names right before commenting. Minhyuk seems like a hit and run person. He assaulted Sooyoung when he was unconscious and his attitude and actions towards his “sex partner” is cruel. This is obviously not stating Sooyoung should end up with Taesung or anything relating to that. This is my opinion on Minhyuk.

I mean I don't really understand why some people ship Minhyuk more than Taesung. Taesung has repeatedly shown that he cares for Sooyung. He has already done a lot of things that shows he cares. Not once was he physically or sexually abusive with Sooyung. Minhyuk, asides from his other bad behaviors, just seems to me he just wants to be able to fuck Sooyung. Even if Minhyuk does genuinely "like" Sooyung, the good things Taesung has done greatly overweighs both all the bad things he has done and all the "good" things Minhyuk has done.

it's just better if sooyoung didn't end up any of those two, taesung is manipulative making himself hero in sooyoung eyes, while minhyuk is abusive and takes advantage of sooyoung.
taesung don't love him he's just obsessed with him he don't care what sooyoung states in, but want to just stay with him (just like the doctor said).

I mean for someone who's just obsessed with Sooyung, Taesung sure does a LOT of stuff that can be more or less seen as love rather than just simple obsession. I mean he could be both in love and obsessed with Sooyung, more like his obsession with Sooyung has turned into love for Sooyung or that his love for Sooyung has turned into an obsession. Either way, judging by his actions throughout the chapters and even the future chapters, I highly believe Taesung is just not merely obsessed with Sooyung.

Also, he didn't do that to merely make himself seem like a hero. He did that to make Sooyung realize life without him is much shittier (which is true really), thus making Sooyung to stay by his side.

well everyone knows taesung know that someone will attack sooyoung but still he didn't do anything, just to make sooyoung think taesung saved him and can't live without him. that's not particularly called "love" that's obsession.

If Taesung knew Sooyung was gonna get hurt why didn't he prevent it beforehand? The way I see it there were two options:

Option 1: Taesung prevents Sooyung from leaving.
Option 2: Taesung attacks the enemies first.

Now both those options have its cons. Why? With Option 1, Sooyung will feel like Taesung is being unnecessarily possessive and controlling of him because even though nothing bad happened yet, Taesung is preventing him from leaving, thus potentially straining their relationship.

With Option 2, Taesung attacking first without due reason will make him look like the gratuitous aggressor, thus potentially staining his image or reputation both to his other subordinates and enemies/business partners.

With those two problems and since Taesung is quite twisted, we come up to another option:

Option 3: Letting Sooyung go, who will eventually get hurt by his enemies.

This option is the most beneficial, because not only will this give him enough reason to attack his enemies (he attacked because his subordinate/lover was attacked first), this will also let him show Sooyung (the hard way) that the world is a shitty place and without him it would be shittier thus somewhat justifying his possessiveness towards him, thus not only making Sooyung stay near him but also preventing his possessiveness from straining their relationship.

The one thing that he probably didn't expect from this option is Sooyung getting stabbed. Sooyung got stabbed because of himself. I mean even one of the enemy said that wasn't part of the plan. Either way, Taesung probably still thinks this was necessary but that doesn't mean he enjoys seeing Sooyung getting stabbed (I mean come on y'all, he made it pretty clear he doesn't like seeing Sooyung getting hurt)

but just remember his words he don't care about sooyoung states in, but he just want him by his side. means about sooyoung states he don't care how he get hurts or he gets injured as long as sooyoung stay by his side. that's called obsession as the doctor said in the manhwa.

But didn't he also hate seeing Sooyung getting hurt? I mean he once told Sooyung to not get himself hurt or else. Like look how violent he can get when Sooyung is getting hurt. Even when the doctor said that Taesung doesn't care for what state he is in, why do we keep seeing Taesung time and time again caring for Sooyung's state?

His obsession is also caused by him somewhat seeing his past self with Sooyung. Again, he has done things that seems like it's not just because of some simple obsession. Plus, for someone who's just merely obsessed with Sooyung, who doesn't care for his well being as long as he is by his side, he sure does takes care well of Sooyung. He's quite accommodating with Sooyung and is also more or less thoughtful with him. That seems like beyond simple obsession to me.

Plus, isn't obsession also comes with liking/loving someone. Sure it's not commonly to this extent but there will always be obsession in the mix.

I agree with your point. I believe too that teasung doesn’t sooyung but feels obsession.