Yeah I also like his chill personality but the author put him in a tough position. How can the uke forgive a person murdering his whole family
Yeah, exactly! He not only killed all of the people he loved right in front of him but he also ruined his whole life. He made him dirt poor and enslaved. I don't think it'd be satisfying seeing them get together.
he's not a murderer as far as we've seen but a soldier, he wasn't acting alone but on orders nor would yeonjo's family have lived w/o him since just any other soldier would've done it. it was a raid. for treason. he killed his father, not murdered him. an executioners doing his job basically, the "dirty dog of the king", by what we know. not sure how that makes him a terrible person, he was even the one sparing the children, women etc. including yeonjo and his brother.
about the rape, kwon wanted to have sex with him when yeonjo joined the servants to seduce him as a spy, but then yeonjo wanted to kill himself instead, ended up in prison. SA happened but given their position (yeonjo is a slave with no right to say no), the time period and that yeonjo willingly joined to seduce him... kwon wanted to release him after saving him from being murdered by that scheming guy using him as a spy, but yeonjo instead begged to become his concubine because murder plans. kwon doesn't accept but instead releases him from slavery. long story short yeonjo wants to stay by his side because his revenge plans are the only reason he's still alive, so he becomes his concubine, they have sex. he wanted to be his concubine and even made manipulative plans to get that position.
i mean yeah sure by 21th standard he could retrieve his consent which he did a few times but it's not our time and his literally job is to sleep with kwon. so ... not sure if i would classify that rape worth hating kwon for, since yeonjo willingly became his concubine (literally begged to be) but now often expects kwon to not sleep with him because he's not in the mood lol
Killing someone = murder
But go off author san, I will still have to disagree, this all sounds like an apology for his psycho tendencies.
I don't disagree but do you know any soldiers? Anyone who served in the military in an active position? Are they all murderers too? Will they be condemned for the rest of their lives for completing their task?
THIS !!!!! ^
Excellently explained!
Totally agree with you.
Also i want to add that Seme was just completing his task ordered to him by the King himself at that time. So seme pretty much has no say or control over these types of decisions/ orders of the King. He is bound to do it whether he likes it or not. If seme would have refused the order to kill uke's family at that time then the King would have ordered some other soldier to do it anf along with that the king would have given orders to killing the seme too. Because refusing King's orders at that time was severely punishable.
I personally think that in the future seme would help the uke find the actual people behind framing uke's family wrongly and kill them for uke. It could be the Nobels or the King or both. And this would make their (seme and uke's) bond stronger and we can in return get the happy ending at the end that we all are expecting to get.
And? Killing someone is still murder. Semantics.
Now when it comes to the ethics of it all that's when we can agree or not with someone's decision to take someone else's life.
In this particular case, I believe it was messed up and I can't see how you could possibly date someone who ruined your whole life, enslaved you and killed your whole family/ clan right in front of your eyes. Too much common sense right?
I feel like I would like the governor had the setting and context been different.
Had he not been an actual serial killer I would've been fully supportive of him. He's got a pretty chill personality and can be quite caring but he's a murderer and he also R-ed our MC so ew, no.
I don't see how the MC could ever forgive him, I hope he doesn't end up with him and I hope the governor just disappears. He's a terrible person. Again, murder and R aside, he'd be a total green flag.