I love their relationship too because I feel like this is the first time the ML has actually dealt with someone who’s like, on his level and doesn’t exist just to humor him. Like in the early chapters he saw right through the people who were scheming against him and was bored because they weren’t clever about it and didn’t strategize properly. And the men he slept with all just told him what they thought a man as major as him wanted to hear with little regard for him as a person. Even though he knows what the MC is doing, he’s doing it in a way that’s on his level and intellectually cunning, and hr treats the ML like a person. A person he doesn’t like, but still a person
I love their relationship too because I feel like this is the first time the ML has actually dealt with someone who’s like, on his level and doesn’t exist just to humor him. Like in the early chapters he saw right through the people who were scheming against him and was bored because they weren’t clever about it and didn’t strategize properly. And the men he slept with all just told him what they thought a man as major as him wanted to hear with little regard for him as a person. Even though he knows what the MC is doing, he’s doing it in a way that’s on his level and intellectually cunning, and hr treats the ML like a person. A person he doesn’t like, but still a person