Personally

It doesn’t feel like Illic will ever have romantic feelings for him honestly and I hope he never does lol. Bc ik that he likes the king’s face and even the king himself even said I’ll probably never have his (illic’s) heart which I hope he never gets actually. I am pretty content with the relationship that they have now of basically Illic bein just stuck in that position bc he genuinely could never leave. Honestly I feel bad for Illic, I don’t need this to be a they fall in love blah blah blah bc it’s like for what? That king has done nothing for him to fall in love with him, so it’d be so lackluster & boring asf imo. I’m pretty happy with the King being obsessed and Illic just being like watever u weirdo bitch…..