
era always plays a role because things were different during that time, but personally i just can’t translate abduction, r*pe, and emotional manipulation into love.
you can keep telling me to consider the era but it’s not gonna change my mind. seungho is a narcissistic r*pist who views nk as a possession over anything else.
i’m not gonna say your interpretation is wrong and mine isn’t because that’s not the case! i just don’t like them together and that’s okay. glad we got to discuss this though.

Difference in opinions does not mean disagreement .. I hope we can understand each other's opinions ..
I do not excuse rape, and Seungho was not a rapist in first place ,you can easily notice that when you see all of his past relationships.And he even cut off his relationships with others and settled for Na-kyum , and if he had not had feelings for him, he would not have cared about him this much and preferred him over the rest .
Take it from me, a promise. The reason for this Bad treatment will be revealed to us when we learn about Seungho's past with his family.

okay you contradicted yourself firstly, a difference in opinion IS a disagreement so that made absolutely no sense. secondly, seungho’s past relationships have absolutely nothing to do with his relationship with nakyum rn... just bc his past partners were consensual that doesn’t automatically make the intercourse between nk and seungho consensual.
also, seungho forced nakyum to have sex with him when he first arrived. he also r*ped him that night when nk was drunk because he was consenting to have sex with in-hun not seungho. seungho cutting off his other relationships shows that he has found something to truly “posses” it’s not love.
lastly, just because seungho had a messed up past, that doesn’t excuse the way he treated nakyum in the slightest. please stop trying to find ways to excuse his horrid actions because he was the one who decided to committ them.

I don't see why it matters that he was not a rapist "in the first place". Fact is that he is now. Plus he didn't rape his hoes because they always consented to the sex but who's to say what he would have done if they hadn't? He clearly does not care about boundaries and consent. Someone like that is bound to rape at some point.
I'm sure Seungho has some attachment to NK in his own very fucked up way and by BL's standard yes, he's in love with him and has been for a while. Also by BL's standard, the reason why he's acting like that is because he has a sad sob backstory. I, too, can promise you and everyone else that his redemption arc will start as soon as his past is revealed. It's also when NK will fall in love with him and forgive him for hitting him, holding him prisoner and raping him near to death. This is a BL story, they all follow the same rules.
But outside of those standards my opinion remains that Seungho is dangerous rapist who's unable to love anyone. So I'll keep reading and enjoying the manhwa of course. I know that yaoi is a really fucked up genre 99% of the time. But there's a line between liking a story and vehemently defending the protagonists' criminal behaviors.
Please, those who have not read about history and those ages should not discuss and tell about Seungho's behavior.
Do not forget that the era in which they lived was different from the one we live in. humans has developed in everything, even in the way of dealing, thinking and love also, in this way Seungho expresses his jealousy, suspicion and fear, and do not forget that he is one of the nobles at that time, no one could reject his request and he has authority, servants and decency.Nevertheless, he rejected nobles like Jihwa and attached to Na-kyum the servant and defended him when knew of his innocence in chapter 18. He gets angry whenever he sees Na-kyum with his teacher, and he's ready to do anything to keep Na-kyum by his side.
Maybe for some of you it is not love, but for me it is definitely love.
He felt pain and anger when Na-kyum told him that he hates him and that all the feelings he expressed that night "chapter 20_21" were not for him but for his teacher.
I cannot list all the episodes that explain the truth of Seungho's feelings towards Na-kyum. Please read the story carefully, bearing in mind the spacing of eras and eras from each other, so that you understand the characters' behavior.