Ok, so I don't know the full extent of that old guy's plan, but it seems like he did a big no-no.
He knows the kid is a dragon, a dragon that already threatened to burn the fck out of everything, and I could easily see the emperor killing himself as he pretty much said he would to Taehyuk anyway.
So I am really curious where this goes because it seems like a hot mess.
He never liked Taehyuk as shown in several chapters ago. Probably hated him because he believed Taehyuk was a bad influence to the emperor, he also said so himself this chapter so instead of killing Hyoun like how he was instructed, it'd be better to rid the problem from the root which is Taehyuk.
Probably a rampage next chapter and Hyoun made some kind of a deal somehow to ensure the family line didn't disappear and they got reincarnated in the current time i think.
I thought this was going darker with the newer chapters.
What I am taking away now is that the present is fixing the past lives?
So the emperor can be at Taeyhuk's side as just a real brother. He is not mentally ill, abused, and obsessed with one thing. He is part of a family.
Taeyhuk and Hyo-un meet when both are adults and no child raising. Taeyhuk also wasn't cockblocked. So he has had a sex life on his own terms- with women and no marriage. I ain't mad. I am happy for this and that he didn't have men.
I don't know for anyone else yet. I guess Taehyuk's dad at least isn't executed...
Did anyone else laugh at the end? The emperor must have some severe mental illness or PTSD. Maybe all the killing got to him. It is said he is going crazy. He is fixated on childhood itself, and Taehyuk reminds him of it I guess...the innocence of it? In the present time, they are true brothers and have that bond keeping them together so the anxiety and illness didn't develop. He also is not a murderer.
I wonder if it will play out that Taehyuk gets blamed for the stabbing by that backstabbing scarred guy now who has been revealed to want Taehyuk gone. So emperor dies right away, Taehyuk put for execution, and it is raining....so the dragon will come too late and.....
He clearly confessed in chapter 45....being a 30yr old virgin and all