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I binged this story what is both good and bad. Good because I feel getting the story in crumbs makes for a more miserable experience? You create expectations because you make up scenarios... If you are reading chapter 30, you probably don't remember previous chapters that you read months ago... You find harder to see development because if you are reading this for a year, you tend to see the characters in this timeline. Instead, when you binge, you have the feeling they only known each other for a couple of week, months.
Anyway, I say this because the bad is that you lose the discussion chapter by chapter. To me some of the sexiest and most interesting chapters were the ones with NK and Seungho becoming aware of each other while he was painting him with other men. By the way, I disagree with readers who say they don't see development. In my opinion, the author wrote implicit and explicit things showing Seungho's behavior changes for Nakyum and it's in every scene they interact. For NK, the most important clue for me was his erotic dream with Seungho that shows the confusion of his feelings for Seungho: his sexual attraction for him, the denial of his own lust in general and then the element of fear that of course is justified.
Then comes the scenes that I still think are my favorites because are so sexy without having them touching. It shows Seungho and Nakyum were drawn to each other early one without being aware of it but it's obvious to others. That's the sequence were Seungho's sexual partners start getting annoyed because Seungho keeps looking at Nakyum's direction in their sexual sections. At this point, Seungho had already thrown one of them out for complaining. Jihwa (the redhead) is also already getting jealous and in the next time he is over Seungho's having sex, he notices Seungho and Nakyum exchanging glances too and he starts to remember the other guy's complaint. In the flashback, Jiwha is saying that Seungho was looking at the paintings because he cared a lot for it, it had nothing to do with the lowborn... but the lover says, well, that's what I thought too at first but when I looked at it, what do I see if not an empty sheet without one single stroke? Then he goes on saying : :"every time that painter raised his head, I saw him and Yoon locked in a gaze. It was bizarre." Is Yoon looking at the paintings or at that lowborn?" Then the next chapter, we get Nakyum's inner thoughts while he is trying to paint Seungho fucking Jihwa. The whole scene is a sequence of Seungho's eyes (and we know how the author draws them) and Nakyum's blush and glances. He is thinking to himself : "I can't paint" "Why do we keep making eye contact?" "Is he looking at my painting?" "No, Don't delude yourself" "He is looking at the paintings, no me". Then we get a shot at Nakyum's crotch and he is aroused when he thinks this. ( Something Seungho obviously must have noticed like he did the first time). I mean, Nakyum may not have noticed but he must have held his stare towards Seungho too several times for the other guy to say that they were in a bizarre 'locked in gaze' throughout the session. We don't know what Seungho's was thinking but we get a 3rd party description of two people aware of each other in a way that made them oblivious to others around them. Despite of the mess that happened after and derailed what could have been a slow seduction of Nakyum by Seungho, at this point, it's clear to me that Seungho and Nakyum were eye fucking at some level in that room.

Warnings: Detailed Spoiler












Nakyum is having some kind of dream that starts with a flashback of when In Hun had punished and berated him for the indecent paintings he had found. Nakyum is standing up with his pants rolled up to his knees and In Hun is spanking his calves with some kind of stick. Nakyum has red bruises on his legs and seems to be covering his face crying. Inhun is saying that the paintings of men embracing like that is filthy and that he was ashamed of being his teacher. Still dreaming Nakyum is then back to that day where he painted the first time for Seungho and then ripped part of the painting and curled up on the floor and kept thinking that he wouldn't paint such things anymore because he didn't like it. Then he sees the painting of Seungho coming out of the half ripped painting ( Who watched 'The Ring' ? lol) and starts to approach him. Seungho is naked, of course and above him on the floor and the Seungho painting is telling him that this is a lie, that he (Nakyum) knows that he likes to do such vulgar paintings but he just can't admit it and asks..that's not why he got drunk that day? Seungho painting is about to kiss him in the dream and that's why Nakyum gets startled and wakes up. He sits up and looks around and finds himself in Seungho's quarters. He starts to remember what happened and the sex with Seungho when he hears the old servant getting in the room. The servant is shocked to see Nakyum awake and tells Nakyum that it has been 10 days that he has been in and out of fever. Nakyum is worried that he is in the master bedroom but the servant tells Nakyum not to worry because Seungho knows that he is there. After seeing that he wasn't getting better staying in the servant's quarters, Seungho himself brought Nakyum to his room because it was warmer. The servant says that it has been a few days since he is there so he tells Nakyum to stay there until he is feeling well and not to be walking around as he pleases. Nakyum then asks the servant about Inhun thinking that the teacher may been looking or asking for him. The servant says that Inhun never came to look for or ask about him in the last 10 days. Nakyum curls up in the covers, crying and upset that Inhun didn't even bother checking on him even after he saw Seungho dragging him away angry like that. (What the fuck, Inhun? Couldn't even pretend to care?) He hears Seungho come into the room and gets startled. Seungho looks at him, doesn't say anything, takes off his hat and turns away to the corner of the room with his back to Nakyum. Seungho takes off his robe and starts to undress. Nakyum seems scared, he gets up and starts walking to the door to go back to his quarters when he feels Seungho grabbing his arm. Seungho asks where is he going. Nakyum, still afraid, tells him he is going back to his room, that he needs to sleep. Seungho, half dressed in pants and bare chested, corners him against the wall. Seungho looks at him with a somewhat surprising look then leans in very close as if he is about to kiss him but then stops just at the edge of his lips, then backs up again and then says that Nakyum always looks like he is either crying or about to fall to the ground. Then he asks Nakyum what is so afraid of him doing. ( Really, Seungho?? The man lack of self awareness or anything is amazing). Seungho then opens the door close to them and tells him he can go. (Nakyum seems scared to move because he probably doesn't know if this is Seungho daring him to leave like a cat daring a mouse to challenge him and try to run).

Guesses for next chapter:
Well, I don't know but I have the impression Nakyum is staying, lol.
Seungho's stare alone when he opens the door without talking his eyes out of Nakyum and tells him to go is enough message to not try him. Also, I may be wrong but I'm thinking that Seungho may surprise everyone next chapter and be undressing just to go to sleep instead of molesting Nakyum this time. We can always hope, lol.

I wish I was articulate enough to do an analysis of all the 'hands touching' scenes in this chapter.
There is something caring and intimate about two people communication through touching hands and I think the author included so many hands scenes on purpose... ( 6 or more?) maybe to show how close Taku and Haesoo are becoming ... or how much softer their relationship is?
Something the author wanted to say with all those hands close ups! What is it?
Someone who has the dibs with words, please do an analysis, lol.

Yeeye! I'm glad this updated. I thought it had been abandoned.
The drawing changed a little or it's only me? Not complaining anyway, the art is always beautiful!

Guys, does anyone know how a topic created by an account can disappear from here?

I created a topic last night called 'Anoncalypse' . It had one or two replies, nothing out of ordinary.
Today I went to reply to last notification and to my surprise the topic is gone from here.

There wasn't anything offensive on it by the way... the exact text is below:

"This topic session used to be nice at the beginning...
Why there is only one same anon creating topics in here for the last 3 or 4 pages?
Where are all the accounts?
It's either trolling fight, trolls replying to their own posts or same trolls creating similar topics over and over again.
Is it because the story is on hiatus? "

The weird thing is that the topic and replies are still visible in my homepage so it's not like I deleted by mistake. That's weird, right?

I don't care so much for the topic, but I never saw an account topic disappear before.
Does anyone know how that works?

This topic session used to be nice at the beginning...
Why there is only one same anon creating topics in here for the last 3 or 4 pages?
Where are all the accounts?
It's either trolling fight, trolls replying to their own posts or same trolls creating similar topics over and over again.
Is it because the story is on hiatus?

Saezuru still the best ever!
That guy Yashiro was hitting on in the casino .... does Yashiro even realize that he is looking for Doumeki in other men? poor guy.

The ratings are so high, this story is tempting me...
I don't know if I can take another love triangle though, the topic section usually gets more anon trolling as the story progresses and ship wars get worse.
Is this story worth it?

That sweatpants boner killed me, lol!
This one is such a good laugh, the faces and the puns .... and Ivan character is a treasure ヾ(☆▽☆)

I don't want to offend anyone but I want to ask anonymous why they post behind anon accounts.
When you have an account, your post cannot be deleted by downvotes no matter how unpopular it is.
You also can delete posts you don't like or block anons from reply.

Why do you post as anon?
Is it for the fun of trolling or provoking other readers ( I'm not exactly judging, just curious)
Is it because you want to troll your opinion multiple times but it would be embarrassing if you posted too much?
Do you want to make your side look 'bigger'?
Do you feel compulsion to post and fight every opposite opinion?

I see also some anons posting their thing but then when other anons starts mocking or trolling them, they get mad .... as if they were expecting something else?

To me, if you post as anon, it's fair game if you get trolled because you chose to be a troll too.
If you want a post that won't be plagued by trolls, maybe just don't behave like one.

By the way, this post is open to anons because I am curious if some will give answers that look honest, funny ... or maybe just troll me. That's fine too.