this was incredibly written and the ending was super satisfying, but i have a couple of questions (hoping someone could maybe clear them up?)
*edit: atp this is just a dump for all my unanswered thoughts lmao pls excuse the word vomit
1) i know that lewellyn was shown to be taking sleeping pills when he was being transported between his jobs to kill targets, but was it ever stated why he had an adverse reaction when shavonne drugged him without his knowledge?
2) what happened with the candle shavonne took from his apartment... or with the candles in general? was it just a murderer gimmick thing or does it have any deeper meaning/significance in the story?
3) why were people looking to lewellyn for sex near the beginning (prostitution)?
4) did lewellyn ever actually work (i know he left the apartment complex often but i dont think it was ever mentioned where he was going)? after shavonne and lewellyn become lovers why does lewellyn still not tell shavonne what he does for a living?
5) was lewellyn really ever wealthy? and if so how did he get the money?
6) why are lewellyn's nails blackened? was it just a byproduct of his environment at lute?
7) why did turner try to come on to shavonne if his job was only to seduce & monitor shavonne (since fawkes also seemed surprised when shavonne told him)? sure, turner could just be tactless scumbag, but did he actually become enamored with shavonne? like what would the point of trying to rape him be if he actually had a life outside of the fake editing and only wanted the money?? glad he got castrated
8) maybe more of a commentary rather than a question: lewellyn was obviously struggling with some serious trust/dependency issues (e.g. believing shavonne was lying about loving him) right up until his flashback chapters because of shavonne's behavior in the past (which is super understandable), but it seems like it was just dropped/resolved without explanation later on?? like yes lewellyn confronted shavonne about his distancing behavior during the turner arc but that was later on and less about lewellyn's own mentality and more about shavonne's decisions (it seemed like lewellyn was already obedient and accepting of shavonne wholeheartedly by then)... so my question is: was this fleshed out more in the novel or is it just a flaw of the writing?
i think i can answer some or at least theorize some, cause these are interesting
*feel i should add that some of these answers might be spoilers*
4) i think this time right before shavonne was trying to convince him to stop killing, he was hunting those officers from the lute prison( it was shown in his flashback about his time at lute) after that, I honestly don't know. I literally thought lewellyn just liked walking around, gathering his thoughts
5) My guess is that his money came from the assassinations he did when he was considered 'the dog', but im still unsure with this because the type of people his "brother" & dr.fawkes were, highly doubt they was paying him anything
6) Its a byproduct of his environment at lute and I think it serves a reminder to him too, never forgetting what done to him at lute
7) I felt fawkes being surprised at that moment was fake, as we know it was him that always setting up shavonne with guys so he can monitor his mental state. I also feel that fawkes had to have done some mental conditioning to them as well, because they got easily obsessed with shavonne rather quickly. but yeah, turner deserved all he got and the previous boyfriend deserved it too.
spoiler warning
Please note I’m doing stuff based on memory and trying not to make things too long so it’s easier to read- these answers are coming from a novel reader which I can link if wanted !
1- It was implied why he had that reaction in the novel since lewellyn has an abnormal physical condition, he is hypersensitive and doesn’t have tolerance for medication so because of the experiments done on him he gets like that. So (assuming here) taking those meds he sleeps way more than the average person and would have woken up by himself but since he was taking long he freaked shavonne out. (Hopefully this makes sense)
2- (assuming here too) shavonne got rid of the candle and since lewellyn said “smells are disgusting when they mix” he put those candles to help cover up the smell of the dead body or neutralize the smell so that people can’t smell it and get him exposed. Also He put the body there since he was probably transporting it since he only killed people who helped tortured him and put their bodies on display so that past guards of lute feel threatened.
3-Lewellyn is beautiful. It’s rare to find a beauty in the slums so people assumed he sells his body to get by because of his looks
4- Lewellyn did not work other than being an assassin and it’s never said if he got anything out of it but I’m 100% sure he didn’t get anything. Trying to give the least amount of spoilers in case you read the novel but he kills a “teacher” of his who was training him to kill and stole his money and shavonne did ask but he was afraid of the answer lewellyn would give him so he changed topic
5- since he stole a good amount of money from a rich man he was pretty well off I’d say
6-user Lachrimosa explained this already :))
7-I agree with the other user reply to this question but also I think fawkes was genuinely kinda shocked I think turner in his mind thought that by forcing him to have sex with him shavonne would somehow come to like him or form some kind of closer relationship since he was getting frustrated how much shavonne wasn’t responding to his flirting and he was just a greedy bitch basically he didn’t actually like shavonne
8-This is difficult to answer and I won’t be able to… I have the same thoughts as well the author doesn’t detail this part and it disappointed me I wanted them to sit down and have a heart to heart about what happened
This is kinda rushed please let me know if I need to explain better …
the colonel is so hot bruh ...ik so many people have already brought this up but i wish he wasnt ukeified
im gonna get downvoted so badly for this but this is literally r@pe apologist rhetoric and stockholm syndrome in manhwa idc taeju should be castrated and tied to a boat
in manhwa form*
Until ch 98 you r right but the last 2 chs change many things.
And mc didn't just fall in love you know, he felt safer with taeju, and always being alone and helpless it's not surprising that he fell for taeju. But yea ofc the whole plot is what you said but it's still better than those where ml just apologise, do some flaky things and gets everything.
N i thought i was crazy for thinking that after the first few chapters. The glazing is insane
truly the glazing is formidable
i came here pretty hopeful because i think a good miscommunication trope is the best thing ever and i saw so many recommendations on social media but was thoroughly disappointed with this. the characters skirted around each other so much it felt like it was dragging on and on... so many of the hardships that MC faces felt artificial and had no impact since the ML just resolved them and none of their "development" moved me. and not to mention ML pretends to be one of those caring semes but is overall just a really shitty and apathetic person --- super skeptical of uke and leads him on for no reason. the premise had an okay hook to it but the story really just led to nowhere, a lot of the plot points werent fully fleshed out and dropped quickly in the middle. not to mention this is prolly one of the only bls where i wasnt interested in the sex at all and skimmed through the scenes, i felt like it wasnt passionate and half the time the MC was pressured to do it (by himself of course, but thats still a problem lol) or the ML was coming on to him. wasted potential.
omg i wanna see the full story behind jinhyeong and his noona... i remember uyun wanted to "revisit it later".... also jinhyeong mentioned a "high school incident" and i cant remember if they went over it in the story. has it been revealed yet? did i miss smth?
Yeah she'll show up soon
and not just appearance wise... bring back the old personality sigh...without all the past life hooha. like idm the smut that much but the flashback chapter was such a turnoff
this and roses & champagne are straight cheeks get this author out of the writing room. emma is the only sane one in this damn story icb
look i get that the whole "MC goes through a bunch of hardship until the ML pities him and falls for him" schtick is really really popular but I WANT BIHWAN TO SUFFER NGL. PLEASE. LIKE EVEN MORE THAN HE ALREADY HAS. SUFFER THE WAY BOTTOMS USUALLY DO. because i feel like the direction this manhwa is trying to take is the "seoho had his reasons for leaving, bihwan just didnt know and will realize minchan and seoho's goodowill and love minchan" or something vanilla like that but as the #1 bihwan stan id really love to see him in whump or go through really painful development (IS THAT WEIRD??? I JUST LOVE HIS CHARACTER. I WANT TO SEE HIM CRY). maybe if seoho left him for a really selfish reason like marrying a woman or something (am i projecting? PLEASE DONT FRY ME I WAS JUST THINKING OF WAYS BIHWAN COULD GO THROUGH MORE ANGUISH). hope this story ends up having really debilitating angst anyway, either way. it has so much potential for angsty angst so im really on the edge of my seat here i love angst.
I agree but I feel like he’s suffered a long time already. He’s been trapped for centuries, which I don’t believe a lot of bottoms have been (mostly rape, etc. which some authors love to do idk why). Being trapped is horrible, and especially when Bigwan has claustrophobia. I love that the author added that.
You sound like a masochist when you love someone spare me.
And I respect your opinion.
I feel like his development has been pretty nice and slow, smooth. The way he learned to call Minchan by Minchan kinda now, not Seo-Ho, and understood in some ways.
But I do feel that he needs to apologize for calling Minchan “Seo-Ho”. Even if they could be the same people, they lived different lives and memories.
Same soul, different person.
YES I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THAT I just think that if they took the route of making seoho have some sort of justification for locking bihwan up and making seoho completely in the right it would probably piss me off so I just hope to see a different trope .. and if the angst still falls on minchans side I won’t be too sad, he’s also a very good character and yes bihwan needs to apologize tor calling him the wrong thing all the time
Well it may not be the “wrong” to Bihwan if it does turn out that Minhwan is actually the “Seoho” from past life, but I agree that it’s wrong to call him Seoho, that wouldn’t be him in this life.
And yeah I hope it doesn’t go that route. Would be bad writing.
I really love when bottoms suffer till breakdown point and they they have a happy ending. I feel u
literally WHO is downvoting this you all just love THE SAME DAMN TROPES!!!! I DIDNT EVEN SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THE COMIC LEABE ME ALONEEEEEE
this is like erha but european lol. im actually really enjoying the story? im especially weak to artstyles like this but the premise was also intriguing... i read the novel and im really excited for the adaptation.
idgaf if people hate redhead over here but there are genuinely semes ten trillion times worse all over this site and yall glaze them to hell and back so im gonna enjoy his apathetic narcissistic hypocritical sadistic character all i want. and im just glad real deranged mentally ill MLs are back (huzzah!). do i support his actions? hell no! do i think MC deserved infinitely better treatment? hell yes! do i like ML's character? well yeah! he shouldve ended up with ME!!! joke of course but you get the idea.
anyway yeah this is merrily going in my marinating list
Do you have any spoiler please, pleaaaaaase ?
is the novel complete?
indeed! however ive only found one sight with ENG translations for free and the epilogue is paywalled, so im waiting for the manhwa to adapt (which will probably take forever lol)
i can link a site to read the novel, if you'd like. if not, what kind of spoilers do you want? like to what degree?
count me in w the spoilers plss
yea i can give u guys spoilers but im just not sure how much to give? like are we talking the entire story or what?
Facts he is not best but not worst people forgetting seme is young and prince it's valid that he would be arrogant and selfish that's how any average next in line emperor would behave especially when he knows that people around him are trying to kill him at least he is not sharing uke with others i seriously hate those plot where seme share their uke with others this seme is obsessed and crazy for uke.
like major spoilers, important stuff that happens pls?