
Seungho is in love with Nakyum. You might think it's not love, but I actually think he does feel it, he doesn't know how to express it. And the story has told us why he's like this. I don't justify his violence, but everything he's gone through, has taken him to this point. First, in those times, violence was normalized, so in the beginning he treated Nakyum as he would to any employee. He just told the kind man he would cut his tongue. But what's most important is not that. Remember the first time they discovered his sexuality he was treated as a sick person, rejected by his own family, and we still don't know what happened to the person he fell in love with. The thing is he may be scared that Nakyum may think of him as a sick person, that is only with him because he's scared of his master. Seungho is a traumatized human, in the end. So escaping after he opened his heart to him, broke him. Re-read, he asked him if he was happy he had finally escaped. And I actually believe he hugged him bc he needed to hug him.
In the end, Nakyum is sick and traumatized too. In a less agressive way, bc he was raised differently. And he's not traumatized bc of Seungho. He's traumatized bc of Inhun, who made him afraid of who he was and told him he was a prost****. Nakyum wasn't as passive as he's now, but he is, and that behavior is toxic too.
Also, remember this is a manhwa and it's meant for adults only. Like in all fiction, it's not meant to portray a healthy relationship, just like movies can make an assassin the main character. Appart from the se* it's meant to be for adults bc they can differentiate between what's good or bad (or at least, should). Is the relationship toxic? Yes. Is it wrong that it is? No, as long as this only stays in fiction. Good fiction is not one that makes healthy things, but those that portray fictional characters as humans. And I do think the author has achieved that.
Also, I don't think this is any close to the end, so there's still a lot of time for their relationship's development. ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶

Me too. I actually think it's better they didn't become all lovey dovey now. They both need to solve their problems before they get into a relationship. And when Seungho discovers he treated Nakyum like that after he was kidnapped, he's going to regret it with all he has. Nakyum is not the passive guy he's being right now, I feel like he's going to face Seungho and scream out everything out of desperation in one point.

Well, idk if realistic, as in that time everything was different and well, there's still toxic relationships even when it's horrible. But idk, I feel like there's still a long way to go. I guess we have a feeling it'll end soon bc we're used to the mains not noticing they were in love until a long time happened (at least me). But here they noticed pretty soon, and none of their traumas have been faced yet.
Por favor ya deja que sacar los raws de los scans en español, no te han dado permiso y ya han dicho varias veces que van a cancelar el proyecto por hacerlo, es imposible que no te hayas dado cuenta que hasta dejaron de traducirlo un tiempo. Si quieres subirlo y traducirlo, pide permiso o compra tus propios raws.
And also to the people that read it here, please stop supporting this. They're stealing the raws from someone else and if they stop the project neither you or us will read it.