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respectthepetty · 8 months

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What should we call it now?

If were not enemies, do you think we can be friends?

Sailom started escorting in episode four of Dangerous Romance.

And it already caused some tension between the boys.

But just like his fellow Slut for Christ, Only Friends' Ray, Kanghan can and will throw money at any and all issues. Sailom won't directly accept money, so Kanghan arranges an alternative - hiring Sailom again AND forcing him to live with Kanghan.

And this IS an issue. (all I'm seeing is red & blue)

Kanghan doesn't like the idea of Sailom having to eat with rich clients for money.

Or talking with clients over the glow of candlelight.

Probably because it scares him to think that the client will ask for more from Sailom than just the job he was hired to do.

Because if this is about money, Kanghan has it.

Sailom escorting sooner in the show, makes me confident that Kanghan will be even more pissed when Sailom goes back to it.

And Sailom would go back to it if he doesn't have another client buying up his time.

Without tutoring, the boys did not talk to each other, and Kanghan was in his feelings about it.

Instead of sparking a friendship with Sailom after tutoring had ended, Kanghan made their relationship transactional once again, which would seem really nice sense he knows Sailom needs money, BUT . . .

Kanghan never attempted to be friends with Sailom. Kanghan, who plays soccer, signed up for logistics rather than sports, so he could possibly work with Sailom at school. Why the ritual when he could just be friends with Sailom? Because even if Kanghan wants to be friends with Sailom, he doesn't treat him like a friend.

I think Kanghan likes Pimfah, but this quick exchange is interesting when applied to their dynamic:

Kanghan was taken aback by Pimfah's statement (because he thought she was trying to define their relationship, possibly), but this question has come up before and was directly about Sailom and Kanghan. But in the style of Bad Buddy, what are Sailom and Kanghan?

They aren't enemies anymore, but they aren't friends. Kanghan wants to take care of Sailom, pay for fancy meals for him, spend time with him, eat snacks with him, and live with him, but they aren't boyfriends.

So what are they now?

Sailom called Kanghan his friend,

but for Kanghan?

Pimfah originally asked Sailom for tutoring, so he would have gotten money (if this were just about money), but Kanghan eliminated that funding source just like he did with Sailom's other tutoring clients in episode two.

Because Kanghan's isn't just buying a service from Sailom (tutoring); he is buying Sailom by forcing him to move in, and playfully asking him to feed him and massage his back. And both Name and Kanghan mention this type of job being "easy"

And Sailom is good company for a client.

Kanghan didn't give Sailom any other option but to keep him company.

Kanghan isn't Sailom's friend. He doesn't want to be Sailom's friend. He is a client, and until Kanghan changes his mentality, he is going to continue thinking that his money has power over Sailom. But without his money, what use does Sailom have with him?

None.

And that's what scares him.

#dangerous romance #kanghan x sailom #kanghan is a client #he made sure of that #then he made sure he was the ONLY client #because Sailom has no need for him except his money #or that's what Kanghan believes

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heretherebedork · 8 months

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Kang wants to feel important. He is constantly seeking power and use of his privilege because he has nothing else. His father discourages him from trying to take any kind of responsibility or put forth any effort. And everything he has, everything he might want, has nowhere to go.

He has power and influence and money and privilege, everything he could want except ambition or dreams and without those he has no guidance, nothing to tell him what's right or wrong, important or unimportant.

Kang is a bully and a man or cruelty right now because all he sees is a world where nothing he does matters and so what does it matter if he hurts people? Nothing else he does matters and hurting people gets him a response. He gets approval from his friends, he gets their attention, he gets the victim pleading, he gets the feeling of something mattering and that's all he wants.

And that's why Sailom is going to be able to help him change himself.

Because Sailom can show him the parts of the world that truly matter. He can show what means and what important really means. Kang has never needed anything, he's never even wanted for anything. He's been given everything on a silver spoon and told that people who aren't like him aren't like him because they aren't as good as him, because his luck of birth makes him better, makes them less than him, makes them worthy of the life they have than he is of the life he has.

Kang chases meaning and anything in his life that could let him feel less like nothing he does matters, like he is incapable of mattering, and that chase has turned into a cruel and merciless young man who knows nothing of importance save that which gets what he wants... attention and praise, even if that praise is for the worst things he does.

(He gathers an entire audience to watch him put Sailom in his place because all that matters is the power and privilege he has and Sailom does not but if no one is there to see it does it count? If no one witnesses his power does it truly exist at all?)

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