To me, the tragedy of Gun as the Genius in Nurture is this. While he genuinely enjoyed nurturing, he was always, always meant to lose or tear down what he himself built up.
He gradually lost all of those meaningful connections with his former protégés or disciples: Eli, Jake, Olly, Daniel, and even Crystal. Strangely, to me, the loss of his connection with Crystal feels more heartbreaking because it happened offscreen and felt so sudden and hard-hitting. What? He didn't even get to keep her as a friend because eventually her inheritance would be his?
And weren't Daniel and Crystal the only two among these protégés who still called him "brother", after all the others had left and/or died?
These losses, and the sad loss of his connection with Goo, were the results of his tainted ties with Charles Choi. Those ties gradually robbed him of all shreds of humanity that he still had.
And so Gun was called a Ghost, not purely because he was a terrifying presence, I think, but also because he lived like one.
And this is the moment I decided this is what I am gonna ship in this drama. The prince is a lovely person and on her side but feral enemy general is everything! Communist childhood has clearly given me a lifelong fondness for red flags.
The way he breaks INTO a prison for some weapons craftsman. And FL and him bluff each other mmmmm
He loses...
I ship this so hard!!! In the novel this is based on, they are the OTP but I think they changed it for the drama alas. MMMM tooooo bad! I finally get what all the girlies saw in Xiang Liu in LYF - XL did nothing for me but this similar type here is making me RABID!