


Did Zhenya really abandon Taekjoo to die?
Heeyyy everyone, theres something i’ve been wondering about for a long time. I've read the novel many times, but i still haven't found the truth about zhenya’s real intentions since we don't have a flashback for that. Did Zhenya really throw him into the river and leave him to die? Or waiting to someone’s saved him? It was written that the agents who were following taekjoo rescued him after the bogdanovs left. But taekjoo was conflicted in his mind about whether he had been rescued by zhenya or not. The scene Zhenya and his brother talking, Vladimir wondered zhenya knew taekjoo was in the hospital but why he doesnt gone and killed him. Did zhenya wait for him to come to himself for revenge? Bcs he killed all the agents before taekjoo, the reason he kept him alive was because he felt an intense sexual attraction to taekjoo, unlike anything he had ever felt before. When taekjoo came to zhenya for revenge, all those cryptic messages, koschei, anastasia and manor directions he had given in the past made me think that they were all meant to lure him to him.. in fact during the scene where he was making an old man dance, the phone rang, but he was so engrossed in thinking about taekjoo that he didn't even hear phone, trying to figure out "the lust for a tough male body” so he didn't want to kill taekjoo from the beginning. Is that all? Does anyone have another idea?