Yeah, poor baby Nakyum... He's being tormented both by his adored teacher and the Master; he's cornered and must feel he has no choice but to stay and obey (in order to help his teacher). He could've actually just run away, but that won't do for the plot, sure.
If your theory about Yoon wanting the boy to sleep together without aways having sex, to snuggle with him... then I don't think that's a bad idea too. It means Seungho, surely for the first time, wants to feel human warm, feel affection and give affection from someone and that person can't be anyone else but Nakyum... I'm seeing this as him forcing the painter to become his lover.
I will prefer to see your suppositions become true and seeing the nature of their relationship changes a bit into something more spiritual than them always doing the sex. Too much sex will be pointless at this rate (in the plot), and Nak needs rest.
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Definitely. I hope so too.
I can't see why else Yoon moved the Painter to his quarters. When Painter tried to return to his room, Yoon definitely wanted him to stay put.
Even when redhead came over, he did not stay afterwards in Yoon's room. None of Yoon's lovers stayed in Yoon's quarters after.
Now Yoon has Painter being treated in his room. I doubt he knew if Painter's fever would break that day when he had him moved to his quarters. Which means he intended to sleep beside Painter no matter what.
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I'm agree with this analysis, good remarks.
Though for my part, I wouldn't call these orgy guys "lovers", but fuckbuddies. It's just a term, you'll tell me... Jiwhore looks he's a sexfriend of the Lord, not just any fuckbud.
Here, the Master surely wants Nakyum to become his lover in a romantic way. I don't know if things will turn like this, but Seungho... looks a bit desperate and pitiful to me, and too concerned by the painter to just treat him like another sex partner or sex toy. If Nakyum agrees to let him do, then that could be one of the ways for them to escape from this toxic and abusive relationship of them. That and further developments of the plot...
Meanwhile, no sign of the Learned Sir and Jiwhore...
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Possible spoilers
So we get flashbacks to how the teacher whipped Painter's calves for the lewd paintings. Then we get a dream sequence where Yoon comes out of the paintings to go after the Painter.
Then the Painter wakes up and is greeted by the servant. The Painter realizes that Yoon has had the Painter moved into his PERSONAL quarters to recover.
The Painter hides under blankets and tenses up when Yoon returns and start undressing. The Painter immediately gets up to go back to his room, but Yoon stops him. However, he starts to tear up when Yoon leans in for a kiss so Yoon... stops?
Instead of kissing him, Yoon opens the door and says Painter can leave if he wants. But Painter looks nervous as if he's afraid he's being tested. He can tell Yoon wants Painter to stay in his room. I think actually just to sleep together (not sex) but Yoon wants to actually physically sleep next to Painter which has Painter understandably nervous because he in no way trusts Yoon's intentions.
I suspect in future chapters Painter's going to end sleeping next to Yoon. Not just a sex toy anymore, he's now becoming Yoon's snugglebunny.
Poor Painter...