I'm not saying NK is a bad or fake character, he indeed is innocent, just that something is fishy about him... like we don't know everything. I feel like him saying he won't ever paint sodomy has something more to it than just doing as that shitty learned b!tch told him. Maybe it's about his psyche?
No, I have to disagree with you. First BNK is someone who has high regard for educated people. Secondly, In Hun shows good manners on the surface hence BNK felt that In Hun was a good person. So he fell in love with him as he was first treated nicely by In Hun, until the latter realized that BNK was more successful than him. Don't forget that BNK was able to publish many books with his paintings which means he could earn money. Besides, his books became popular among the nobility that's how Seungho noticed his works. Imagine, our learned sir is a noble, yet he has no recognition, while a low-born like BNK could earn much money and even get a reputation. In Hun started hitting him and telling him that these paintings were terrible. He forced him to stop painting as he was terribly jealous.
I like your comment but it was truly Jihwa imagination. If you look at Seungho hairband it was different of the one he was wearing at the beginning when we saw him, so it seems that Jihwa didn't actually saw them properly, he must had hear them. But yeah the theory that Nakyum isn't that innocent and pure I totally worth for it but I don't think he could (this soon anyway) make this kind of expression, even in chapter 18 when he was drunk and thinking that he was making love with Inhun he didn't act this shamelessly. Let's see ^^
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that new guy Jihwa met is somehow related to Nakyum or sth I mean maybe his father or brother or... he's related to Seungho idk
Maybe soon we'll get to know something more about his origin?
And I'm 99% sure the smile Nakyum did was just Jihwa's imagination but WHAT IF... it was real? Like I know it's impossible because Nakyum is just too pure to go 180° over one night but then I re-read all the chapters and i cant get something out of my mind. He was abandoned. He drew sodomy since he was little, i know he was raised with prostitutes but why is he drawing men only? Another thing, Seungho was wondering how could he memorize the scenes since his head was always down. Nakyum never actually painted the whole painting during watching but after it. Isn't that weird? He also broke the mirror because he saw himself with Seungho there. Maybe I'm going too deep into it but what if Nakyum isn't that pure tho? Or something is possessing him and he tried to run away but it is all coming back because of Seungho?