Yoon Seungho

> *"A fiend for sodomy with no regard for time or place... rumoured to even have had his topknot cut off by his father... a notorious hell-raiser!"*
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> *—Baek Namkyun, thinking about **Yoon Seungho** in Chapter 1*
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**Yoon Seungho** (윤승호 *Yun Seung-ho)* is one of the main protagonists of *Painter of the Night.*

## Status

### Family

Yoon Chang-hyeon (Father)Yoon Seungwon (Younger brother)

Unnamed mother (Mother)(Deceased)

Baek Na-kyum (Lover)

## Appearance

Seungho is a young man of a tall and muscular build, with toned muscles and a sharp jawline. He has fair skin, thick eyebrows, and long, black hair regularly tied up into a topknot, referred to as "sangtu" (상투)in Korean. Seungho's eyes are an intense shade of warm amber. He is regularly seen wearing the typical attire of that period.

## Personality

Yoon Seungho is educated, experienced and endowed. He has read all books in his private library that resembles bookstore. He memorized poem written by Wang Bang Yeon, a famous poet. He has a spacious residence, more servants than one can count, an abundance of riches and a name of influence and power. Even so, Yoon Seungho doesn’t have interest in taking government post. He refuses to take civil service examination. The reason is still unknown. He only says that sight of old, bearded men makes him shudder.

Yoon Seungho has unbridled lust and commits sodomy with a different man every day. He is known as a notorious hell-raiser, a fiend for sodomy with no regard for time or place. He rumored to have had his top-knot cut off by his father.

Yoon Seungho is impatient and will get what he wants. Seungho has shown interest in paintings since young. When he was young, he would paint on his servants’ body when they irritated or displeased him as a game. The servants themselves would shiver and shake. When he is a full grown man, Yoon Seungho falls into a famous series of erotica paintings. His loins heated whenever he sees the paintings and he cannot engange in his nightly activities without them. He searches the painter behind them through his pseudonym. He kidnaps him and forces him to become his private painter when the painter, Baek Nakyum is no longer paints. In order to make Nakyum paint again, Yoon Seungho promises to Nakyum that Jung Inhun will achieve greatness with his support.

According to Servant Kim, Yoon Seungho has been hurt in the past so he is very unstable, with violent mood swings. Seungho often has nightmares in his sleep. He rarely fast asleep, when he does, it is in a night he spends with Baek Nakyum.

Yoon Seungho is a cold blooded man who doesn’t hesitant to kill and punish a servant, however he shows some mercy at Nakyum. Lee Jihwa who notices that finds it odd since Yoon Seungho is not one to go back to his word. Yoon Seungho goes back to his word when he says he wouldn’t embrace a peasant.

Yoon Seungho has no regard at others’ opinion including his own family. He doesn’t care that his action would make rumors circulate. Yoon Seungho lends his robe to Nakyum and outfitting him tailored clothes which are considered as odd because no noblemen did that to a lowborn. Though Yoon Seungho’s unbothered attitude, he would see over Nakyum in his room several times.

When it comes to Nakyum, Yoon Seungho doesn’t act like usually. He would show possessiveness over Nakyum that he doesn’t over others, as stated by Master Min. Yoon Seungho also shows jealousy when it is related to Nakyum and Inhun. Jung Inhun realizes that whatever the topic of discussion with Yoon Seungho will involve Nakyum in some way.

## Plot

### Background

Yoon Seungho is Master of the Yoons, first born son of the Yoons. His family have good reputation considering he is able to send Jung Inhun to take civil service examination. Nevertheless, rumor lingers that greatness of Yoon family is bound to fall and they are no different from a wealthy, but uncultured family of merchants and that Yoon Seungho is black sheep of family Yoon. Lee Jihwa says the Yoons are a declining family. Yoon Seungho was being left with his personal valet when his entire family moved houses with all servants.

## Quotes

* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Can you feel it? This is how heated my loins become whenever I see your paintings.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*You can eat and sleep under my roof, and create erotic paintings for me. That is what I want from you*."
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Well, I can give you all the time you need to prepare. But it would be wise for you to remember that I am not a patient man.*"
* (To Lee Jihwa) "*I see his paintings, vividly, in my mind's eye...I can't think of anything else*."
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*I may have a reputation for promiscuity...but that doesn't mean I'd ever embrace a peasant.*"
* ".*..I cannot focus. It is just too ridiculous. To think! A great man, such that one so 'consumed by lust' as I am...could never dare to judge him! He had the nerve to tell me this, though he'd tremble in fear when I so much as approached him...he is certainly a funny fellow.*"
* (To Jung In-hun) "*Only that...when you begin working in some government post...That you do not forget me, Yoon Seungho.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*If you paint for me...I will ensure that he is given a post in the government.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Both you and Jung In-hun...would do well to remember that you live under my roof now. Even If either of you were discovered drowned in a well, or ended up food for the tigers in the woods...there is not a single man who would dare suspect me.*"
* (To Lee Jihwa) "*Do not cross the line. It seems you think you know everything there is to know about me. But what you know ends right there. Take care not to speak so rashly*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*There are no brush strokes, but you say you have seen everything...Perhaps seeing was not enough. Must I invite you to join in?*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Finish the painting here, while I watch. I shall be overseeing every line and mark you make*."
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*What was your favorite part? Is this scene here a depiction of the part that excited you the most? I am asking...what is the moment that most aroused you...as you held your brush...what made your blood run so hot that it became difficult to bear?*"
* (To Lee Jihwa) " *It just so happens that I have been feeling an urge to try the fellow. But If such rumors are circulating anyway...I suppose I should take care not to disappoint the nobles*."
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Well, what can I do but apologize...for taking that which you've been saving out of affection...*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Call me your 'Lord'* "
* (To Jung In-hun) "*Then again, of course I would not have sought you out after reading such derivative drivel.*"
* (To Jung In-hun) "*Perhaps you've been sequestered in your room for too long. If you allow yourself to be influenced by such talk already, and act without regard for your status...You will never be able to achieve greatness, learned sir. In any case...It is very fortunate that we were able to hunt together today. Even I would have trouble placing a scholar with no fortune or pedigree in a government post...So my heart has been heavy with worry. But at least it seems you are not a complete fool. For that I am truly relieved, Sir Jung.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*You hate me so much you could die? Now that feels unfair. But If I am to be hated, I might as well be hated properly. Don't you agree?*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*You will do well to acquaint yourself. As there will be many occasions from now on where you will have to paint yourself...*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) ".*..Well then, what exactly did you say to Jung In-hun? Did you ask him to run away with you? 'Master Seungho has sodomized me...and ordered me to depict the scene in a painting...' Is that what you told him? What a relief then, that he simply counseled you to paint. Isn't it?*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*This time I will see you get hard for me.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Now. Look closely at that face of yours. You may act as though you dislike it. You may act however you please...But did you really think that those minute expressions of desire...that played across your face everytime you held that brush...as well as the way you rubbed at your lower parts...would have escaped me?*"
* "*What a uselessly excessive amount of interest you all have in what is mine*."
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*You weep and faint at the slightest provocation...I cannot do much with you at this rate, can I*?"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*If I am the cause, it is on me, I suppose, to be the solution.*"
* (To Yoon Seung-won) "*The absurdity of your suggestion moves me to laughter. I am already living by the principles father taught us. Yet you speak of what is right?*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) ".*..Everything is because of me, because this jacket belongs to me? It is my fault that my jacket belongs to me...and your midnight erection...that too was my fault. As is your reddening face...go on. What else, then, should I take responsibility for? It seems I am at fault for a great many things. How can I seek forgiveness, I wonder...what to do...perhaps by sucking you off right here?*"
* (To Jung In-hun) "*What's more...the mere sight of old, bearded men makes me shudder.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Finish up my spread.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) ".*..Because it hurts? You are so thin that embracing you from the back doesn't please me as much as it should.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Your whorish behaviour right now? Yes, I approve. As you've said, it is for this that I keep you by my side. Yes, to do all of this. This sort of thing...to do this.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*What am I trying to do here...It seems you inevitably burst into tears whenever you are with me.*"
* (To Deok-jae) "*Who...do you...think you are...to put hands on him?*"
* "*What...what exactly do I want from you? Love...? Absurd...it makes no sense...and yet...because the way you looked at him...is not the way you look at me...I am...filled with rage. I don't know why. I brought you here as a new plaything, that's all...but whenever I see your face, I cannot contain myself. My emotions swing wildly this way and that. It is as though I am back at that moment...my insides lurch, and I feel so angry, I could go insane.Things were easier when I was able to lose myself in debauchery...how did this happen again? Should I just get rid of it all? If I killed them all, and myself, would it be easier...*"
* (To Lee Jihwa) "*I trust you have been well, Lord Song? I told you not to cross the line...did you think I would not recognize your handwriting, Jihwa?*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Have I gone mad from the fever...? Today...when a certain person confessed he adored me...I briefly wished it had been you who said those words. The thought still lingers like a dream...the day you came into my arms, thinking I was Jung In-hun...when you clung so desperately to me and confessed your love, looking an absolute wreck...all I wanted then was to mock you for it...yet why is it that...your appearance and expression in that moment continue to haunt me...?*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Jihwa accused me of making a wreck of him...but it is me, now...I am the one who has become a wreck...you have made a wreck of me...*"
* (To Lee Jihwa) "*You understand? What could you ever understand? You know nothing, absolutely nothing. Only his name. If you truly understood me...you would never have committed such a repulsive act, sending me a message in his name. Do not harbor any longing for me. There is not the slightest chance of my ever returning such sentiments...*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*I did not know you could run so quickly...when I discovered you were gone...a thousand thoughts swept through my mind until sunrise. Did something I said in the heat of the moment compel you to run?...were you laughing, thinking you had finally escaped, while I looked out at the snow dumpfounded?*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*I was foolish for letting down my guard...simply because you said you had waited for me. I was foolish also for disclosing how I felt...all of this is the result of my own folly*."
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*You were right. We are merely two naked bodies. We need not be more*."
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*You want me to let you go? That I cannot allow. I will never let you go.*"
* (To Heena) "*Well, you must only fear the heavens and not the wrath of humans.*"
* (To Lord Lee) "*That son you are so proud of used to sneak out of these very doors each night...to come and suck me off. I imagine you are not unaware of this.*"
* (To Lord Lee) "*Perhaps you can deliver my message to Jihwa instead, my Lord. If he lays another hand on that boy Na-kyum...or not even that. If I ever see his shameless, vile face ever again...I will tear it to shreads with this very sword. So beware.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*I promise not to frighten you any longer. So...do not push me away. That is all I will ask of you.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*I know I have wronged you in many ways. However...a nobleman cannot bow down to a lowborn...so I shall make amends by attending to you*."
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Come to think of it, it is quite strange. You are wearing my robe...yet I have not even my headband on. A simple change of attire has reversed our social rank. Amusing, is it not?...The night is long, Lord Na-kyum.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Call me...Seungho.*"
* (To Baek Nakyum) "*Your skin, damp and sweaty, against my own...does it not feel strange and wondrous?*"