Side Story 4. IF Side Story
It felt like a long dream. Suho raised his stiff body and looked at the window. Due to laziness in not hanging curtains, sunlight was directly shining on the bed.
“Is this what they call…”
Zhuangzi spoke of the butterfly dream. Was I a butterfly in the dream, or is everything a dream of a butterfly? That’s exactly how Suho felt now. To think that a worn-out office worker struggling just to work at a company would become an extra in a novel. And not just an ordinary extra. He was a beautiful person from a good and wealthy family.
Yu Jin was a completely different person from Suho, with his drooping eyes and languid impression. Suho was blankly reminiscing about Yu Jin’s memories when he suddenly realized it was Saturday. Normally, he would have gone to work for overtime, but today he didn’t want to.
Suho got up from bed, showered, and looked for casual clothes. But perhaps because he hadn’t bought everyday clothes while working at the company, there weren’t any suitable outfits. The most decent thing was a tracksuit he had bought thinking about exercising. Suho roughly put on the tracksuit and wandered around the villa neighborhood. Since he only went back and forth between home and work, he didn’t know any particular places nearby. After just searching on his phone for places to go, he went back home.
“I don’t know any places.”
This had been Suho’s routine since changing jobs. Since it’s come to this, should I just go to work and do overtime? With that thought, Suho headed to the company on a day when others were resting. It was a small company in Eunpyeong-gu, where he went because they said they’d pay well, but now he was doing the work of several people alone. So in conclusion, they weren’t really paying that much.
Thinking this, he stood in front of the company door, and there was a familiar face.
“Huh?”
Even blinking his eyes thinking it might be a dream, what he saw didn’t change. Why is Jinhyeon here? Joy unconsciously welled up, but Suho belatedly became aware of his current appearance. He wasn’t the beautiful Yu Jin now, but just an ordinary office worker you could see anywhere. Moreover, he was much older than Jinhyeon.
Suho forced his feet that wanted to run immediately and approached the door pretending not to know. Still, he couldn’t help his gaze constantly turning towards Jinhyeon. The deeply ingrained feelings left a sticky lingering attachment. Just as Suho was about to open the door, Jinhyeon looked straight at him.
“Found you.”
Jinhyeon grabbed Suho’s wrist and smiled brightly. He had a surprisingly cold impression, but when he smiled, a familiar face emerged.
“Yu Jin. No, your name here was Suho, right?”
Smiling gently with eye smiles, Jinhyeon stepped closer to Suho and opened his mouth.
“Hyung.”
It was a term of address he had never heard from Jinhyeon before. As Suho was staring with round eyes in surprise, Jinhyeon hugged him tightly. Suho was dazed for a moment before belatedly hugging Jinhyeon’s back as he had done.
The thought occurred that passersby might look at them strangely, but what did it matter? Jinhyeon had recognized him.
No, but what’s really going on? Suho uttered his name with a dazed expression.
“Jinhyeon?”
“Yes, it’s me.”
“Why are you here?”
“Why are you here? Do you remember?”
“No.”
“Then I’ll explain. Should we change locations first?”
Work or whatever, this was more important, so Suho willingly followed Jinhyeon. Jinhyeon immediately hailed a taxi and headed to his house. Unlike Suho’s house, Jinhyeon’s house was much more spacious and neat.
‘He was originally from a well-off family.’
The Jinhyeon in the novel was a rich kid who grew up wanting for nothing. But what’s really going on? In Suho’s world, Jinhyeon was a character in a novel.
“Want some coffee?”
“No, water is fine.”
Jinhyeon took out an unopened bottle of water from the refrigerator and handed it to him. Suho checked just in case, but the brand name wasn’t the famous Evian.
“So, what happened is…”
Jinhyeon explained how things came to be, carefully going over the parts Suho remembered. Several years had passed since San was made the successor. After going through a turbulent adolescence, San became an excellent young man and earned the right to inherit Lucid.
“Do you remember what San calls us?”
“…Father.”
“Good, you remember that.”
Anyway, after raising a somewhat greedy and capable successor, naturally Yu Jin’s work gradually decreased. There was also Jinhyeon’s manipulation in this, but it wasn’t bad for either of them, so it didn’t matter. Above all, having more time meant they could go out more.
“So we decided to go to the Eastern Continent.”
This time, the purpose was pure tourism.
“Father, are you crazy?”
San protested vehemently at Jinhyeon and Yu Jin’s words about going on a trip that would take several months, but eventually let them go.
“I’ll take this opportunity to check the surroundings.”
No matter how capable San was as a successor, the influence of Yu Jin and Jinhyeon in getting him there couldn’t be ignored. So if the two were absent for a long period, people with malicious intentions might show some action.
“If I solve that, I can become a perfect head of the family!”
So this time, he pushed them to have a good trip. Thanks to this, Yu Jin headed to the Eastern Continent with Jinhyeon.
“It’s my first time on a ship like this.”
“Really?”
“Yes, I didn’t have any reason to ride a ship in my previous life or now.”
Yu Jin’s heart pounded at the first ship ride of his life. He packed various medicines in case of seasickness, but even here, the dragon heart shone. Yu Jin didn’t get seasick at all, and they could purely enjoy the new environment.
Although there was someone who wasn’t so pure.
“Wait. Wait!”
Yu Jin hit Jinhyeon’s clinging back with his palm, but he didn’t stop. Jinhyeon undressed Yu Jin in an instant as if he had been doing it for decades, and buried his face in his chest. He greedily licked and bit the nipples standing erect in the cold air and grasped the fleshy chest with his palm.
“You’ve gained weight.”
“What do you mean I’ve gained weight!”
“Right. Why have you gained weight?”
Saying this, Jinhyeon pounced on Yu Jin. He bit and sucked all over his body and carefully widened the lower hole. The body accustomed to the relationship with Jinhyeon opened quickly at his touch.
The weather wasn’t good today, is it okay to do this on the ship? The bed shook along with the ship in the strong waves. Such questions arose, but it didn’t take long for thoughts to be consumed by heat. When the hot and hard genitals thrust deep into the tender belly, uncontrollable sounds escaped from the mouth. The changed body fully embraced Jinhyeon’s genitals without lubrication.
‘Right, that’s how it was.’
Thinking about that time, his face heated up for no reason. No, it wasn’t just his face that heated up, but Suho tried to act nonchalant. Whether Jinhyeon knew this or not, he continued his story.
The ship journey accompanied by such enjoyable sex life ended earlier than expected. The bad weather didn’t last long, and the ship arrived at the Eastern Continent faster than expected. Since the purpose was different from when Jinhyeon came alone before, they got an expensive accommodation and enjoyed the different culture.
The Eastern Continent somehow resembled the world in martial arts novels, so it was fun to compare those aspects.
“Then we heard a rumor.”
A rumor about a nine-tailed fox that bewitches people.
“They say it bewitches people and eats their liver. So recently, there’s a saying going around not to walk alone in this area.”
“Doesn’t the government solve this?”
“They say the gumiho is not an easy spiritual beast, so it takes some time to gather skilled people.”
The person who relayed this information was terrified, but Jinhyeon was different.
“A spiritual beast.”
Jinhyeon’s black eyes sparkled. He paid an extraordinary amount of attention to Yu Jin’s health. For that, he even caught a dragon, so he couldn’t help but be interested in the gumiho, a spiritual beast.
“Look at this. It says the gumiho’s core is good for health.”
“No, but I’ve already eaten the dragon heart?”
“More is better, right? You’ve been getting thin lately anyway.”
“I’ve gained weight? Do I always look thin to your eyes?”
Yu Jin spoke as if dumbfounded, but Jinhyeon didn’t budge. And he calmly began to make plans to hunt the gumiho.
“Did we catch the gumiho?”
“We did. We also secured the core properly. However, there was a slight problem in the process of consuming the gumiho’s core.”
Whether it was due to the curse cast by the gumiho before it died, Yu Jin suddenly fell asleep and wouldn’t wake up. So to solve this, Jinhyeon caught a famous Taoist from the Eastern Continent and brought him, and he soon came to a conclusion.
“It seems he has fallen into a deep sleep due to the gumiho’s curse. To solve this, you need to enter his dream and bring him out.”
Now that they knew the method, what was next? Jinhyeon unhesitatingly entered Yu Jin’s dream and found him. In the dream world strangely mixed with the world he originally lived in, finding Yu Jin wasn’t as difficult as expected. As they spent more time together, Yu Jin had started talking about his previous life, and thanks to that, Jinhyeon knew the name and location of Yu Jin’s company.
“No, but you could only meet me if I went to the company. Did you wait all this time?”
“You said it yourself. That you often came to work on weekends when you were working at the company. I didn’t wait long. And above all, the waiting was enjoyable.”
“Why?”
“Because I might be able to see your face from your previous life?”
At those words, Yu Jin unknowingly covered his face with both hands.
“Ugh. You must have been disappointed.”
“Why would I be disappointed?”
Well, because Park Suho isn’t as beautiful as Yu Jin. There had never been problems due to appearance, but still, since the other person was Jinhyeon, he was worried.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
