#076
Even after being thoroughly satisfied, Hwi-kyung had to endure Gyo-ha’s advances. Unfortunately, there was nowhere to escape in the hotel room.
Eventually, Hwi-kyung resigned himself to rolling around with Gyo-ha a bit more. To be precise, they went at it twice more on the bed, and then once again in the bathtub under the pretext of washing each other.
Rather than being overly aggressive, Gyo-ha always nibbled and sucked on people just the right amount. He clung persistently but didn’t get excessively clingy to the point of passing out, and he never pushed too far even when he could have gone a bit further.
Hwi-kyung felt sick for a different reason as the pleasure built up to the edge. If you’re going to do it, just do it harder. The impatient Hwi-kyung found it several times more burdensome to be taken so meticulously.
It seemed like it could have gone deeper in the bathtub…. Hwi-kyung slapped his forehead, startled by his own thoughts. His exhaustion made it difficult to think straight.
“Erectile dysfunction…”
“Pardon?”
“You should eat some foods that are good for erectile dysfunction.”
Hwi-kyung mumbled towards Gyo-ha, who had just finished bathing and was now one with the bed. Despite their activities, Gyo-ha looked completely fine while Hwi-kyung was exhausted. Gyo-ha’s face seemed to glow with vitality, as if he had sucked out Hwi-kyung’s energy.
“I think it’s just that you have weak stamina…”
“Anyone would be tired after going at it this much.”
“Really?”
“…Don’t tell me others weren’t tired?”
“Others?”
“The people you’ve dated before. You’re experienced, aren’t you?”
Hwi-kyung raised his upper body with effort and looked at Gyo-ha with undisguised suspicion. Gyo-ha, understanding what Hwi-kyung was thinking, simply took out a bottle of water from the mini-fridge and offered it.
“Can you open the cap for me?”
“You can do that much on your own.”
Hwi-kyung opened the cap of the water Gyo-ha handed him and took a sip. As he drank, his slightly hoarse voice began to improve.
“Hwi-kyung.”
“Yes.”
“I’m not that much of a… loose person, you know.”
Hwi-kyung was just about to take another sip of water when Gyo-ha’s protest about not being loose made him sputter and spit out the water he was drinking.
“I, cough, I didn’t say you were loose.”
“Sometimes it feels like you see me that way.”
“…”
“I don’t just like anyone, or get aroused by anyone… I’m not like that.”
Lee Gyo-ha looked genuinely upset. Hwi-kyung, who had been thinking of him as an Americanized, open-minded loose guy, felt guilty and kept his mouth shut.
Liking anyone, getting aroused by anyone… Hwi-kyung had to admit that he had been trapped by the notion that “Lee Gyo-ha likes anyone.”
It was inevitable given his frivolous first impression. Thinking about how Gyo-ha had flirted with him on the thirteenth encounter just to tease him still made his blood boil.
However, from what Hwi-kyung had observed up close, while Gyo-ha was friendly to everyone, he didn’t just like anyone. Jung Hwi-kyung now knew that Lee Gyo-ha thought of him as special.
“I like you.”
The straightforward Lee Gyo-ha blurted out this confession directly. He was a bit shy, but unlike Hwi-kyung, he didn’t beat around the bush.
Hwi-kyung found this aspect of Gyo-ha difficult, yet attractive. No matter how hard he tried, he could never act like Lee Gyo-ha. It wasn’t like Hwi-kyung to express emotions so directly or to snuggle into someone’s arms claiming shyness.
However, Jung Hwi-kyung didn’t push away Gyo-ha when he lay down next to him and wrapped an arm around his waist. Instead, he leaned in and hugged him back. I like you too. He swallowed those words. He didn’t have the courage to say them out loud.
* * *
The incident broke out after the weekend. On a weekday morning, Gyo-ha’s name appeared in stock market rumors.
[BK’s third son, hidden lover is a man? Progressive Korea… Is the era of progress starting with the chaebol?]
[Who is Lee Gyo-ha of BK Group, about his colorful history with women and his return to Korea]
[Tired of women, turning to men? Exclusive coverage on chaebol’s shocking behavior]
[Gay-friendly moves, BK’s business performance suspected]
[Male Cinderella appears? Deep kiss in hotel parking lot]
These were the least vulgar headlines. Hwi-kyung stared blankly at the large photo of him and Gyo-ha kissing, plastered on the portal site.
Fortunately or unfortunately, Hwi-kyung’s face was blurred out. They protected his image rights, treating him as a private citizen. However, Gyo-ha’s face, born as a second-generation chaebol and living a semi-public life, was clearly visible.
“Don’t worry about it too much.”
Unlike Hwi-kyung, who lost his appetite due to the sudden scandal, Gyo-ha calmly prepared breakfast, whisking four eggs to make a smooth egg custard. Seeing him act so nonchalantly was infuriating.
“How can I not worry?”
“It’s stranger that they’re making such a fuss about two grown adults kissing in a hotel basement parking lot.”
“It’s a problem because it’s two men kissing.”
“In the 21st century, can’t a man kiss another man?”
Gyo-ha laughed casually as he shoved a large spoonful of egg custard into Hwi-kyung’s mouth.
“Anyway, my sister will probably bury all these articles, saying they’re not good for business.”
Chewing on the egg custard in his mouth, Hwi-kyung sighed. Indeed, Lee Jung-hye wouldn’t stand by and watch such a scandal unfold.
“I’ll probably get scolded for getting photographed just anywhere, but it won’t be a big problem.”
“I hope so…”
“People don’t pay attention to this kind of issue for long anyway.”
Hwi-kyung, who had been quite shocked, quickly felt reassured by Gyo-ha’s nonchalant attitude. According to Gyo-ha, unless someone deliberately added fuel to the fire, scandals involving second-generation chaebol are buried more easily than celebrity drug cases.
Thinking about it, it seemed true. It became an issue because it was a same-sex scandal, but strictly speaking, this wasn’t even a crime. Most of the comments on the scandal articles were lukewarm, except for a few extreme ones. Some even questioned why such trivial news was being reported.
Thanks to this, Hwi-kyung regained his composure much faster than usual. Whether there was a scandal or not, he still had to go to work. Besides, the situation wouldn’t change just because he panicked.
And so, about three more days of ordinary life continued.
As time passed, as expected, Jung-hye started paying off media outlets to take down the articles. It seemed she judged that gay-friendly marketing was a risky challenge in conservative South Korea.
Once the articles were cleared away, the public turned their attention elsewhere as if there had never been such a scandal. Conveniently, a famous idol announced their marriage due to premarital pregnancy, drawing all the attention to that issue.
On his way to work, Hwi-kyung listened to that idol’s music streaming as a casual gesture of gratitude. Thanks to that idol taking the hit, the issue about him and Gyo-ha was completely buried.
And so, the scandal about the chaebol’s second son’s same-sex relationship seemed to be quietly buried.
[Title] What if your boss is gay
BK Entertainment · S2S2S2S255
I’m pretty sociable and I’ve been told I’m good-looking
Honestly, I’ve dated a lot until now and there’s no man I couldn’t seduce if I tried hard enough
It’s not bragging, but I’ve received a lot of attention from men in both college and work
But this time, there’s a guy I’m really interested in
He’s from the company and has a high position so it’s a bit tricky
Anyway, he seemed interested in me too (he’s actually been quite nice to me)
Thinking that no tree won’t fall after ten chops, I showed interest actively
Now I wonder what was the point of all that
No matter how much I tried to seduce him, he didn’t fall for it, turns out he’s gay
I feel bitter thinking about how I could have seduced a man who’s not interested in women
Comments
Rootdachemical · ChemicaldaRoot You should take down the post; it’s too specific;
Tax accountant · Pay5timesmoretax I wonder where your confidence comes from. Please publish a book on how to live as a narcissist
New company · llilill First time seeing someone call themselves a seduction doll with their own mouth lol Wow I’m feeling secondhand embarrassment lol
Antique Media · kpopdead How did they get into a big company? BK, do you have a weirdo recruitment program or something?
Samil Food · lllillillll You’re going to get sued by BK’s legal team if you keep this up. Seriously, delete the post quickly
That’s how it was until unexpected fuel was added to the fire.
Why do anonymous workplace message boards even exist? It’s because people are confined to offices for at least 8 hours a day that they keep doing useless things. Hwi-kyung rubbed his forehead as he saw the contents of the post circulating as screen captures.
Who’s the gay boss at BK Entertainment? Why, wasn’t there that BK third son whose kissing scene was circulating recently…? The scandal that had quieted down thanks to the famous idol’s premarital pregnancy heroics flared up again like wildfire. Thanks to the original poster’s overflowing self-love, the capture became an object of ridicule and spread across various online communities.
Hwi-kyung was truly dumbfounded. It was really absurd that something they had managed to bury was being dug up again because of a single online post. But life never goes as planned.
[Special] [Exclusive Interview] BK Lee Sung-ha speaks out about his brother’s same-sex relationship! #NTV NEWS#
Lee Sung-ha, who had been waiting like a third-rate villain, also seized this opportunity to strike. Hwi-kyung couldn’t wrap his head around the crazy turn of events that had unfolded in just a few days.
[Same-sex relationships are one thing, but Gyo-ha… he was quite promiscuous. The whole family was worried.]
[Is that why he went to America? He was the only one among the siblings who lived abroad for a long time, wasn’t he?]
[That’s right. He left saying he was going to be a model because he got carried away, but in the end, he couldn’t adapt to life in America and came back. Father was quite troubled.]
The content of Sung-ha’s interview was outrageous. It was incredible to see him spilling family secrets without realizing he was spitting in his own face. Looking at the interview, it seemed like Gyo-ha was the troublesome son, while Sung-ha was the ideal eldest son.
Despite being an obviously hastily arranged interview, due to Korea’s particular interest in the upper class, Sung-ha’s interview recorded a remarkable number of views in a short time. Even after NTV made the video private, clips from the interview continued to circulate on social media.
“This is quite serious.”
Finally, even Gyo-ha, who had been casually saying “It’ll work out somehow,” felt a sense of crisis. The problem wasn’t anything else, but that their older sister, Lee Jung-hye, had started raging, saying she would kill both of her younger brothers.
