#057
“Hyung, raise me. Okay? You said I’m pretty even when I’m just sitting still. I’ll keep being pretty, so hyung keep thinking I’m pretty too.”
Kang Dojun stopped breathing for a moment. What is this cute creature? How did it come to me? The pretty one was good at being pretty too.
“I’m already doing that.”
Yeonwoo felt the soft texture of lips under his eyes. The lips he thought would fall off quickly stuck on more persistently than expected.
He pulled his head back but his face was caught before he could get far. It was starting to hurt a bit. But if it was hyung, it was bearable.
The touching area burned hot as if scorched by fire.
“Hyung?”
The lips finally separated after a while.
When Yeonwoo raised his hand to rub his face, Kang Dojun stopped him. Then he looked at the red mark he had made and smiled with satisfaction.
“Pretty.”
“What did you do?”
“Yeah, to raise you. You’re so pretty that I’m going to raise you.”
Yeonwoo immediately ran to the bathroom. Looking in the mirror, the area under his eyes was tinted red. No matter how much he rubbed or washed with water, it wouldn’t come off.
“Do you like it?”
Kang Dojun followed and asked.
“Is this a kiss mark?”
“Yeah.”
He did it impulsively, but maybe the face was a bit much. Still, daily life should be possible…
“When it fades, do it again.”
A blush appeared on Yeonwoo’s white cheeks. With the kiss mark and being deeply entangled lovers, it felt like they had become a proper couple.
“…You have to go outside though. You can’t go out with that.”
“I can just put on a bandage.”
He became like a sucker fish and stuck to him.
“Next time I’ll do it somewhere that can’t be seen.”
* * *
What’s with the bandage on your face?
At Shin Gihyeon’s question, Yeonwoo grinned and answered.
“You don’t need to know.”
You seem to be in a good mood lately?
“Yeah, I guess I’m suited for Seoul.”
Shin Gihyeon clicked his tongue from beyond the screen. His face has brightened, really brightened. From the looks of it, love seemed to have sprouted.
Did you watch the last episode?
“Last episode?”
What? Last week was the final episode of 〈Rural Conquest〉!
Yeonwoo made a strange expression at Shin Gihyeon, who was getting angry like fire.
‘He wasn’t even in it, so why is he so worked up?’
He appeared as a guest for about 2 episodes, and other than that he had no screen time, but Shin Gihyeon was the one who watched every single episode more faithfully than anyone.
Yeonwoo had been busy playing with Kang Dojun lately. Time had passed so quickly.
‘Should I suggest watching it together when hyung comes?’
Right. How’s the lawsuit going?
“Just say the word. Should I buy you a meal?”
He answered confidently, thinking of his bank account that would soon be hefty.
…But you also broke the camera, didn’t they say you don’t have to pay for that?
“Do you have evidence?”
Huh?
“There’s no evidence that I broke the camera either.”
Yeonwoo bit into a green grape in his mouth with a crunch. Refreshing coolness spread throughout.
Look how shameless you are. This is a complete scammer.
“How can I say I broke something I didn’t break? I can’t tell such lies.”
Wow… you’re the type who could sell the Hangang Bridge.
Despite Shin Gihyeon’s sarcasm, he inhaled the green grapes that Kang Dojun had bought for him, whether he cared or not.
Why does sunbae-nim like you anyway?
“I’m the cutest, prettiest, most lovable in the world… How did you know?”
Know what?
“That hyung likes me.”
Shin Gihyeon squinted and answered.
Wouldn’t it be strange not to know?
Yeonwoo scratched under his eye where the bandage was attached and said shyly.
“Love can’t be hidden.”
At least try to hide it. What if I don’t like that kind of thing and spread rumors?
“You wouldn’t do that.”
He said it confidently without a shred of doubt. Shin Gihyeon was speechless. He trusted people too much.
As if knowing his thoughts, Yeonwoo continued calmly.
“I don’t befriend kids like that. I only befriend good kids.”
Wh… what!? Then I, I am…
At Yeonwoo’s words that hit him head-on, Shin Gihyeon’s face turned red. There was no way to counter such straightforward honesty.
‘Hmm, should I prepare a wedding gift or something? What would be good? Blankets? Dishes? Ah, this is troubling.’
Hey, hang up for a bit.
“What? Why? I’m bored.”
Something urgent came up.
“Suddenly?”
Yeah, I’ll call you back later.
Yeonwoo reluctantly nodded. He hung up and checked the time.
‘He said he might be late today.’
He rolled around on Kang Dojun’s bed, not his own room, exchanging messages with friends.
Time was going so slowly.
Should I just watch the last episode alone? No. We should watch it together.
He threw his phone aside and buried his face in the pillow. His skin scent wafted up. He felt drowsy and sleepy.
* * *
“Seems like you have something good going on these days?”
“Huh?”
Kang Dojun, who was looking at photos taken with Yeonwoo on his phone, looked up at Park Daeho’s words while driving.
“You never used to do this, but now you’re looking at your phone and smiling. Did you get a girlfriend or something?”
“…As if.”
Kang Dojun, hit right on target, averted his gaze. His manager had surprisingly good intuition.
“Well, who do you contact anyway? It’s just me and Yeonwoo-ssi. How’s Yeonwoo-ssi doing? He’s still in Seoul, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Even when you were drunk and causing trouble at the convenience store, it was ‘Yeonwoo-ya, Yeonwoo-ya’. ‘This is something Yeonwoo likes’. Since you don’t know anyone, when you’re drunk the only people you’d look for are me and Yeonwoo-ssi, right?”
“……”
Every word hit the mark. But there was one wrong point. If he drank and looked for Yeonwoo, he’d look for Yeonwoo, but he definitely wouldn’t look for Park Daeho.
And he had resolved not to drink alcohol anymore. Since his boyfriend was abstaining from alcohol, he couldn’t just drink by himself.
When he had nothing to say and was looking out the window, a famous bakery that Yeonwoo had mentioned in passing appeared.
“Daeho-ya, pull over for a bit.”
“Huh?”
“I want to buy some bread from there.”
Park Daeho, confirming the bakery’s location, turned the car around. Kang Dojun unbuckled his seatbelt and hurried out.
“I’ll be right back.”
“Wait, your mas…!”
Without hearing the rest, he closed the car door and entered the bakery. A savory smell hit his nose.
He headed to the display case and picked up a tray and tongs. He had heard the bakery was famous, but he hadn’t actually heard what Yeonwoo wanted to eat.
Then he heard murmuring from around him.
“Kang Dojun, Kang Dojun!”
“What’s with his face? He has fists attached to his head.”
“Why… why is such a precious person…”
He forgot his mask. Whatever. He just needed to buy quickly and leave.
He picked delicious-looking breads at maximum speed. He quickly grabbed them and went to the register. People had already gathered. His heart became unnecessarily anxious.
“Ni… ninety-seven thousand five hundred won. Should I process this as a lump sum?”
“Yes.”
“…Please sign in front. Should I give you the receipt?”
“No.”
He took the paper bags full of bread that the staff had diligently packed with both hands. His heart felt secure.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
Before people could ask for autographs, he rushed out as if running away.
If he did one, there would be an endless stream, and it would unintentionally become a fan signing event – this had happened more than once or twice.
He quickly got in the car and shouted to depart.
“You went without a mask… where are you evacuating to?”
“No. Let’s leave quickly. People will gather.”
Park Daeho gently pressed the accelerator while scolding. He had been increasingly thinking that Kang Dojun didn’t know moderation lately.
Of course, for him money was something that multiplied no matter how much he spent, but his overconsumption was too severe.
“You bought like a week’s worth of food.”
“I didn’t know what Yeonwoo would like. I was in a hurry too. I just grabbed whatever I could get my hands on. Ah, wait!”
“Why?”
Park Daeho began to feel uneasy.
“The chocolate mammoth bread looked delicious. I didn’t buy it.”
“…You want to go back?”
“Yeonwoo should like chocolate.”
Kang Dojun looked at Park Daeho with earnest eyes.
“I think U-turns are allowed at this traffic light.”
Park Daeho gritted his teeth and turned on the blinker.
…I’m quitting as manager soon!
* * *
“You’re back?”
Yeonwoo ran out as if he’d been waiting and greeted him. Kang Dojun smiled slightly and showed off the bags in his hands.
“Yeah. Look at this. I bought bread. From that place you said you wanted to visit.”
“Wow, really?”
Yeonwoo looked inside the bags with wide eyes and picked up a bread that was on top. Then Kang Dojun burst into small laughter.
“Why?”
“After I finished paying and came out, I turned the car back around to buy this bread because I thought you’d like it.”
At his words, Yeonwoo stared intently at the bread.
‘I just grabbed it because it was on top.’
The corners of his mouth slightly rose. He felt like he’d like this bread for a different reason now. He tore open the plastic bag and took a big bite. There was chocolate cream inside.
“Is it delicious?”
“Yes.”
“Why aren’t you eating more?”
“I want to savor it.”
“There’s plenty, so it’s okay.”
Kang Dojun went to the kitchen and organized the breads he bought into a basket, stacking them neatly.
Yeonwoo counted the breads from the side and then couldn’t continue speaking. He thought the bag volume was large, but now he saw it was all filled with bread.
“Are you having some kind of party? Goodness, how many are these? Anyone would think you’re opening a bakery.”
“…Can’t you eat them all?”
When he entered the bakery for the second time, he almost swept everything up again and got scolded by Park Daeho. In the end, one paper bag went to his manager for staff welfare.
“Yes. If I ate all this, my stomach would burst.”
Kang Dojun looked over the breads he had bought. It was indeed quite a lot.
He thought about taking them to the filming site tomorrow to share with the staff, but when he tried to pack the bread again, this one seemed like Yeonwoo would like it, and that one too, making it difficult.
In the end, he left the choice to the bread’s owner.
“Just pick what you want to eat. I’ll take the rest to the set tomorrow.”
While Yeonwoo was separating the breads he wanted to eat from those he didn’t, he brought up something he had been saving.
“Hyung, 〈Rural Conquest〉 ended last week.”
“Really? The date came around that fast.”
“Want to watch it together?”
* * *
[Today FLEX Dojun appeared at **Bakery (Kang Dojun Tears Up â—‹â—‹â—‹ Part 2)]
Guys, sound the victory horn. Our convenience store king… this time he tore up a bakery. Promoted to bakery king BAAAAAAM!
His sweeping hands are extraordinary. There are definitely more priors besides convenience stores and bakeries.
Our baby has… big hands. Anyone who’s spent over 90,000 won at a bakery raise your hand? No one? No one? We need to search Loud Dojun’s house. There must be dozens of people living there. He’s really a glutton and feeding invisible people at home, isn’t he?ã„·ã„·
Let’s say the convenience store was because of drunk behavior, but why this time? Is this a big picture to make bosses across the nation come running out barefoot in a different sense?
A quiet cat climbs the kitchen stove first – Dojun usually goes well but occasionally has moments when he goes wild. Like intermittent explosive disorder?
[I was at that bakery, I don’t know about the boss but all the part-timers came running out]
â””As expected, God Dojun’s visual class. He shines everywhere, right?
└ㄴㄴ One for checkout, one for packaging, one for bagging.
[Doesn’t 90,000 won happen? Our family likes bread so we sometimes stock up like that?]
â””…Kang Dojun lives alone
â””FLEX Dojun is probably living with the dummy now?
â””Who’s the dummy?
â””Lee Yeonwoo
[Intermittent explosive disorder acknowledged. If you watch drama making videos, when he says he didn’t eat, he’s eating prop food alone after filming. Doesn’t the catering truck come?ã… ã… ã… Who didn’t feed our Dojun?ã… ã… ]
â””There’s a superstition that if you eat prop food, ratings fail or your next work fails, but he doesn’t give a damn about itã…‹ã…‹ã…‹
â””But it can’t fail when Kang Dojun’s in it; he knows that tooã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹
[You must try the chocolate mammoth bread]
The ‘chocolate mammoth bread’ that grabs even Kang Dojun’s ankle as he leaves the bakery, the ‘chocolate mammoth bread’ that makes cars that already left come back
How much did he want to eat it to come back and buy itã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ After Loud Dojun left, people lined up and it sold outã…‹ã…‹ A walking CF indeed
[That bakery was already famous but it’ll become even more famous]
[Chocolate mammoth.. I want to eat it too]
[Rural Conquest final episodeã… ã… ã… ã… ]
This was the only variety show I was keeping up with lately but it endedã… ã… ã… My quality of life is dropping in real time. PD, produce season 2 right nowã… ã…
[Right. Produce it!]
[Haa… can’t even see our puppy on TV anymore.]
[Our dummy must have gotten attached since it’s the final episodeã… ]
[From the final episode interview]
Producer Han: How was your ten-day experience?
Dummy/ 25 (Beekeeper): Just okay.
The person who says “just okay” gives royal jelly? ã… ã… Haa, what should I do with this fool really? ã… No, this won’t do. I have to catch and raise him myself. Yeonwoo-ya, open the door. Huh? What’s going on? Oh, nothing much, I just brought some food for you, so open up first. Huh? How much did I bring? Oh, I brought two trucks modestly so you wouldn’t feel burdened^^
[I found Loud Dojun’s interview content funnier though. It was so long I played it at 2x speedã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ They even edited the endã…‹]
â””I vote for the production team’s ears bleeding.
â””Just “it was fun, it was interesting.” This content made me feel this way in this aspect, and that experience was valuable in that aspectã… ì¤„ì¤„ì¤„. I wouldn’t even write a field trip report like thatã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹ã…‹
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
