Gentle Giant 93

Gentle Giant Chapter 93

Scratch scratch, the sound of writing echoed through the large hospital room.

There weren’t any particularly difficult questions. Thanks to that, Juho, who had been filling in the blanks without much thought, turned his gaze to look at Dain. Unlike him, Dain was biting the tip of his pen and even narrowing his brow as he pondered.

Anyway, he’s so serious about even things like this.

Juho let out a short laugh inwardly and wrote answers to the few remaining questions. As he expected, not long after, even the last question “What to do after finishing the 100 Questions 100 Answers” was filled in.

When Dain heard the sound of Juho putting down his pen, he quickly lifted his head.

“You’re already done?”

“Yes. How about you, hyung?”

“I’m still…”

Dain slowly pulled his sheet of paper toward himself. At a glance, he was in the middle of writing an answer to the 23rd question.

Feeling Juho staring intently at his question sheet, Dain watched his reaction.

He still had a long way to go to finish, but what if Juho got bored waiting? Nervous about the drastically different speeds, sweat began to form on Dain’s nose.

Noticing Dain getting nervous over unnecessary worries, Juho smiled with crinkled eyes. He also wiped Dain’s moist nose with his fingertips.

Juho used the most gentle voice possible to ease Dain’s tension.

“I wrote quickly. It’s not that hyung is slow. While hyung finishes writing, I’ll go wash up.”

“Thanks, Juho. Then wash up cleanly!”

“Okay.”

While Juho went to the bathroom, Dain picked up speed and filled in the blanks. In terms of seriousness, it was similar to taking midterm exams.

Juho, who deliberately washed slowly to give Dain time, stared intently at his face reflected in the mirror.

After being sick for a while recently, his jawline seemed to have become sharper. It was still okay for now, but if he lost more weight from here, he might look too sensitive.

If that happened, he might accidentally fall out of Dain’s preferences. He opened the door thinking he should pay attention to body care and face care from now on.

And what he witnessed was Dain picking up and putting down Juho’s question sheet, pondering whether to peek or not.

Thud.

Juho deliberately closed the door with force. When the bathroom door suddenly closed with a sound, Dain, who had jumped up from his chair, turned his head awkwardly.

“Juho, did you wash clean, cleanly?”

“Of course. I washed cleanly. So, hyung, were you that curious about my answers? Curious enough that you absolutely couldn’t wait?”

Juho asked with a grin. Dain covered his reddened ear with one hand, hesitated, then nodded.

Pfft, Juho let out a short laugh and nibbled on Dain’s head with his lips. At Juho’s tickling bite, Dain, who got goosebumps from head to toe, quickly stood up from his seat.

Juho lifted such Dain back up, sat him in the seat next to him, and took hold of the 100 Questions 100 Answers that Dain had written. Even just skimming through it with his eyes, the content was incredibly dense. A pleasant tension filled his entire body.

“Hyung, now we can exchange and read each other’s, right?”

“Yes!”

Dain answered loudly with a proud expression. If it were a test, he had the confidence that he could get an A+. Finding that cute again, Juho stroked Dain’s hair and read carefully from the first page. Not wanting to lose, Dain also quickly picked up the paper.

Name: Lee Juho (Kane Scarlett)

Dain, who had been lifting the corners of his mouth at Juho’s neat handwriting, opened his eyes wide. Because an unfamiliar English name caught his eye.

Until now, Dain thought that although Juho lived in America, he naturally used his Korean name. So he hadn’t even thought to ask if he had a separate English name.

“Juho? This name here, do you use a different name in America?”

Dain pointed to the name written in parentheses.

At Dain’s question, Juho’s gaze reached his answer sheet. Of course, it would have been fine to just write ‘Lee Juho.’ Since both at home and outside, he mostly used the name Juho anyway.

However, he had promised to tell Dain everything in the future without hiding anything, even trivial things, so he intended to keep it.

To reveal his honest feelings, rather than such a sentiment, it was a shallow trick hoping that doing this might restore Dain’s trust in him even a little more.

“No, I mostly use the name Juho in America too. Kane Scarlett is something my maternal grandfather gave me, so I only used it when I was very young.”

“I see. The name is pretty! Kane Scarlett, Kane Scarlett… Hmm?”

“Hmm? What is it?”

Dain’s head tilted to the side as he muttered ‘Kane Scarlett’ in his mouth several times.

A strangely familiar name. No, a name he could see just by going to the movie theater in the building next door.

Could it be that Juho was…?

In the past, he wouldn’t have cared much about whatever Juho’s name was. He would have just thought it was a pretty name and moved on.

However, knowing that Juho was no ordinary person, a small suspicion arose. Even while thinking “no way, no way,” Dain’s lips trembled uncontrollably.

“Juho, could it be that your family is, ah! No… no. Haha!”

Dain shook his head vigorously. That couldn’t be. It must be a coincidence, just the same surname…?

Seeing Dain’s lips and even his pupils trembling, Juho let out a short sigh.

Having given this much of a hint and clue, even Dain, who was usually oblivious, would have noticed.

Anyway, it was something he had to go through once. Juho hid his anxious expression and answered quickly.

“Mm, it’s not that it’s not… Actually, what hyung guessed is correct. Our family business is in media, and the company name is Scarlett, the Scarlett that produces the movie series hyung likes.”

“Th, that’s impossible…”

Dain kept shaking his head. Worried that he might get a headache, Juho quickly held Dain’s head steady and continued speaking.

“But hyung, I’m really not interested in family business. I don’t plan to do family business in the future either. I’ll find what I want to do within my capabilities and do that. There’s nothing for hyung to feel uncomfortable about.”

Juho spoke as if it was nothing, but the scale was way too big.

He had thought it was just an exceptionally well-off family befitting a tiger beast-man. Actually, he had been quite surprised just by that. But to think it was one of the top media conglomerates even in America…?

In a situation that felt completely unreal, Dain felt like his head was malfunctioning and creaking.

Juho was equally flustered by Dain’s reaction. To the point where he wondered if steam might come out of his head, Dain looked overwhelmed by the rushing thoughts.

“Hyung, hyung! Are you okay? I told you I wouldn’t make secrets from hyung anymore. That’s why I told you everything. It must have been too sudden. I’m sorry…”

“Uh, no. I think I’m okay… no, I think I’m not okay either…”

Incoherent words poured from Dain’s mouth. Unable to watch any longer, Juho tapped Dain’s cheek to get him out of his panic state.

Dain, who barely focused his eyes on Juho, made a tearful expression.

“Hah… You really were a young master, our Juho.”

The boyfriend he was going to support turned out to be an unimaginably wealthy conglomerate heir. And the world’s most famous media conglomerate at that.

This wasn’t some drama. Dain just stood there with his mouth open at the dreamlike reality.

Dain was in a dazed state with his soul gone for a long time. Juho, who was looking at such Dain worriedly, soon put his palm against his heart that was pounding heavily. He was helplessly struck by Dain’s naturally uttered words “our Juho.” He wanted to immediately lick the lips of Dain who only said pretty things.

However, Dain, who had no way of knowing his feelings, was only thinking that now that he looked at it, Juho really was beautifully born like a young master.

As various thoughts chained together, something suddenly came to mind.

“Then, then you also knew about our noona filming? You said the shoot at the aquarium last time was a Scarlett advertisement…”

“Ah, I had vaguely heard that a famous model was filming an advertisement for our company. But I really didn’t know that model was hyung’s noona until hyung told me.”

“I see. Still, you could have told me then…”

“How could I bring up something you didn’t even ask about with my own mouth? There are other things to show off about.”

Juho shrugged his shoulders. Honestly, family matters were one of the things he wanted to keep secret until the end if possible. Because he hoped that just him alone would be enough for Dain.

Unconsciously persuaded by Juho’s smooth words, Dain nodded. As expected, Juho doesn’t show off despite his age! Dain quickly ran his positive thinking circuit about him today too.

From the first time they met, Dain had just blindly liked anything about Juho. He didn’t want to keep suspecting such a Juho because of the small lies he had told him.

“Mm, that’s right. Moreover, with your family being at that level, it would be difficult to casually tell other people.”

“Hyung.”

“Yeah?”

“How am I another person? Don’t say things like that. Why are you being hurtful? From now on, I’ll answer everything hyung asks. Without telling a single lie.”

At Juho’s serious expression that seemed like he could talk all night if it were Dain’s questions, Dain also became serious. Dain got unnecessarily nervous and just gripped the paper with the 100 Questions 100 Answers tightly.

“Ah! No, no! I brought these questions because it might be hard for you to say things out loud, Juho! I’ll look at this and ask if I get more curious about anything.”

“Mm, okay. I understand.”

At Juho’s answer, Dain’s gaze turned back to the paper. He easily passed over several items since they were content he already knew. He concentrated hard on the characters lined up neatly resembling him.

But Dain’s face became increasingly red as the pages turned.

Favorite food: Kimchi stew, stir-fried pork, ramen that Jung Dain made
Favorite song: Lullabies that Jung Dain sings
Favorite movie: Scarlett series that Jung Dain likes
Favorite scent: Jung Dain’s baby smell

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The prettiest thing I own: Jung Dain

“Wow, wah…”

Words wouldn’t come out. Juho had written Dain’s name for all questions asking about things he liked. It was troublesome because he couldn’t get the accurate information that was the original purpose of this Q&A, but his mood improved just as much.

Dain coughed quietly. But his reddened face didn’t return to normal like usual.