#005
“…Ahem! Shall we take a little break?”
PD Han Taegu spoke as if gently coaxing Lee Yeonwoo. Lee Yeonwoo opened his eyes wide as if there was no problem at all and asked back.
“What? Why?”
“Your hand… looks like it needs treatment.”
“Shit.”
Lee Yeonwoo quietly muttered a brief curse word.
‘So they did see it.’
These were heartless people who wouldn’t have the consideration to just let it slide if someone who got stung by a bee claimed they hadn’t been stung.
‘Are all Seoul people like this?’
Lee Yeonwoo’s mouth protruded, and regional prejudice slowly began to rise in one corner of his heart.
“Let me see.”
Kang Dojun threw off the rubber gloves he was wearing and examined Lee Yeonwoo’s hand condition.
“Don’t you need to go to the hospital?”
“This much will heal if I put some spit on it.”
Having been frequently stung by bees while doing beekeeping, he knew the corresponding remedies. However, today he was embarrassed and didn’t know what to do with himself since many people were watching.
Kang Dojun still held Lee Yeonwoo’s hand and examined it intently. Then he made eye contact with Lee Yeonwoo and asked.
“Are you really okay?”
That gentle gaze and the synergistic effect of his handsome appearance instantly changed Lee Yeonwoo’s regional prejudice.
‘Not all Seoul people are like that.’
“Yes, hyung. I’ll be fine after a good night’s sleep. Don’t worry.”
Lee Yeonwoo said kindly while pulling out his held hand.
“Then shall we resume filming?”
But that kindness was limited to Kang Dojun only. At Han Taegu’s words, Lee Yeonwoo glared at him with thorny eyes. Yeah, thinking about it, Han Taegu was the root of all evil.
If Han Taegu hadn’t said “Shall we take a little break?”, attention wouldn’t have been focused on him. No, if he hadn’t said he wanted to experience beekeeping, no, if he hadn’t come to his house in the first place…
No matter how far back he traced, Han Taegu was at the center of all the causes.
Han Taegu asked while sweating profusely.
“Yeonwoo-ssi? Why are you staring at me like that?”
“What? What do you mean?”
“Your eyes…”
At that moment, Kang Dojun, who was checking his condition, placed his hand on Lee Yeonwoo’s forehead.
“You have a bit of a fever?”
It might have been because his anger had risen to the top of his head.
“PD-nim, how about we stop for today?”
At Kang Dojun’s suggestion, Han Taegu swallowed hard.
There was a planned schedule, and if they couldn’t film today’s portion, it might cause problems with the next schedule. But it was difficult to ignore the words of actor Kang Dojun, whom they had worked hard to bring.
Han Taegu glanced at Lee Yeonwoo.
‘Why is he glaring at me? Did I do something wrong?’
Eventually, after much consideration, Han Taegu made his decision.
“Understood.”
The beekeeping experience ended unexpectedly, and after returning home and eating dinner, the moon was already rising. Today had been particularly long and difficult.
After washing up, Lee Yeonwoo began organizing the workshop where he would stay for the time being. It was his principle that sleeping quarters must be clean no matter what. Yes, only sleeping quarters.
He stuffed all the dirty items he had picked up from the living room in the morning into the wardrobe.
As the organizing was finishing, a staff member came to Lee Yeonwoo’s room.
“Excuse me. I want to replace the camera battery before you sleep.”
“You installed one here too?”
“Yes, we installed them everywhere except the bathroom.”
“Then you’re filming me sleeping too?”
“…That’s right?”
“Do I get night shift pay?”
At Lee Yeonwoo’s boldly innocent question, the staff member’s hand replacing the battery hesitated. The expression on the staff member’s face seemed to say ‘What did I just hear?’
Lee Yeonwoo didn’t mind and said it once more.
“Night shift pay. Doesn’t filming me sleep count as working?”
It was a very novel question. He was sure the conversation about the ten-day appearance fee through PD Han Taegu had been concluded, but had he misunderstood?
The staff member had no way of knowing that Lee Yeonwoo had been drunk at the time and couldn’t properly remember any facts.
The flustered staff member eventually had no choice but to use the skill of passing the buck to someone else.
“…For details, please speak to PD Han Taegu. I’ll be going now.”
As if someone might grab him, he replaced the battery at the speed of light and ran away with quick steps.
Tsk, Lee Yeonwoo shook his wet hair and approached the installed camera.
He sat in front of it and stared at the camera. He fidgeted with his hands, removing the bee stingers that had pierced him, and sat quietly looking around.
Feeling like he should do something, he thought carefully and remembered the YouTube friend he met during his deep-sea fishing vessel days.
‘That guy talked well by himself in front of the camera.’
After much consideration, Lee Yeonwoo got up, brought a book, and sat in front of the camera again.
“I always read books before going to sleep.”
* * *
At dawn when the day was breaking, Lee Yeonwoo was tying his shoelaces at the front door.
“Where are you going?”
“Huh? Hyung, you’re awake?”
“I came out to drink some water for a moment. Where are you going?”
“For a walk.”
Kang Dojun checked the time and asked back.
“At this hour?”
Lee Yeonwoo had developed the habit of sleeping early and waking early since his high school, deep-sea fishing vessel, and military days.
“I’ll be back around 9 o’clock. Please go back to sleep. I’ll go and come back quickly.”
“Wait, take this with you.”
Kang Dojun handed him the key he had found on the dresser last night. Lee Yeonwoo asked Kang Dojun as if seeing the object for the first time in his life.
“What’s this?”
“…Your house key. It was on the dresser.”
“Ah, I thought I lost it. So it was there.”
He roughly stuffed the key into his front pants pocket while muttering. Kang Dojun, who was quietly watching, unconsciously reached out and ruffled Lee Yeonwoo’s fine black hair.
Kang Dojun was flustered because it was an action he did without knowing it himself, but Lee Yeonwoo, who was often petted by the village elders, just shook his head once familiarly and left it at that.
“Anyway, I’ll be going.”
“Yeah, be careful.”
After Lee Yeonwoo left, Kang Dojun locked the front door.
Click- The locking sound would be the first sound to echo since Lee Yeonwoo had been staying here.
Kang Dojun, who said he came out to drink water, didn’t stop by the kitchen and headed straight back to the bedroom.
“Yeonwoo-ssi? Where are you going?”
“Hello, I’m going for a walk.”
“At this hour?”
The staff member who had gotten up early to prepare for filming looked at his wristwatch and rubbed his eyes.
“Country people originally wake up at this time.”
“Wow, really?”
“Yes, then I’ll be back.”
Lee Yeonwoo nonchalantly unified the image of country people for the staff and leisurely left.
After he left, PD Han Taegu with sleepy eyes came looking for the staff and asked.
“Yeonwoo-ssi, where was he going just now?”
“He said he’s going for a walk.”
“A walk? No VJ was attached, did you give him a portable camera?”
“Portable camera?”
“You didn’t give him one?”
“…No. Aren’t we supposed to film mainly focusing on Kang Dojun-ssi?”
At those words, Han Taegu hurriedly grabbed a portable camera and rushed out. Originally, as the staff said, they would just need to film mainly focusing on Kang Dojun.
But Han Taegu’s intuition, built up from years of being a PD, was crying out. They had to catch Lee Yeonwoo.
Bromance. Recently, whether on the internet, YouTube, or broadcasts, it was a word that always appeared in the latest trends. In that sense, the scenes of Kang Dojun and Lee Yeonwoo together had unexpectedly good chemistry.
Han Taegu ran hurriedly to deliver the portable camera to Lee Yeonwoo.
The staff member stared blankly at Han Taegu’s retreating figure and then headed to the house to check the camera installed in Lee Yeonwoo’s room.
“Huh.”
The staff member turned the doorknob, but the door was locked.
‘That’s strange. It was never closed before.’
He tried several times but it wouldn’t open in the end.
‘I’ll have to ask Yeonwoo-ssi to open it when he comes back later.’
Just as he was about to give up and go back, the door opened.
“What is it?”
It was a low, sunken voice as if he had just woken up—not obvious but with a very slight hint of irritation.
“Ah, Kang Dojun-ssi. I’m sorry. Yeonwoo-ssi just left, so I wanted to check the camera installed in the room…”
“Come in.”
Even after waking up, his unchangingly handsome appearance made the staff member quietly blush as she entered Lee Yeonwoo’s room.
The camera was working well… and she thoughtlessly pressed rewind to check the video filmed last night.
In the video, Lee Yeonwoo briefly left his seat to bring something.
“I always read books before going to sleep.”
…What is this.
Even as the staff member couldn’t help but be shocked, Lee Yeonwoo in the video was steadily moving.
“It’s a mystery novel, and it’s very exciting.”
He was reading a book leaning against the wall, but gradually his body seemed to become liquid-like and droopy, then he slid down and was filmed rolling around lying down reading the book.
Moreover, in less than 5 minutes, the sound of turning pages significantly decreased and only the sound of his breathing echoed.
‘Did he… read the book?’
Did he keep sleeping like this without even turning off the light? The staff member moved her hand to rewind the video faster. Then she stopped at one scene.
After some time had passed, Kang Dojun quietly entered Lee Yeonwoo’s room.
After confirming he was asleep, he carefully took out the book he was holding and placed it beside him, then opened the wardrobe door. Due to the camera’s position, the inside of the wardrobe couldn’t be seen, but for some reason, it seemed like Kang Dojun hesitated a bit after opening the wardrobe.
Then he took out a blanket and pillow, carefully covered the sleeping Lee Yeonwoo with the blanket, turned off the light, and quietly closed the door before leaving.
The staff member unconsciously let out a silent scream.
‘My goodness, not only is his face perfect, but his actions… this is just crazy.’
It was the moment Kang Dojun gained another fan.
She could somewhat understand why Han Taegu had rushed out to give Lee Yeonwoo a portable camera.
This broadcast will be a hit. It would already be a hit just because Kang Dojun was participating, but she was convinced it could be even more successful.
As the outside gradually became noisy with filming preparations, the staff member hurriedly got up to go out and help.
Then suddenly her gaze lingered on the wardrobe.
‘What on earth could be in there…’
The staff member who casually opened the wardrobe to check the inside naturally closed the door as if nothing had happened.
“Hey! I told the youngest to get up early and prepare for filming, where did you go and why are you just coming now?”
“I’m sorry, senior.”
“Why do you look so out of it?”
The staff member hesitated for a long time before asking her senior.
“…What exactly are wardrobes… what are they used to store?”
“What? Clothes or bedding, I guess. Why are you asking something so obvious? Are you still half asleep?”
At her senior’s scolding, the staff member quietly nodded.
Yeah, she probably was still half asleep.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
