Sungjin asked carefully.
“…Do you have something to say?”
Then his already cat-like upturned eyes became even sharper. Why again? What’s bothering him so much now? It was Jiyoon who did something embarrassing to watch, so he couldn’t understand why he had to watch someone’s reactions.
Instead of answering, Yuwon just glared at Sungjin with a still dissatisfied face. As if he was pondering something, Yuwon, who had been deliberating for a while, suddenly opened his mouth.
“Do you normally treat just anyone this well?”
“What?”
His head tilted at the completely unexpected question. I don’t think I treated anyone particularly well. Sungjin thought according to his own standards and answered indifferently.
“Just at a general level…?”
He didn’t remember treating anyone particularly well, so he reflected on his actions. But Lee Yuwon still had a dissatisfied expression. Then he suddenly acted impulsively again.
“Then if I ask you to feed me, will you feed me too?”
Sungjin’s first thought this time was ‘Why would I?’ Of course, if he received such a request, there would be no particular reason to refuse, but it was a somewhat burdensome assumption. Moreover, he couldn’t tell what answer Yuwon was expecting.
“What? Well….”
If I honestly answer that there’s no reason to refuse, it seems like I’ll get scolded again. Why on earth do I have to feel this guilty? However, Sungjin, afraid of Yuwon’s reaction, obediently swallowed his words and rolled his eyes while turning over the meat. Then Yuwon suddenly brought his face forward.
“You said you’d feed me.”
Then, just like Jiyoon did earlier, he opened his mouth like a baby bird receiving food, and it was difficult to grasp what kind of bizarre situation this was.
So Lee Yuwon is begging me to feed him? Why? Earlier, he had to feed Jiyoon because he didn’t have a tool to pick up the meat himself, but Yuwon had spare tongs. In short, if he wanted to eat meat, he could pick it up and eat it himself.
The person who insisted stubbornly on grilling and was holding the tongs was asking to be fed, which felt like an extremely unnatural request.
“Uh….”
However, if he reluctantly rejected this capricious beauty’s request, he couldn’t predict what disaster might occur. He had an ominous feeling that he would flip his attitude like turning over a palm this time too and harass him like catching a mouse.
Sungjin rolled his eyes while avoiding his gaze once again, but Yuwon was still confidently straightening his shoulders and demanding meat.
It was truly a strange scene. The sight of Lee Yuwon, like an ice princess, elegantly lowering his long eyelashes and protesting for meat to be put in his mouth…. Even if he had heard about it, it would have been hard to imagine because it felt so unrealistic.
“…….”
I still don’t know why he’s like that, but let’s just get it over with quickly. Sungjin’s hands trembled in fear as he picked up the meat with the tip of the tongs. To Sungjin, Yuwon was still an incomprehensible, mysterious being he would never normally encounter, yet as beautiful as if he weren’t human in terms of appearance alone, so his hand holding the meat trembled.
Carefully, carefully, move as much as possible without offending him and safely place it at the intended destination.
However, was it because he was too nervous? Unfortunately, because the production team had procured cheap tongs from somewhere, the tongs that had too much force momentarily lost balance and shifted, and the meat failed to settle in his mouth and bounced off, hitting Yuwon’s high nose bridge. Thud. Witnessing the meat that left only a greasy stain on Yuwon’s nose bridge and fell to the floor, Sungjin couldn’t hold back and screamed.
“Aaaaah!”
“……?!?!”
At that moment when Yuwon, who was suddenly hit in the face with meat just picked up from the grill, was dumbfounded and urgently opened his eyes, a second disaster occurred.
The flustered Sungjin was so surprised that he pulled his arm back and pressed the edge of the grill with his elbow. Fortunately, it wasn’t hot enough to cause burns, but due to the extremely scientific principle of leverage, the meats that had been gathered separately on the opposite edge flew up in an elegant parabola and settled in Yuwon’s arms.
“……!”
“Oh no, what do I do. I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”
The flustered Sungjin reached out to try to catch it, but this time he almost pushed over the entire barbecue container, and screams rang out again.
“Aah, ah, I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
He was too surprised to even check what expression Yuwon was making. Ah, how on earth did things get so twisted? Sungjin wanted to evaporate right at this moment.
***
A little later, when the dinner party had finally finished, Sungjin was already on the verge of exhaustion. He was at a level where he couldn’t hear what anyone said next to him.
‘…I want to die.’
Somehow the situation was managed afterward, and he switched with other participants and finished eating, but he couldn’t even remember whether he ate the meat through his mouth or his nose. Throughout the meal, Yuwon sat in front of Sungjin ostentatiously and then silently ate the meat he had placed on his own plate. His clothes were still stained with oil from the meat Sungjin had thrown. It was because Yuwon refused even though the production team immediately suggested changing clothes.
Yuwon didn’t take his eyes off Sungjin the entire time he was chewing the meat. To Sungjin, it felt exactly like he was glaring as if to say ‘Let’s see what kind of amazing meal the bastard who screwed me over has.’ so he couldn’t even taste the meat.
‘I’m sorry….’
He couldn’t even count how many times he apologized to Yuwon. However, the water had already been spilled, and if that scene happened to be broadcast, he was already terrified of what kind of abuse he would receive from Yuwon’s fans. Since Sungjin had a good imagination, he could easily predict.
[Comments]
- Wow Yoon Sungjin? This bastard is really vicious, look at him attacking the best-looking male participant first ㄷㄷ
- As expected, male vs male is really scary, he immediately starts bullying because he looks handsome
- He’s old and even petty;
- This is why you shouldn’t let old male participants appear
Criticisms would surely overflow saying that someone who is old, has nothing good about him, just an office worker, dares to bully a celebrity with heavenly looks out of envy and jealousy.
It’s not like that, it was really a mistake. Sungjin felt like doing a clarification live broadcast right now. Although he didn’t have the means or opportunity to do a live broadcast, he just hoped there would be a chance to make up for it during the first impression interview coming up soon.
If the production team cut it out, it would be useless, but he thought that if he showed himself apologizing with utmost sincerity even there, wouldn’t the anger subside at least a little?
‘…Why on earth did I come here?’
Why did I come? I came for the money. While other cast members probably appeared expecting the enormous profits they would earn from the fame gained here, what Sungjin aimed for was only the appearance fee and exclusive model contract fee.
He had no intention of gaining great popularity here, and just wanted to survive until the second part of filming, but from the first day, all plans began to go awry.
The partner he was barely matched with, far from giving him a chance to leave a good impression on the viewers, ran off to hang out with other participants, and at the dinner party, he made stupid mistakes and ruined the atmosphere. He even caused trouble for other people. If Yuwon had gotten burned, he would have wanted to meet his end right there standing. In fact, he still felt a bit like that even now.
‘…….’
Now that the short break was over, it was time to fall down the cliff again. Although it wasn’t time to decide on eliminations yet, there was going to be the first Heart ceremony they were conducting since coming here. He was certain to get the miserable result of 0 votes here.
‘I just need to not be popular, but I’ve become not only unpopular but also unlikeable.’
He might have already ruined the image of a caring and kind colleague that he had desperately built up among his peers until now.
When filming ends and I return to the company, everyone will only remember me attacking Lee Yuwon with meat. Thinking this way made him depressed already. It wasn’t like he was happy and joyful before either.
‘…….’
While Sungjin leaned against the wall, let out a long sigh, and wished he could just smoke one cigarette, the short break time ended.
“Everyone please gather at the outdoor meeting room.”
Before they knew it, a campfire made with the firewood Sungjin had done his best to split earlier was burning in the middle of the outdoor meeting room. As people began to take their seats on the sofas one by one, Sungjin obediently sat down in a single seat where no one else could sit next to him.
