“It’s not like I did it on purpose……”
At Jinyeong’s pure question, genuinely wanting to know the reason, Jion also expressed his grievance. Unlike the misunderstandings of countless people, the two’s sleeping together (?) was not an intentional picture.
Bigeper. An abbreviation for Business Gay Performance.
Jion had also lived as an idol, albeit a failed one, and from his position of having watched that industry for a long time, unable to let go of his attachment, he knew what it was.
However, he’d failed too early and had been so severely burned by Seonwoo Jin that they disbanded futilely, so he hadn’t thought about showing some kind of intentional friendship with the members.
Business gay performance my ass, when even a business friend performance wouldn’t work.
Jion put down the phone he’d been looking at with a bitter smile. The two of them waking up in that state in one bed that day really wasn’t intentional. At least not for Jion.
Even a guy-stealer is a baby bird, and Seonwoo Jin, the baby bird who broke through the wall of being a punk after the studio flooding prevention incident, seemed to have imprinted on Jion. How much he followed him around all day. From the moment he opened his eyes every morning until he fell asleep, he was stuck by Jion’s side, and it was the same in the practice room.
‘Ugh, I’m so tired I could die.’
No matter how much it was a body in its twenties, his mind was in its thirties. After watching over Seonwoo Jin’s personal practice past midnight even after the other members finished their practice, Jion would become ragged too, and when he returned to the dorm with no energy left to do his own personal practice, having exhausted his stamina, he was no different from a rag.
“I don’t even have the strength to climb the ladder.”
Jion saying such things when he entered the room was a passive-aggressive attack on Seonwoo Jin, who showed no noticeable improvement even while practicing until midnight. What Jion wanted to say to Seonwoo Jin was blatant.
“I’m so, so tired from having to watch over your practice until late because of you.”
However, even in a situation where most people would immediately catch the subtext and apologize feeling sorry, Seonwoo Jin’s mentality was impressive.
“Then sleep on the bottom.”
He thought Jion, who smiled and said “again” without getting angry no matter how much he got the pitch wrong, was an angel. It was the complete opposite evaluation from Jinyeong, who stuck out his tongue calling the same appearance devilish.
Thus, Seonwoo Jin, caught in prejudice, even after hearing Jion’s roundabout criticism, thought he was truly purely tired and exhausted and couldn’t climb the ladder, and generously offered.
“You said you’re tired.”
And with that, Seonwoo Jin pulled Seong Jion down to lie on his own bed. Jion, who had failed at his roundabout jab, felt deflated but inwardly liked the first floor where he didn’t have to climb up and down the ladder, so he pretended to be unable to refuse and lay there.
“Then I feel bad…… Aren’t you tired?”
Even the act of pretending to be nice to Seonwoo Jin as a finish was good, but Seonwoo Jin’s next action was beyond Jion’s expectations.
“Me? I’m fine.”
Seonwoo Jin pushed Jion inward with a really nonchalant expression and lay down next to him side by side. And after pulling up the blanket to cover them, he only turned his head to meet Jion’s eyes and grinned.
“Sleep well.”
This isn’t it.
Jion was flustered. Was there a reason for two grown men to share one bunk bed slot when it wasn’t even king-sized? However, Seonwoo Jin didn’t seem to have any intention of moving, and Jion was tired so he didn’t want to fight.
……Right, whatever makes things good is good.
Jion decided to recall memories of going to a retreat a very, very long time ago and think of this as an extension of that. The past thinking about the past. Like a matryoshka doll, or a frame composition, something like that.
“You sleep well too.”
And just closing his eyes after that was the truth of this unintentional vicious bigeper incident. Jion felt wronged. Guys can huddle together and sleep in one place.
Fortunately, Jion’s sense of injustice didn’t last very long. It was thanks to BNCZ being unknown failed idols.
Members covering themselves with one blanket and sleeping while hugging—if they’d been popular idols, it would have been a picture that would have caused an uproar among fans about whether it was bait or whatever, but because BNCZ was so unpopular, neither the speculation about what kind of relationship they had nor the misunderstanding that they were desperate to become famous spread.
Eungi’s vlog ended with just modest view counts and about one post from a community heavy uploader. In the past, if it had been the old BNCZ, they would have given up on filming more videos at this result, saying it was obvious no matter how hard they tried. But the members, who had thoroughly tasted the sweetness of the algorithm from the Six-Clove Garlic Festival incident, didn’t get discouraged.
“Okay, let’s continue what we were doing.”
Under Ryu Geon’s encouragement, the members focused on filming their respective assigned content. After Eungi’s vlog, the content Jion was in charge of was cover songs. It was the area he was best at and required the least effort, plus if the views exploded, he could raise his recognition as skilled.
“Yeah, good. It comes out really pretty here.”
And out of the blue, Seonwoo Jin raised his hand saying he’d help with Jion’s filming. For him, who had never shown enthusiasm for group activities before, to suddenly show such passion. While Jion was quite flustered inside, he sat in front of the camera Seonwoo Jin had set up.
“When you get the lighting here, your eyelash shadows appear and you really come out looking pure.”
“Oh, thanks……”
Even a grub has the skill of rolling, and a handsome man has the skill of selling his face. After sitting all day glued to his phone and mirror taking selfies, the composition Seonwoo Jin captured was art. Jion was impressed watching the video taken as a test shot.
“Wow, it comes out really well. The camera must be good.”
“……It’s because you’re pretty.”
At Jion’s pure statement without self-consciousness or aesthetic awareness, Seonwoo Jin subtly added a compliment. Unlike the insincere compliments Jion usually scattered to him, it was 100% pure sincerity.
Jion didn’t notice, but since the studio flooding prevention incident, Seonwoo Jin had developed quite a significant favorable impression of Jion.
‘Woojin-ah, what if the studio floods and we all get electrocuted and die?’ ← Said something similar
‘Woojin-ah, what do I do, I’m scared without you?’ ← Never said this
To Seonwoo Jin, a considerable level of affection-deprived person, Jion—who showed interest in him first and said he needed him (never said that)—became a new object of attachment, and he gave excessive meaning to all of Jion’s statements and actions.
“What will your first song be?”
“Ah, you know that song I sang before. The one I sang when we stayed up all night in the practice room together.”
“……『A Rainy Evening, With No One』?”
“Yeah, that one.”
Jion smiled and waved the sheet music he’d prepared.
“It’s a song you like.”
The habitual flattery and fawning that 32-year-old current life Seong Jion’s long employment insecurity planted in 22-year-old regressor Seong Jion’s life also had a big impact on Seonwoo Jin’s mental health.
“I dedicate my first song to you.”
Saying this while even throwing a light wink, there was no way Seonwoo Jin’s weak and deficient mentality could withstand it. Seong Jion’s resolution to treat Seonwoo Jin ‘like an implicitly confirmed retaker with a broken mentality’ shook the sick young man’s heart like this.
Was it because of the somewhat old-fashioned song selection? Seonwoo Jin highly praised Jion’s singing ability, but Jion’s video didn’t explode in views compared to Eungi’s vlog. However, in the comment section, people who could be called fans gradually began to gather.
@dhflekw23d
The song is pretty and the boss is sweet
@boggiisyeopduk
This guy seems to digest old songs well
They were nicknames that had occupied the top of the ‘likes’ in Eungi’s vlog too. And the other members also started filming their own videos one by one, trying to provide content to the subscribers who were less than a handful.
“……Study With Me……? Why would you film this, who would watch it?”
“Middle and high school students, college students with poor concentration.”
Jinyeong snorted and informed Seonwoo Jin, who questioned the video’s reason for existence. A handsome man studying was truly a rare subject. And the point that it could appeal to the student demographic who would be the main customer base wasn’t bad either.
“……Come to think of it, you were studying English hard even back then.”
Jion looked at the English book Jinyeong had spread out and gave a bitter smile. From this time, as if intuiting the listless disbandment, Jinyeong had been devoted to studying English.
Thanks to that, after he finished organizing his feelings, he left for Australia without hesitation and settled there. Seonwoo Jin, who discovered Jion’s lonely expression, quietly approached his side and asked.
“Did Jinyeong originally study English hard?”
“Yeah, I heard he was good at studying even when he went to school.”
“……I see. You must know a lot about Jinyeong?”
“Well, we talk the most, meet a lot, and keep in contact regularly……”
Jion, who had been answering Seonwoo Jin’s question without thinking, realized that such things hadn’t happened yet in this life and hurriedly closed his mouth. He worried that Seonwoo Jin might think his answer was strange.
“Hmm……”
But Seonwoo Jin was too busy being jealous that Jion, whom he thought was closest to him, knew many things about Jinyeong, so he failed to catch the strange part of his answer.
“Do you two exchange messages just between yourselves?”
“No, well, if there’s a need? Like that? We would?”
When they see each other’s faces all day at the same dorm, would there be any reason to contact each other separately? Jion hurriedly recovered his words and checked the videos the other members had uploaded too.
“Geon-hyung’s seems to be an exercise video.”
Jion, who played Ryu Geon’s video to divert Seonwoo Jin’s attention, doubted his own eyes before even a minute passed. Seonwoo Jin, who had been sulking and pouting alone, soon realized the seriousness of the video and asked in a bewildered voice.
“……Did we perhaps convey the concept wrong at the meeting?”
“……”
“Is it right to film something like this?”
The one-hour video Ryu Geon had diligently filmed was a video of honestly running with a body cam attached. The only place where Ryu Geon’s own face was shown was the first minute or so of the warm-up at the beginning, and other than that, it was a terribly boring video showing only his panting breath and the peaceful scenery of the Han River.
@boggiisyeopduk
Wow, I really don’t know what kind of comment to write
Looking at the comment that received the most recommendations—twelve—Jion sighed inwardly.
My thoughts exactly.
However, it was around the time when Eungi’s vlog exceeded six episodes, Jion’s cover song videos had uploaded ten, and Jinyeong’s Study With Me boasted the longest playback time on the channel and satisfied the monetization conditions. A reaction exploded with content no one had expected.
