“Hey, hey, hey, your voice is echoing! What if they hear us!”
Jion quickly stood on tiptoe to cover Seonwoo Jin’s mouth. And after holding his breath for a moment to check if there was any sign of people outside the door, he only relaxed after confirming he couldn’t hear any sounds.
They hadn’t even properly showcased Seonwoo Jin’s face yet, and they almost caused a controversy about being rude to rookie girl idol juniors.
“Phew, that was close.”
“Why are you being so conscious of them?”
However, Seonwoo Jin, who had been harshly scolded, crossed his arms with a sullen face. Jion didn’t know, but he was interpreting Jion’s shock at discovering Sugar Pink in a slightly different way.
Well, anyone who didn’t know the situation would have thought it strange. A male idol senior who was startled as soon as he received greetings from pretty rookie girl group juniors, then suddenly poured out compliments about their appearance. Wouldn’t anyone think he had ulterior motives?
Displeased that Jion’s attention and interest had been stolen by the girl idols, Seonwoo Jin continued grumbling despite Jion’s warnings.
“You sound just like Yoon Myeongha…… What do you mean they look alike? They don’t look alike at all except for their gender.”
But Jion didn’t even hear Seonwoo Jin grumbling. He was so absorbed in his own world right now that he didn’t even know Seonwoo Jin was muttering to himself. The memory of Seonwoo Jin’s scandal before regression was too strong, leaving him no room to look around.
He never expected this. To run into the second scandal party so suddenly like this.
Jion was completely out of it from this crisis that came too abruptly. Since Jion didn’t know how the pre-regression Seonwoo Jin chose his romantic interests, he feared that the brief encounter just now might have pressed his playboy switch.
Wait, maybe while I was talking to that other girl just now, Seonwoo Jin exchanged glances with another member standing behind her?
Or when I dragged him out, maybe their palms secretly brushed and they slickly exchanged contact information that had been written down in advance……
Now they’ve broken the ice, and they’ll greet each other through SNS… get each other’s contact info through their managers……
Like Seonwoo Jin’s bottomless attachment deficiency, Jion’s suspicion of infidelity—no, suspicion of member illness—had its button pressed. The past memories he had briefly forgotten while Seonwoo Jin was behaving docilely surfaced as PTSD. Jion asked Seonwoo Jin with a serious expression.
“……Don’t you think they’re pretty?”
“Who? That girl who just greeted us? Don’t tell me she’s totally your ideal type and your style and all that?”
“Now that pretty girl group juniors greeted you and smiled at you, are you suddenly interested in them?”
“Did you originally like Yoon Myeongha?”
Seonwoo Jin, who was also upset, only asked questions instead of answering. In the suspicion relay where neither had any intention of listening to what the other was saying, Jion grew anxious and examined Seonwoo Jin in front of him closely.
He was already handsome normally, but today he went to the salon and became even more handsome. He had asked the hair teacher to leave only part of his bangs and sweep them back, and they understood exactly and set it stylishly. Jion carefully scrutinized Seonwoo Jin’s handsome face, styled exactly as he had requested, then sighed.
“……This is trouble.”
“What is?”
The sailor-style shirt with a wide collar made him look young despite his tall height and distinct features, and his sullen face wondering what was wrong looked too cute. If he looked this handsome and cute even to himself as a guy, what would girls think?
Of course they’d fall for him. Of course they’d like him. They’d want to exchange contact info. They’d want to lay the groundwork to ask him to buy them meals. Jion worried with his whole heart full of sincerity.
“You’re too handsome, what if those girl group juniors from earlier fell for you at first sight?”
To anyone listening, it would sound like the deranged rose-colored commentary of an extreme son-doting mother, but in reality, Seonwoo Jin was handsome, and it was also an undeniable fact that women who fell for him at first sight had approached him. So Seong Jion’s concerns carried a kind of prophetic nature, but Seonwoo Jin, who didn’t know what kind of blunder he’d made before regression, couldn’t read the worry and concern underlying those words and blushed.
“What…… Why are you suddenly saying something like that……”
At Jion’s serious worry, Seonwoo Jin’s face heated up. The one who had been briefly possessed by an evil spirit was instantly exorcised by Jion’s baseless compliment-laden suspicion.
“No, I’m really worried about this.”
“Why are you making me embarrassed……”
Seonwoo Jin grumbled and twisted his body in embarrassment, forgetting that he had been about to corner Jion. But Jion’s worries only grew larger rather than being resolved by Seonwoo Jin’s cuteness.
“You haven’t forgotten our promise, right?”
Jion stood on tiptoe and carefully cupped Seonwoo Jin’s chin to avoid ruining his makeup. And while making eye contact, he urged him once more.
“Until we’re somewhat established, no looking at other things, okay? Secretly contacting girls, meeting them. Okay? Absolutely not, right?”
“……I know. Don’t worry.”
Jion didn’t know yet, but just looking at Jion’s moist eyes made Seonwoo Jin speechless and softhearted. Moreover, after becoming aware that he felt strong attachment to Jion, several physical symptoms had been added.
His heart pounded, his face turned red, it felt like blood wasn’t circulating to his fingertips, his mouth went dry, and it seemed like he couldn’t regulate his body temperature…… total one-sided crush symptoms. Under Jion’s moist gaze, Seonwoo Jin couldn’t breathe properly and nodded his head frantically like a broken electronic doll with a reddened face.
However, Jion, who didn’t notice Seonwoo Jin’s feelings, still couldn’t feel at ease. Jion sighed and linked arms with Seonwoo Jin.
“I’m worried because you’re too handsome.”
Handsome enough to worry about the future. Hearing praise that wasn’t really praise, Seonwoo Jin had already lived with that face for decades and had become somewhat numb to his own handsomeness, but Jion’s worry wasn’t entirely groundless. His handsomeness could either take BNCZ to heaven or throw them into hell.
In fact, Seonwoo Jin’s face was a powerful key that would determine the success or failure of this promotion.
“Wow, our new song has been out for two days and today the listening count is nine people.”
Before going on stage, Eungi, who was checking the streaming site, informed them in a gloomy voice. Roughly calculating, five BNCZ members, one loyal Jeong Hyundae, and three outsiders. Since they didn’t even expect the manager and president to have listened, those three were probably fans. Ryu Geon smiled bitterly.
“Everyone’s too much. There are ten comments on the announcement post saying they’ll stream it.”
“70% of our fans are people who tell lies without even wetting their fingers with spit.”
Jinyeong shrugged as if he hadn’t expected anything from the start. But even Jinyeong, who said that, had been going in and out of the official fan cafe all day, devotedly leaving comments on the few posts looking for him. There was no way he wasn’t disappointed. At the continuously declining atmosphere, Jion clapped to refresh the mood.
“Come on, we haven’t performed on stage yet!”
Three music show performances were scheduled for this single. In terms of budget and manpower support, it was difficult to book more schedules than that, so they had no choice but to work hard on each stage, one by one.
First, let’s just shove Seonwoo Jin’s face in their faces.
From the start, Jion didn’t expect this promotion to be a huge hit. Jion’s only goals for this promotion were to prevent Seonwoo Jin from causing a scandal with Loopy Cupy’s Sollin and to at least achieve better results than last time to gain momentum to prepare for the next single.
“BNCZ, please get ready!”
“Yes!”
When the staff who arrived just in time announced their turn, grim determination appeared on the faces of the members who had been downcast.
“Let’s just work hard at what we can do!”
“Yeah!”
“Let’s do well!”
Right, let’s do well. Jion looked at Seonwoo Jin and smiled brightly. I’m only counting on you, Seonwoo Jin!
After finishing the stage and coming down, Jion unconsciously linked arms with Seonwoo Jin and leaned on him with trembling legs.
The stage he’d been on after 10 years—no, from the current point in time it was after 1 year, but it had been so long—was overwhelming. Since there were no fans to begin with, he didn’t expect any response, and even if there had been a response, it wouldn’t have registered in his eyes. The leisure of the Uicheon Six-Clove Garlic Festival was nowhere to be found, and under the bright lights, Jion was entirely focused on finding his camera and couldn’t even glance at the audience seats.
“Ah, what do I do? Now that it’s all over, I’m so relaxed that I suddenly lost all my strength.”
Jion wiped his cold sweat while hanging on Seonwoo Jin’s arm. Eungi, who was surprisingly the type to enjoy the stage, laughed heartily seeing Jion’s state.
“Hyung, you made one mistake in the choreography, but you still did well! Your singing was perfect!”
“Yeah, Jion.”
Seonwoo Jin was secretly very pleased that Jion had clung to him, pushing aside the other members, as soon as he came down from the stage, but he composed his expression as if that wasn’t the case at all and stroked his shoulder.
“You really did well. Don’t worry.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, you really did well. Perfect. You did the best.”
Seonwoo Jin tried hard to return the compliments Jion had given him on the emergency stairs, but in fact, the one who did the best on today’s stage wasn’t Jion. The one who did the best today was Seonwoo Jin’s face.
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Anyone watching Music Center? Something just hit me fucking hard right now?
Let’s go hululala together? You mean let’s die together, right? Yeah, I’ll die
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I just had it on and got hit like crazy wtf
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First time seeing that name, are they rookies?
└ Comment 5 They say they’re in their 2nd year
└ Comment 2 Huh? With that face they’re a nobody?
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Oppa what are you doing, I came to the district office with my seal and ID, hurry up and come
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Are they the ones who went to that garlic festival and the viciousness was crazy lol
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