After two weeks of official album promotions wrapped up, RAYEON entered their remaining schedule. Here, remaining schedule referred to fan signings they hadn’t finished yet or self-produced content filming they’d postponed due to their busy activities.
Like “RayOFF,” which had just started filming now.
“RayOFF,” which showed RAYEON’s real everyday appearance, had been receiving consistent love from fans since their debut. For this filming, they decided to go on a university MT with a campus boyfriend concept.
A one-night trip—even though it was a bit short, it would be a sweet rest for the RAYEON members who had been driven by busy activities.
Or so he had thought.
At least until they went grocery shopping at the mart.
All the members would have zombie faces from the intense game fest that would start a little later, but for now, it was peaceful.
“Yuna, let’s get this too.”
“What are you saying. Got money to burn? No.”
“Why, they said there’s no budget limit.”
“Even so, we need to buy things in moderation.”
Do Yeonjae rolled a grape-flavored Chupa Chups in his mouth as he watched the two oldest hyungs pushing the cart. What Kang Ihyun was trying to newly add to the already full cart was beef brisket.
“I’ll make you an amazing beef brisket doenjang stew for breakfast tomorrow.”
He grew up under his grandmother, so he cooked very well. His specialty was doenjang-jjigae, and Do Yeonjae knew that taste well. Hearing about it makes me want to eat it… He felt a gaze piercing his face as he licked his lips.
When he raised his head, Hayun was looking at him. Hm? He blinked and tilted his head. Kang Ihyun, who looked at Yeonjae following Hayun’s gaze, confidently straightened his shoulders.
“Look, Yeonjae’s face says he wants to eat it too. This hyung-nim’s special doenjang-jjigae.”
That was true, but… Since they’d already filled the cart with grilling meat and ramen, he understood why Hayun hyung was blocking it.
“I don’t have to eat it.”
When he shrugged, Hayun hesitated for a moment then said.
“…Just up to this.”
“Wow, as soon as Yeonjae gets involved, it’s immediately okay? What about this favoritism?”
“Never mind and hurry up. Where did Sian go?”
“To pick out drinks.”
Kang Ihyun, who quickly caught up to Hayun ahead, grabbed the cart handle and said, “Give it here, I’ll push it.”
“……”
Do Yeonjae looked at their backs with strange eyes.
The day he first saw the tweet Hayun had liked.
Do Yeonjae couldn’t leave his seat from shock. What part of that content did hyung like? He’d already turned off his phone screen, but the heart filled in red kept flickering before his eyes.
That can’t be. Then… Does Hayun hyung have feelings for Ihyun hyung? By himself? No, they might already be dating… Haa, that can’t be. At the too shocking sight, his thoughts jumped around. Questions that couldn’t be resolved without asking the person directly lingered uncomfortably around the edges of his mind.
Heart… liked it… Do Yeonjae, who entered his room with a mysterious expression, sat in front of the mirror and applied skin lotion. The touch of his hands absorbing the lotion into his skin was utterly halfhearted, but it was self-care anyway. Public relationship announcement…
The hand that had been patting his face suddenly applied too much force. Smack! He opened his eyes wide as if struck by lightning, but not because his self-slapped face hurt. It was because one positive possibility had suddenly illuminated Do Yeonjae’s mind.
What if it was just pressed by mistake?
Actually, a few months ago, Baek Sian hyung had suddenly let out a scream of despair. When he ran over thinking something had happened, he could see him wildly ruffling his hair with his phone in front of him.
‘Huaaa… Fuuuck…’
‘Why? Hyung.’
‘Baek Sian you crazy bastard, you fucking lunatic…!’
‘What happened?’
Only after coaxing and soothing him for a while could he hear the details of the incident.
‘I accidentally liked a tweet with RAYEON’s official account while searching… What do I do, should I just die? Ah fuck really, I’m so fucking embarrassed I could die…’
The content of the tweet he’d mistakenly pressed the “like” button on was this:
Ah is 100Shan getting man disease these days? Is he crazy ㅡㅡ You weren’t getting man disease before? Then you wouldn’t have done stuff like losing your fandom.
What is man disease? It refers to the disease where an idol wants to shed their fresh and immature image and be reborn as a macho man. If they try to bulk up with muscles when they’re not even built for it, or if they’re full of pretension and show signs of being reluctant to do the aegyo fans request, they’re called man disease patients. When man disease reaches its final stage, disasters like shaving their entire head can occur.
Baek Sian was a pride-filled twenty-three-year-old this year, the perfect age to catch man disease. Moreover, at the time, he’d suddenly gotten into working out and was posting mirror selfies showing off his arm muscles in sleeveless shirts at the gym like it was nothing, and spreading workout vlogs as fan bait.
Unfortunately, most idol fans liked their bias to be slim. If you forcefully build up your body when you don’t even have the basic physique for it, your movements become sluggish when dancing and your shoulder shape becomes weird, ruining only the fit of clothes.
Especially in the case of someone with cute features like Baek Sian, working out excessively became an act that thoroughly ignored the fans’ demands.
The reasons fans hated the gym didn’t end there.
Idols who become gym regulars inevitably grow close to their personal trainers or male idols who attend the same gym. This soon leads to “gym cliques”… (omitted) Later, they face catastrophe when accounts related to girls are exposed.
With these reasons, it was no wonder tweets rejecting man disease like that appeared. But the embarrassing point for Baek Sian wasn’t just that he’d liked a post saying he’d caught man disease himself.
The fact that the person himself knew the secret shipping name known as “100Shan” had been exposed to the whole world. With the shame of seeming like he’d been caught being a search-crazy bastard, Baek Sian skipped dinner that evening.
Sure enough. That day’s mistake was forever preserved and wandered around communities.
[Idol who liked a fan’s tweet saying he caught man disease]
[An idol’s amazing accidental like lololol.JPG]
Baek Sian, who lost all motivation, stopped going to the gym from that day and cured his man disease, so that day’s incident ended with 100% satisfaction from Sian’s biases. It was a happy ending.
Anyway, with cases like this, the idea that Hayun hyung had accidentally pressed the heart certainly made sense.
Pressing it by mistake meant he’d looked up JjitHaet-related tweets first, and it was somewhat unbelievable that he’d accidentally press such a tweet of all things, but…
Don’t too many coincidental things happen in this world? Do Yeonjae wanted to believe that. It was also a much better conclusion than Hayun hyung harboring feelings for Kang Ihyun hyung. Whether one-sided or mutual.
Of course, it wasn’t his place to discuss the members’ sexual orientation, but… Ah whatever, stop thinking about it.
-Hayun hyung was looking up tweets out of curiosity for monitoring purposes and his finger just slipped-
That day, he’d ended his worries like that.
But that’s how humans were. Once your thoughts opened in that direction, even behaviors you’d had no particular thoughts about before would be viewed with strangely suggestive eyes without you knowing.
‘JjitHaet shippers see that kind of atmosphere as a married for 10 years vibe…’
Like Do Yeonjae right now, feeling uncomfortable as he watched JjitHaet’s backs while grocery shopping.
“Why are you buying so many types of mushrooms?”
“We’ll grill king oyster mushrooms, and put enoki mushrooms in the doenjang-jjigae.”
Maybe because they’d been friends for so long, the person Hayun hyung treated most comfortably among the members was Kang Ihyun hyung. That’s why a blunt way of speaking that didn’t come out with other members would emerge. In a way, that was also special treatment. Since it was a side he didn’t show to the younger members…
Do Yeonjae’s immunity to male-male romance was close to zero. Because he was pure like a blank canvas, he had a side that would mistake things for that kind of atmosphere if his skin even tickled a little. If there was something Do Yeonjae overlooked here, it was that no matter how they’re both men, the treatment received by him at 184cm and Hayun who’d lived as 169cm had to be different.
They’re friends, right? But then why does he push the cart for him? Huh, why is he picking up things from high places…? Not knowing that was homoerotic thinking, Do Yeonjae was endlessly continuing his thoughts when Baek Sian appeared before him.
“Where’s the cart?”
Do Yeonjae’s gaze slid down. Baek Sian’s arms were full of something.
“…Hyung.”
What he’d brought to drink, he said, was Pororo juice. Strawberry flavor, apple flavor, milk flavor, shine muscat flavor, banana flavor… Those are what little kids suck on. Do Yeonjae thought with a face gone cold with disappointment. Is this the aftereffects of curing man disease? He’s regressed too much.
“Just buy the big ones.”
It was such an unreasonable choice that even Do Yeonjae, who was indifferent to everything, added a comment. Still, it had some effect. Thanks to seeing Pororo that protected childhood innocence, the R-rated thoughts that had been floating in his head until just now were cleanly erased.
Yeo Minsung, who’d been walking halfheartedly beside Do Yeonjae busy with his phone, also glanced at the Pororo feast and said.
“Oh, that’s not bad.”
Seeing Yeo Minsung with a silly smile lingering on his lips, Baek Sian made a ‘hyung is more not bad’ expression and said.
“Are you texting Woobin hyung? Seriously, soulmates and all. Ah, I’m suddenly hurt.”
He 200% noticed he was texting his girlfriend but was expressing it roundaboutly being conscious of the self-content camera. Here, “Woobin” was Yeo Minsung’s publicly known best friend that RAYEON fans also knew about.
“What’s there to be hurt about?”
“No, we came on a trip as members, you should focus on us. Right? Yeonjae.”
He hadn’t known because he was lost in his own thoughts, but Do Yeonjae also agreed with Sian’s words. Wasn’t he not taking out his phone from his back pocket even once because they were filming? Even if he turned it on, there would only be annoying messages anyway…
Come to think of it, right before filming started, a sasaeng had sent a provocative text.
Hey
Hey
Hey
Do Yeonjae
Not answering?
Are you ignoring me
Seeing the text that came from an unknown number out of the blue, he thought. Is this a new type trying to get attention through provocation… Being merciless toward those who invaded his privacy, he pressed the block button without hesitation.
