# Chapter 180
The head was pulled down with a slightly surprised expression. A hand placed over his hand.
Their noses touched and then parted slightly, and Lee Hwan tilted his head slightly and pressed against him.
He couldn’t understand what he was doing now, or what this situation was. His mind was too confused. But because Taesung’s face, which had come so close, looked quite appealing, Lee Hwan was drawn to overlap their lips.
‘…’
Something soft touched his sensitive skin. The temperature felt through his skin was exceptionally hot. Just like when Taesung embraced him, it felt perfectly right.
At the strange stimulation, his back trembled slightly, and something in his chest seemed to unravel.
Though Lee Hwan reflected that the atmosphere had been quite quiet and gloomy until just a moment ago, he couldn’t push away Taesung who was now before him.
No, rather, he pulled him closer. Just as he had initiated the contact earlier.
The lightly overlapped lips pressed firmly, and Taesung’s breath tickled him. That small stimulation slowly emptied his mind full of distracting thoughts.
He realized implicitly. There was no turning back now.
But he didn’t feel like stopping either. Without knowing how to handle what he had done, Lee Hwan rubbed against the lips that came to him as if feeling an invisible presence.
Smack, smack. With small sounds, the soft sensation touched his mouth repeatedly. Glancing with rolling eyes, he could see veins standing on Taesung’s temple. Lee Hwan, in a dazed state, bit and pulled at what was in his mouth. When the warm lips followed obediently, his entire chest pounded.
The familiar body scent circling around the tip of his nose like a haze. An unbearable heat surged from within.
Just then, Taesung’s remaining hand slid behind his neck. When the solid arm wrapped around and pressed his body, his already tense shoulders jumped. A tingling sensation scraped down his spine from his neck to the end of his waist.
“Haa…”
Lee Hwan, who had exhaled without realizing it, startled at the sound and separated his lips. But he couldn’t pull his body away. Taesung firmly gripped the hand supporting his neck.
“Come here…”
At the pulling hand, Lee Hwan was helplessly swept away. When Taesung coaxed him with a low, deep voice, Lee Hwan, as if entranced, pressed his lips again.
‘Crazy.’
He had once felt that he was like a siren. Thinking about it now, how well he had read his features. If he sat by the East Sea and beckoned, even if Lee Hwan were a truckload of people, they would all drown and die.
Taesung pulled the half-dazed Lee Hwan as if lifting him, and sat him down in front of himself. To an Awakened person, a mere human body was so light, Lee Hwan was dragged like a doll and placed his arms around Taesung’s back.
He too was an Awakened person, so he could resist if he wanted to, but…
“Hah…”
He didn’t feel like it at all.
His half-open eyes were clearly visible even in the dimness. His pupils, which seemed to have darkened slightly, were intoxicated with the pleasant sensation.
“Joo Lee Hwan.”
Calling his name while gently biting and pulling his lower lip. Then the hot lips pressed firmly again, and it felt like a weak electric current flowed through his nape.
Lee Hwan’s hands trembled unknowingly.
“I like you too. A lot.”
The touching flesh vibrated. His voice seemed to flow into his mouth instead of his ears. Lee Hwan’s heart not only pounded but trembled.
He stopped thinking about what kind of situation this was now. The lips, faintly trembling with his voice, just felt soft and pleasant.
Until now, Lee Hwan had thought that delicate parts like the side of the ear, under the nails, or around the eyes were the most sensitive parts of the human body.
But seeing today, he was wrong. The lips touching Taesung were the most sensitive. Also his cheek where Taesung’s breath touched, and the back of his hand that Taesung held.
Even when the hand holding his neck played by rubbing his hair with his thumb, Lee Hwan groaned and had no choice but to add the back of his neck to that list.
“Huh, haa…”
Each time their lips parted, he hastily inhaled. Though not even the fluorescent light was on, it felt like sparks were flying before his eyes.
Finally, unable to endure, Lee Hwan backed away slightly and plopped down, but Taesung grabbed him again and placed him on his lap.
“You, crazy…”
Lee Hwan now pressed down on Taesung’s shoulders, which stood taller than him. Bending down and opening his eyes reddened with unfamiliar excitement, he could see the long patience in Taesung’s face snapping.
Eyes that gazed intently as if still not enough. Lee Hwan slowly savored that gaze and put strength into the hands gripping his shoulders, but in the end, he was the one to press his lips again first.
“Huu… again.”
He urged.
“I didn’t hear.”
Though he had heard everything, such an obvious line.
Instead of answering, Taesung wrapped his waist and nibbled at his pressed lips. Soon, something wet and soft pushed through his tightly closed mouth.
When the slippery sensation swept the inside of his mouth, Lee Hwan flinched and opened his mouth. Immediately, Taesung’s mouth seeped in and blocked it.
“Hmm…”
As their tongues entangled, a wet sound that would be embarrassing to hear with a clear mind was made. Even amidst this, his handsome face kept catching his eyes, adding to the dizziness. Lee Hwan, unable to bear the stimulation, closed his eyes tightly.
Primitive and animalistic acts of scraping the palate with his tongue, going down, and then wrapping around the tongue again. The squelching sound resonated from inside and covered his ears.
It felt as if his body was endlessly heating up, just like Taesung’s temperature had transferred to him. Though as an Awakened person he could hold his breath well, Lee Hwan had been letting out panting sounds since earlier.
The sound echoing through the quiet living room made everything feel strange anew. To be entangled with him on the sofa in Taesung’s house, Taesung’s living room, rubbing lips like this. Would his past self have ever imagined such a sight?
Lee Hwan somehow felt like a moth that had jumped into the fire itself.
Lee Hwan remained entangled with Taesung for a while. Like children, these humans who were well past their mid-30s if counting the years gone back through regression, endlessly just pressed their lips together.
From all the sucking and biting, his already rosy lips swelled red, and lips that normally wouldn’t get injured started to sting a bit.
When Lee Hwan, tired and panting, frowned and pulled away, Taesung seemed like he might finally let him go but then pulled him tightly into his arms.
Only then did he breathe the clear air. His mind, which had been emptied of everything except their thoughts for each other, started functioning again.
As his mind, which had left home, stealthily returned, Lee Hwan realized he was sitting on Taesung’s lap with only the middle of his pants tight.
He tried to move, but Taesung’s arms wouldn’t let go. As a temporary measure, Lee Hwan knelt up and awkwardly raised his hips.
“…Let go.”
But Taesung didn’t seem to hear and was brushing his nose against the inside of Lee Hwan’s wrist. The sensation of the delicate flesh rubbing was still stimulating.
Lee Hwan frowned sharply and put strength into his knees.
“I said let go, please…”
This… shouldn’t be seen. He didn’t want it to be seen. Though he had initiated the kiss first, showing this much seemed a bit inappropriate.
As his lower abdomen gradually felt tight, Lee Hwan finally tried to forcibly remove Taesung’s wrist and escape, when…
“I like you.”
The words he wouldn’t say earlier even when asked to repeat them, he clearly uttered while fixing his gaze, just raising his eyes. Still rubbing his lips against his wrist.
“Can’t back out now.”
The look in his eyes as he spoke half-jokingly and calmly was somehow similar to what Lee Hwan had seen in his memories. Especially the way it made his back tense when facing him.
Come to think of it, back then, was he confined in a room with bars…
‘…’
At the ominous thought, Lee Hwan’s lower body situation suddenly improved a bit. Whether he should like this or not.
He was about to scold Taesung to look straight, but remembering his pitiful appearance earlier, he couldn’t bring himself to do so.
Moreover, the afterglow from earlier remained strong, and he was still handsome.
“…We’ll see.”
Despite the fact that just thinking about Taesung made his heart race, Lee Hwan pretended to be composed as he answered. Satisfied with some part of that answer, Taesung silently rested his head on Lee Hwan’s shoulder.
Only then did his gripped wrist gently loosen. Lee Hwan implicitly realized that Taesung could have done more, but had stopped purely out of consideration for him.
‘Haa… this…’
The aftermath of his actions was slowly approaching. Before, he had acted awkwardly just from hugging. Suddenly becoming close enough to kiss in the evening.
He had never progressed a relationship with anyone in this way before. He had never even experienced being in such a relationship with anyone in the first place.
So how should he treat this guy now?
Carrying a strange excitement and churning worry together, Lee Hwan sighed and plopped back down on Taesung’s lap.
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“Don’t stay out too long.”
“Yeah.”
“If Dongying looks strange, just run out.”
“That won’t happen, I’m telling you.”
“Don’t follow him if he offers cake for dessert.”
“You jerk.”
When he hit his side hard at the joke, Taesung’s face was half smiling, half tinged with anxiety.
Even when Lee Hwan had been caught meeting Kang Dongha, he had only shown anger, but now that Lee Hwan was meeting Kang Dongying, he kept acting like this.
Of course, Kang Dongying was the real cause of the monster wave and the mastermind behind most of the disasters, and Lee Hwan had even died several times because of him during the regression, he’d heard.
But before all those seemingly dangerous conditions, the guy was one of the powers in Naru, a major corporation. He was well aware that if his reputation was tarnished by doing something crazy, covering it up would cost more than any other price.
In other words, today’s meeting was safe. He wasn’t sure in what context or why Taesung had dropped the “pervert bastard” comment, but it meant there was no way he would suddenly attack and drag Lee Hwan away in broad daylight.
“I’m going then. I’ll bring the data that Kang Dongha diverted while I’m meeting him.”
Contrary to Taesung’s initial concerns, Kang Dongha was handling things surprisingly properly.
Accordingly, the contact with Praxis was also being steadily prepared, and Taesung had already delivered some evidence or testimony to the “Wasp” of the Management Bureau.
“Jade is coming later, right? Wait and rest.”
As Lee Hwan gestured and stepped out of the car, long, well-shaped legs strode forward. This time, his suit, charged on Taesung’s card, wrapped around him without a wrinkle.
Though he had lost many memories of the regression, his calm, light brown eyes still showed a mature and wise light.
“Whew…”
Taking a deep breath, Lee Hwan moved his steps toward the central building where Kang Dongying was staying.
