A Failed Idol’s Rise to Bottom

Tae-Won burst into extreme laughter as he watched Su-Gyeom’s scream. Naturally, Su-Gyeom’s eyes became sharp, but even that was only a pleasure for Tae-Won.

“You knew everything!”

Su-Gyeom asked Tae-won, who burst into laughter as if he were happy, in a voice mixed with resentment. Then Tae-Won only shrugged lightly.

“What did I do?”

“That, that, that!”

“What do you mean?”

“Oh, anyway!”

Although he already realized that he knew everything, he couldn’t dare to point out that Yoo-Chan was gay in front of Tae-Won. Su-Gyeom struggled with frustration, pulling his hair in the process.

“Oh, my hair is falling out.”

“Get out of here!”

Su-Gyeom screamed his feelings, and Tae-won clicked his tongue. Su-Gyeom sniffed and aimed at Tae-Won again, and soon opened his eyes as innocently as possible. Tae-won’s eyes narrowed as he faced the innocent round eyes as if he knew nothing.

“What’s with this look?”

“Oh, what do you mean?”

Su-Gyeom smiled and clung close to Tae-Won. Tae-Won watch Su-Gyeom’s behavior quietly, but he left it alone. No, rather, he got closer to Su-Gyeom.

“Oh, that, you, isn’t that too close?”

“Is that so? I don’t know.”

“Yes…?”

Su-Gyeom was at a loss for words to respond to Tae-Won’s obvious answer. On the other hand, the reason why he couldn’t argue more was that he was the one who failed to realized.

“Hyung, anyway…….”

“Anyways?”

“Lend me your cell phone.”

“No.”

“Oh, why!”

Su-Gyeom shouted resentfully at the answer that came back at once. Then, the playfulness attached to Tae-Won’s face was lifted and hardened. Su-Gyeom was honestly quite frightened by the change. He was startled but tried not to show it.

“Do you want to keep in touch with him that much?”

“What?”

“Do you want to keep in touch with that strange guy that much?”Su-Gyeom’s big eyes fluttered. The long eyelashes fluttered up and down. Su-Gyeom didn’t understand what Tae-Won was saying.

Su-Gyeom had a brain freeze for a while and belatedly came to his senses.

He was misunderstood.

“Oh, no! Are you crazy?! Why would I contact him?!”

“Then why are you doing this?”

“Oh, I must play Cookie Run Kingdom! If you don’t fight for a day, you’ll be kicked out of the guild! How hard it was to enter the guild!”

“……What?”

“That guild doesn’t accept anyone! There are a lot of cookies to grow, and the conditions are tricky! If you don’t run, you’ll be kicked out without rice!”

At Su-Gyeom’s words, Tae-Won blinked silently this time. His eyes, which looked rather fierce, became bewildered.

“So lend me your phone. I’ll log in and play the game.”

“Now, wait. Is it really because of the game? You’re not trying to get in touch with him?”

“Oh, no! Why would I keep in touch with him? I shudder just thinking about him!”

When a harsh word popped out of Su-Gyeom’s mouth, Tae-Won’s expression became serious. Now everything seems strange.

“What, you didn’t like him?”

“No, no, no! Don’t say horrible things, really.”

Su-Gyeom shouted ‘No’ in three combos in a row. Only then did Tae-Won sigh with relief and felt like he did not understand some things.

“Then why are you giving him your number?”

“Oh, that’s because that bastard is aiming at Yoo-Chan!”

Tae-Won became serious and inquisitive about Su-Gyeom’s response, which even hit his chest with frustration. Su-Gyeom felt something was wrong, but Tae-won also knew that Yoo-chan was gay.

“That’s the real reason? Just because he is aiming at Yoo-Chan? No matter how much I looked at him, he didn’t seem to be interested in Yoo-Chan, but he seemed to be with you?”

At Tae-Won’s words, Su-Gyeom sighed deeply. He knows he can talk now, but it’s not a good memory, so he couldn’t speak easily as if he had a thorn in his throat.

Su-Gyeom pressed his frustrated chest hard and opened his mouth.

“In my past life…”

“Past life…?”

“Uh, in my past life……. That bastard lured Yoo-Chan, then did the interview.”

“……what?”

“Outting.”

Even the words were painful to say. Su-Gyeom’s heart ached just imagining how much it must have hurt Yoo-chan. Above all, the guilt of leaving him alone, while he is down, strangled Su-Gyeom. Su-Gyeom turned his head down.

“On top of that…… It’s also about him. I don’t know exactly what happened, but…….”

“……Ha. What a son of a gun.”

Tae-won murmured in a frightful voice.

“I know. That’s why……. To keep him away from Yoo-Chan…….”

“…….”

Even if it’s not a compliment that he did well, Su-Gyeom thought he would be able to understand. However, Tae-Won only stared at Su-Gyeom with cold eyes. Su-Gyeom wondered if he had done anything wrong, and at the same time, his lips were pouting because he was inundated with injustice.

“Song Su-Fyeom.”

“……why.”

Su-Gyeom looked at him. Then Tae-Won sighed long.

“……Why would you handle that alone? That’s what he’s going to do to you.”

There was deep concern in Tae-Won’s words. Su-Gyeom, who felt his feelings, made eye contact with Tae-won, soothing his surprised heart. Tae-Won’s dark black eyes were so friendly.

“Su-Gyeom. We, I don’t know.”

After a short sigh, he called Su-Gyeom’s name in a soft voice. Then he went on calmly.

“You have a memory of your past life, but we don’t. So I don’t know what happened to you. You’ve already endured it alone. We don’t remember anything, but you know the weight of that memory.”

Tae-Won looked as if he was dying of regret that he made Su-Gyeom endure all of it alone. It wasn’t his fault, but Tae-Won felt sorry for Su-Gyeom even though it couldn’t be his fault.

Su-Gyeom felt he was feeling sorry for him and thanked him for his feelings that were delivered.

“So tell me. So that I can know.”

“……yes, I will.”

At Tae-Won’s words, Su-Gyeom nodded with a more comfortable mind. Then Tae-Won also smiled brightly as if he was relieved.

Tae-Won slipped out his cell phone.

“It’s a secret.”

“Oh, of course! You’re the best! Thank you!”

Su-Gyeom hugged Tae-Won with a surge of gratitude. Tae-Won was surprised by Su-Gyeom’s sudden behavior and stopped, but soon he also hugged Su-Gyeom hard.

“Um, Hyung I’m suffocating…….”

“Did you flirt without thinking about it?”

“Well, that’s not it…….”

“Su-Gyeom, don’t do this much. I’m trying to hold back from eating.”

“Oh, my gosh, I got it. Oh, I won’t!”

At Tae-Won’s words, Su-Gyeom exclaimed, freaked out. Tae-won’s expression was distorted with dissatisfaction at the words.

“I told you to do it moderately, not to not do it.”

“Oh, what do you want me to do?”

“You should do it enough for me to resist the desire to eat you, but please treat me like that.”

“How do I know that!”

“If you don’t know, you can just be eaten.”

“No, so I just won’t?”

Su-Gyeom gave Tae-Won an indifferent answer. However, it isn’t the answer that Tae-Won wanted.

“Then I’ll just eat you up”

“Stop, stop, stop, that’s a strange thing! Don’t eat me! Why do you keep saying eating?”

“You’ll know when you eat it, if you want to eat it or not.”

“It’s a question that you can tell even if you don’t eat it!”

Su-Gyeom shouted desperately at Tae-won’s half-heartfelt and half-joking. As if he would eat him at any moment.

In response, Tae-Won tried to wrap up his smudging smile and lightly tickled Su-Gyeom’s slim waist.

“Ah!”

Su-Gyeom groaned reflexively, was surprised and hurriedly blocked his mouth even after he made a sound.