MW 55

“This is driving me crazy.”

“Eut……”

“What are you going to do from now on, acting so pretty like this?”

How could he possibly stay still when he was being called with such a pretty, moist face? Jaeha, opening his closed eyes, covered Yijae’s lips with his own.

After the not-so-short kiss ended, Jaeha pulled his head back and drew a smile on his lips as he watched Yijae, who still couldn’t breathe properly after a kiss.

“Call me if you need anything.”

Nod, nod.

Taking in the sight of Yijae silently nodding his head, Jaeha licked his lips as if in regret, then stood up and left the bathroom.

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Fortunately, he finished his bath by himself and came out, but Yijae had his eyes closed while Jaeha took care of his wet hair. Just as he was finishing up the almost dry hair, Jaeha turned his head at the ding-dong of the bell.

“Who is it?”

Jaeha told Yijae, whose eyes were wide like a startled rabbit, that he had ordered room service, then put down the hairdryer and turned around.

“Wow, it smells delicious.”

He hadn’t eaten anything since the early dinner yesterday. On top of that, he had expended a lot of energy during the night, so although he hadn’t said anything, he was feeling hungry.

“Meat?”

Yijae, who had walked over to the table where Jaeha was, tilted his head slightly as he looked at the steak on the tray. The well-cooked meat looked truly delicious, but it wasn’t even 9 o’clock yet.

“I figured you’d need some protein.”

For some reason, Jaeha’s voice as he said that sounded seductive.

‘I must be a pervert.’

Yijae cursed himself for his strange thoughts, but he couldn’t take his eyes off the red, bulging veins on the back of Jaeha’s hand as he cut the steak.

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After a satisfying breakfast, Yijae left the hotel and headed to the place Jaeha was leading him. The original plan was to spend two nights and three days at a villa located in the outskirts, but Jaeha wanted to show Yijae something, so they had stayed at a hotel close to that place.

Remembering the camera he had packed in advance, Jaeha touched his smiling lips and drove the car toward their destination.

“Haah, su-sunbae, how much further do we have to climb?”

“Just five more minutes. Are you tired?”

“A little……”

Yijae, who had started climbing the hill after Jaeha, nodded his head, breathing heavily on the steeper-than-expected path.

“Want me to carry you?”

Yijae waved his hands and shook his head from side to side at Jaeha, who was gazing at him with a worried face and wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Was his stamina really this low? Jaeha was climbing just fine without even catching his breath, but he felt like he was about to die.

Still, it didn’t seem this hard when the housekeepers told him to move things or to clean the windows.

Secretly looking distressed, Yijae dragged his heavy legs up the hill, following Jaeha.

And when they finally reached the top, Yijae’s eyes widened. On the hill, as if to cover the entire mountain foot, countless yellow rapeseed flowers were in bloom, and next to them, green trees swayed in the spring breeze in harmony with the flowers. Moreover, the emerald-colored something visible beyond was the sea that Yijae had wanted to see so much.

His cheeks turned red at the beautiful sight he was seeing for the first time. It was then that Yijae turned his head toward Jaeha with a shy face.

Click!

“Uh……?”

Jaeha was standing there, holding a camera towards Yijae. Since when had he been taking pictures of him? He was embarrassed by the fact that he had been so happy like a child without even knowing, but he steadfastly put on a big, beaming smile.

The two of them held each other’s gaze for a long time. Jaeha was the first to take a step, approaching Yijae, and he opened his mouth, rubbing his cheek.

“……I think spring, to me, is you, Yijae.”

Jaeha looked at Yijae, surrounded by the festival of May sprouting green, and with a smile that resembled his, he kissed him.

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Dohae, waking up in the dark house where no light entered, clenched his fists at the rustle, rustle, sound of bugs moving and got up from his spot.

A week had already passed since he started living in this trashy house of Seo Yijae. Since coming here, he had not slept for more than two hours on any single day. Because of that, the capillaries in Dohae’s eyes had burst, making them bloodshot red, and long, dark circles hung under his eyes. His unkempt appearance was incomparable to how he used to be.

Rustle, rustle, rustle.

“Fuck, it’s noisy! I said it’s noisy!”

Dohae, who scrunched his brow in irritation at the sound of cockroaches moving along the wall again, threw whatever objects he could grab towards the source of the sound.

After moving his hands and screaming for a long while, he was suddenly overcome with anxiety and gasped for breath, curling his body into a ball.

“Heok, haah…… ha…… Why, why hasn’t Secretary Oh contacted me yet!”

Secretary Oh, who had left saying he would help him, had been completely out of touch since that day. Crunch, red blood was now seeping from the fingertips of Dohae, who was chewing on his nails.

“……I can’t just keep waiting forever.”

Dohae, who had been biting his nails pathologically, shot up and walked toward the suitcase he had placed in a corner of the room. He opened the tightly locked suitcase and took out the most expensive clothes from inside to change into. As he did, he smirked, pulling up the corners of his mouth. But just then, a cockroach approaching the inside of the open suitcase came into Dohae’s sight.

“How dare you…… Who do you think you are! Who are you to touch my things!”

In a sudden surge of anger, he gritted his teeth and stomped on the cockroach, panting as if he couldn’t calm his excitement. Dohae continued to crush it with his dress shoe until finally, the cockroach’s carcass disappeared without a trace, and then, as if nothing had happened, he swept his hair back and smiled.

Letting out a smirk, he slowly made his way out of the house and walked toward the main gate. Standing in front of the large gate, he suddenly felt that this place he had passed through countless times was unfamiliar. Feeling the back of his neck stiffen, Dohae quickened his pace and immediately took out his phone to find his driver’s number.

“Ah……”

Flinch, Dohae, who was about to move, froze as he remembered Secretary Oh’s words telling him to stay out of sight and hide well. Closing and opening his eyes with an annoyed expression, he had no choice but to leave the alley and get into a taxi.

“Where to, sir?”

“Sejin Hospital.”

After stating his destination, he took out the earphones he had shoved in his pocket and put them in his ears. As soon as only the loud music could be heard, as if he were cut off from the world, he felt his throbbing headache begin to subside.

Dohae, who closed his eyes and leaned his head against the window, couldn’t get a wink of sleep at the house, but at this moment, drowsiness washed over him like a tidal wave.