Twenty’s Marriage and Dating

“If you promise to marry me, uh, I’ll become a cool adult.”

Fifteen-year-old Jiseo, unable to turn down five-year-old Youngwon’s out-of-the-blue proposal, had accepted it in a daze. Fifteen years later, he finds himself face-to-face with Youngwon’s bold declaration demanding that he finally keep the promise they made when they were kids.

It wasn’t that he had no intention of keeping the promise…

“I think we can do it when you’re around thirty. Whether it’s dating or marriage.”

The problem is that to Jiseo, who is thirty, Youngwon—who has just graduated from high school—feels far too young.

“The reason I was born late is to give Hyung time.”

“…”

“Though I’m still a cradle-robber right now, of course, since I’m taking away a Hyung who is barely thirty.”

Having eagerly awaited the day he would become an adult so he could marry Hyung, Youngwon appeals his unfairness and tries to persuade Jiseo in the face of his bolt-from-the-blue words. However, given Jiseo’s stubbornly unyielding attitude, he ultimately resorts to his final measure.

“Hyung, will you go on this show with me?”

That was none other than an invitation to appear together on a virtual dating program boasting a 100% real-couple success rate…

“I can’t let Hyung go. You were mine from the start.”

Will Youngwon be able to end his 15-year unrequited love and successfully win over Hyung?

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Setting/Genre: Contemporary, OO-verse, Omegaverse

Keywords: Handsome top, affectionate top, obsessive top, devoted top, slick top, pure-hearted top, actor top, somewhat-shameless-yet-conscientious top, beautiful bottom, affectionate bottom, innocent bottom, cheerful bottom, proactive bottom, sassy bottom, seductive bottom, pure-hearted bottom, unrequited-love bottom, actor bottom, older-bottom-aspiring bottom, sort-of-raising-him-not-really, entertainment industry, online community reactions, dating reality show, jealousy, raising-him-up story, sweet romance, slice-of-life

Top: Yoo Jiseo (30) An actor and a childhood-friend-like hyung who completely stole away Youngwon’s heart when they were young. He tends to have a selective conscience; while he lets Youngwon satisfy his urges, he pushes him away on the grounds that he’s too young to get married, ultimately getting treated like a baby in return by the aggrieved younger man.

Bottom: Joo Youngwon (20) An actor who has just graduated high school and become an adult, and a bulldozer of a younger man harboring a one-sided crush on a hyung 10 years his senior. He boldly proposed to Jiseo when they were little and has spent his whole life running forward while eagerly anticipating the day that promise would come true. In reality, he has considered Jiseo his own ever since 15 years ago.

Recommended When:

You want to read a story where a bottom charges forward like a bulldozer with a life motto of “Life minus making Jiseo-hyung mine equals zero.”

You want to see the turbulent, action-packed journey of a twenty-year-old who has spent his entire life just waiting to become an adult so he can win over his hyung.

Quote: “I really don’t understand why the reason we can’t get married is because I’m young. It was because hyung was young that I waited for you in the first place.”