Chapter 96 – ​The ​Price ​of ​Misjudgment

Yoon ​Ki-hyun ​lowered ​his ​gaze. ​Jeong Si-jun was staring ​at ​him with an ​intensity that felt ​burdensome, ​resting ​his ​chin ​on ​both hands. He ​seemed ​completely ​unfazed by the ​fact that he had ​been doing ​this for ​several minutes.

“Hyung.”

“What ​now.”

“Today is ​our ​second ​day.”

“……I know.”

“I didn’t ​know the ​word ‘two days’ could ​feel this good.”

With his ​eyes half-closed and a ​smirk on ​his ​face, he looked almost ecstatic, like ​someone high on a ​drug.

To ​clarify ​their ​ambiguous ​feelings, Ki-hyun had ​suggested they ​try ​dating for a ​one-month ​grace period.

To be honest, he ​still wasn’t ​sure ​if this was ​the ​right ​decision. ​Looking ​at Jeong ​Si-jun ​right now, ​his feelings were complicated and subtle.

‘It feels ​like he’s just ​making his own ​life more difficult….’

He had ​known how ​Si-jun felt ever ​since ​they signed the ​personal Guide contract. ​It would ​have ​been [stolen [Read on Read BL Novels]content]stranger ​not ​to know, ​given ​that [visit our site]Si-jun ​had ​consistently ​chosen actions that ​could ​only be ​explained ​by ​him ​liking Ki-hyun.

However, even when he proposed dating for a month, he hadn’t expected Si-jun to be this happy.

He thought, at most, the guy would smile brightly or blush….

‘His state has been way too weird since yesterday.’

Yoon Ki-hyun looked at the man smirking with his chin resting in front of him.

With elbows propped up and palms framing his cheeks—the so-called “flower pose.” Though he was far too bulky and looked too fierce to be a flower. Judging by the way the corners of his mouth twitched frequently, he definitely didn’t seem sane.

‘Is something actually wrong with him? Maybe some aftereffect from that gate….’

It felt more rational to assume it was a lingering effect of the gate, because Jeong Si-jun looked as happy as if he owned the entire world.

“Ah, right. Strangely, my eyes snapped open the moment I woke up this morning.”

The guy, still framing his reddish cheeks with both hands, spoke with a smirk.

After proposing they date yesterday, Ki-hyun had forced the guy—who claimed he didn’t want to go home—to leave. But as if going home had been pointless, he had stormed back into the hospital room before breakfast was even served.

“Maybe it’s because I changed my alarm sound?”

A sudden sense of foreboding struck at the random mention of an alarm. He wasn’t [stolen Read on Read BL Novelscontent]style="font-size:0;color:transparent;display:inline;">unauthorized copythe type to bring this up out of nowhere….

“Hey, you didn’t set that recording from yesterday as your alarm, did you?”

He felt the question was a bit narcissistic, but given the context, it wasn’t entirely illogical. He was still appalled remembering how Si-jun had practically begged him to let him record while shoving his phone forward yesterday.

When Ki-hyun looked at him with an uneasy gaze, Jeong Si-jun answered cheerfully, as if it were obvious.

“I did. I cut the part where you told me to date you and set it as my alarm. Want to hear it?”

“No. Why the hell would I want to hear that?”

Yoon Ki-hyun frowned in horror. He knew Si-jun’s thought process was a bit different from other people’s, but he didn’t know it was this baseless.

“Hey, why would you set that as an alarm? Change it right now. Are you crazy?”

What had he said to Jeong Si-jun when he shoved the phone forward yesterday?

Yoon Ki-hyun retraced his jumbled memories of the previous day. Since he had made the proposal while overthinking and partially driven by impulse, he couldn’t recall exactly what he had said.

All he remembered was Jeong Si-jun’s dazed face, looking at him as if he couldn’t believe it, and the sound of a heart beating frantically.

“Aw, why? I don’t want to. If you want me to change my alarm that badly, why don’t you live with me and wake me up in the morning?”

Jeong Si-jun took the opportunity stolen contentto subtly slip in his own visit our sitedesire. He wasn’t just throwing a blind tantrum; he had his own usable pretext.

“What are you talking about? Why would I do that?”

“I mean, you said the goshiwon was like that. That it would be hard to renew the contract if an ambulance came one more time.”

The disgusted Yoon Ki-hyun fell silent for a moment. He had said it without much thought, and here the guy was, using it as leverage.

“The more I think about it, the more ridiculous it is. Since we’re on the subject, why don’t you just leave that place, Hyung? I’ve never seen a goshiwon that gives people a hard time just for being sick, seriously.”

It started as a pretext to pester him into living together, but Ki-hyun could see it turning into a genuine concern on his face. Watching the change in Jeong Si-jun’s expression, Yoon Ki-hyun hesitated.

“If I leave there, where am I supposed to live?”

He could just find another goshiwon, but the thought of pounding the pavement to find a room already drained him. Besides, it wasn’t even certain what would happen to him in a month….

“You can just live with me at my place.”

“There goes that bullshit again.”

“What do you mean bullshit? Listen. My place is unnecessarily large, so there are plenty of unused rooms.”

“I bet.”

Yoon Ki-hyun replied indifferently. He knew how large and expensive Jeong Si-jun’s house was.

On the day they signed the contract for him to work as Jeong Si-jun’s personal Guide, Si-jun had brought up the housing issue after finding out he lived in a goshiwon. Ki-hyun had snapped back at him in anger, then searched for the house once he got home.

“The house is too empty for one person, and it feels kind of lonely. But as it happens, it’s only been two days since I became your boyfriend.”

“And?”

“I’m just saying, if you’re okay with it, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we stayed together while we’re dating?”

As he spoke, his face gradually turned red, regardless of what he was thinking.

‘I wish I could look inside his head to see what he’s usually thinking. No, maybe it’s better not to know….’

This was the second time he had asked him to live together. However, he certainly didn’t feel the same level of aversion or strong resistance as the first time.

Instead, a groundless anxiety crept in—the feeling that if he blindly accepted Jeong Si-jun’s proposal without thinking, he might just end up living there indefinitely.

“Ah, but this is unbelievable. Seriously.”

Mid-sentence, Jeong Si-jun suddenly buried his head in the bed and trembled all over, as if he couldn’t bear it.

“The fact that I’m dating Hyung is just unbelievable.”

That again. He didn’t know if the guy couldn’t properly manage his overflowing emotions unauthorized copycopy -->or if he was just being dramatic. But it was certain that he didn’t seem sane.

“Si-jun.”

“Yes?”

“I’ve been thinking.”

“Yeah.”

“If someone is unilaterally imprinted, don’t they… become a bit strange?”

Become a bit strange?

Jeong Si-jun stopped his commotion and slowly lifted his head.

No matter how he thought about it, the phrasing felt a bit odd to be just a joking nuance. Sure enough, the expression Yoon Ki-hyun wore while looking at him was far too serious.

“What do you mean by that?”

It was true that he hadn’t been able to control his body for two days because he was so happy that Yoon Ki-hyun had accepted his feelings. However, he thought he was acting pretty normally; apparently, it didn’t seem that way to Yoon Ki-hyun.

“Since yesterday, you’ve been….”

Still, since they had agreed to date starting yesterday, Yoon Ki-hyun hesitated, [stolen unauthorized copycontentclass="wm" style="opacity:0;font-size:1px;user-select:all;">unauthorized copy]trying to choose his words to avoid blatant disparagement.

“Like a screw is missing….”

No, maybe that was too much. Just as Yoon Ki-hyun trailed off, his lips fluttering.

“Ah, and here I thought it was something else.”

To think the most he could say was that he seemed like he had a screw loose. No matter how he looked at it, Yoon Ki-hyun seemed far too soft. Jeong Si-jun subtly leaned his upper body forward, a smirk tugging at his lips.

“Hyung, I’ve always been like this.”

In the past, Ki-hyun would have pushed his face away or frowned, but now he was nodding subtly, as if half-agreeing with the statement.

“So just get used to it, Hyung.”

“Regardless of getting used to it….”

Yoon Ki-hyun scratched his forehead. He felt he was past the stage of being flustered by Jeong Si-jun’s abnormal patterns.

“Since you’re jumping around so much, I feel like I need to be a bit stoic for the balance to be right.”

“Huh? What balance?”

Jeong Si-jun’s eyes widened. He Read unauthorized copyunauthorized copy -->on Read BL Novelsthought Ki-hyun would at most tell him to stop acting crazy and be calm.

“If I’m flustered too, we’ll look ridiculous.”

“What? You’re also fluttering and unable to control your heart like I am?”

“Not as much as you, but….”

Yoon Ki-hyun paused for a moment.

“It’s been a really long time since I’ve dated anyone.”

As soon as he said it, he regretted it. He wondered if there was a need to say such a thing. But since he had already started, he felt he had to finish the sentence.

“……A little?”

The moment he finished speaking, a body leaned in. Jeong Si-jun suddenly hugged Yoon Ki-hyun tightly, his chest heaving. Letting out a rough breath—whether it was a deep sigh or a gasp—the guy declared:

“Hyung, I’m really going to treat you well.”

“……Just how well are you going to treat me?”

“Just everything. Ah, can you hear it? My heart is beating like a crazy bastard again.”

“I can hear it. Hey, but seriously, is there something wrong with your body? It’s been really [[Read on Read BL Novels]class="wm" style="opacity:0;font-size:1px;user-select:all;">visit our site]severe since yesterday.”

“How many times do I have to tell you that it’s because I like you so much it’s severe?”

Jeong Si-jun grumbled, hugging him and shaking him lightly. Ki-hyun eventually burst into laughter at the absurd whining.

Yoon Ki-hyun laughed and patted Jeong Si-jun on the back, thinking that perhaps this kind of relationship wouldn’t be so bad after all.