By Zephyria 
“Wow, booking this really makes the trip feel real!”
Yoon Joo-ho chuckled, watching Song Hyun-soo beam with satisfaction after making the reservation.
“Didn’t you say it felt real when you got your passport?”
“It can feel real multiple times.”
Passport.
Song Hyun-soo had obtained his first passport ever for this trip.
Becoming officially an actor under ‘Look Planning,’ he had his profile pictures retaken, and Yoon Joo-ho had asked the photographer to take passport photos as well. Thanks to that, Song Hyun-soo was able to make a passport with a photo taken by a famous photographer.
Outfit, pose, expression, lighting—Yoon Joo-ho had personally checked and cared for everything on the profile shoot day.
At times like that, Yoon Joo-ho was a proper professional and a reliable senior. He had learned a lot from his seniors in the theater scene, but stage acting and acting in front of a camera were different in many ways. In front of a camera that could zoom in, detailed facial expressions were inevitably important. Song Hyun-soo learned from Yoon Joo-ho how to use every muscle in his face.
Strangely, after working together like that, their desire for each other intensified. That day too, as soon as the front door closed, they frantically tangled with each other and ended up rolling around in the hallway.
It was their first time having sex in front of Monroe.
Song Hyun-soo pleaded with Monroe to go to the room several times, but the cat prowled around until Yoon Joo-ho, who had laid Song Hyun-soo down and was sucking on his chest, took off his pants. Even then, Song Hyun-soo couldn’t stop halfway that day.
His thoughts, which started with the passport, seemed to have wandered too far.
Ding. Song Hyun-soo, who had been lost in thought while the Eiffel Tower video was playing, chuckled at the message notification that popped up on the screen.
“What are you watching that makes you grin like that?”
Yoon Joo-ho glanced at Song Hyun-soo in the passenger seat and asked.
“Are you watching my old videos again?”
Song Hyun-soo clicked his tongue as if he was dumbfounded.
“Your delusions are getting worse and worse, sunbae.”
“It’s not my delusion, it’s a fact that you watch my old videos once or twice a week and grin.”
“That’s because, uh…”
Even though it was true, Song Hyun-soo didn’t want to admit it, so he scrunched up his face with a strange expression and struggled to say,
“Honestly, you were too cute when you were young.”
Song Hyun-soo’s YouTube playlist was organized with clips and videos of Yoon Joo-ho by period and theme. Among them, Yoon Joo-ho’s childhood was the list Song Hyun-soo looked at most often.
“So, why were you laughing?”
“Han Joo-young hyung’s message was funny.”
“He knows how to make you laugh?”
After returning from Paris, the actors were also scheduled to start promoting. This photoshoot was also part of the promotion. Many interviews and appearances on TV and YouTube channels had already been scheduled.
The four young actors who filmed
The four of them even created a group chat room on a messenger app.
They would coordinate schedules to make appointments every two to three weeks and share articles related to
During the summer, they often went to the beach together when they had time between filming. During that intense summer when Yoon Joo-ho’s parents’ trial was in full swing,
“Han Joo-young hyung and nuna know that we’re going to Paris tomorrow.”
“So what.”
“Han Joo-young hyung told me to buy him a souvenir.”
Yoon Joo-ho snorted.
“Seriously, he has no shame.”
“He even sent me a link.”
“So, what does he want me to buy?”
“Jam.”
“Jam?”
“He said you can buy it in Korea too, but there aren’t many varieties.”
“He’s picky.”
Yoon Joo-ho clicked his tongue as if he didn’t like it.
Even with their short schedule, he had no intention of deliberately stopping somewhere to buy Han Joo-young’s gift. The time he could spend alone with Song Hyun-soo was already too short.
Yoon Joo-ho warned Song Hyun-soo, thinking he should tell him in advance.
“Don’t drink too much tonight.”
“How much is too much? Half a bottle of whiskey?”
“……”
Please let me drink a little more. Song Hyun-soo tilted his head and made an affectionate expression. Yoon Joo-ho, who glanced at his lover’s face, scratched his lip with his upper teeth and said firmly.
“It won’t work, no matter how cute you act.”
“Was I cute just now?”
“I don’t want to clean up after a drunk.”
“If you don’t really want to, I can go alone.”
As they passed Dongdae-ipgu Station and in front of the National Theater, Yoon Joo-ho snorted.
“You think I’d let you go alone?”
“You still suspect Seohae hyung, by any chance?”
The two were heading to Seohae’s Bar, not home.
Seohae had been urging them since last week to stop by the Bar for a moment because he had something he wanted to give them before they left the country.
『The more I get to know Hyun-soo, the more I realize how attractive he is.』
Seohae had definitely said that when he and Song Hyun-soo were apart. Because of that, Yoon Joo-ho had been wary of Seohae ever since, and Song Hyun-soo didn’t take it seriously.
“Hyung has zero interest in me. He’s just trying to provoke you.”
“Yeah, you thought that about Jeong Seong-won too.”
“……”
Sensing that he was in an unfavorable situation, Song Hyun-soo changed the subject.
“I want to drink with Seohae hyung since it’s been a while.”
“Just get drunk. I’ll do whatever I want with your body.”
“It’s outrageous to do that to a drunk person!”
“Outrageous?”
Yoon Joo-ho raised his voice and turned to look at Song Hyun-soo, then continued.
“Isn’t it outrageous to persistently beg to be undressed, touched, and kissed when you’re drunk? Huh?”
“When did I e…ver…”
Song Hyun-soo tried to deny it confidently, but in the end, he could only roll his eyes and trail off.
There was a night that Yoon Joo-ho remembered and Song Hyun-soo didn’t, a night that remained an X-file.
The day he first told Yoon Joo-ho his deep secrets at Seohae’s Bar.
The alcohol was strong enough. It was extremely rare for him to get that drunk. But that day, he blacked out.
When he opened his eyes the next day, he was on Yoon Joo-ho’s bed, and Song Hyun-soo still couldn’t remember what happened that night.
“If you do that again, I’m really going to do whatever I want, so be prepared.”
“……”
“I’m not enough of a gentleman to hold back twice, even when you’re forcing it on me.”
The two were already driving over the Hannam Bridge.
The time they spent together always flew by quickly.
Even just having trivial conversations was enjoyable, and even though they spent a lot of time at home alone, they never got bored.
Of course, they didn’t just laze around. Above all, Yoon Joo-ho had never lazed around in his life.
Two or three types of exercise, acting lessons, and foreign language lessons. With just the regular schedule he had been steadily maintaining, it was impossible to live a lazy life.
Instead, Yoon Joo-ho made Song Hyun-soo accompany him on all those schedules. He didn’t just let him watch. He also assigned him a separate instructor to receive lessons at a level that suited him. Because of that, even when they weren’t at home, the two of them were practically together 24 hours a day.
Song Hyun-soo’s lessons were part of his actor training. Exercise, acting, and foreign languages were all requirements for actors in this era. If you were an actor belonging to a large agency, and if you were an actor with ambition, you had to handle this level of self-management, even if there were differences in intensity and level. That’s why Song Hyun-soo didn’t notice at all.
That all of it was not only training as an actor, but also a meticulously organized plan by Yoon Joo-ho for personal needs.
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