SDM 35

Ryu Chae-yoon’s gaze was peculiar. No matter how Baek Sang-hyun looked at it, it wasn’t the way one would look at a senior or elder. Baek Sang-hyun felt the distinct eyes more clearly in this practice room, the sense of incongruity he had only vaguely sensed before. Ryu Chae-yoon’s attitude was certainly strange.

“Baby, which organization do you belong to?”

In the drama, ‘Shin Jung-woo’ is a character who maintains a gentle and soft voice from beginning to end. He calls all organization members by their first names without surnames and uses endings like “-ni?”

After the sudden death of his father, who was originally the boss of the organization (it’s highly likely that Shin Jung-woo killed him, but this isn’t explicitly revealed in the drama), Shin Jung-woo takes control of the organization in one fell swoop.

He then begins to root out undercover police hidden within the organization, a so-called ‘pest extermination’. The first scene of the movie is when ‘Shin Kang-woo’, played by Ryu Chae-yoon, is discovered to be an undercover cop.

Every time Baek Sang-hyun delivered a line or acted with his expressions, Ryu Chae-yoon looked proud, as if he were a senior actor with 20 years of experience. …Isn’t that absurd?

But that was only for a moment. Ryu Chae-yoon then made his face turn pale as if blood wasn’t flowing and spoke with a trembling voice.

“I… I’m from the 2nd Action Team of the Geumseong faction…”

Originally, this is where he should grab that slender neck with one hand and lift it up. Even though it’s not even November yet, Ryu Chae-yoon is already wearing a turtleneck sweater due to sensitivity to cold. His neck reminded him of some herbivorous animal.

Baek Sang-hyun skipped the action directions and delivered his line.

“Baby, which organization did you say you belong to?”

Ryu Chae-yoon, who had been quietly looking at Baek Sang-hyun, tilted his head without delivering his line. Well, there isn’t really a line to deliver. To make the sound of being choked, one would need to actually be choked.

“You’re from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Violent Crime Investigation Division, right?”

“N-no, I’m…”

Despite not actually being choked, he pulled it off really well. Baek Sang-hyun looked into Ryu Chae-yoon’s eyes as he smoothly continued his acting, his eyebrows twitching. Those eyes of unfathomable depth, with a strange green tint shimmering in the pupils, were familiar from somewhere.

“…Are you not going to do the action directions?”

“You mean choking you, slamming you to the floor, and kicking you in the stomach?”

“Hmm…”

Ryu Chae-yoon, who had instantly snapped out of character, tapped his cheek with his fingertips. That gesture was very familiar. Ryu Chae-yoon’s acting was as familiar as what he had seen on screen for over 10 years, but the way his expression changed as he came out of character was like a fingerprint.

Baek Sang-hyun shook his head without realizing it. It didn’t make sense, but then again, nothing else made sense either.

“I guess I wouldn’t have an excuse for bruises. I’m a bit overprotected.”

“…”

Baek Sang-hyun was momentarily lost for words at his comment, delivered with a slight smile.

The information Baek Sang-hyun had obtained about Ryu Chae-yoon from his manager was really not much. He had been an ordinary person until very recently, and being the youngest son of a wealthy family, the servants had kept their mouths shut about him more than expected.

It seems he was often ill since childhood, and because of that, he completed middle and high school through homeschooling and took the equivalency exam. He had no external activities before, and his sudden appearance in “Human Justice” was his first entertainment industry activity.

Ryu Chae-yoon’s acting was flawless as if he had been practicing acting while staying at home. Of course, Baek Sang-hyun hadn’t been in this field for long either, so he had many shortcomings, but his eye for talent was at the top, so this was an unusually high evaluation. The problem was that he had seen such perfect acting for so long that even his own acting didn’t satisfy him at all. But Ryu Chae-yoon’s acting…

As Baek Sang-hyun was mechanically going through the scenes between ‘Shin Jung-woo’ and ‘Shin Kang-woo’, he suddenly came to his senses when a hand tapped his shoulder. Ryu Chae-yoon was right in front of him with a puzzled look.

“Are you tired?”

“…No.”

“I think it might be good to take a little break.”

Ryu Chae-yoon, who had noticed Baek Sang-hyun’s faltering concentration with uncanny perception, stopped the practice. His fingers pulling at the turtleneck were long and slender. That person also had very long and straight fingers. Baek Sang-hyun found himself unconsciously looking for similarities between that person and Ryu Chae-yoon.

“Did you really never learn acting?”

“…I told you I didn’t.”

“Then is it innate talent?”

“I guess so.”

Ryu Chae-yoon pulled down the sleeves that he had rolled up earlier, probably feeling a bit hot from moving around. Although he seemed much healthier than when he first saw him, his wrists were still thin.

“I had prepared everything to make you lunch.”

“…You personally?”

“Yeah.”

A look of apology flashed across Ryu Chae-yoon’s face.

He has a very weak heart. And he hates causing trouble to others, and also… maybe he thinks he lacks social skills, but he was very sensitive to things that happen in interpersonal relationships.

Yes, just like that Jin Seong-woon, who told Baek Sang-hyun not to contact him or act like he knew him because he was afraid that Baek Sang-hyun would hear bad things because of him.

“I suggested we practice, but I can’t concentrate, sorry.”

“…No. You’ve helped me a lot.”

His expression says he wasn’t helpful at all. Ryu Chae-yoon had already gathered up the emotions he had momentarily revealed, but Baek Sang-hyun was familiar with even that. Jin Seong-woon was really someone who didn’t express his inner thoughts in words.

“I’m sorry, I’ll treat you to a meal. Besides alcohol and caffeine, what else should I be careful about?”

“For now, just those. I don’t eat things that are too salty either.”

Baek Sang-hyun folded the phone tripod he had set up in the corner of the practice room. He had told Ryu Chae-yoon that it would be used for behind-the-scenes footage of the movie, but in reality, the director had never asked Baek Sang-hyun for such a thing. So this video is for personal collection.

As Baek Sang-hyun was looking for a restaurant around the company, Ryu Chae-yoon mumbled with a gloomy expression.

“Won’t it cause a commotion if the two of us go out to eat?”

“It should be fine in this neighborhood.”

“It won’t be fine.”

The store employees should be quite used to celebrities since it’s a place where entertainment companies and broadcasting stations are concentrated.

“Aren’t you underestimating your face too much?”

It’s absurd how he says that with his eyes wide open. Seriously, who’s talking about whose face?

“Aren’t you the one underestimating your face?”

“…My face isn’t that bad.”

He clicked his tongue as if he had been caught off guard, which also seemed familiar. Baek  Sang-hyun examined Ryu Chae-yoon’s habits one by one and reluctantly installed a delivery app. He hardly ever ate delivery food, and even when he had to order something, his manager would do it, so he hadn’t even installed the app on his phone.

The two put their heads together and bickered while choosing a menu. The final decision was burritos and tacos.

While waiting for the delivery, Ryu Chae-yoon read the script again, and Baek Sang-hyun quietly watched him. When Ryu Chae-yoon suddenly raised his head as if he felt his gaze, he pretended not to see and raised his phone to cover his face.

Click, Ryu Chae-yoon smiled brightly when he heard the sound and turned his head. His lips, which curved lightly, looked soft without a single wrinkle.

“Sunbae, you manage your own SNS, right? Upload a photo. Everyone will like it.”

His phone vibrated, and a photo was sent to him via messenger. It was a candid shot, but it was a pretty well-taken photo. Baek Sang-hyun uploaded it to SNS without much effort and then returned the favor to Ryu Chae-yoon in the same way.

“I was going to upload a selfie…?”

“You haven’t been taking good selfies these days.”

“…You only take frontal shots, sunbae.”

“Anyway.”

Perhaps because he’s pretty, even a roughly taken photo turns out quite well. He chose a photo of him pouting his lips slightly and sent it, and Baek Sang-hyun searched for Ryu Chae-yoon’s SNS and followed him. Until now, he had been searching and entering it every time, but now it seemed okay to follow him.

“But this is a bit….”

Uploading photos with similar backgrounds, as if they were taken by each other, almost simultaneously…. Baek Sang-hyun knew what Ryu Chae-yoon was trying to say, but he pretended not to hear.

“Follow me back quickly.”

“Um….”

Ryu Chae-yoon pressed his follow list to check and hesitated for a long time before pressing the button next to Baek Sang-hyun’s profile. Ryu Chae-yoon’s follow list was all family members, but finally, one outsider was added to it.

“Senior, please like my post.”

“You like mine, I’ll like yours?”

“…You have a million likes, do you still need me to like back?”

“Yes.”

Ryu Chae-yoon chuckled at the firm answer and pressed a heart on Baek Sang-hyun’s photo. Baek Sang-hyun had already pressed a heart on Ryu Chae-yoon’s photo a long time ago.

The two spread out the food that Ryu Chae-yoon’s manager had brought and ate in silence for a while. The unexpectedly quiet and calm time didn’t feel awkward at all.

“You seemed to like Director Shin Seong-ok.”

“Well… I do.”

“I have a movie script written by Director Shin Seong-ok.”

“Director Shin also writes scripts? More than that… he doesn’t make movies, does he?”

“He said he didn’t make them because there were no actors he wanted to film with.”

“Wow….”

He must really like pretty men. Ryu Chae-yoon muttered to himself. It was very famous that Director Shin Seong-ok valued men’s looks very much, so Baek Sang-hyun had nothing to add.

“The script is quite interesting….”

“…Is he going to produce it?”

“He said he already has investors. It seems like he’s found an actor he likes now too.”

“Who is it? There aren’t many male actors who catch his eye.”

Baek Sang-hyun stared intently at Ryu Chae-yoon. Ryu Chae-yoon, who was barely biting into a shrimp taco with his small mouth, asked with his eyes what kind of look that was, and then seemed to realize it in an instant. Ryu Chae-yoon quickly swallowed what was in his mouth and pointed at himself.

“…Me?”

“Yeah.”

“Haha…”

The awkward laughter faded. Ryu Chae-yoon swallowed and picked up another taco. After moving it around for a while, unsure whether to bite here or there, he opened his mouth wide and put the whole remaining taco in at once.

“That director?”

Chewing what was in his mouth for quite a while, Ryu Chae-yoon opened his eyes wide as if he didn’t understand. He seemed to have missed the intent of the question. Baek Sang-hyun let out a small sigh, pulled out a wet wipe to hand over, and added an explanation.

“Before, when I called you, was it Director Shin Seong-ok you were talking about?”

“…”

Ryu Chae-yoon said nothing as he wiped the sauce off his hands.

“But you hadn’t even met that director before then. Director Shin Seong-ok also…”

“I… I want to go home. I’m not feeling well.”

Ryu Chae-yoon stood up abruptly, his face pale. Before Baek Sang-hyun could stop him, he left the practice room, and the corridor was filled with the sound of security guards following him.

…Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything. Baek Sang-hyun just wanted an explanation for the contradictions. In other words… he wanted his far-fetched imagination to be shattered. But when he reacts like that, doesn’t it make that impossible thought seem more and more like reality?

Baek Sang-hyun, who had been holding his slightly heated forehead, brought his phone and played the recording of Ryu Chae-yoon’s acting. His textbook pronunciation without missing a single sound, his soft and appropriate tone of voice comes through even in the poor audio quality.

If he closed his eyes, it was as if that person was acting, but now even with his eyes open… Baek Sang-hyun swallowed dryly as he watched him playing video. Even looking at that elegant face with his eyes open, it was as if that person was acting.

* * *

Are Baek Sang-hyun and Ryu Chae-yoon doing a lovestagram?”

(SNS photo)

(SNS photo)

These photos are hilarious lol It’s so obvious they took pictures of each other and posted them lol

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OMG lololololololol

So funny lololololol

Baek Sang-hyun takes better photos than I thought? But why are his selfies…

➥His photos of others are about a sashimi platter better than his selfies

➥➥What’s a sashimi platter?

➥➥➥Baek Sang-hyun did a tuna commercial there lololol

➥➥➥➥A tuna commercial with a shark… lol

Looks like they practiced together?

➥Seems so, that’s the RBS practice room

Thanks Chae-yoon for making Baek Sang-hyun’s SNS notifications go off^^

➥Is this his first photo post besides ads?

➥➥Not the first, but maybe the second? I hope Chae-yoon teaches him how to use SNS better, he’s learned to like posts now

➥➥➥lololol He’s just now learned to like posts lol

Orbit Collision Survival on air

Phoenix New Tube go go

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Song Ji-kwang and Baek Sang-hyun are the top two. An acting party is reserved.

Did Baek Sang-hyun lose more weight? His face looks so sharp

Extremely handsome

How does he keep getting more handsome? His body and face match so well

The synopsis is so typical that I can’t guess what it’s about.. feels like there will be a twist

➥Ryu Chae-yoon’s role is the third from the front, it’s probably the most important.

➥➥Yeah, they wouldn’t put that face in a role that dies quickly

Wow Ryu Chae-yoon

His face is insane lololol

Please conquer the Earth, Ryu Chae-yoon

His face is the country

Ryu Chae-yoon’s face is as small as a pig’s nose, his  face is totally tiny

He’s from a chaebol family but is stingy about 50,000 won

➥The production company told him to keep it under 50,000 won

➥➥For once, Phoenix did well on that

➥➥➥Last time the reporters lined up, haha

➥➥➥➥Trash journalists doing trash things

Looks like Ryu Chae-yoon has the biggest supporting role, he’s standing right behind the leads

➥Baek Sang-hyun brought him to the front row haha

They say Ryu Chae-yoon is practically the main character haha, but what exactly is his role? I can’t figure it out even after reading the synopsis

➥Song Ji-kwang is nodding too, curious about the script

Looking forward to it because of the good face combination. Song Ji-kwang and Baek Sang-hyun will carry the acting, our baby just needs to do the basics

➥I’m quite looking forward to Ryu Chae-yoon’s acting too. I think she’ll do well

➥➥Actually, me too haha

➥➥➥If he delivers his  lines well, Lee Jun-ho will take care of the rest