SDM 43

Look at Ryu Chae-yoon crying

Wow.. Holy water

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Why is he crying? Why? So good

➥He cried while seeing his mom off

➥➥Mom? Suddenly?

➥➥➥Look, that person wiping his tears is his mom lol

Even his crying is gorgeous

Is this taken by a fansite?

➥No, just taken by a regular person

➥➥I thought it was edited

➥➥➥Seems like only basic edits were applied lol

No way, that’s his face without heavy editing? Life must be easy for him

Did he wipe the floor?

➥Why are you asking that?

➥➥I want to go lick it

➥➥➥Eek, you pervert

Is he crying because her mom is going far away? Damn, he’s being  such a baby

➥So do you like it or not?

➥➥I love it! So cute!

Why is he crying like a tiny puppy ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Lee Jun-ho answer me! Tell me there’s a scene of Ryu Chae-yoon crying!!!

➥There is

➥➥Lee Jun-ho…?

➥➥➥Let’s believe there is. If Lee Jun-ho has eyes, there’s no way he wouldn’t include a crying scene

Look at him running away embarrassed after his mom went in lol (picture)

➥Look at him covering his face lol His ears are so red

➥➥He’s really cute.. I want to adopt him as my little brother

“Hmm…”

Baek Sang-hyun refreshed the page a few more times, and when no more comments appeared, he called Ryu Chae-yoon. But the call just kept ringing, and Ryu Chae-yoon didn’t answer.

Habitually fiddling with his lips, Baek Sang-hyun closed his eyes for a long moment before opening them again. Baek Sang-hyun had never filmed a romance before, and while there were fleeting love lines in his works, there were no kiss scenes. And since he’d never had a lover, Ryu Chae-yoon was his first kiss partner.

The sensation left on his lips was so vivid that he kept unconsciously licking them. This would make his lips chap, and when he licked the blood, it reminded him again of Ryu Chae-yoon’s lips.

The soft, melting sensation like a ripe peach, the small sweet tongue, the shoulders that would shrink as he swallowed his saliva – if he hugged him tightly… Why did it feel so much like that person, even though he’d never even hugged, let alone kissed, that person?

“Am I really going crazy?”

Me, believing that Jin Seong-woon is inside Ryu Chae-yoon, how could I not be crazy? But Sang-hyun couldn’t help but think this way. It was now harder to deny it.

After pressing the call button repeatedly, finally, that heartless person on the other end of the line finally answered.

─ …What is it?

“Did you cry?”

─ No?

“It’s all over the internet.”

─ …What is?

“You crying.”

─ What are you…

His voice faded as if he was looking something up, either an article or a post. After a moment of tapping sounds, Ryu Chae-yoon groaned, saying “Ah… really…”

─ Do you look up things like this too?

“Yes.”

─ Where? I mean, why?

“I just searched your name.”

─ …

There was a brief silence. Strangely, Baek Sang-hyun didn’t find the silences between him and Ryu Chae-yoon uncomfortable at all.

It was the same with Jin Seong-woon. He always ate his lunch in a corner of the parking lot to avoid people, and when Baek Sang-hyun deliberately sat next to him to eat together, no words were exchanged between them. At first, Baek Sang-hyun tried to make conversation, but as time passed, even the silence became very comfortable, and they could enjoy the quiet time.

─ Sunbae.

“Yes.”

Ryu Chae-yoon took a long breath as if she had made a decision.

─ I’d prefer if you refrained from calling me privately like this. I…

‘I wish you’d stop these private calls. If you appear close to me, people might criticize you too. So…’

“Because people might criticize you if we seem close?”

─ …Pardon?

After the drama 〈Confidential Assignment〉 ended, Baek Sang-hyun occasionally contacted Seong-woon. He hesitated and worried that he might be bothering him or taking up his time, he would only call when his insomnia became unbearable.

When he felt a bit tired, he wanted to hear that kind voice, wanted to hear praise that he was doing well, and… just wanted to get a little closer.

He had only hoped that by approaching like this, they might become friends who could casually meet for coffee or drinks sometimes. But what Baek Sang-hyun received in return was such a gentle rejection.

With a faint trace of tears in his voice, Baek Sang-hyun could only respond that he understood. He regrets that action now, but at the time, he thought it was the only way.

“…I’m sorry.”

─ …

Baek Sang-hyun just thought it was a bit strange. If Jin Seong-woon’s soul was inside Ryu Chae-yoon’s body as he imagined ─just thinking about this made him wonder if he was really crazy─ could Jin Seong-woon cry just because Ryu Chae-yoon’s relative was going abroad?

“…”

Could it be that Jin Seong-woon had really disappeared? And that his body, soul, and mind was just longing for him so much that he was projecting him onto this chaebol heiress? Feeling like he might go crazy with anxiety, Baek Sang-hyun had no choice but to call.

─ Why are you in such a hurry?

“Me?”

─ Yes. That… Earlier too, it wasn’t like you… And this call too.

He was impatient. He thought if he kept shaking him up, he might find contradictions, and then maybe ‘Jin Seong-woon’ would reveal himself. …Though truthfully, he wanted to kiss him too.

“What do you mean, unlike me?”

─ …I’m not sure.

Isn’t it funny that Ryu Chae-yoon knows what Baek Sang-hyun is like? This thought flashed through his mind. Baek Sang-hyun couldn’t help but smile. He thought it was also a sickness to assign meaning to every word, distort it, and interpret it as he pleased.

“Did you know you have a fan cafe now?”

─ …A fan… cafe?

“The company made it. Since our company also has idols, we manage actor fans like idol fans too.”

So they’re very proactive with paid memberships, selling goods, and paid communication. Of course, he wasn’t sure if they’d apply the same to Ryu Chae-yoon.

─ Where can I find it?

“Are you trying to join?”

─ Am I not allowed to join?

“Tell your manager to make a separate ID for you.”

─ Oh, so that’s how it’s done…

Listening to Ryu Chae-yoon’s voice made his eyelids heavy. It felt like he could fall completely asleep at any moment. But Baek Sang-hyun barely managed to lift that heavy weight and move his lips.

“You’re going to come to school, right?”

─ I need to get a B0.

“Who’s telling you to?”

─ What? Studying?

“I’m asking who’s telling you to get those grades.”

─ Well… it’s not that nobody’s telling me to… but I want to do it myself

I don’t think that’s true at all. I wonder if Ryu Chae-yoon realizes that every time we study, he makes a face like he absolutely can’t understand why he has to do this.

─ …I won’t study with you anymore, sunbae.

“Why?”

─ Why… did you just ask ‘why’?

“Yes.”

─ Are you not aware of what you’ve done?

“I am.”

─ Then why ask ‘why’?

“From the perspective of someone courting, of course I want to keep meeting.”

─ …Pardon?

“You’re saying you don’t need me anymore.”

─ It’s not that I don’t need you, sunbae…

Even here, Ryu Chae-yoon is not cold-hearted. Like someone longing for love. Even after hearing that the sponsorship offer was a misunderstanding, Baek Sang-hyun’s suspicion only deepened, never fading.

In any case, before Jin Seong-woon’s death, Ryu Chae-yoon had said she wanted to meet him, no matter the purpose.. Yet, when they met on the set of 〈Human Justice〉 he was so cold to the point of being an iceberg.

He was momentarily flustered at the unexpected meeting, but it definitely wasn’t the attitude of someone who had wanted to meet someone through backdoor machinations. Ryu Chae-yoon was a chaebol and even decided to become a celebrity, so Sang-hyun thought he might have a thick mask, but he could tell. That was truly the behavior of someone who didn’t know.

Investigating Ryu Chae-yoon’s background wasn’t easy, but he obtained a few pieces of information. That he had been sick continuously since he was 10 years old, that he had a seizure on the day of Jin Seong-woon’s funeral and was hospitalized. And he received testimony from the security team that his attitude had clearly changed after he woke up.

They said the youngest young master had become much more agreeable and didn’t detest the security team anymore. Even when dragged to the hospital, he just accepted it, and had become tolerant of his brothers’ overprotectiveness.

In the past, he would have fought, screamed, cried, and caused a scene before being dragged away by Ryu Chang-yoon, but now, when told to go to the hospital for tests, he goes without qualms and doesn’t even mind the bodyguards following him, and has even changed his eating habits.

They meant this as praise, saying that the young master had finally matured, but to Baek Sang-hyun, it sounded completely different. For a person to change like that overnight… isn’t it that the person has been replaced rather than matured?

─ …Sunbae?

“Then I can use you when I need to.”

Sigh. He can hear the sigh all the way here. It was enough to make the ground sink. Baek Sang-hyun decided to use his guilt. It seems Seong-woon felt sorry for Baek Sang-hyun’s misinterpretation of the “don’t need you” statement.

“Then, could you read something to me?”

─ Pardon?

“I can’t sleep.”

─ What, a fairytale?

“That’s fine too.”

There was a rustling sound as if moving somewhere. From that sound, Baek Sang-hyun recalled Jin Seong-woon. He remembered how even when he invaded his space, Seong-woon would just rustle and move aside rather than chase Sang-hyun away, how he pushed Sang-hyun away, saying he shouldn’t hear words he didn’t need to hear because of him.

But no matter how much he rummaged through his memory warehouse, he couldn’t remember more than that. If he had ignored his pushing away then, like he was doing now… wouldn’t a much better result have come out? If he had ignored his crying… if he had endured the aching pain every time he fiddled with his left wrist hidden by the watch strap?

─ What should I read to you?

“Anything.”

─ A newspaper article?

“Doesn’t matter.”

There was a sound of leather crinkling as if Ryu Chae-yoon sat down somewhere after sighing out of habit. It was so quiet around that even the sound of flipping pages could be heard.

─ It’s a script

“What kind?”

─ 〈Confidential Assignment〉

“That’s really noisy.”

It was by a writer famous for writing writing lines well, so he had to talk for an entire hour, making the script twice as thick as other plays.

─ You told me to read anything

“Yeah.”

─ I’m just going to read it.

“Were you going to act it out?”

─ I said I won’t.

Baek Sang-hyun carefully pressed the call recording button. At the same time, a clear voice came over the receiver. With his eyes closed, Baek Sang-hyun buried his head in the sofa armrest.

The voice flowing from the phone set to speaker continued for over two hours. After finishing two script books, the voice called Baek Sang-hyun’s name a few times, and when there was no answer, let out another long sigh and left a goodnight message.

Then, the call ended with a click.