My House Has Become a Filming Set!

༺ My House Has Become a Filming Set! – 19 ༻

 

 

  “Why?”

 

  “Huh?”

 

  Kang Do-jun blinked in surprise when Shin Gihyeon, who he thought would give up easily, pried for the reason.

 

  “There will be many overlapping projects in the future, and we’ll often face each other. Shouldn’t we get along?”

 

  “We’re already enough…”

 

  “Lee Yeonwoo calls you brother even though it’s been less than a week since you met.”

 

  Why is Yeonwoo coming up here? Kang Do-jun’s thick eyebrows twitched.

 

  Shin Gihyeon’s efforts to somehow be on the same project as Kang Do-jun were not in vain. Kang Do-jun had a good impression of Shin Gihyeon, who was a fairly familiar face. But he was somewhat annoyed by the fact that he brought up Lee Yeonwoo as an example.

 

  Before he knew it, Kang Do-jun was considering Lee Yeonwoo a sacred area within him that should not be touched.

 

  At the moment he tried to break away, he had to shut his mouth at the news of “resuming shooting.”

 

  That’s how the awkward shooting between the two began.

 

  * * *

 

  He finished shooting at Granny Soon-Yi’s and arrived at Lee Yeonwoo’s house.

 

  He tidied up the bed he couldn’t arrange in the morning, vacuumed the floor with a vacuum cleaner he got from Granny Kyeongyi, did laundry, and after finishing the housework, he was curious about what Lee Yeonwoo was doing around this time.

 

  ‘What are you doing?’

 

  As soon as he picked up his cellphone and sent a text, a photo came flying in. It was a picture of Lee Yeonwoo smiling widely in front of a hive.

 

  Yeonwoo

 

  ‘I’m making money!’

 

  ‘He’s so skinny, but cute.’

 

  ‘Come quickly.’

 

  Yeonwoo

 

  ‘I’ll be there soon.’

 

  A reply arrived with an emoticon of a bee running hard.

 

  After pressing the save button of the photo, he went into YouTube.

 

  ‘He said if you type Wonsun, it’ll come up.’

 

  At the beginning, a monologue explaining the interior of the ship and what kind of work they did flowed out.

 

  Yeonwoo did this kind of work? It was well known that a deep-sea fishing boat was hard work, but when he actually searched for a video on YouTube, the weight of the word ‘hard’ really hit him.

 

  While watching the video with a serious expression, voices of excited crew members came through the video, saying that a large tuna weighing 150kg was caught.

 

  “I’ll dismantle it.”

 

  The angle fixed on the frantically flopping tuna moved to the owner of the voice. It was Lee Yeonwoo, who looked even younger than now.

 

  “Hey, you’ll hurt your hand. Put down the knife.”

 

  “Why? I can dismantle it.”

 

  Along with Lee Yeonwoo’s face looking puffy, a caption ‘Lee Yeonwoo, who was waiting for this day!’ was added below.

 

  YouTuber? A voice that was presumed to be Kim Haseon, Lee Yeonwoo’s friend, was faintly heard. Was his name Kim Haseon?

 

  “Hey, hey, just leave it to Karbou.”

 

  “That’s right. Yenu, tuna dismantling. I’ll do it.”

 

  “That’s right. Karbou’s going to do it. Quickly hand over the knife. Good, right?”

 

  “Damn it, Kim Seungseon. You’re teasing me, aren’t you? You said you’d let me do it next time it was caught.”

 

  “Ah, damn it. Aren’t you teasing me right now!? You said to call you Haseon when the camera’s on. And as for the dismantling, next! Yeah, next time, let’s definitely do it! You got that?”

 

  The subtitle ‘If the next of the next of the next comes!’ in bold, large letters was attached beneath Yeonwoo’s face.

 

  After that, the video ended with white letters on a black screen saying, ‘What is the fate of the tuna?’

 

  He was young, yes, but he had not changed or altered his personality in any way. He was exactly the same as the current Yeonwoo.

 

  ‘I wonder if he was the same in high school.’

 

  For some reason, he became curious about his school life that he had not seen. After the video ended, he left it for a moment and read the comments.

 

○ [Wonsun, are you still in touch with Yeonwoo? Please stop doing game broadcasts and just once, invite Yeonwoo to your broadcastㅠㅠ]

 

○ [lmao Kim Haseon – Kim Seungseon Did Yeonwoo come up with this? It’s too funny kekw]

 

○ [Ah! Yeonwooㅠ Your sister will catch the tuna for you. It doesn’t matter whether you poop in our house or dismantle a tuna, just please come to landㅠㅠ You’re too handsome to be at seaㅠㅠㅠㅠ]

 

○ [Lol Yeonwoo is unexpectedly stubborn, even the sailors seem to be weak to Yeonwoo. In the end, it seems like Yeonwoo would have dismantled the tuna]

 

○ [Isn’t Yeonwoo like a soft rice cake? What’s he doing these daysㅠ Wonsun, at least let us know what’s up]

 

○ [Please increase our Yeonwoo’s screen timeㅠㅠㅠㅠ]

 

○ [That kid was on a fishing boat? If I were his parents, I’d be worried and couldn’t live normally.]

 

  Most of the comments were shouting for Yeonwoo. As Kang Do-jun, who was in a similar profession, he thought that his YouTuber friend Kim Haseon would have been quite stressed if he read the comments.

 

  Of course, that was Kang Do-jun’s thought.

 

  The popularity of a YouTuber usually goes up when one video becomes a hit and the inflow increases. But since every video that Yeonwoo appeared in was popular, Yeonwoo was a benefactor to him.

 

  Thus, as he liked the comments looking for Yeonwoo and diligently watched the videos, he had long forgotten his distracting thoughts about Shin Gihyeon.

 

  * * *

 

  Kang Do-jun may not have known, but Shin Gihyeon was a junior by one year at the same Korean Performing Arts High School.

 

  ‘Should I send a DM to Kang Do-jun?’

 

  ‘Does he have a Starcast ID…?’

 

  ‘Ah, then maybe a text.’

 

  ‘I don’t know his number.’

 

  ‘I guess it would show up if I looked through the attendance book.’

 

  ‘Is your dream to be a criminal?’

 

  Whether walking down the hallway, in the cafeteria, or in the classroom, he could hear about Kang Do-jun wherever he went. He was very popular everywhere due to his dazzling looks. Rumors even circulated that he was offered to be a trainee of a famous idol company.

 

  He dares say that there wouldn’t be a single person among the whole student body who didn’t know the three characters of the name ‘Kang Do-jun’.

 

  He was always the first. From being the student body president, which is the greatest power among students, to his looks, personality, popularity, skills, studies, athletic abilities, and even his attendance number were all number one.

 

  On the other hand, Shin Gihyeon had a charming look with a melancholic impression, but such faces were a dime a dozen at the Korean Performing Arts High School.

 

  Kang Do-jun, always in the lead, and Shin Gihyeon, always in the middle, had no intersection.

 

  Sometimes when he ran into Kang Do-jun in the hallway, he thought to himself.

 

  ‘Such looks are common in the entertainment industry.’

 

  No, they were not at all common. Having experienced the entertainment industry firsthand, Kang Do-jun had a face that was always in demand but always in short supply, and his acting skills were also exceptional, so there was nothing lacking.

 

  Kang Do-jun was Kang Do-jun. Even after he entered the industry, he kept aiming for the first place. He was always the first priority for casting, the top-ranked brand reputation, the actor with tens of millions of followers – all these were phrases that referred to him.

 

  That’s why he might have admired him more. After graduating and stepping into the world, he worked hard to be in the same project with such Kang Do-jun, to be in the same frame.

 

  He had merely followed Kang Do-jun, who was always in the lead, and before he knew it, he had become second place. His fanbase grew, the scripts coming his way increased gradually, and he began receiving invitations to appear in advertisements not infrequently.

 

  Among his fans, it had almost become an established fact that he himself was a notorious fan of Kang Do-jun.

 

  ‘But it’s true.’

 

  ‘Kang Do-jun is appearing on a variety show.’

 

  ‘Senior?’

 

  He judged that this was indeed an opportunity to get closer. He got momentarily crazy at the news brought by his manager and nagged at his agency. He didn’t care about the variety show. He was just following Kang Do-jun. If he was going to be on a variety show, it was only natural for him to follow suit.

 

  During that time, a strange kid appeared. The kid didn’t adjust to others’ pace, didn’t care about others’ eyes, just recklessly sprinting.

 

  He didn’t seem to have a particular destination in mind. He was like a bulldozer.

 

  “Yeonwoo.”

 

  Shin Gihyeon, who was always running, looking at Kang Do-jun’s back, could tell at a glance.

 

  The frontrunner keeps veering off course, following him. Running with a smile towards a different, strange path. To anyone’s eye, it was an absurd way. When the frontrunner disappears, where should he head?

 

  ‘Rather than him, I’m better, let’s aim for the destination together.’

 

  ‘Can I call you hyung?’

 

  ‘You can’t.’

 

  It was a completely new side of him that he had never seen before.

 

  Did his heart ache a little? Why? Isn’t he the first if the other veers off the destination? Not at all.

 

  Then he realized. To me, Kang Do-jun wasn’t the first place but the destination. He was the endpoint, an ideal to gaze upon.

 

  The one who lost the destination was not him, but himself.

 

  ‘Damn it.’

 

  He sighed. That’s why you shouldn’t make moving the goal.

 

  After the awkward shoot ended aimlessly, during the break, Shin Gihyeon lit up a cigarette he had borrowed from his manager, leaning against the wall. He took a puff of the smoke he had quit and exhaled, and from far away, he could see the root of all problems coming closer.

 

  “Do you want to die? Why are you smoking against someone else’s wall? Go to Seoul and smoke.”

 

  I wonder if he knows how many hours it takes to get to Seoul from here.

 

  Lee Yeonwoo snatched the cigarette from Shin Gihyeon’s mouth, crushed it against the wall, extinguishing the flame, and gave it back to him.

 

  “Now, take this too and discard it when you get to Seoul.”

 

  “……”

 

  “What are you sulking about? You still can’t smoke. I hate the smell of cigarettes.”

 

  He looks so pale and says he hates the smell of cigarettes.

 

  “Why. Because you’re a tiger?”

 

  “What are you babbling about?”

 

  He attaches an absurd reason when it suits him, and when others bring up a reason, he treats them as crazy.

 

  ‘Why on earth would senior…’

 

  What’s so good about such a reckless kid? Shin Gihyeon, who was excellent at observing others, had already noticed through the previous conversation that Kang Do-jun’s attitude towards Lee Yeonwoo was not simply a brotherly one.

 

  It wasn’t Lee Yeonwoo who had tried to get close to Kang Do-jun. It was Kang Do-jun who was trying to get close to Lee Yeonwoo.

 

  He had no prejudice about orientation, but he couldn’t understand why he would like such a kid.

 

  “Here, I’ll give you this, so hold off on smoking until you get to Seoul. You’re leaving today, right?”

 

  Lee Yeonwoo extended something heavy wrapped in a black bag to Shin Gihyeon. When he received the bag and unwrapped it, he found honey in a glass bottle.

 

  “It’s chestnut honey.”

 

  He opened the lid and tasted a bit. Maybe because he had just smoked a cigarette, the chestnut honey, which usually tasted bitter, felt only sweet.

 

  “…it’s sweet.”

 

  “Right? It’s also good for your health?”

 

  He was a strange kid who was somehow impossible to hate. Maybe that’s why he was a bit annoyed.

 

  “Anyway, thank you.”

 

  As he closed the lid and rewrapped the bag, Lee Yeonwoo subtly said,

 

  “You can transfer the money to my account.”

 

  Surprised by the highly worldly words that resonated in his ears, Shin Gihyeon stared at Lee Yeonwoo.

 

  “Well, no refunds. You’ve had a bite. If you ask for a refund there, you’re a nuisance.”

 

  He thought it was a farewell gift considering he was going back to Seoul today.

 

  “Listen to me, hyung!”

 

  As if imitating the tone of an elder, he dragged out his words and reprimanded Shin Gihyeon. Eventually, Shin Gihyeon had no choice but to unleash his pent-up emotions.

 

  “Ah-, I really f**king hate you.”

 

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