Yess & YesCh16 - Extra 9: The Moment We First Met

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“Braised spicy chicken?” 31zNO4

“Beef bulgogi…”

As it was early in the morning, the supermarket on the outskirts of Jeju Island was quiet. The two, who had come to their villa on Jeju Island for the weekend, were discussing what to make for lunch.

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No one recognized them because they wore a black cap hat pulled down deeply and a mask. Kang Inheon’s frame should’ve been hidden, but it couldn’t be, so there were people who recognized him and asked for his autograph, but that was all they wanted.

The butcher shop’s employee gave them an answer. cK5WC

“Have beef for lunch and chicken for dinner.” 

Lee Juwon tried to shake his head since they had planned on going to a grilled abalone restaurant for dinner, but Kang Inheon laughed and said, “That sounds good, I’ll have both.”

We’re going up to Seoul at dawn tomorrow, but you want to eat both for lunch today? Lee Juwon spoke with his eyes, and Kang Inheon nodded his head.

“You need to eat a lot. You’re always fainting…”

Lee Juwon opened and closed his mouth and looked at the employee. He wanted to say, “I’m normal, you’re the one with crazy stamina,” but he couldn’t spit it out in case they would understand.

Luckily, the employee didn’t seem to think much of it and grabbed a handful of marinated bulgogi and asked, “How much do you want?” Kang Inheon thought about it for a moment and said, “About two kilograms?”

When they finally weighed it, it was almost 3 kilograms. Lee Juwon tried to point that out, but the employee was a little faster.

“Is this how you would like it?”  B5I9bT

“Yes, please.”

“Gosh, the both of you are so handsome and tall, just taking a look at you is refreshing. I don’t even have to turn on the air conditioner.”

“Haha, thank you.”

Kang Inheon greeted them nicely and was handed a tagged bag by the employee, who then skillfully cut up the chicken. It was a little annoying to see their obvious mercantile mind, but the food was what mattered anyway… lGIOms

When Kang Inheon mentioned that there was no more shampoo in the villa, they headed from the meat section to the general merchandise section. Out of habit, Lee Juwon looked for the buy-one-get-one-free all-in-one shampoo he had been using. However, Kang Inheon put a different shampoo in the cart.

The organic rose shampoo was less than half the size of the one Lee Juwon had seen and more than three times the price. But he didn’t mind because he wanted it to smell the same as Kang Inheon. 

Kang Inheon’s choice of handwash also made Lee Juwon pause. The silver foil container on a black background was an elegant design, but wasn’t soap enough when it came to washing your hands? His mouth itched, but he held it in. Because the fingertips that touched his cheek always smelled like roses…

But he couldn’t resist with this one. It was a duck-shaped water toy that Kang Inheon had put in the cart. When Lee Juwon took the toy out of the cart and put it back in its place, Kang Inheon smiled and spoke as if he knew he’d do that, “The person who bought a house at triple the asking price on the real estate market…” RGH2FN

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“That one smells good, but,” EZ5Rqu

His finger went to the rubber duck.

“That’s just pretty trash.” 

“I like pretty trash, you know?”

After casually putting the pretty trash back in, Kang Inheon leisurely pushed the cart through the miscellaneous goods section. Lee Juwon caught up with him and said, “Wow… Are you calling me trash right now?” D9gVKv

“When did I call you that?”

“You don’t like anything other than me, do you?”

“Haha… How did you know?”

Kang Inheon grinned and continued, “Still, I said you were pretty.” rRCl60

“What are you saying… You’re the pretty one.” 

Lee Juwon pointed with his chin at the Kang Inheon on television.

Several televisions in the home appliance corner were all showing reruns of “The CEO’s New Clothes”. On the screen, Kang Inheon was doing a simulation of a mock dungeon battle supervised by December, lightly killing a monster.

As Team Leader Han had guaranteed, the response to the December episode of “The CEO’s New Clothes” was explosive. As if to prove its popularity, reruns were playing on every cable channel to a tiring extent, and December received a flood of various requests and sponsorships.  MDpQal

Ironically, the earnings rate was higher than it had been before when they were tied up with business profits. The newly established virtuous cycle of giving back to society had ignited a firepower that could be called a syndrome. Kang Inheon said, “I heard the broadcasting station was making a fuss towards Team Leader Han about shooting a special episode?”

“Just once is enough. You didn’t like it much either, did you?”

“That’s true, but…”

Kang Inheon looked at the screen. It showed the appearance of Lee Juwon watching the mock training. After the broadcast, Lee Juwon received advertisement requests from other companies. 5 rV2P

He had shaken his head, saying he didn’t understand how the clothing and cosmetics industries could offer advertisement filmings to the CEO of another company, no matter how different their affiliations were, but Kang Inheon understood their sentiment enough. If he were a director, he’d also want to be able to film Lee Juwon.

It was both bitter and sweet when the person who shone so brightly that he did not dare say he felt unrequited love towards them lost their shine. Even while wanting him to shine again, he was also drenched in a secret exaltation that only he could see. While wanting him to fly in the blue sky, his inner desire of wanting to isolate him underground stirred.

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He was as angry as he was sorry, and he wanted to hurt him as much as he wanted to protect him. Comforted by his resemblance to himself, yet repulsed by his resemblance to himself. If he could divide his antinomic feelings and weigh them on a scale, it would waddle like a seesaw. Not even Kang Inheon himself knew what he wanted from Lee Juwon.

“It’s okay now.” J0btZL

He couldn’t make out heads or tails in a whirlwind of emotions and impulses, confused, like losing his way in the wind and waves… but now he knew. The direction that a compass drawn by an absolute magnetic field would finally point to, one direction that would grab it even as it spun in circles.

A path that was set in stone from the beginning. More than anything, I want you to be happy. Just like you were.

“Do what you want to do.”

Now, regardless of what anyone said, there were plenty of appearances that no one but me knew about. My sunshine, the one who willingly accepts even my most gloomy complaints, the one who lifts me up to the light whenever I sink. wRoODZ

Kang Inheon lowered his mask slightly and kissed the back of his hand, clasped with one another.

The screen switched to a scene from Lee Juwon’s interview. The interview was set up so that the story of the civil union could flow naturally, with a scene of Kang Inheon playing a cool and active role and then Lee Juwon being interviewed again. A subtitle appeared on the screen asking, “Since when have you been in love with Hunter Kang Inheon-nim?”

Lee Juwon pondered for a moment before opening his mouth.

“The moment we first met?” AyO2tF

Oooh! Wow~ The panellists let out entertaining exclamations. “When was that?” The interviewer’s question popped up with subtitles, but Lee Juwon just smiled brightly. The screen switched back to Kang Inheon’s VCR, where he was in mock combat.

Passing by the home appliances section and going to the checkout, Kang Inheon said, “Come to think of it… when was the first time?”

“The moment you came into the cafe for the interview.”

Kang Inheon, who was pushing the cart, stopped in his tracks. Lee Juwon shrugged his shoulders. Even if Kang Inheon was sad that he couldn’t remember their first meeting from their school days, there was no helping it. It was what happened in the dungeon that made him realize he loved him, not that he began to love him because of it. dpXCRM

“I’m sorry, that was the first time for me, no matter how much I think about it.”

It hadn’t been long since opening, so the mart’s underground parking lot was quiet. The car windows were tinted, and no one was passing by. No one cared what was going on inside the big car parked in the isolated corner.

The inside of the car was humid. It was filled with the sound of biting and sucking on soft skin.

“Haa, ha…”  dmh6SM

Their wet lips parted, their eyes met as they exchanged breaths, and then the hot tongue swept through his mouth again, making promiscuous sounds. Licking the roof of his mouth and raising his tongue, Lee Juwon’s breath was blocked again.

“N, ngh!”

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The tongue entangled like a snake in his mouth before slipping out. His wet lips were red and swollen, and there were red marks left on his bitten neck. Kang Inheon looked at him with satisfaction. Bruises the colour of dawn would be left if he sucked harder.

He buried his face in Lee Juwon’s neck again. He rubbed the tip of his nose against his auricle, smelled the scent of his body, and touched his soft earlobe with the tip of his tongue. He nibbled on it with the tip of his teeth, then even bit his auricle. Lee Juwon’s shoulders winced as his hot breath lingered in his ear. hdq38o

“Haa, it tickles…”

Kang Inheon dug into his limp hand and intertwined their fingers. Looking down at their joined hands on the console box, Lee Juwon said, “…What about you?”

“Hm?”

“When did you start liking me?”  tlMDon

“I…”

I don’t know, do questions like when and why matter?

You are everything that makes me who I am.

I learned how to speak in a likeable way, how to smile brightly, and how to live in this world, all from you again. When you called me by my name, a symbol of abandonment, my world changed. 7V1dR4

You made me want to stop time, not end it. I just wanted to see you smile a little longer. There was nothing I could do but watch, and that was my love…

Naturally being able to be by your side now is like a dream. Every ordinary moment of shopping, cooking, and eating together is brilliant. It overwhelmed my heart to be able to intertwine our hands, touch our lips, share our feelings, and say I love you.

My saviour who reached out to me when I was submerged in a gloomy river, my lover whom I longed for so long, my first family.

“It’s the same for me.” kPzdbO

Kang Inheon kissed Lee Juwon again. Gently, as if their skin was touching for the first time.

“The moment we first met…”

  a17dDU

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orcinus comments:

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

[10.08.23 edit: the note below was written before the new extras came out. the story is not over yet!]

honestly, i didnt think i had it in me to finish translating a whole novel, but i’m glad yess & yes was my first project as it really is one of my favourite stories. i’m happy to be able to share it with other people, and i enjoyed reading every comment and reaction Zwie a

who knows, maybe the author will upload more extras in the future, and as the running joke in the ridi review section of the novel goes, author-nim, you forgot to upload volume 4…

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