Chapter 110

Today the Hanje/Yensu ship got fed so hard everyone’s throwing a party

Anonymous Young Ace Girl

Out of nowhere Yensu went on MeVerse and launched a provocation with, “What does Hanje think of me? ♥”

And then Hanje replied:

HANSEL

I love you.

I could say it a hundred times.

♥　💬

🔖

Now I can’t tell whether I opened MeVerse or a fanfic site.

Comments

What, are those two dating? (whisper whisper

↳ That’s a marriage proposal. (murmur murmur

Looks like the possessive younger top who imprisoned the youngest-on-top, realized his love afterward, repented, and turned into a regretful foot-kissing devoted boyfriend top. Situation in my brain: fully sorted.

LMAOOOO girls above me calm down... looks like they probably filmed some kind of content ㄷㄱㄷㄱ We’re finally gonna see Yensu moving around alive again after forever

↳ OH MY GOD THAT HAS TO BE IT!!! K-Dom, I’m asking nicely: pull an all-nighter editing it and upload it tomorrow immediately

This is such an old-timer story that I feel awkward saying it ^0^7

Anonymous Young Ace Girl

Back in our day LOL whenever Cha Yensu told Hanje, “Stay in the practice room and practice more with me,”

we used to feast on it like Yensu was willingly walking straight into the jaws of a younger obsessive psycho top.

But now that we’ve gotten more self-produced content and livestreams and can actually look without ship goggles on...

Maybe the youngest was just a big puppy trembling whenever his older brother spoke...

Comments

LMAO when all the comments were just “Yensu run” “be careful Yensu” imagine how wronged the youngest must’ve felt

Top 3 moments when youngest-on-top collapses:

Kwon Taeyoung in eldest-brother modeCha Yensu using Hanje’s full nameYunjin sobbing his eyes out↳ Even Kwon Taeyoung flinches at number 2 LOL

↳↳ Mom-on-top really is canon after all fr

Do you guys know Gowon/Hanje crossover fic is exploding on Postype right now?

Anonymous Young Ace Girl

There are more works for that pairing now than anything else

People got recruited after <Under the Same Sky>, then their chemistry kept getting brought up, and now it’s a major ship

Comments

Of course every industrious Korean homosexual-adopter is over there

↳ FUCK LMAOOOOOOOO

Who was the first lunatic to think of serving a dark melancholy beauty together with a delinquent-looking handsome guy,,, truly the nation of bibimbap, always finding delicious combinations to mix

You fucking freaks what are you doing, it’s already annoying seeing another singer keep getting brought up and now you’re doing crossover ship bullshit too

↳ Huh? Then don’t eat it~! Yay, I’ll eat your portion too >.<

Actually I liked Gowon from the beginning,,

Anonymous Young Ace Girl

In over 80% of the Kwon Taeyoung X Cha Yensu X Hansel triangle fics, Hansel ended up the second male lead ㅜ

Feels like Hansel finally found himself a match,,

Please take good care of our boy who’s been hurt so much by love, Mr. Won,,

Comments

Back then the cold-blooded obsessive top x melancholy beauty bottom dynamic was THE major trend, so it couldn’t be helped

↳ It is NOT “back then.” That is still my three-meals-a-day staple.

Anyway, a young fresh man has finally appeared before our former younger psycho second-lead top too (?)

What the hell, I went to look at Postype because of you people and came back as the burning-pizza meme

Anonymous Young Ace Girl

They’re grabbing each other by the hair fighting over whether it’s Gowon X Hanje or Hanje X Gowon

Comments

Ignorant fools. The true flavor is a former younger top getting topped by the current younger top.

Are you joking? Go get your eyes checked. Can’t you see the chemistry of the sly older top and prickly younger bottom?

↳ My lady, do you have no taste buds? You can watch a younger beauty overthrow his elder and your heart doesn’t race?

...

Judging by how this comment section is also a burning pizza, I can at least tell the crossover ship has made it big.

***

“Gowon!”

“......! Ah, yes!”

Gowon, who had been staring blankly into space, jerked his head up. Chief Manager Park chuckled at him.

“Good grief, the kid looks like his soul got sucked clean out. Yensu’s an expert at leaving people dazed. You okay?”

“Yes.... Ah, no. I mean, I was just amazed to meet him. What did you say? Sorry.”

“I said we should stop by the company before heading home. We got an event booking while you were filming, and I think we need to discuss it together.”

“Ah, yes... sounds good....”

His answer was still completely absentminded.

“Haha. Even if you are a Young Ace fan, you see Taeyoung and Hanje practically every day. Was Yensu really that amazing?”

Then again, even after looking at that guy’s face for over ten years, I still get startled sometimes...

Chief Manager Park’s voice faded from Gowon’s ears again.

...That’s true.

Somehow, Gowon had ended up meeting not only Baek Hanje but every other member of Young Ace too.

Kwon Taeyoung, Cha Yensu, Big Room, Yunjin....

Even Kim Yeban, though only briefly.

All six were exceptional artists and remained exemplary figures in the history of male idols. Of course he respected them.

“.......”

And yet, the more members of Young Ace he met one by one as both their junior and a Spades fan, the more confused he became.

His reactions to Baek Hanje and his reactions to the others were °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° simply too different.

Of course Baek Hanje was practically his savior, someone who had changed his entire life... someone who had made miracles happen for him again and again.

So naturally Gowon would feel something a little more special toward him.

But.

What... is this?

When he came face-to-face with Cha Yensu, who was so beautiful it nearly stole his breath.

When Kwon Taeyoung’s mature presence weighed over him with quiet force.

And when he watched old videos of Young Ace in their dazzling prime as a complete group.

His heart had raced with admiration, envy, and the distant awe of looking at something impossibly far out of reach.

But none of those feelings had ever been strong enough to stop every thought and movement in his body the way this did.

Like you?

Only that voice echoed through his blank mind.

Why the hell am I like this...?

Maybe this feeling was a little different in nature from being a fan.

If so, what was he supposed to call it?

“.......”

Was he ignorant about this too simply because he was still immature?

You’ll become the person you want to be.

Baek Hanje had said that if Gowon raised the stats displayed in that strange window, someday he would become that person.

It was Hanje who had said it, so no matter how hard it was to believe, it had to be true.

If I become the person I want to be, will I be able to understand what’s happening to me now too?

...But that created another problem.

What exactly was the person he “wanted to be”?

What I want right now is....

First, he wanted his next comeback to do well too.

And when it happened, he wanted to show his One and Only how much more he had grown.

He wanted his family to be able to live without worrying about anything.

And lately his knees still sometimes ached sharply at night... so if he was going to have growing pains anyway, he hoped he would get a little taller too.

Seventeen-year-old Baek Hanje had been slightly on the shorter side, but after they returned to the present, their eye levels were almost the same again.

Not too much taller.

Just about the same height difference they had had during <Debut Chart! 100>.

Enough that if anything happened, Gowon could pick Baek Hanje up and run.

He had spent most of his life too preoccupied with surviving the immediate future to picture anything far ahead. That was about as much as he could imagine.

But Baek Hanje had gone through bizarre supernatural phenomena and helped him in every possible way. It felt wrong for Gowon’s dreams to stop at something this small.

...Still.

Wherever his future eventually led, Gowon hoped it would be in a direction that brought him closer to Baek Hanje.

Professionally.

And also... personally.

...Yensuuuu. I love you.

Yeah. I love you too. That’s the answer.

...Why am I remembering that now?

Come to think of it, after observing Young Ace and their relationships for a while, Gowon had realized that the role of “younger brother” within Young Ace seemed a little different from what he was used to.

What if Baek Hanje, who had spent his whole life as the youngest member... had wanted that sort of role from Gowon?

“.......”

Gowon, you asshole. Maybe you should’ve kept that temper under control....

He had spent far too long acting rude and prickly. If he suddenly tried to appoint himself the sweet younger brother now and started acting affectionate....

What? Did you eat something weird? Are you Gowon from another dimension?

That was obviously the reaction he would get.

And in the first place, Gowon was not confident he could act overflowing with affection like Jung Yusang or his younger brother Suhyeon.

...No.

He should give up on that approach.

Instead, it might be better to aim for the opposite—to become a dependable fellow singer Hanje could rely on.

“So, we got an offer from... and what do you think? There are some very clear pros and cons to this....”

“I want to do it.”

Gowon answered before Chief Manager Park had even finished explaining.

“...You did understand what I just said, right, Gowon?”

“Yes. I’ve never been there, but I’ve watched performance videos.”

Every summer, a huge event toured cities across the country.

Splash Night.

On an outdoor stage surrounded by an enormous plaza, the audience fired water guns while the performers themselves got completely soaked, creating a refreshing spectacle.

Because it produced scenes impossible to see at ordinary performances—wet hair, drenched outfits, and everything else—it also generated plenty of fancams that went viral.

The only issue was that it was already July.

Splash Night lineups could be announced as early as the beginning of the year.

Still, last-minute additions were common whenever someone dropped out or organizers decided the lineup looked too thin.

Rookie singer Gowon had been invited under exactly those circumstances.

The offer he had received was an emergency addition to the Gangneung Splash Night lineup, which had been postponed by a week because of the typhoon.

“...To put it bluntly, they need you to fill a hole left by a schedule change.”

“Yes.”

“I’m not dismissing your skill, Gowon, but you might not get the same response you’re used to getting when you perform in front of your fans.”

People went there primarily to play in the water, and the kind of lineup they expected consisted of rappers who could fire off upbeat verses or singers with sexy-diva images.

In truth, idol Gowon had been invited largely because the organizers had seen him pour water over his head during the ending of a music-show performance and decided he fit the event well enough.

And if his fans bought a few extra tickets because of him, even better.

That was about the level of the offer.