Throughout the entire meeting, Nanren stood silent and absent-minded. Even if he's been openly flirting before, this is the first time he's spoken openly and clearly. It was for this reason that even though his gaze involuntarily shifted to Yun the entire time he gathered, he stood absently not knowing what he was thinking in silence.
Expressing his purest and most sincere feelings could not cause Yun outright rejection or acceptance. People weren't perfect, and their senses were always driven by an interest. It could be an obsession with reaching out and having someone beautiful, it could be feeding your ego, and it could be anything else.
And Yun couldn't just cut it off when the person called the manipulated king in the fiction stood before him with wrenched feelings.
And because he took this job seriously and cared, he didn't just accept it and pass it on.
He took Nanren's feelings seriously, whether he had feelings for her or not, and the job was described as a tumultuous silence as a result.
It was for this reason that he misunderstood Nanren Yun. From her point of view, there was no need to embarrass her by asking about her sexual orientation. She was a man and she loved another man. Why did he keep making this mistake? Why was he putting her in trouble? Couldn't she just refuse, rather than give hope and cause her pain?
These thoughts continued throughout the meeting and made him unable to focus. When they finally got back to the house, Yun also noticed his silence during this whole process and asked him.
"Are you uncomfortable?"
"No." Nanren tilted her head to look at him. Standing side by side, to observe that his shorter stature surpassed Yun throughout this process. Yun was coming up to his shoulders, and even with that fixed expression, this height difference that he hadn't noticed before made him feel strangely cute for the first time.
"Ehem" Nanren tried to focus her attention as Yun looked at her as she spoke.
"Nanren, you've been with me for a while, and you may know my social skills aren't very good. However, if you don't tell me your distress, I'm not capable of understanding or anticipating it." He looked at her calmly.
Nanren knew what he meant and finally confessed before he could ignore his gnawing feelings any longer.
"Why do you keep asking me if I'm gay even though I said I like you?"
Why are you putting my feelings in trouble? Why are you questioning me?
Even if he didn't carry on at least Yun understood what he meant. She massaged his forehead and sighed with relief.
"It's not like that Nanren, it really wasn't what I meant"
"I know" He knew, but Nanren couldn't help feeling uncomfortable despite that. Because it was easy not to feel offended by the fact that his sincere feelings were somehow oversimplified, made even more flawed, and that it was seen as just a simple interest.
"Because you are honest with me, I will be honest with you." Yun walked in as if to indicate that he wanted to tell why, then sat Nanren, who was following, in front of him and observed his expression earnestly for a while.
Nanren was even more tense with his expression, but All the while thought of how to explain the situation in the simplest, most concise, and logical way possible.
Finally, with a sigh, he nodded and spoke.
"I'm asking this because if you like guys, I can't reciprocate you whether I want it or not."
What does this mean?
When she was about to ask in confusion, and Yun was about to confess, inexorably, at the moment when all the nerves were tense, a loud clatter broke out. Glass dust from the broken window scattered, and a woman appeared with a baby on her shoulder.
In front of them, this woman, who changes her style from time to time, grinned at a boy now with black wavy long hair and red eyes, a petite figure on his shoulder, an official carbon copy.
"What's up bro? I hope I'm not interrupting?" She grinned and emerged from the dust.
His arrogant and playful grin evoked the feeling that the event, and even the timing, could not be a coincidence. Especially while emphasizing the word elder brother, Yun took a step back softly, still thinking about what bad deeds were running through his mind.
"Why did you come, Ashura?"
Yun sighed. What business was he after?
"Tsk, brother, your humanity has been atrophied this past year. Fortunately, as your benevolent brother! I will help you!"
"Oh my God" Yun quickly dismissed his enthusiasm. It was so fast that even Shura couldn't testify for a moment.
But he quickly recovered in his usual brazen disposition and replied with a huge grin.
"Anyway!"
"By the way, congratulations! I'm here to announce that you've been selected as our company's celebrity model?"
Yun "..."
What did you do again Ashura? Yun held his aching head, while the atmosphere just before was successfully forgotten by Shura.
-To be continued-