INTM Ch3

It had been three days since the broadcast aired, but the whole country was still buzzing with news about Yoon Yichae and Yoon Sookyung. It was largely because Yoon Yichae’s fans kept pouring fuel on the fire whenever the controversy seemed to die down. Soogyeom read a couple of posts related to Yoon Yichae, each with hundreds of comments, before closing the internet window.64af82644156399f

As soon as he took out his earphones and got up from his chair, he heard a knock on the door. Soogyeom’s fingertips, which had been gripping the armrest of the chair, stiffened. Silence fell beyond the door where the knocking had stopped. Soogyeom held his breath and strained his senses toward the door.01025eb5cc6315aa

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“Soogyeom. Are you already asleep?”c35ff7e7611adb8c

Knock, knock, ba1c15caf6 he heard 141cc95917 the knocking b50f4276a7 again. Soogyeom slowly a33d901443 raised his a72d663aaf heels. As if waiting b78e705fec for it, he bf614811ed heard the sound e4171eeea6 of skin peeling 972268c7a1 off the linoleum. Tsk, he clicked 35948cb70e his tongue and 9bbe49b591 finally strode over d96edaa26f to open the 8be0b8f624 door.38e0ec603f10730f

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“What.”d149a30df383b4e5

Euigyeom, who 3be629cb83 had been 47abebe747 standing with 5c29393fea one hand 7a8f970e8f raised, frowned 5fe1292594 and smiled. His sallow, 1041243189 dried-up face 5f3c020bad was devoid 57060a9b57 of life.783a0491351c8c2c

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“Oh, no… I have to go to the hospital tomorrow…”7e0f1171982dcd8b

“I know. I gave you the taxi fare earlier.”16740bdbc4a064b2

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“Not that, tomorrow…. Can you come with me?”b45b0a0dabca00d2

Soogyeom almost 87ee1bc274 sighed out 08cee1bae8 loud. Fortunately, he managed 41e8600f86 to swallow it 8add9e2590 back down just 4756ba3942 in time.d1c455ca699e4fd8

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“I have work in the afternoon tomorrow. I told you I’m going to a shoot.”b191907a259aae3c

“The hospital is in the morning. I’m not asking you to stay until it’s over.”29de0d9f4ed96658

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“Hyung… The set is in Paju. If I do as you say, I’ll have to go from home to Seolleung and then to Paju tomorrow.”de283a527cd916ae

Euigyeom closed his mouth. Every corner of 4453810513 his dry face 2a628bd681 was stiff and 642bc48961 faded. It was the d34a598990 fatigue that had 55919bf817 accumulated layer by 3abf100bfc layer from his b63fca19f8 long illness, settling f3d9d84999 like grime. Always sick, 45204aa767 he was 052a093975 constantly plagued 4ec4bce2c0 by fatigue 0902772e96 and irritation.e2c2f807a97b8ccc

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“Okay, never mind. I was just saying.”1d3374575098bf0c

Euigyeom, who had d3ceff2afc been moving his c4ccef9676 lips for a 48f751df73 while, smiled as e58eb843b3 if doing a d7760eda91 great favor. Soogyeom rubbed 600ce9c079 his temples, afa7b56f75 feeling a 70694ed40d headache coming 56058c2bf3 on.b1549242f83209a4

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“It’s really okay. You’re tired too, so it can’t be helped. I don’t get upset about things like this, Soogyeom.”199d3bcf70aee779

“…Hyung, please.”a5015f1808c4c895

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“I’m just scared about what they’ll say this time when I meet the doctor alone, and I’m worried about collapsing on the way there… That’s why I asked. But it’s really okay. Never mind.”2bf6a44e179149c5

He was starting to feel suffocated. Soogyeom squeezed his eyes shut and rubbed his forehead. He hated Sookyung’s way of talking like this. He would make unreasonable requests, and when rejected, he would repeat that it was okay with all sorts of reasons until he got an apology filled with guilt.845d3e4d91ffd504

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Since he aa0ef1490b was young, dbf1cddb0e he had a8e8dcc3bb been selfish da933b13c2 and violent, aa723e8b42 but at 1764e84b30 least he 2e5a3adcc4 was someone f539198f57 who could 2660c9c9ac take care e6ddf1f63d of himself. When he was b55edc4762 lucky enough to b4448077e1 get a job 21b0ff6071 at a big 97f1ae823d company, he would 31e20a9a13 lecture Soogyeom, showing 204fe74639 off. How long e56469beb3 are you 44d7d011e9 going to 8cd9912122 waste your 133b4db77b time being b897a883e4 an actor 40136e8c1a or whatever? You need 2996da8071 to face 79da2a8911 reality and 999b56e5d8 live your 2591f67e41 life….cab9a8e316bf5a0a

Euigyeom collapsed at a company dinner less than half a year after joining that great company. It was acute renal failure. He couldn’t last long with medication alone. It had been two months since he started dialysis.9a4a1282d8867ab6

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“There was that time before. I collapsed on the way from the subway station to the hospital, and no one helped me. I thought I was going to die like that, but you didn’t answer your phone….”f3d1d07b13885290

“Hyung.”d4f7a6ce0c2db2ce

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“That’s why I’m like this. I’m scared I’ll collapse again.”2739eb44910bd7c1

Of course, he couldn’t continue working at the company. On the day even his girlfriend left him, Sookyung drank as much as he could and caused a ruckus. While trying to take the bottle away from Euigyeom, Soogyeom cut his hand on a broken piece of glass. The wound was so deep that it had to be stitched up. When Bongwon asked why his hand was like that, he said it was because of his drinking habit. As always, he said he was singing and hitting the glass with chopsticks when he broke it.285187fc01b2b04e

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“…I have to leave right away as soon as we get to the hospital.”fd8bbe127e4dd281

Soogyeom squeezed out the words only after a long time. Only then did Euigyeom’s face brighten.0f2d42e1890f15d2

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“Oh? Really? You don’t have to. I told you it’s okay.”5abf06f9651a45bb

“Stop it and go to sleep. I have to leave early tomorrow, so don’t fail to wake up again.”4107c1d3689eb15c

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It took an 885e8616b7 hour of arguing c3558b37b2 to wake Euigyeom 7151d0f813 up. It was only natural 127583c89e since he was up 867b4d467b until dawn playing computer 56fb01348e games, whether he had 913054e774 to go to the 1e074fe003 hospital the next day 2571e80fe4 or not. No matter how 0bfb8a041b many hundreds of 6442851f01 times he told 5b51bfde4d him to live d3ce97722c regularly, try to 7ab8c42406 eat healthy, and 8cb40bf0bc do even the d25fd9c362 light exercise recommended 56011a9ad5 by the hospital, 22892a3e4c it was useless.1dd45d75c83f1cb0

“Okay. I’ll go to sleep soon. When have I ever not listened to you?”fafe7224076277e9

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His face was 9394cf76dc full of a 3f728fbb34 servile smile as 8282bbde4b he rattled off 9d47228ea4 flattering words. Soogyeom closed b5ff7ac2ac the door 5b82fe8d0c without answering cad0a9dec9 and lay 9faa57d01b down on 118f1f432d the bed. Not long 4be4ddcb1b after, he dcfbcae698 began to 40a4d04a13 hear the 6e23d7f7fd thumping game c1ac3282d1 sounds and 832ca0b87c frantic voices 07bcb44ca5 from beyond 35bec54a7f the thin b5ed5bbe9b wall. He was c00306b4fe probably watching 9105d861a5 that Rescaper de1953ef2f broadcast or e4117e8624 whatever again.9519eb357d5c9894

He grabbed his phone while lying down. The top-ranked videos on the video site were all occupied by the Yoon Yichae controversy and compilation videos of Yoon Sookyung’s terrible acting.7603b98d8ceb5a7b

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Yoon Yichae was an actor who had never had a single dating rumor since his debut. Kim Jungwoo would repeat, with saliva flying, that Yoon Yichae was definitely gay whenever his name came up. The reason was that it was impossible to explain how a star of Yoon Yichae’s caliber could have never had a tabloid story unless he was gay.507c0474d0325ca4

He donated 50bc215a2a hundreds of de2cdfab47 millions of 824d5dae88 won to 111d779d99 various places 113bd677c6 every year, 4b9c0d8581 and the f72d28aef0 only known a2c34c96c4 thing about 934b559d2a his private 095a7a8d36 life was 36d3a184a0 that he 0583f331b9 exercised every 502423942a evening. He was a star a5464461ff who guaranteed at least 6d6bedf721 a moderate hit with 2858588985 every project he took 1e4d76f999 on. Yoon Yichae f047e1c090 was someone 19c920ecd8 who was e5375be53c already recognized 2392948cf7 as being 429272a470 on another 61630c0c21 level by c3814fd727 the public 6a079e26bd and the ef1f3741d0 industry and d28928e429 was not 60ff128ae4 easily touched. That flawless image, 6627108cda which he had d65bbae450 maintained for a 8709394b4a whopping 16 years, 9299757322 was instantly tainted 53f1097084 by allegations of 1fbdfa5605 nepotism.e4723a6cf269020d

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[Myyy love has! Loved youuu!]

As soon as 91f54d31df he clicked on c81489c618 the latest video, ed68a42c01 a shrill voice 6c5e590579 pierced his ears. Soogyeom, frowning deeply, held 19c70099ba the phone away from 9df51d18a8 his face. In the small bfce96a0be screen, Yoon Sookyung e5cdfabc1c was distorting his e5709232f2 face as he 9fe382ddb8 practically yelled at fba71f165b the actress.eb399aec91a4c60d

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The biggest factor was probably this strange way of speaking. Yoon Sookyung pronounced all ‘ae’ vowels with a long sound. He couldn’t clearly distinguish between the pronunciations of ‘s’ and ‘d’, and he ended sentences with exclamation marks and question marks in the same way. In other words, he just shouted first.f3adec352a31fc72

Did he live abroad or something? It doesn’t sound like a dialect. Soogyeom skipped through the video with an indifferent expression. The next thing that popped up was a video of Yoon Yichae as a child.230f4c8fe9bb5b08

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“……”da910cfc05b72639

Sixteen-year-old Yoon Yichae was f9ab991b79 shedding tears. Large eyes with deep-set 79bb9cf68d double eyelids, eyelashes wet 8fb78df00d with tears and separated 874291aa60 into strands, black and 15e5bf2e32 round pupils trembling like 26200cbe70 the moon reflected in b53d384ee6 water. His lips, beaten ab0a0d71cc and bloodied, and 6937769b86 his fingertips, turned b1e7d9f543 blue, were pitiful 0c7dfe23c6 just to look 13abf7ee19 at.9bee867eb689f12d

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If the quality had been better, he would have been able to see the camera lens reflected in his pupils. That’s how clear and deep his gaze was. A young boy who covered his mouth with both hands as white breath escaped, unable to call out to his mother as she walked away.29399a9813838d2d

Brothers can be 510ceae4ad so different.Soogyeom concentrated 33561e9880 on the c3397ce02b screen with 43984c341f his mouth 47e80b2baa shut. Yoon Yichae 6b7497ee3e was someone 9343684aed who was ece741860f born to 57b2aa3b08 be an c106b6cd92 actor, anyone 1b94e9bd79 could see 7aa396a2c2 that. He had a beautiful 497ef1d4d5 appearance as if he 8767658bd9 had been sculpted, a d3587c873c natural talent, and even cff9ccc24d the luck to succeed. This was 23502418ff the kind 75e1712f1f of person a5e750ed5e who landed 4cce58a0c4 lead roles b4c973f5c0 and became f62427f97d a star. Someone who 81d981e242 had everything. Someone who 66833e5106 could flaunt d0f7c87696 a talent 8e8c91bb2d that no be8bd1b5d7 one could 8687cc36c5 doubt or f2c14edbbd dare to 72029d79fc belittle.c265ec348f2c568a

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The internet was overflowing with mockery of Yoon Sookyung and finger-pointing at Yoon Yichae. Anyone who said even a slightly different opinion was instantly branded as a Yoon Yichae fan and had to endure a barrage of attacks. A pebble-like question popped into Soogyeom’s head.0eca9a5a10e8c701

Did Yoon a45429c378 Yichae not dfe6186fcb know this e7d54fad17 would happen?2d444e456996cf36

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There were many cases of stars’ siblings or children entering the entertainment industry. But even if it was just a cover-up, they at least put up a minimal smokescreen. They would subtly slip into small roles, or reveal their family relationship as if it wasn’t intentional. At least, there had never been a case like this where they had deliberately deceived the public.bdaa681ad8ad90ca

Yoon Yichae’s fans now had the task of making Yoon Sookyung into a ‘stellar new actor who succeeded solely on his own merits’ in order to protect their star. But even if they succeeded, they would not be able to restore Yoon Yichae’s image to its flawless state.7b1235ceba414f46

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There was no way an actor as seasoned as Yoon Yichae wouldn’t have known. If there was a reason why he had done this despite that, it was probably…43a8e2a989d7a283

“……”1e83744d2fabc194

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Yoon Yichae’s face, as he constantly looked at his younger brother sitting next to him with a sweet gaze, came to mind, and he felt uncomfortable. Soogyeom put down his phone and pulled the blanket over himself. He needed to sleep a little more. The loud game sounds were still coming from Sookyung’s room.01718eeae1f276ef

When will it end? These tedious days.027f15a70ab629fa

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He was only able to receive the script after arriving at the set. Soogyeom’s role was an extra who flirted with the female lead in a cafe and was stopped by the male lead. Soogyeom, who quickly memorized the few lines, fell into contemplation. ‘Hey, miss. You have a killer body?’ Not to mention how old-fashioned it was, if they broadcasted such a line, viewers would bombard the bulletin board, saying what kind of backward drama this was.ad4b43970af48c72

“Wow, the lines are amazing.”ca4ce188994efdc9

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An extra playing 67218e3a5a the role of ec5b2fb5d5 a cafe employee dddb49c30b who was nearby 7cf9631ff2 whispered with a f70bdb9ba9 laugh. Soogyeom smiled back 4df7ef2c47 at him.1fed4029b83e5678

“Hey, miss. You have a killer body? Why don’t you come have a killer champagne with me instead of this cheap coffee?”1ac7a83759b6ff98

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“Seriously, this is crazy. Didn’t they say the writer is in their thirties? What kind of thirty-year-old uses these words these days?”32ada97f70636863

“‘Killer body’ and ‘killer champagne’ seem to rhyme in their own way.”6128745fb0ccb026

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The voices grew quieter and quieter as it was a conversation that would be a big problem if it got into the staff’s ears. What’s more, after the lines were over, he had to be punched in the face by the male lead who rushed at him and fall out in a dramatic fashion.4e17910a0f92a503

“Isn’t that grounds for a lawsuit these days?”d3551ea5ce12bad9

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“Easy money from the settlement.”3ab497382f94b9d9

“I haven’t done much action, so I’m not confident… Oh, I’m Choi Soogyeom.”8030aaaba049947b

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“Shin Juho. Did you come after seeing it on the part-time acting hopefuls cafe?”7a49460aef55652a

“Yeah, well.”ee2d990d00a5099c

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In fact, 49a9cf7668 it was 54c16e7651 a position 31ceb85e20 that a 037fc17dbe field staff 168f630864 member he a13723bbff knew had ab75c61c00 gotten him, 13393f73b5 but he 668ed36048 glossed over 977016ed9b it appropriately. It was better not b610ea67d8 to bring up stories aa0b4ee723 about connections when they ea7a89fa0c were in similar situations.23653267243f886a

“We’ll start filming the cafe scene. Please wait, cast members.”b8e1b2437547463b

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At the AD’s words, the crowd that would fill the cafe got up in a rush. Soogyeom repeatedly recited the lines he had memorized and fell into contemplation. How could he make these nonsensical words sound like words…? As Soogyeom rummaged through the numerous videos in his head, his eyes gradually lit up.a7b8c2d2880050e6