He stared like he was going to burn through the screen, but the artist messages Go Youngin could see were all of that.
No matter how much he kept scrolling down, there were no new messages.
He really hadn’t typed anything after that.
‘Fuck… are you serious. No, think. Don’t tell me this was when Marble had only just launched.’
“Don’t you have anything else you want to send?”
“What the hell am I supposed to send from here.”
“…Are you always like this when you text people too?”
“Yeah. Probably?”
“…Riiight.”
[ Condition 20│A kind idol leader gladly helps members. ]
‘…So “kind leader” was actually code for “babysitter”? I’m losing my mind. You want me to spoon-feed even this?’
The time of Kyeon Inwoo’s last Marble message: 30 minutes ago.
The Marble message before that: a month and a half ago……
Go Youngin, who was sick of explaining that not everyone was going to “understand” this kind of thing, quietly opened the camera on the phone he was holding.
Sure, most fans liked that he showed up without warning and didn’t nitpick, but it was still paid content. If their idol didn’t show up as much as they expected, or if the replies felt half-assed, there were always fans who’d curse him out.
Go Youngin made a vague shooing gesture like, move back a bit, and framed Kyeon Inwoo in the camera angle.
“Hold still for a sec.”
The face angle was fine, he was barefaced but his skin was fine, the filter wasn’t too much.
His hair wasn’t styled, but he had his cap pulled low—this was probably good enough.
Apparently the two years of doing this hadn’t gone anywhere, because even without being told more, Kyeon Inwoo automatically looked into the lens and struck a pose.
So you’ve got at least a flea’s worth of conscience. Sure.
If I’m doing this, you should at least pretend you’re doing it right too.
‘But if Kyeon Inwoo just uploads on his own, I don’t even have to do this for him.’
Worried he’d keep bothering him with this kind of thing, Go Youngin brought it up casually.
“Wouldn’t fans like it more if you took photos yourself and uploaded them?”
‘Stop waiting around for someone else to do it for you and handle it yourself, you bastard.’
“Still better than Pyo Jaeho. That guy doesn’t listen even if you tell him. I at least pretend to listen.”
Kyeon Inwoo drawled in an irritatingly smug tone.
Because of what he said, Go Youngin’s gaze finally drifted to Pyo Jaeho, sitting in the very back seat.
Taller than Kyeon Inwoo, with an expression that practically had taciturn written on it.
Zero One’s only minor, and the youngest.
Pyo Jaeho, who’d just looked away from his laptop and was stretching his neck, heard Kyeon Inwoo’s comment and flicked his eyebrow.
“It doesn’t matter as long as I show it through music.”
‘What is he even saying now.’
It wasn’t wrong to say he’d pay them back with music, but being an idol wasn’t a job where doing music well was enough.
Go Youngin had only heard one sentence, but he was already afraid of Pyo Jaeho opening his mouth.
‘Don’t tell me he’s….’
Meanwhile, Kyeon Inwoo—the one who’d caused this—just shrugged like he didn’t care.
This bastard? Go Youngin didn’t want to see another warning window, so he spoke in the least combative tone he could manage.
“…Still, you need to at least put on a show. It’s not like our job is only making music.”
“I don’t get why I have to talk about stuff with no substance. Instead of wasting time saying that, I should focus on my work and produce better results. In the end, what fans want from us is good music and performance.”
Pyo Jaeho genuinely looked like he didn’t understand. Then why did he say he wanted to be an idol?
“You’re not wrong, but not every fan likes idols only for that.”
“Idols are artists too. If you do music, you should be good at music first.”
“…….”
“…….”
Silence again.
The truth was, Go Youngin just hadn’t paid attention enough to know, but fans already had a rough sense of Pyo Jaeho’s tendencies.
Kyeon Inwoo, at least, did it properly when he did do it, but Pyo Jaeho…
IsPyoJaehoAlive @P_AREYOU_DEAD
It’s not like Taejae not showing up is a one-or-two-times thing
But at least, as a human being, give a “still alive” check-in
I’m not even asking for a selfie
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PyoParrotEvenIfHeDies @Mydaegal_X
Replying to @P_AREYOU_DEAD
But what if he actually shows up with a selfie then what do we do
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IsPyoJaehoAlive @P_AREYOU_DEAD
Replying to @Mydaegal_X
No way, don’t say creepy shit like that
There was so little interaction that even Pyo Jaeho’s own personal fans reacted like, “Did something happen?” if he showed up. If Go Youngin had known this, he might’ve actually grabbed the back of his neck and collapsed.
‘Yeah. Let’s not talk.’
For the sake of his mental stability, Go Youngin decided to focus back on what he’d been doing.
Click, click. Normally, even if he took a ton of shots for an upload selfie, he couldn’t pick one he was satisfied with, but this bastard looked good even when shot casually.
Of course, that didn’t mean he actually shot him carelessly. With a face like that, don’t go wasting it.
After shooting Kyeon Inwoo, he also took a few selfies himself. Those were for a separate SNS upload.
It was their 2nd anniversary and he still hadn’t properly greeted anyone.
He picked one photo from what he’d taken and sent it to Kyeon Inwoo.
Kyeon Inwoo, reading the room, uploaded to Marble.
After confirming out of the corner of his eye that Kyeon Inwoo had uploaded properly, Go Youngin posted separately on SNS too.
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Reply’s late ’cause I was getting ready for schedule lol
Here’s a gift instead
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[Anonymous Entertainment Chat] Ha… Kyeon Inwoo is seriously a fucking lunatic… I liked it [35]
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Anyone who saw Kyeon Inwoo’s Marble
Are you trying to play hard to get with me right now?
Every time I see Kyeon Inwoo’s meaningless, brutal one-word replies, I debate whether I should cancel my Marble subscription, and then a little time passes and he pulls some sly shit like this, so I lose my mind.
At this point I even start looking forward to it, like: what kind of answer is this man going to use today to make my heart drop?
Even when I was in the talking stage I didn’t ignore my phone this hard, what is this, I’m like a pet dog waiting for its owner, fuck
The dog wasn’t Kyeon Inwoo. It was me. From now on my last name is the same as Kyeon Inwoo’s: Kyeon Anonymous.
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His outfit is fucking insane too, Kyeon Inwoo, walk the cap-hat road for life and tattoo those horn-rims onto your face
└ For real, the ultimate effortless boyfriend lookㅠㅠㅠ How does that fit happen with basics like thatㅠㅠㅠ
Imagining I’m in the talking stage with Inwoo in college… Kyeon Inwoo dressed like that waiting for me in front of the library……
└ And then I confessed and he goes “Weren’t we just friends?” and I get wrecked and cry my eyes out and I want to beg him nicely, “Please date me,” and cling onto him, fuck, I love you
└ What kind of pervert is this, seriouslyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Aaaah‼️Aaaaaaah????Aaaaaaaah‼️Aaaaaaah????Aaaaaaah‼️Aaaaaaaah????Aaaah‼️Aaaaaaah????Aaaaaaaah‼️Aaaaaaah????Aaaaaaah‼️Aaaaaaaah????
└ Hey, are you using the whole comment box aloneㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Stop screamingㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Honey… I told you not to post pictures like this everywhere, what if you accidentally post our wedding photos…
└ wedding photos ezr ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Look at them casually changing their last name to get linked with Kyeon Inwooㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ Fucking hilarious, you’re transparent, so transparentㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Doesn’t this look like it wasn’t taken on Kyeon Inwoo’s phone? The photo size, the filter, it’s different from what he posted before?
└ No, fuck, he’d have to post often for us to even tell the difference
└ The filter kinda feels like the one Youngin uses, maybe it was taken on Youngin’s phone, yeah
└ How do you even figure that out? That’s fucking wild
Is Kyeon Inwoo wearing ripped jeans…? Did he prop one knee up…? Why is he staring like that with his chin in his hand…? You’re trying to go for a height-gap kiss right now, aren’t you
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ fuckㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ZER01 @ZER01_DD ✅
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It’s Go Youngin!! It’s already been two years since Aion and Zero One met. Thank you for being with us until now. I’ll work hard so I can show you only better sides of myself from now on. I love you. See you soon. ???????????? #10NZER01 #2ndAnniversary_ForeverAndEver #YOUNGIN
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[Anonymous Entertainment Chat] Someone teach me how not to love Youngin (ft. Zero One official acct) [153]
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Since it’s the 2nd anniversary, come look at our filial kitty posting a thank-you greeting with selfies first thing in the morning
What do I even do with him, he packed 4 photos in there so neatly it’s adorable enough to kill me, but look, he made every heart pose different in each cut, and the outfit looks like casual clothes so I’m losing it even more, and it doesn’t look like he’s in the van, so maybe both Youngin and Inwoo took them on the way to schedule and posted them, I swear I’m going insane, my forehead is getting slammed so hard by Go Young’s K-idol power that my turtle neck is auto-cured, why does it look like his face has every storyline in the world stuffed into it, someone please explain, also why are his hands so pretty and causing a scene, even his knuckles are pretty, fuck, when I first saw the pics I turned into an uncivilized barbarian encountering unknown new tech for the first time, couldn’t get it together in front of that insanely pretty, mega-fun face and started appreciating it down to the pixel, and then I saw the human cat politely, shyly firing off a K-heart, double-hand heart, over-the-head heart, and a bite-heart in order, and I sighed at my own stupidity, I realized I should’ve postponed zooming in to scream later and first licked it at full-body scale, if this came out as a photocard I’m sure it would’ve sold at ancestors-missing prices, and not only would it sell, there wouldn’t even be any stock left to sell, it would go down as legend, no? So what? I’m not taking rebuttals, yeah
Youngin, if you do stuff like that with a face like that, there’s nothing you can be except my husband, you know?
So anyway, someone teach me how not to love Youngin
There isn’t a way?
Ok
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He says stuff like this so pretty every time, how do you not like him, it’s Go Youngin’s fault
└ Hello, I’m in charge of “Who even likes Go Youngin”
What is this self Q&Aㅋㅋㅋㅋ what the hellㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ [OP] Consider yourself lucky I didn’t shoot you with a gun.
“See you soon” means HOXY…?
└ Obviously it’s a 2nd anniversary event but still, what if,,, ㅋ,,comeb,,,
└ Don’t say it. You’ll jinx it.
└ Fuck why are you so firmㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ you’re gonna hurt themㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Go Young looks like a withered rose carrying the world’s worries on his back most of the time, but only at times like this he goes max mischievous and turns into a rose that got way too much photosynthesis
└ I’m dying, “too much photosynthesis rose”ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ fuckㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ It’s so stupid but I get it so I’m laughing ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Ha… I’ve been staring at Youngin’s photos so long I can’t reply to my boyfriend for over an hour, but what am I supposed to do when Youngin’s face won’t let me go
└ fuckㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ boyfriend suddenly becomes “mystery: girlfriend not replying” arcㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
‘No typos, spacing checked, hashtags too… there’s nothing else I need to worry about, right……?’
After uploading on SNS, he searched up a bunch of things about Zero One.
He needed to know exactly what kind of image Zero One had right now.
It said it was a time when nothing major had happened yet, but the Status Window always had a talent for speaking vaguely, so he couldn’t just believe the words exactly as written.
First he’d search the group overall, then search each member one by one in order and get a rough sense of the atmosphere.
‘Zero One, Youngil, Youngwon, Go Youngin, 0in, KkeuYoungin, KkeuBbang…….’
Go Youngin searched everything he knew, from normal keywords to search-blocking names—so-called “search-avoidance” aliases.
Honestly, when you searched with those search-avoidance aliases, most posts were impossible to understand, but he did it anyway.
Search-avoidance names… he didn’t even want to know them.
[ Condition 52│A perfect idol must be able to grasp the needs fans want. ]
If it weren’t for this bastard. At first he didn’t even have a clue what it wanted him to do, so he wandered around lost for a long time.
He thought he’d rack up Warnings a few times, but once he at least pretended to work hard, it let it slide.
‘Fuck. Now do I have to like it just because it “lets it slide.”’
Since he could roughly figure out the members’ search-avoidance aliases too if he used his brain a little, the search itself wasn’t hard.
When he looked at reactions to the SNS post he’d just uploaded, he felt weirdly guilty like the fans were getting fooled by him too easily, and the excessive praise embarrassed him, so he scrolled down fast.
When he read posts about Kyeon Inwoo, he nodded, then hit back with a subtle expression.
‘How the hell did they figure out it was my phone……. I need to be careful about that next time too. I can’t tell if it’s a good reaction or a bad one just by the nuance.’
Thinking vaguely that he needed to be careful next time, Go Youngin started clicking into each post he could see, one by one.