Harmonious Love

Yang Qi Thief (3)

Mo Yeon stared blankly upwards, captivated by the indescribable, mysterious feeling he had also experienced in the classroom.

The face that everyone openly praised as handsome was right in front of him. Really right in front of him. It was close enough, even too close.

As he felt the man’s head approaching his nape, Mo Yeon quietly thought.

Ah, this isn’t right, is it?

Goosebumps rose as he felt the breath on his neck. Mo Yeon half-raised his knee to crush Tae Young-won’s sensitive area. At the moment lips sucked on his nape, the woman who realized the situation shouted sharply.

“Tae Young-won! What are you doing!”

It was then that the lips holding his flesh detached stickily.

“…”

“…”

Mo Yeon blinked rapidly, and Tae Young-won seemed to have realized the situation as well.

“Um, I’m sorry. He’s drunk…”

The woman’s voice was heard from behind him, but Mo Yeon was still trapped in Tae Young-won’s arms. Having realized the situation, Tae Young-won quietly looked down at Mo Yeon.

His gaze slowly moved downward, and upon discovering something, he raised one eyebrow. Mo Yeon didn’t know what he was looking at.

“…”

Soon after, when they arrived at their intended floor, he was easily pulled away by the woman’s hand. They seemed to find the recent incident amusing and were laughing. Through the closing door, Mo Yeon could see the woman repeatedly hitting his back.

“You’re crazy, Tae Young-won, how could you mistake a man for…”

It took less than 10 seconds for the door to close and open again.

Mo Yeon recalled someone’s voice saying that he was a devout believer, and that no one at their school had ever seen Tae Young-won dating a woman.

He had thought it didn’t match his appearance.

He began to think that perhaps a considerable number of the rumors about him might be false.

It felt somewhat intriguing, as if he had glimpsed one of Tae Young-won sunbae’s secrets, who seemed flawless.

“…!”

At that moment, Mo Yeon noticed the bulge in his own pants.

Simultaneously, he remembered Tae Young-won looking down at him earlier. …Crazy.

“What is this.”

He sighed, rubbing his nape where Tae Young-won’s saliva had been. He wasn’t a kid anymore, yet he reacted like this to such a minor stimulus…

Despite never having had any sexual contact with people in his life, he felt as if his body had become oversensitive due to ghosts touching him in strange ways.

Fortunately, the elevator that had gone up to the wrong floor closed again without any people or ghosts boarding. Thinking that this officetel was pleasant, perhaps because of Tae Young-won’s presence, Mo Yeon pressed the button for his missed floor.

Even after showering, he had to masturbate in a really unwilling mood because of his unsubsiding erection. The fact that he recalled the sensation of Tae Young-won licking his nape at the moment of climax was absolutely not his intention and was something that made him feel mortified to death.

And from then on, strange things began to happen.

The nosebleeds that had been occurring frequently in the early mornings since that day stopped completely.

***

No matter how he thought about it, it seemed to be because of Tae Young-won. The nosebleeds stopping.

Although he had always been physically weak, it wasn’t to the extent of having nosebleeds every night. Chronic headaches and nosebleeds were symptoms Mo Yeon had only recently started experiencing.

He had already visited shamans several times, led by his mother’s hand when he was young, and alone after becoming an adult.

Every time, he couldn’t find a fundamental treatment method. In short, they told him he had an unfortunate life that would end prematurely unless he constantly carried talismans and performed rituals, which required giving them money. He often returned feeling upset, treated like an inexhaustible source of income.

He didn’t want to believe that he might die, and he didn’t want to bring up his deteriorating health to his parents, who only occasionally sent pocket money and had rarely seen him in person for some time now.

At some point, Mo Yeon’s decision to stop looking for a solution was a form of minimal self-defense. If he was truly destined to die early, it meant that any effort would be futile anyway.

Nevertheless, after his contact with Tae Young-won in the elevator a few days ago, Mo Yeon could recall an item he was forced to buy at a shaman’s house he had visited for the first time a few years ago.

‘Yang Qi Bumbum Talisman.’

Although he couldn’t read other people’s energy, honestly, that phrase immediately came to mind.

Among the shamans Mo Yeon had met, some said that the reason he was tormented by ghosts was due to excessive yin energy. What he heard then was so infuriating that he still vividly remembered it.

“Aigh, what can we do about this yin energy flowing through your entire body? With your energy in this state, ghosts will harass you, thinking you’re their friend.”

“What? Friend?”

What friend!

Of course, Mo Yeon had lived without friends for over 10 years now. Although he had never had a close friend, he knew well enough that that’s not how you make friends.

“I don’t want to be friends with them.”

“Whether you want to or not, your energy is like that, I’m telling you.”

He couldn’t understand at all. Who suddenly shoves their face in front of you to be friends, covers your eyes when crossing the street, and torments your nipples during class? He was already sick of being harassed by ghosts every day, and now they’re talking about friends?

“Yin is the afterlife, yang is this life. Looking at you, your energy is so ominous, your yin energy is just like that of a monster or a ghost from the nine hells. How did a boy… I can’t do anything about this level of yin energy. Instead, at least carry this talisman I’m writing for you!”

“What? No…”

“Yang Qi Bumbum! Here’s the talisman you ordered. Payment on your way out-.”

Although he hurriedly tried to refuse, the Yang Qi Bumbum talisman was already carefully placed in Mo Yeon’s hands. In the blink of an eye, he had already been led to the reception desk by the employee.

Unlike the powerful grandmother spirit the shaman served, the shaman herself seemed to be a veteran service industry professional, her skills were impressive. He was fleeced of 800,000 won right before his eyes that day.

Of course, carrying the talisman had no effect at all. Like people in scary movies, there were no incidents of being possessed by ghosts, but ghosts still chased him when walking at night, and he was still harassed during class.

During this time, Mo Yeon’s gaze towards Tae Young-won changed slightly.

The fact that he was good at sports, that people flocked around him, and even that different women from the one he saw that time frequently visited his home.

Now it all seemed to be because of the overflowing yang energy from Tae Young-won.

‘Is Tae Young-won sunbae really a person overflowing with yang energy?’

If yang energy was truly what he needed, then Tae Young-won would be the person Mo Yeon envied most in this world.

If one side had to be overflowing, I wish I could have been like Tae Young-won sunbae.

Mo Yeon couldn’t withdraw his curiosity about Tae Young-won sunbae, or more precisely, his interest in his yang energy.

“…Ah, my glasses.”

He realized he had forgotten his glasses only after the elevator had already arrived.

Mo Yeon still had to apply something to his hair and couldn’t wear glasses when working part-time, due to Hyejung’s request. Unlike usual, he was wearing a white shirt today, and Saturday was a full-time work day from lunch until closing time.

Going out without glasses wasn’t very appealing, but these days he wasn’t tormented by ghosts as much, so he thought it would probably be fine. Mo Yeon checked the time and got into the elevator.

Ding-.

But the elevator doors soon opened again shortly after. The person revealed was none other than Tae Young-won sunbae.

‘Oh? Yang energy.’

Honestly, since meeting Tae Young-won, Mo Yeon’s mind had been filled with thoughts of yang energy, so naturally, that’s what came to mind the moment he saw the familiar face.

The nosebleeds that hadn’t occurred for days after their last encounter had started to return.

‘I woke up at 3 AM and had to pinch my nose for a long time.’

Because of that, he had tossed and turned, leaving dark circles under his eyes.

Seeing the yang energy right in front of him, Mo Yeon unconsciously felt a sense of regret. He licked his dry lips with his tongue.

Is he going to meet a woman again? Acting like he goes to church and isn’t interested in women at school.

It was the same place where he had first experienced the yang energy a few days ago. The difference now was that the two of them weren’t touching.

‘Does it only work if we’re in contact, like a wireless charger?’

Curious, he looked again and noticed that today, Tae Young-won was dressed quite sloppily. A tight black short-sleeved shirt and black training pants with white stripes. The difference from his appearance at school wasn’t just due to his clothes. His indifferent, cold-looking face also created quite an unfamiliar atmosphere.

Of course, he wouldn’t recognize Mo Yeon. He probably wouldn’t even remember their drunken encounter. He had treated Mo Yeon like a stranger every time they met at school, being outwardly friendly but extremely indifferent to others in reality.

“!”

At that moment, Mo Yeon’s eyes were drawn to a long, distinct outline in the left pocket of Tae Young-won’s pants.