Harmonious Love

A Perfect Lie (6)

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“Mo Yeon, no, ah, teacher…”

From the moment it happened, Tae Young-won couldn’t believe it. How could a person suddenly do such a daring thing?

“Huh, yes!”

“Do it one more time, Mo Yeon… okay?”

His head was tingling with excitement, and he was so deeply immersed that he forgot even his own imaginary scenario and focused on the act. In fact, this was an exceptionally rare occurrence for Tae Young-won.

“Do it again, I said kiss me, Mo Yeon, okay?”

He whispered continuously to the head he was embracing while thrusting his hips even more forcefully. The parted lips were too busy gasping for breath and moaning to easily do as he wanted.

Tae Young-won pressed Mo Yeon’s lips firmly with his finger. The soft lips parted and enveloped his finger. As he pushed his tongue between the parted lips, the briefly paused hip movement resumed.

Strictly speaking, their first kiss had happened even earlier.

At a time when Mo Yeon couldn’t even imagine that the gay person he encountered in the officetel elevator was his junior from the same department, he had already kissed Tae Young-won first and run away. It wasn’t the first time their lips had met, but the situation was completely different from then.

Since then, while getting to know Mo Yeon, Tae Young-won’s eyes had often been drawn to his lips, but he thought he really couldn’t kiss him. It wasn’t so much that he couldn’t do it, but rather that it was the one remaining shred of his dignity. He hadn’t even thought about wanting to kiss first, and perhaps that was natural.

Because he was only temporarily responsive to Mo Yeon, an exceptional gay, not an eternal one.

Sex was one thing, but kissing was another story. Tae Young-won swore to heaven that he had never once thought about wanting to kiss Mo Yeon.

If kissing wasn’t particularly thrilling with women, how could it possibly be enjoyable with a man? Rather, even just imagining it for a moment was so awkward and alien that it gave him goosebumps.

With a soft sucking sound, their lips parted stickily. Mo Yeon was now hugging Tae Young-won’s neck, looking longingly at his lips. A red tongue licked the wet lips between the slightly parted mouth.

Tae Young-won sighed with a serious expression.

This is bad.

It’s not unpleasantly chilling at all.

“Wow, what should I do…”

Tae Young-won’s lips curved smoothly as he muttered a curse under his breath. His eyes were still fixed on Mo Yeon’s face. His gaze, which had been sweeping down his face, finally reached the bright red ear tips. Tae Young-won’s eyes sparkled darkly.

A moment later, he lowered his head and took the lips in his mouth again.

That night, seeing Mo Yeon quieting down and blushing when their lips met, Tae Young-won thought that maybe, just maybe, Mo Yeon’s feelings had truly changed.

***

One day, Mo Yeon suddenly asked.

“Sunbae, don’t you not need to do that so diligently?”

It was around the time when the onslaught of assignments and exam period was about to begin. Tae Young-won was standing in front of the mirror, and Mo Yeon, having finished getting ready much faster as usual, was sitting on the sofa watching him.

He looked quite cute, having finished preparing and ready to leave at any moment with his bag on.

“Do what?”

“Grooming yourself.”

Grooming? Tae Young-won held back a laugh and asked, thinking it was a bit of an exaggeration to hear while fixing his hair and clothes.

“What do you mean?”

“You know very well yourself.”

“No, I don’t understand right now.”

Of course, he couldn’t possibly not know what Mo Yeon meant, but Tae Young-won deliberately asked, not missing the opportunity.

“Sunbae is…”

Mo Yeon stared at him intently with a serious face as if choosing his words, then said quietly.

“You’re already quite handsome naturally. Even without doing all that.”

As expected, he never disappoints. His answers were always beyond expectations.

“Really? Am I quite handsome?”

Even as he repeated the words to himself, a laugh escaped. When he looked at Mo Yeon with a playful smile, this time Mo Yeon nodded calmly.

“Yes. I’ve heard many girls say that sunbae is handsome.”

“Wow, I didn’t know that.”

“And there were also some who asked me about sunbae.”

Tae Young-won’s eyebrow twitched.

“Who approached you when I wasn’t around? Can you tell me in detail?”

Tae Young-won gently persuaded Mo Yeon with a soft expression and voice.

He was somewhat aware that such unpleasant incidents occurred from time to time. But this was the first time he heard it from Mo Yeon’s mouth.

“Uh…”

Perhaps sensing a somewhat chilly atmosphere, Mo Yeon hesitated for a moment. But soon, confirming that his mood was the same as usual, he opened his mouth.

“It happens occasionally, but a few days ago it was a bit awkward. Someone said they wanted to drink with sunbae and get close, and asked me for tips. They kept following me, saying they’d buy me a drink, and that was awkward.”

“Are they crazy? Who is that bastard? What year are they in?”

“I don’t know their year, but…”

At some point, the two of them walking together at school had become quite a natural sight for those around them, and for the two of them as well.

Mo Yeon was very wary of strangers. Especially when meeting other people, he would come to Tae Young-won’s side and tightly grasp his arm or subtly hide behind his back. How satisfying that was.

To think that there was someone who followed such a person around, pestering him to drink without Tae Young-won knowing!

How shocked must he have been!

After organizing his thoughts for a moment, Tae Young-won warned Mo Yeon with a very serious face.

“That bastard is definitely a pervert, so don’t hang out with them. Understand?”

“You don’t even know who it is.”

“Especially don’t go to the bathroom together. Do you know their name?”

“Their name? Just a moment.”

Mo Yeon then took out his phone. Tae Young-won couldn’t help but be surprised.

“What? You even exchanged numbers?”

“Yes, because they happened to borrow my textbook.”

“You lent your textbook?”

You didn’t even lend it to me, but you lent it to some unknown pervert? Staring at Mo Yeon’s crown as he tapped on his phone screen, Tae Young-won forced a smile.

“Mo Yeon, don’t you really hate it when strangers talk to you? Especially, you’re the type to really hate it when someone asks to borrow a book more than anything else. You should rudely snap at them saying ‘Who are you to borrow my book?’ and ignore them, right?”

“How did you know? I used to be like that.”

How do I know? Because I’ve experienced it firsthand.

From what Tae Young-won had gradually learned since first seeing Mo Yeon, Mo Yeon was a bit more generous about lending school supplies like pens or mechanical pencils than textbooks. He was also much cooler about requests to tear off scratch paper or regular paper.

So at that time, he thought that perhaps the level of rudeness varied depending on how troublesome it would be if the item wasn’t returned.

The memory from back then suddenly came to mind, but he had no intention of bringing it up. It would be embarrassing.

“So how did they manage to borrow your textbook?”

“This time they were more persistent because it was about sunbae, so I just lent it because it seemed like it would become annoying. I got it back the same day, so I should delete this contact too.”

Glancing at the phone screen, he saw a name saved as ‘Accounting Principles Textbook’.

“They must have called and texted you to return the book.”

“I was going to, but I got it back right in front of the lecture hall two hours later. I knew when that class was anyway, so I just went to get it when it ended.”

Tae Young-won nodded with satisfaction.

As expected, the rudeness hadn’t gone anywhere. He was just sitting there with new glasses and slightly cuter clothes, but it was still alive and well beside him.

He couldn’t help but laugh at the thought of Mo Yeon making calculations with his little head and going to retrieve the book like a loan shark.

And a moment later, Tae Young-won could see in real-time ‘Accounting Principles Textbook’ being deleted from Mo Yeon’s phone contacts.

“It’s good to clean up unnecessary numbers right away.”

“Yes, and you might get an unexpected call soon. In exchange for lending the textbook, I told them to go and talk to sunbae directly about drinking.”

“I like this about you, Mo Yeon.”

“…”

While patting Mo Yeon’s head, Tae Young-won felt relieved. It’s not easy to recognize Mo Yeon’s charm. Now that he had recognized it first, wouldn’t it be better if he continued to be the only one to know?

For the first time, he had found a junior he wanted to look at for a long time and cherish, and to that extent, he wanted to cherish him exclusively as much as possible.

“This is what you do when you’re dating, right?”

“Huh?”

“I heard that you shouldn’t let someone ask you out for drinks alone. And not to give out your number.”

Tae Young-won answered blankly.

“…That’s right.”

“I thought so. That’s what I heard.”

The expressionless face turned to look out the window.

“Then sunbae, you won’t drink if you get a call either.”

Even after saying this quietly, Mo Yeon was still looking out the window. Watching that side profile silently, Tae Young-won’s brow furrowed slightly.

…Does he like me, or not?