Idol Administrative Officer Chapter 24

T/N: The chat bit is a mess, it switches back and forth from the dating show to the house viewing one

At Cheonghyeon’s words, Yeonhee thought of her dad, too.

The day after she came home thrilled from riding bikes with her mom, when she would groan with muscle pain, her dad would press a warm wet towel firmly along her calves. She liked it so much she would pester her mom to take her out biking again.

Even when her muscles had built up and it was no longer hard, she would pretend to be hurt because she liked the warm compress, and her mom would back her up, saying ‘our Yeonhee must have overdone it today’. 

Her nose stung for no reason. Ah, I miss Mom and Dad.

“When you say stuff like that, you look really different.”

He glanced at Yeonhee as if to ask what she meant, and she continued.

“You just look like the type who would not care about any of this, and yet you take great care of people. When I think about it, you are the type who will get a lot of resentment. You cannot be this kind to just anyone.”

Cheonghyeon silently pressed her foot, slow and firm. Kindness, my foot.

“Listening to you babble nonsense, I guess you are finally starting to feel better.”

As they bickered and chatted for a while, they saw the cameramen approaching from far off.

“Hey, if we suddenly drop honorifics, it will look weird. What do we do?”

When Yeonhee whispered urgently, Cheonghyeon answered matter-of-factly.

“When the cameras roll, we switch back to polite speech.”

Once filming resumed, Cheonghyeon went to buy ice cream again. The day felt unusually long.


And then came the long-awaited Lunar New Year’s Day. For reasons no one could quite name, a foreboding mood spread across the communities. 

Relations between Yeonhee’s and Cheonghyeon’s fandoms were not bad right now.

But no one knew how they would change after tonight’s broadcast. This is why idol dating programs should be banned.

With a friend of yesterday possibly becoming an enemy today, both fandoms started live-posting the show.

  • ??? Is this really a dating program. Feels like little kids fighting: “My mom bought me this lol” “My dad bought me something even cooler lol”

└ Showing off clothes on your first meeting

└ But it has been a long time since we had a romance show this harmless lol

└ For real. I could not stand those corny lines everyone acts like they copied off Facebook

└ Is it okay to watch this on Lunar New Year? I thought I might be the woman crying in front of relatives watching TV, but I am grinning so hard lolol

  • I do not know about romance, just please look at the outfit he got from the support~

└ You guys do not have things like this at home, do you?

└ Our daughter-in-law glanced at what he was wearing and is smirking like she won. She is mine and even I am annoyed

└ Oh you elementary schoolers~!~!~!!~!! lolololololololol


[AKA Ko Yeonhee Gallery]

ㅇㅇ(39.7) — — hey you, head mod, open the support account right now

— Are you bragging that this is not a split wedding? We will not stand for this treatment

— I should go take a look at the in-laws’ faces, our daughter we raised so prettily…

— Head mod… the next support theme is Chanel. Our goddess declared with her own mouth she is Human Chanel

— No but this is seriously funny lolol We thought it would hurt if they were too lovey-dovey, but they are both too busy bragging about clothes

ㅇㅇ(110.70) Our goddess a week ago.jpg

Spotted on the first floor Chanel boutique at Yeonggyeong Department Store… the witness date is January 29. The day after filming lol. Looks like she was really fuming over that

— lolololol Yeonhee why are you so transparent ㅠㅠ

— When the sighting first popped up, we thought she just went shopping, but ah…

— We will buy it for you… we will buy something prettier…

— Our princess’s pride took a scratch, what shall we do?

— In a past Vogue interview she said her ideal type is a man who lifts her up and adores her, the two really do not match lol

— Do not match? After the holidays many couples divorce, turns out it was them

ㅇㅇ(175.223) Went to see the in-laws’ place, absolute chaos lol Ki son-in-law’s “My House, My Purchase” airs at the same time

— Our house deleted channel Y

— Over there they hurriedly switched to “My House, My Purchase” because “Uyounri” ads came on

— Our goddess is probably watching “My House, My Purchase” too… got to check how well he dressed there

— That is our roe deer lolol

— Hello hehe we are the in-laws ^_^ We have been lurking and watching the gallery and we have a question…! Why is our daughter-in-law’s nickname “roe deer”?

— Nice to meet you lol. Roe deer are super noisy but they are an endangered species, so precious. It means Yeonhee is precious to us even if her temper is a bit fierce lol

— So polite, like guys who act like warlords and then pretend to be gentlemen when a woman shows up

— It is a male-dominated board so the language can be rough, but please enjoy your stay lol

— We cheer for Cheonghyeon lol

— Do you people have no pride? Cut it off

— The one above: has no girlfriend, no female friends, small—

ㅇㅇ(223.32) Guys, is this a challenge?

— Ki son-in-law’s ruffled-shirt is Chanel. Pretty sure that is a formal gauntlet

— The in-laws are already in an uproar that they should send Chanel next time

— Human Chanel? My style is much. more. dashing. though?

ㅇㅇ(211.36) I missed a bit; why did the gallery suddenly turn solemn

— Ki son-in-law says he is a shut-in so he stayed home all the time and got good at interior design

— He is an ally, cease fire

— lololol It is not that, he just said because he stayed home a lot he naturally got interested

— Which is the same thing…

ㅇㅇ(39.7) Let us just give Human Chanel, fine

We will think of it as dowry… the young man’s lot is pitiable

— Our goddess is boiling mad lolololololololol

— But fangirls are really fascinating lol How can you not stan a face like that??

— For real, even a man has to stand at attention XX

— Haha, haha

— Someone please tell me how to get these above comments banned?

— He does not lose out even next to actresses lol What kind of guy has skin like that?

ㅇㅇ(223.32) That is 2.99 billion? Even after cutting 200 million it is 2.8 billion. Hundred percent the station took kickbacks to advertise

— For real lol Looks like a massive renovation

— But if you do it like that it might actually be fine, you cannot ignore a Han River view

— He really is into real estate huh, his eye is good… He pinpointed details well when touring other houses too

— It is not just interest lol That is the kind of seasoning you get from years on the ground

— Ki son-in-law says six years living as a shut-in

— Ah just hand over that Human Chanel

ㅇㅇ(110.70) Ads are over. Back to our goddess, gather up

— You crazy people, her feet

— Are you nuts

— What the—

— And they still do not take her to a hospital? Look at her feet right now

ㅇㅇ(39.7) If it was not for Ki Cheonghyeon, were they going to slap slippers on her and drag her along anyway

— You can just get the ice cream delivered, why make her go there on those feet

— They said nothing, but when Ki son-in-law said he would go alone they suddenly said that is not allowed

— If she is getting a piggyback I should feel jealous, but seeing our roe deer’s feet I am just mad at the production

— She already ruins her feet wearing high heels for every schedule

ㅇㅇ(211.36) Oh is this a hidden-camera stunt???? Wow, absolute jerks

— No one cares about “the man and woman’s secret talk without cameras”

— No wonder they insisted on going to the shop even with her feet wrecked lol Was it to get this

— ???: Ah, we installed cameras at the ice cream shop so you have to go there~~

ㅇㅇ(223.32) “Let us drop honorifics” = take off your rank insignia and let us fight, punk

— Problem is our goddess is one year younger…

— Who cares if it is one year; if she were ten years younger she would have yanked all of Ki son-in-law’s hair out

— She keeps saying “hey, you” lolol At this point she probably thinks he is the same age

Hyunpuppy @hyunpuppy: Gasp, who is the person kneading Cheonghyeon’s feet… ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ Our baby ㅜㅜㅜㅜ

Yummy @yumyum: He was born kind… I suspected it when he said “get on” like it was nothing, but this is truly sweet… I could grin even if I down an espresso right now

Hyunpuppy @hyunpuppy: Reasons I like Ki Cheonghyeon 117 times more today… of course the way he happily bragged that fans bought his clothes!! ㅜㅜ (that part was total so-cutie-boy lol) but I cried seeing him take a warm kindness someone once gave him and return it exactly the same. He is kind in a different register… ㅜㅜ

Kingjot @kingjot: Yeah, same… I declared “this man is guilty” when he suddenly said to hop on his back, but it turns out that when he was hurting someone used to carry him and rub his feet and accept all his whining, and in gratitude he did the same… How do you not love such a kind baby… ㅜㅜㅜㅠ I am sobbing for real

Winterseat @vlrhsgo: Let me summarize the part on “My House, My Purchase” where My-Sweet-Little-Kitty went off… 1) even though it was a total no-hope house ^^ he salvaged it with various interior ideas 2) when the mood pushed everything to say the house was fine, he drew a line so the guest would not pick it, saying it did not suit them lol 3) the reason he got into interiors is something he could have milked endlessly if he wanted, but he said thanks to that he was always happy inside the house

How can someone be this positive and full of love… you cute angel strawberry love baby angel ㅜㅜ

Hyunpuppy @hyunpuppy: Ki Cheonghyeon is truly guilty lololol The type who teases a girl every time he sees her, going “ugh senior Cheonghyeon always picks on me” — gives her a piggyback, then says she is heavy and nags, but actually has a huge crush… that “pretend-to-scold but really bragging” vibe lol And then you find out he is kind to everyone like that so you taste the feeling of being dumped before dating… ^^

Kingjot @kingjot: That flavor hits… There are fifty million girls secretly in love with Ki Cheonghyeon, and the next day suddenly he will ask, “How is this outfit? Pretty, right?” If you ask “What is it?” he will say, “My girlfriend bought it yesterday,” and make your heart cave in…

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