Even after episode one of the reality show aired, the other members’ fandoms were still saying things like Cheonghyeon should stop selling himself as an airheaded naive bottom, or that it was gross for someone who had even served in the military to act happy over nicknames like “strawberry fairy.”
What had our Cheonghyeon even done wrong?
After all that, they absolutely did not want to watch those people come now and use Cheonghyeon for the sake of their own favorites.
If it was going to be like that, it was much better to use Hyeonbaragi, who had given Cheonghyeon an enormous amount of support.
| Hyeon Pup @hyunpuppy No, I’m rereading Hyeonbaragi-nim’s stuff on Wait-Free right now?? But can someone tell me why I keep thinking of I’m a Man, but I Like Male Idols? Retweets 1,727 Likes 1,448 ↳ Yeonsangun @kingjot Are you crazyㅠㅠ lololololololololol Isn’t NamNamDol that BL novel?? The one where the fansite master is the top,,, |
| Evian @fatherang They’ve lost it again and are eating something weird… ↳ Hyeon Pup @hyunpuppy No, App-yang, seriously, look closely. Doesn’t someone fully falling for and flirting with a fifth-year flop idol, though my baby is absolutely not a flop idol, make you think of a very particular relationship dynamic? ↳ Evian @fatherang Fuck, now that you say it, it kind of does;; (Ah, why am I eating this?) |
| Hyeon Pup @hyunpuppy Just in case, I’m saying this now, I am not doing RPS with a regular person. It just suddenly came to mind and was funny lolololol Retweets 945 Likes 1,020 |
I’m a Man, but I Like Male Idols, which was being serialized to great popularity on a certain platform, was currently the most popular BL web novel in the 2D fandom.
A love story between an idol and a fan was a common cliché, but Cheonghyeon, who had had no presence and then suddenly risen, and Hyeonbaragi, the male fan who had sent him an enormous support project, were both extremely rare existences in the idol fandom.
The way the story unfolded in the novel was quite similar to the current situation, so people’s attention was also gathering there.
| Evian @fatherang <Why do you keep comparing Cheonghyeon to the bottom in a BL novel?> I keep getting this question on Peing, so I’m leaving this here,,ㅎ Honestly, isn’t it better than foreign-fan weirdos making delusional shipping works pairing him with other idols? And it’s my personal account, so what’s the problem? (Yeohhi-ssi, I love you a lot, but… WooYeonri gets a middle finger.) Retweets 1,787 Likes 1,501 |
The spark that had been lit once began to blaze. Hando and Yoonwoo’s fandoms, who had thought Hyeonbaragi x Gi Cheonghyeon fanworks would briefly trend on SNS and end there, were flustered.
That was because talented creators from the 2D fandom had started seriously producing fanworks one by one.
A few big-name creators from the NamNamDol fandom had become interested in Hyeonbaragi, who had become famous from the previous 500-million-won support project, and Cheonghyeon, who had had no presence for six years before suddenly rising.
| Jeon Woochi 2 (multifandom art account) @JEONWOOCHI_two I’d seen this often beyond my timeline, and it looked tasty…ㅎ It’s nothing much, but I thought I should put a warning on it, so I uploaded it on Postype as adult-only. Retweets 10.2K Likes 13.1K ↳ Whoa, God-Woochi-nim ↳ Wow ↳ eng plz? who? |
In truth, the 2D fandom and the idol fandom were famous sworn enemies.
If someone changed their main fandom within the 2D side, that was one thing, but if they moved to the idol fandom, there would inevitably be people sneering, “Why is our god-tier creator into guys like that….”
Then idol fans, who had been minding their own business until they were attacked, would respond sarcastically, “Don’t you ever get hit by reality when you like paper instead of living people? :)”
Once they started exchanging sharp mentions like, “Why are you rubbing 3D onto 2D?” “Your idols are adult men, not hamsters or cats or dogs!” and “What should we do about socially stunted otaku who don’t realize that even if characters made of 0s and 1s are one thing, insulting real entertainers can get you sued?ㅎㅎ,” it would inevitably end in an all-out war between genres.
But surprisingly, the fans of NamNamDol began taking interest in Cheonghyeon without much complaint.
It was partly because the story was similar to NamNamDol’s narrative, but first of all, Cheonghyeon’s appearance was good enough to earn approval even from otaku whose standards had risen as high as they could go.
The position of the main bottom in NamNamDol was one people rushed to rub any and every slightly pretty person against anyway. If that was going to happen, it was much better for the image to settle around the handsome Cheonghyeon.
On top of that, since there was already talk of a drama adaptation, there was also a bit of hope mixed in that Cheonghyeon might appear in it instead.
So they, too, sampled the fanworks being uploaded by the big-name creators in their own fandom for fun.
| * I’ve only been stanning web novels for four years, but I heard Jeon Woochi-nim wrote Cheongfes, so I tried it for a bit?? This is really tasty… What is this? ↳ What’s Cheongfes?? ↳ It’s like turning NamNamDol into an East Gi Cheonghyeon AU?? But it’s not just a simple name swapㅠ lolololol. If you eat it mixed with those sightings of that Hyeonbaragi person, it’s insanely delicious… He has the exact same feeling as the main top, Hyeonseong. Super tall, model fit, but with a big frame… ↳ Thanks thanks, I should try it too. ↳ Please read At the End of My Gaze, It Is Always You by Keil-nim… The sexual tension is seriously insane…ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ |
As this “Cheongfes” gained popularity, Cheonghyeon’s own popularity naturally rose along with it. And in the end, “Cheongfes” even flowed all the way to Cheonghyeon.
“The End of My Gaze? At the End of My Gaze, It Is Always You… Is this it?”
He knew that his fans were doing some kind of creative activity with him, but Cheonghyeon did not know the details either. However, when “Cheongfes” appeared on the real-time trends, Cheonghyeon had no choice but to search out of curiosity.
After searching, Cheonghyeon found a novel among the Cheongfes works that was said to be the most famous and a masterpiece.
| At the End of My Gaze, It Is Always You – Part 1 – Do you have an ideal type? A: Someone with pretty lips. Even though, as an idol, he knew he should not answer such a question in detail, the words slipped out unconsciously. And at the same time, Cheonghyeon realized his own ideal type. Ah, I like people with pretty lips. |
‘No…. Why would someone with pretty lips be my ideal type? For people, what matters is their inner self.’
Cheonghyeon found it strange. Did he look like someone who would like people with pretty lips? Someone with pretty lips.
No one immediately came to mind. Cheonghyeon continued reading down the novel.
| ‘Oh, are you busy?’ The low but beautiful voice, beautiful enough to be called a fine voice, strangely created an even deeper, cavern-like feeling when it flowed through the phone line. And every time Cheonghyeon heard that low, beautiful voice, his legs kept going weak. Every time he heard that voice, he felt the sensation of riding a Viking ride and dropping from high up toward the ground in an instant. It was his ears that heard the sound, but what trembled was not his eardrums, but his lower abdomen. Ah, this again d….. |
“Wh-What is this?”
His trembling fingers hurriedly dragged the scroll bar upward.
There was an “adult” label next to the title. But Cheonghyeon squeezed his eyes shut at the euphemistic expression that anyone could understand, even if they were not an adult.
Who on earth were his fans pairing him with? He wondered if it might be the members, but there were no hashtags for pairings with his members. Things like HanHyeon or YoonHyeon, for instance.
‘Surely, surely they aren’t pairing me with my manager.’
Fortunately, his manager’s voice was just like an ordinary adult man’s.
His lips were not pretty at all either. Then who could it be?
He had even worked hard and filmed a reality show for his chemistry with the members, so how could a CP with this unknown person be ranked first by popularity…?
Letting out a deep sigh at his fans’ incomprehensible taste, Cheonghyeon calmed himself down and scrolled down again.
| He wanted to keep feeling that voice as they talked on the phone, but unfortunately, hyung laughed as if this trivial matter was all there was and ended the call. It could not be helped. Cheonghyeon entered his familiar fan cafe and found one username. As Cheonghyeon read the posts hyung must have worked hard to write with those white, long fingers, he imagined it. He was a fan, yes, but they had already known each other for years. Imagining those white, long hands that he could now picture even with his eyes closed made heat surge up again…….. |
“What? What is this?!”
On the screen of the phone he had thrown without realizing it, embarrassing words he could not bear to say aloud were floating around. There was no name or title for the person in question, but Cheonghyeon knew immediately.
The person paired with him in this novel was definitely Hyeonbaragi. And this piece was an extremely explicit one of a level he had never seen before in his life.
It was so blatant he could hardly bear to look at it. It was the moment when the fans who had always only seemed cute suddenly felt unfamiliar.
Ding.
Ding.
Just then, when the message tone rang from his phone, Cheonghyeon jumped in fright.
He hurriedly picked up the phone again and saw a text from his manager, asking whether he was eating properly, blinking brightly on the screen.
Cheonghyeon calmed his violently pounding heart and gave a rough reply. His blood-drained face showed no sign of color returning.
The royal family’s sex education had been fairly strict.
Because it was treated like an academic subject, there was no suggestive atmosphere at all, and the education was based on professional content.
Due to the previous emperor’s promiscuous sex life, his siblings and he had received especially strict education.
The concubines, worried that their children might grow up and walk the same path as the previous emperor, were united in thoroughly educating the princes.
Also, the education in bedroom techniques that came after sex education mainly focused on “how to satisfy one’s partner.” But this novel smashed his sexual values apart exactly as they were.
He was the one on the receiving side with Seoan.
Cheonghyeon wanted to faint on the spot.
But the desire to faint only lasted a moment. Cheonghyeon quietly picked up his phone, opened the page again, and carefully began reading on.
As though he had become one with the bed, he lay there without moving and read every single part, the first, middle, and last.
He could not tell whether it was fun because it was a story written about him, or because this was his first time reading an adult novel like this.
To Cheonghyeon, who had only ever received proper, formal sex education, Earth’s unfiltered explicit fiction was an enormous stimulus.
His reddened face was burning hot all the way down to his neck.
If someone saw the current Cheonghyeon, they would close the door again and tell him to continue whatever he had been doing.
But there was no one in the dorm to say that to Cheonghyeon, who was there alone, and without anyone disturbing him, Cheonghyeon was able to finish reading the novel.
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