Harmonious Love

A Perfect Lie (11)

***

Mo Yeon was not a fool who could be easily caught or lacked agility.

It was natural, given that he had been chased many times in his life, and he thought he was quite talented at running away.

And Tae Young-won had completely overlooked the fact that Mo Yeon had this kind of talent.

He must have thought it was obvious where Mo Yeon would go. And thankfully, Tae Young-won didn’t scrutinize Mo Yeon’s retreating figure to the end. He had no doubt that Mo Yeon would go straight home.

With his temperament, he must have been quite provoked throughout their argument, and whether he ran up the stairs or took the elevator, Mo Yeon being caught was a 100% guaranteed future.

It was a wiser decision to confuse him and then hide by diverting his attention.

So after firmly squeezing Tae Young-won’s abs, Mo Yeon only pretended to enter the building, but quickly changed direction at the door and hid. So he didn’t actually take the elevator, nor did he even enter the building entrance in the first place.

“…”

Instead, he was well hidden between someone’s carelessly parked bicycle and the bushes. There was a trash can next to him, but that made it an even better hiding place, less noticeable.

It’s not like he was obviously trying to lure him to follow, and there’s no way he’d just go into the officetel like that.

‘He didn’t notice, right?’

Mo Yeon, crouched next to the trash can, was holding his breath quietly. Seeing Tae Young-won oblivious to everything, he felt a sense of satisfaction.

Thinking about it again, entering the officetel that way would have been a judgment so careless that even the “cat” he had babbled about wouldn’t make. Let alone a human like himself making such a stupid decision.

But there was an unexpected variable.

Tae Young-won should have followed into the officetel, but even after quite some time had passed, he was still standing in the same place.

‘What is he doing there?’

Mo Yeon, who had only intended to hide for a very short time, began to feel perplexed as Tae Young-won showed no signs of leaving.

His eyes, focused as if observing the enemy’s movements, blinked slowly but couldn’t take their gaze off one spot.

…Huh?

And a moment later, something surprising happened.

“Shit.”

Bang!

Tae Young-won, after heaving a big sigh, had banged his head against the wall.

“…!”

Mo Yeon’s eyes, which usually didn’t show much change in expression, widened more than ever.

He had only intended to hide and observe in case Tae Young-won came to catch him.

He definitely didn’t mean to see such a sight. He didn’t even know Tae Young-won would act like this. Especially doing such strange things like banging his head against the wall…

Occasionally, he could hear sighing voices.

“Haa, shit, shit…”

After a while, the banging stopped, but Tae Young-won still leaned against the wall with his head for a long time. Most of the intermittent muttering voices were curses expressing frustration or sighs.

“…”

Afterwards, Mo Yeon, hidden like a black shadow, watched Tae Young-won for a long time.

And like a shadow, he silently disappeared.

Tap tap tap. Tap.

The sound of typing on a keyboard echoed through the dark and quiet living room. Unlike Tae Young-won’s house, Mo Yeon’s house was tightly wrapped in curtains, blocking light even during the day.

Today was a day when he would go to work a little late and close the store before coming home.

After studying for the certification he had decided to get this vacation, he finished preparing for work on time and sat at the dining table. What Mo Yeon searched for was none other than a matter directly related to life.

[How to recharge yang energy]

The portal site where he searched the keyword with a face expecting nothing was full of information that was of no help at all. Most of it was useless food recommendations.

“…Bear paw soup?”

Still, with nothing to lose, he had been spending his carefully saved food budget to try all sorts of foods. Last week he tried sea penis, the week before that silkworm pupae soup, but they were all useless. And bear paw soup was a food he was encountering for the first time.

Should I try it once?

New food piqued his curiosity, but that didn’t mean he was looking forward to it.

No matter what he ate, squeezing Tae Young-won’s forearm once was much more effective. Honestly, food didn’t seem to have any effect at all.

Yeah, if food could do it, I wouldn’t have done those things with men in the first place.

“Sigh.”

Mo Yeon pushed the laptop away and lay face down on the table. A worried sigh escaped without him realizing.

“Do I really have to meet another man…”

With no other options, his thoughts had been drifting in that direction lately. The problem was that he really didn’t want to do that. He’d rather pin his hopes on bear paw soup once again.

At the same time, a familiar voice echoed in his mind.

“I really should get it back.”

My pigeon T-shirt.

His eyes, muttering absent-mindedly, were full of worry. For the past few days, Mo Yeon’s mind had been filled with memories of his past conversations with Tae Young-won. He had asked to make up with him.

At some point, he seemed to think of this as a fight. His attitude about leaving home and all that was really ridiculous.

As much as he couldn’t understand Mo Yeon’s way of thinking, Mo Yeon felt the same.

He thought he had pushed him away enough to feel bad. If it were him, his pride would have been crushed already. Especially since someone like Tae Young-won was being rejected for over a month by someone as insignificant as himself.

In such a situation, where else in the world would you find someone who so shamelessly keeps begging to be sex partners?

He knew he was shameless and without conscience, but Tae Young-won was far more extraordinary than he had expected.

He kept saying he couldn’t understand Mo Yeon, but Tae Young-won was just as difficult to predict.

‘Me, fighting with Tae Young-won sunbae.’

He couldn’t help but laugh hollowly.

Someone once said that if the two of them fought, Tae Young-won might split his head in half.

Even to him, it seemed impossible for a fight to happen between them, so it felt strange to hear such words from Tae Young-won’s mouth.

And thinking about making up and all that, he was reminded of something Tae Young-won had said a long time ago.

He was really good at talking nonsense.

Maybe his shamelessness came from his vigorous desires. He could only vaguely guess.

Naturally, Mo Yeon’s gaze fell on the clock and he sighed lowly. Looking at the time, it was already time to go to work.

“I should go buy new glasses.”

With that thought, Mo Yeon reluctantly got up from his seat.

He might have to wear horn-rimmed glasses again soon.

The state he felt in his body was changing day by day.

***

Plop, drip drip.

No sooner did he feel something flowing than blood dropped heavily onto the soil.

“…Ah.”

Mo Yeon quickly lowered his rolled-up sleeve to cover his nose. Of all times, he was tidying up the restaurant’s flower bed, so his dirty hands weren’t free. Still, there should have been tissues in the storage room.

He entered the storage room, fumbled to turn on the light, and searched for tissues. By the time he managed to pull out a few sheets with his fumbling hands, he had already ruined his clothes.

“…Just great.”

Lately, ghosts had been bothering him more often in restaurants and on the streets, and he had been having trouble sleeping. But he thought nosebleeds were still far off. While checking his clothes, Mo Yeon closed his eyes in irritation. For now, stopping the bleeding was the priority.

‘I guess squeezing Tae Young-won once or twice isn’t enough after all.’

It was just confirming once again what he had been feeling every day. Tae Young-won’s existence, which already disturbed others’ minds, was this significant. He probably doesn’t know anything about it.

And he shouldn’t know in the future either.

What was even more unbelievable was that in the past, he had felt an amazingly liberating feeling from just that small amount of yang energy. But now, it doesn’t seem to be enough, so he understood why they say human greed is endless.

From the beginning until now, it was all because of greed. Going back to the original state after letting go was indeed not easy.

As time passed, he couldn’t shake off the feeling that he was being reckless. Honestly, he was starting to feel his limits.

He was being reckless, potentially beyond what he could handle, just because he didn’t want to rely on Tae Young-won again.

Even though the reasons to rely on Tae Young-won were far greater than the reasons not to.