Yoon Nam-hyuk, holding a blanket with a blank expression, hurried towards the RV.

The staff and other actors on the set, seeing his unfriendly expression, all averted their eyes. They only bowed slightly when he passed by, saYoong “Actor Yoon has worked hard” or “Hello, Senior Yoon.” They didn’t even have the courage to look him in the eye.

After all, this person’s temper was notoriously cold and arrogant. He was also the movie star that the director and investors had gone to great lengths to invite. No one dared to offend him.

At the door of the RV, the assistant director chased after him, panting. “Please wait, Actor Yoon!”

He stood beside Yoon Nam-hyuk and gasped for a few breaths. “Actor Yoon, thank you for your hard work just now. If I have offended you in any way, please forgive me. I’m really sorry.”

Yoon Nam-hyuk’s lips were tightly pressed together and his brow was slightly furrowed. His fair and clean skin was flushed, it was hard to tell if it was from anger or the sun, but in any case, he looked displeased.

“It’s fine, I don’t mind,” he said lightly. “I want to rest for a while. Assistant director, you can go back first.”

Ah…

With a face as sour as that, if you say you’re not angry, only a ghost would believe you.

The assistant director was sweating profusely. He had the air of not leaving until Yoon Nam-hyuk forgave him. He kept explaining to the other party, “That, Actor Yoon, I’m really sorry. The other party is a foreigner, his Korean is not very good, and he’s a newcomer. I’ll talk to him later. This kind of thing will never happen a second time, you can rest assured.”

Yoon Nam-hyuk’s brow twitched. He was starting to get impatient with the assistant director’s rambling.

In order to make the other party leave quickly, he could only force a smile and say in a gentle voice, “Don’t worry, I don’t blame him. The space in the car was too small, and I was a little hypoxic. I was just thinking of coming back to catch my breath. Thank you for explaining to the director for me.”

The delicate and noble face softened like melting snow, with an inexplicable divine beauty of loving all living beings. The assistant director felt as if he had been pitied by a god. His heart leaped with joy, and his nervousness was instantly swept away.

“Oh oh oh, so that’s how it is. I understand. Then Actor Yoon, you should rest well. I won’t disturb you anymore!” The assistant director let out a long sigh of relief.

Yoon Nam-hyuk nodded. “Mm, thank you.”

The rambling assistant director finally left.

Yoon Nam-hyuk’s fingertips, which were clutching the blanket, had long turned white. He returned to the RV, closed the door, and locked it. The next second, he collapsed on the floor like he had no bones, his face red.

Damn it…

That guy, he’s a total bastard!

There were still marks on his ankle from where he had been pinched, a red circle that the entire crew had seen. Everyone thought he was angry about this, but only Yoon Nam-hyuk himself knew that the reason he had left the set in a hurry was because the protective gear he was wearing underneath had been pushed open.

It was just a kiss, and with so many eyes watching, he had reacted so strongly…

Could it be because of that one night?

So annoYoong…

I shouldn’t have drunk that day!

Yoon Nam-hyuk became more and more irritable and buried his entire face in the blanket.

“Can’t you be a little more restrained?”

Pyo Yoon-jeong put on an expression of unbearable suffering and stared coldly at Qi Huai, who was sitting on the sofa reading a book.

She took a deep breath. “You promised me that you would take this work seriously, right? Although no one here knows you, at least don’t… I mean, your personal image not only represents yourself, but you also have to be responsible for the company’s stock price, so please don’t be so willful.”

“Didn’t I do a good job? The director said he was very satisfied,” Qi Huai was flipping through a best-selling science fiction work, but from his expression, it could be seen that his patience for this book was about to run out.

“You know I’m talking about you and Actor Yoon,” Pyo Yoon-jeong frowned. “There are so many people on the set. If you run into someone with ulterior motives…”

“Yoon-jeong-ah.”

Qi Huai smiled gently. This face was very deceptive when smiling gently. If he showed a hint of innocence, he was simply an angel who had fallen to the mortal world.

But Pyo Yoon-jeong got goosebumps. She was very wary. “What is it? Please call me Assistant Pyo or Manager Pyo. Don’t add any other strange titles.”

It was really scary.

“Alright, Manager Pyo,” Qi Huai smiled. “You’re a newcomer to the company, and you’re my exclusive assistant in Korea. You may not understand my personality very well. I’m not like those Korean local entrepreneurs whose faces are bigger than the sky. I don’t care about this kind of social public opinion and media reports that you think are serious.”

Pyo Yoon-jeong was stunned. “Even if you don’t care about public opinion, you should care about the profits, right? Investing such a large amount of money in a same-sex work is already controversial. If your personal appearance is interpreted as a rich man’s game to pursue a big star, the partners…”

Qi Huai shook his head with a smile. “As soon as the news that GATE is about to establish an entertainment company in Korea was released, everyone thought I attached great importance to this market. Even you think I should ‘cherish my feathers,’ but I’m afraid you’ve all misunderstood one thing.”

Pyo Yoon-jeong frowned.

“The Korean market is like a plate of spicy cabbage to me. To you, this thing can be fried rice or boiled soup, and you have to have it every meal. But to me, it’s just a plate of pickles. I might not even consider it if it’s given to me for free. If it weren’t for him…” Qi Huai raised the science fiction novel in his hand and shook it with a smile, “these things would never get my investment in this lifetime, understand?”

Pyo Yoon-jeong was dumbfounded, and cursed inwardly, you arrogant bastard!

Yoon Nam-hyuk had to “rest” in the RV for a long time before he managed to stick the protective gear back on. He added another layer of tape with a red face to prevent the protective gear from coming off again in the following scenes.

It was very embarrassing.

He had debuted for many years, and it was the first time he had been kissed by a man and had a reaction, even to the point of his protective gear coming off.

Could it be because of the little incident that happened that night?

Alright, that kind of thing couldn’t really be summed up as a “little incident,” Yoon Nam-hyuk rubbed his forehead.

Half a year ago, he suddenly received an email from Director Baek Se-won. The other party sent him a new script and invited him to be the lead actor.

He liked the script, but the large-scale passionate scenes in it made him hesitate. He hesitated even more after learning that the other lead actor was a newcomer to the entertainment industry.

He didn’t want to use his years of accumulated fame to pave the way for a newcomer who was suspected of being pushed by capital, so he refused.

After the first refusal, Director Baek personally came to his door to try to persuade him. Out of respect for the director, Yoon Nam-hyuk proposed to meet the other lead actor.

The director agreed readily, but the meeting was scheduled for a month later.

Yoon Nam-hyuk didn’t understand. Wasn’t he a newcomer who was participating in a filming for the first time? He shouldn’t have joined a crew yet, right? How could he not have time? Could it be that he was even busier than him, a movie star?

Yoon Nam-hyuk politely declined such a newcomer with such a work attitude. There were many good scripts. He really didn’t want to waste his time, energy, and fame on trial and error. So he refused again.

He didn’t expect Director Baek to come to his door again a few days later, and he even brought that newcomer—a mixed-race artist named Qi Huai.

The other party was completely different from the newcomer he had imagined. Although he looked young, his personality was very calm.

Director Baek said the other party was of mixed race, but in Yoon Nam-hyuk’s opinion, besides his very mixed-race height, Qi Huai’s appearance did not have very strong Western features. At most, he was just a little more profound than an Asian.

Well, no, it couldn’t be described as just “a little.” Because the other party indeed had a kind of beauty with a high nose and deep-set eyes.

But instead of saying that the other party’s nose bridge was very high, it was better to say it was perfect, the kind of perfect that was just right, not too long or too short.

His eyebrows were also very thick, with a kind of wild beauty. His pupils were as bright and conspicuous as the stars in the night sky. If you looked closely, they even had a mysterious dark green color, as if they could suck people into their eyes.

The shape of his lips was also very good-looking, not too thin or too thick, and the color was clean and healthy. Unfortunately, Yoon Nam-hyuk didn’t have the vocabulary of a scriptwriter. He could only describe it with the subconscious reaction of “looks very good to kiss.”

In short.

He was indeed captivated.

Damn it…

It was because he was captivated that all those things happened later.

Knock knock—

“Actor Yoon, may I ask if you have rested well? The director said he wants to shoot the first kiss scene in the car again.”

“Oh, coming,” Yoon Nam-hyuk came back to his senses.

On the set.

The makeup artist was patting Qi Huai’s mouth with a powder puff…

“Actor Qi, I actually have a small suggestion,” the makeup artist suddenly said.

Qi Huai smiled. “Please do.”

“Be gentle when you kiss, okay?” the makeup artist sighed. “I know you talented actors are very invested when you act, but it’s really not easy to cover up swollen lips. Why don’t you use your tongue more to relax your lips?”

The director came over to take a look. “Is it serious?”

The makeup artist pointed at Qi Huai’s lips. “Look here and here, isn’t it a bit red? Thanks to the ointment applied during the break, otherwise the two lead actors’ lips would look like two strings of spicy stir-fried rice cakes. You don’t want the kissing scene to be called the ‘Spicy Stir-fried Rice Cake Battle’ by the audience, do you?”

Director Baek scratched his head. “Ah… it does seem a bit swollen. Didn’t we only shoot one take?”

Makeup artist: “You’re lucky, you chose two lead actors with delicate and clean skin. This kind of skin is usually sensitive, as delicate as a baby’s. So you have to be careful. Sigh, the skin of a twenty-something is so good.”

Director Baek: “I wasn’t like this when I was in my twenties…”

The makeup artist was extremely sarcastic. “A wild boar in the forest shouldn’t compare itself to the Prince of Peas, director.”

Director Baek: “…”

Is she talking about me as a wild boar?

“Director.”

“Oh! Actor Yoon, you’re here,” Director Baek smiled and made way for Yoon Nam-hyuk to get into the car from his side.

“I heard that the previous first kiss scene needs to be reshot. May I ask if there’s any problem?” Yoon Nam-hyuk kept staring at Director Baek when he asked. He hadn’t dared to look at Qi Huai since he entered the set, afraid that he would be reminded of the passionate memories of that night again.

Director Baek: “That’s right, I hope to find a different feeling.”

“A different feeling?” Yoon Nam-hyuk was stunned. “Is it that the emotion is not right?”

“Ah, that’s not what I mean,” Director Baek quickly waved his hand and laughed. “The emotion is completely correct, but your kissing style is not right. The main character is a half-Alpha. Even when he’s drunk, he’ll still be a little barbaric no matter how restrained he is. But you were a little too gentle when you kissed.”

He looked at Qi Huai. “Especially you, Actor Qi. As the active party, you need to be more aggressive. What’s the point of just using your lips? The makeup artist is right, use your tongue more and kiss more sensually.”

“I understand, thank you for your guidance, director,” Qi Huai smiled and nodded, and said apologetically to Yoon Nam-hyuk, “Yoon Sunbae, I’ll have to offend you later.”

This junior’s attitude was as usual, humble, gentle, and polite. Yoon Nam-hyuk guessed that the other party probably didn’t even know it was him that night. Otherwise, there would always be some awkwardness, right?

Or was it that he was deliberately pretending not to know in order not to be awkward? If that was the case, the other party was much more professional than him.

Yoon Nam-hyuk suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. He acted nonchalant, but his fingertips clenched the blanket in his hand again. “It’s fine, it’s all for the sake of filming.”