“CEO, look at this. They’re praising me so much, saying I could be a singer!”
“Indeed.”
Muheon agreed with Hakyung’s excited tone.
Just as he said, the comments were all praises for Hakyung’s singing.
The views weren’t enormous, but it seemed most of the people who watched left comments.
Muheon, checking if the comments contained interest in Hakyung himself rather than just his singing, let out a hollow laugh.
How bold!
To set such a channel name in a publicly open space…
Muheon leaned down and whispered into Hakyung’s ear.
“You’re so lewd.”
“Wh-what are you talking about…!”
When Hakyung flinched, Muheon pointed his finger at the channel name.
Hakyung’s face turned pink as he saw where Muheon was pointing.
Since it was the word he sang to the CEO every day, there was no way he wouldn’t know.
But the “lewd” river dolphin, Kang Hakyung, was unashamed.
These were like his own children that he licked, sucked, and held, so he felt no shame.
Just a little shyness.
“So, you don’t like it?”
Even with his face flushed pink, Hakyung asked brazenly.
Muheon pleased Hakyung by answering, “No.”
Hakyung, smiling with the corners of his lips, rubbed his forehead against Muheon’s shoulder.
He then earnestly asked Muheon not to tell anyone the meaning of his channel name, saying it was a secret just between the two of them.
Even the selfish and brazen Muheon had no intention of blabbing about a channel name that could get him arrested for obscenity.
“Ahem!”
Hajo cleared his throat, wanting to stop the affectionate display between his brother and the CEO unfolding before his eyes.
Only then did Hakyung realize his brother was present, and he slid his bottom off Muheon’s thigh back onto his chair.
Muheon also neatly closed his mouth, which he had opened to nibble on Hakyung’s ear.
Hakyung awkwardly pushed various side dishes towards his brother’s rice bowl and then brought up the topic of the video.
“So, my video, is it, what’s it called? Algorithm? Did it go viral?”
“For that, the views don’t seem to be exploding dramatically…”
Hajo tilted his head, saying he wasn’t sure.
Looking at the comments, it seemed fans of the song found the video while searching and started leaving compliments because he sang it so well.
Since most of the comments were about Hakyung and the group members, his guess seemed pretty accurate.
That’s because, unlike the initial comments, recent ones were filled with remarks like, “Came here after seeing it on XX. Is this the video with the amazingly good voice?”
Hajo patted himself on the back, glad they chose an idol song.
Once word-of-mouth spread through the fandom, it was only a matter of time before it became a hot topic.
Seeing Hajo more excited than his brother about uploading the next video quickly, Hakyung also smiled faintly at the better-than-expected response.
He felt validated, even though he had uploaded his voice to his own channel, not Kim Taeyoung’s.
“What do you think, CEO? Can I keep singing?”
“Of course you can. Oh, now that you mention it, that works out perfectly. You can sing our wedding song, Hakyung.”
“Wedding song…?”
A question mark appeared on Hakyung’s face.
The wedding songs he knew were mostly sung at weddings… but he and the CEO had already registered their marriage.
Ah! So someone they knew must be getting married!
Hakyung, having reached his own conclusion, tried to recall songs suitable for a wedding.
A few songs famous for their romantic lyrics popped into his mind.
Even though it wasn’t his own wedding, his heart inexplicably fluttered.
He was about to ask what kind of couple they were when…
“Yes, our wedding.”
Hakyung’s eyes, along with Hajo’s, widened at Muheon’s answer.
They wondered what wedding he was talking about when they had already registered their marriage and even gone on a honeymoon.
Hajo was equally surprised.
Earlier, when his brother said he was married, there was no mention of a wedding ceremony.
So he had simply assumed they had just done the marriage registration.
As the river dolphin brothers looked confused by the word “wedding,” which they were hearing for the first time, Muheon elaborated.
“That urgent matter earlier was Hwang Ran coming from China. When he heard I was married, he said he couldn’t just let it pass and offered his hotel banquet hall. For a wedding.”
“Oh, that Yi from China…?”
Hakyung quickly shut his mouth, having been about to say “Imugi.”
The river dolphin family was still too fragile for him to reveal the CEO’s full identity.
Especially since Hajo was now a test-taker; he shouldn’t be given any mental shock.
So, it seemed best to keep the CEO’s identity a secret for as long as possible.
Muheon, who had guessed what Hakyung was trying to hide, didn’t say anything more about Hwang Ran.
However, the whining voice that had been beside him during the day still seemed to echo in his ears, causing his brows to furrow involuntarily.
Seeing Muheon’s expression harden as he talked about the wedding, Hajo subtly gave his brother a look.
Hakyung shrugged in response to his brother’s questioning gaze.
He didn’t really know much himself either.
“B-but isn’t a hotel banquet hall really big…? And it’ll cost a lot to prepare everything inside…”
Hakyung, whose bank account was practically empty after paying Hajo’s academy fees, spoke up.
What good was just having a banquet hall?
Filling it all up also cost money.
***
Hakyung, with “money worries” plastered on his chubby cheeks, looked at Muheon.
His eyes, sparkling like stars, silently pleaded that the banquet hall marriage was just an offhand remark.
It was both amusing and pitiful to see such bright eyes conveying “money worries.”
Muheon ignored Hakyung’s gaze. His contrarian streak popped out.
Muheon had thought he might politely decline if Hakyung disliked it, but seeing him fret over mere money made the thought of declining vanish.
Muheon made Hakyung gasp by replying that he had already made the reservation and it couldn’t be canceled.
Hajo, who had quickly searched for the hotel after hearing his brother and Muheon’s conversation, also gaped at its magnificent scale.
It was such a large hotel that he wondered if he had heard wrong.
“Th-this, this is really the place?”
Hajo held out his phone screen to Muheon.
Muheon simply nodded in response.
Hajo jumped up from his seat and smacked Hakyung’s arm repeatedly.
Hakyung, still reeling from the mental shock, was too dazed to even feel the pain in his arm.
It was Muheon who stopped Hajo.
He gently took Hajo’s wrist and lowered it.
“Your brother will get hurt.”
“Ah, yes. Not that… I’m sorry.”
Hajo quickly apologized to Muheon.
Muheon, who hadn’t even been hit, subtly frowned upon receiving the apology.
He was about to tell Hajo to apologize to his brother when, this time, Hakyung’s small fist pounded on Muheon.
“How, how could you decide such a big thing on your own!?”
“It was urgent…”
“Even so, it’s not like we’re living in the Joseon Dynasty; can’t you even make a phone call?”
“Ah…”
Hakyung’s eyes blazed at Muheon’s reaction, as if he hadn’t thought of it.
His round eyes glowed fiercely.
Muheon thought even an angry Kang Hakyung was pretty.
In fact, Kang Hakyung’s very existence was beautiful.
Hajo tried to stop his brother from the side, but it was no use.
Hakyung scolded Muheon with a ferocity greater than an orca’s.
Seeing the corners of Muheon’s lips slightly turn up as he was being reprimanded, it seemed to have no effect whatsoever.
Hakyung, huffing and puffing alone, eventually let out enough anger and slowly regained his composure.
With one last deep sigh, Hakyung, feeling thirsty, picked up a cup.
Muheon quickly poured water into it.
Hakyung gulped down the entire cup of water in an instant and asked again.
“Are we really having our wedding there?”
“Yeah.”
“Did the CEO agree?”
“Well… but I’m not done talking yet.”
Muheon took off Hakyung’s hat and fanned his hand over Hakyung’s steaming head.
Hakyung, taking Muheon’s care for granted, nodded his head for him to continue.
It seemed so ungrateful that Hajo’s heart sank once more.
How could he be so rude when Muheon was taking such devoted care of him!
Hajo’s heart was pounding.
On the other hand, the CEO accepted all of Hakyung’s anger, and even provided water and fanned him in case he got hot from being angry.
Seeing how accustomed he seemed, Hajo thought his brother had truly found a good husband.
Of course, since the CEO was the cause, he deserved to be submissive, but most people would get annoyed if they were scolded so one-sidedly.
The fear Hajo had felt towards Muheon moments ago shifted to his brother.
Hajo watched the two nervously, wishing his brother wouldn’t get angry no matter what the CEO said.
However, contrary to Hajo’s small wish, Hakyung exploded once again.
“Hwang Ran said he’d take care of decorating the banquet hall too. Still don’t want it?”
It was because the CEO had only now brought up the most important part.
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