After the noisy first dinner came to an end,
before long, dusk settled over the night.
Eight people on the living room sofa
sat huddled together in an awkward silence.
On the large table lay a pile of
mysterious white envelopes whose owner was unknown.
The X introduction letter
written in person by their former lovers from here, was that.
"Please have Mr. Myeong Jaehyeon read first."
Following the production team’s 안내, Jaehyeon
carefully opened his own envelope.
As he unfolded the letter paper, he playfully crinkled the tip of his nose and
began to read aloud in a low voice.
"Jaehyeon is a person full of love and affection.
So he never hesitates to say 'I love you' every day,
and he’s quick on the uptake, so when he’s feeling down, he was a tender kid who would always hold you close.
Jaehyeon is also very sensitive and gets lonely easily.
He tends to sink deep into his thoughts if left alone, so,
I hope the people around him will be the first to
warmly take Jaehyeon's hand."
As Jaehyeon read on, the tips of his ears gradually turned red, and
he gave a playful fake cough to hide the slight tremble.
The female cast members seated on the sofa held their breath and
listened closely to Jaehyeon’s low voice.
‘A person full of love and affection…….’
I leaned back comfortably on the sofa,
thinking of his bright smile when I first met him earlier that afternoon.
The man who had been the very first to speak kindly to me
when I had just come into the house and was still unfamiliar with it.
The words written in the introduction letter were
strangely similar to
the careful first impression he had left on me in the short time we’d spent together that afternoon.
As an awkward tension drifted through the living room,
before long, it was my turn.
I swallowed lightly and unfolded the paper.
"Yeoju doesn’t like causing trouble for others.
So even when something is hard,
she tends to keep it bottled up rather than say it,
so if her expression looks even a little dark,
please go up to her first and ask.
Yeoju is left-handed and sees the world from the opposite side. Please be considerate."
Before I had even finished reading the letters,
my gaze froze where it was. Earlier, while preparing dinner,
the face of Park Seongho flashed through my mind—he had wordlessly
lined up the utensils on the dining table before I had even gone up to the cutting board.
"……."
Only the faint rustle of paper echoed in the silence. I quietly folded the letter and put it back into the envelope without showing anything on my face. Seongho, sitting opposite me, also
looked away with a dry expression.
As if to break the strange atmosphere hanging over the living room,
soon Seongho, in a low voice, began reading his own
introduction letter.
"Seongho may give off a first impression that’s a little cold and blunt, but
if you get to know him, you’ll find he’s a kind and delicate kid.
When he gets into a tense situation, he has a habit of biting his lower lip for no reason or
fidgeting with something nearby.
He seems perfect, but
he’s secretly a bit clueless, so you need to look after him well from the side."
Seongho’s voice gradually faded away
with the last sentence, calm and even.
In the living room, the awkward silence that always comes when strangers first gather
quietly settled once again.
In the odd searchlight-like exchanges of that first night,
the cast members’ introduction-letter readings came to an end.
The first night back in our rooms.
The first secret-heart message vote began.
After sitting on the edge of the bed and hesitating for a long time,
in the end I pressed the name of Myeong Jaehyeon,
the one who had spoken to me so kindly during the day.
A little while later, my phone vibrated lightly.
Assuming there would of course be nothing there, I calmly picked up the screen,
and met an unexpected sentence.
[Your X has chosen you.]
"……."
I stared blankly at the screen for a moment, then let out a short scoff.
Park Seongho, who had been cold to me all day in the living room,
why he had picked me, I couldn’t understand at all.
It was a strange night—both absurd,
and making my head spin.
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[Dongmin's X is Siyoon.]
Q. How was your relationship with your X?
"…For 8 years, we were tangled up in each other like crazy,
and loved each other to the point of getting sick of it.
Maybe that’s why—I think I felt that love was a given.
But now that I think about it, I don’t want to get back together.
Was it around year 4? From then on, we fought every single day...
These days, the bad memories seem to stick with me more than the good ones."
translations length mismatch? need exact 91 entries? Let's count maybe mismatch.
