“I am, enormously. I’m genuinely, truly moved.”
Hyde turned her head and grabbed Carbon’s arm, pulling it toward her. Carbon obediently leaned his upper body down, and his face came level with Hyde’s lips. Hyde happily pressed kisses all over the face that had come to her. Peck, peck. The endearing sound carried through the microphone and reached viewers clearly.
⏰ 9:00 P.M.
After finishing a simple dinner, Hyde stretched both arms above her head and murmured,
“Ahh, I need to wash up…… haah, I’m so tired…… I don’t even want to move a finger……”
“Should I wash you?”
“Mm…… no. I can’t!”
Hyde had been about to nod when she caught sight of the camera and startled. But their exchange had already been captured and broadcast. The comment section moved fast again.
While the two were washing up, the empty living room was shown on screen. But thanks to the fast-forward editing, Carbon came out of the bathroom near the living room and entered the frame. He was wearing…… a rather adorable set of pajamas.
Even wearing pajamas that looked so mismatched on him they made viewers feel secondhand awkwardness, Carbon showed no embarrassment about his appearance. The occasional glance at the camera suggested he was aware of being filmed, but he didn’t seem particularly self-conscious.
Carbon sat at the dining table and checked his phone. His expression as he read through backed-up messages was completely neutral, showing no emotion whatsoever.
But Carbon managed not to ignore them and kept up with the messages despite his indifferent face. Viewers were curious who he was talking to. The production team apparently felt the same, because an interview clip was inserted.
Carbon’s private life was so little known that many people were curious who he was close to and what he did in his free time. The PD couldn’t contain the burning curiosity and went over to whisper something to Carbon, then announced they had permission and put the message history on screen.
Viewers who saw the name of the person he was texting went wild in the comments.
Hero Milopy was someone who had once been the subject of romance rumors with Carbon. And now here the two of them were, texting. Of all times, when his partner Hyde wasn’t nearby. The stimulation was too much. Ratings spiked again in an instant.
The dry message history had not a single undercurrent of excitement. If anything……
It was an anticlimactic ending to the exchange, but the ratings that had gone up didn’t come back down.
The message window disappeared and the screen returned to Carbon’s living room. Hyde had apparently finished her shower and came out with a towel wrapped around her hair. The moment Carbon spotted Hyde he set his phone down without a second thought and went to her.
“You’ll catch a cold if you don’t dry your hair properly.”
Carbon sat Hyde down at the vanity and carefully dried her hair with a blow dryer. The way he checked attentively that it wasn’t too hot or that his hands weren’t hurting her looked out of place with his imposing frame, but somehow not strange at all, and viewers watched with fascination.
⏰ 11:00 P.M.
Only after every strand was thoroughly dry did the two move to the living room. They turned on the television and sat on the sofa, but the sitting arrangement was far from ordinary. Hyde settled between Carbon’s legs as naturally as anything, leaning her back against his chest. Carbon wrapped his arms around her waist with equal ease and adjusted their position so she was comfortable.
After that, Hyde was absorbed in the television. She laughed out loud when something funny came on. Carbon, on the other hand, spent more time looking at Hyde reacting vividly to the show than at the show itself. His relaxed face with the small smile at the corners of his mouth felt unfamiliar to viewers.
A warm atmosphere settled over them as they enjoyed the rest, but it didn’t last long. Hyde let out a small yawn, and Carbon checked the time and said,
“Time for bed.”
“Mmh……”
Hyde tilted her head back to look at Carbon and murmured with a hint of reluctance,
“Tonight…… there’s a camera, so I guess we just sleep.”
Carbon’s eyes narrowed. He let out a slow, heated breath, then spoke in a low, thick voice.
“Brace yourself for tomorrow.”
“Oh.”
Hyde bit her lip as though suddenly nervous. Carbon raised his hand and touched her lips. Then, as though unable to help himself, he bent down and took the small lip being pressed under her upper teeth into his mouth.
“Mm……”
Hyde’s body tilted and tipped back until her back met the sofa cushion. And Carbon, climbing over her……
The screen that came back a moment later showed Hyde, her face soft and languid, being carried in Carbon’s arms to the bedroom. Carbon laid Hyde down, pulled the blanket up over her, and turned off the bedroom light.
The darkened room. Two shapes barely visible through infrared, holding each other close, and the screen gradually faded to black.
The next scene showed Carbon and Hyde sitting side by side against a clean background. It was the closing interview that ended the broadcast.
Hyde listened to the PD’s words, thought for a moment, and answered carefully.
“Well…… it was my first broadcast appearance so I was very nervous and worried about a lot of things, but you filmed us so nicely and edited it so well…… thank you.”
Hyde speaking shyly with a faint blush on her cheeks was endearing. When the staff murmured ‘Aww, so cute,’ she heard it and her face went as red as a tomato.
Hyde covered her red face with both hands and turned to look at Carbon. Her round eyes looked up at him desperately, hoping for some kind of rescue, and Carbon, who had been rubbing her back with an arm stretched behind her, opened his mouth.
“This was my first time on a show like this, and it was more enjoyable than I expected. Enough that I’d want to come back if there’s another opportunity.”
At Carbon’s words the PD immediately got excited and rushed to say,
Stamp! You’re all witnesses
The cheerful caption appeared large on screen and then disappeared, and the camera capturing Carbon and Hyde smiling at each other slowly zoomed out and pulled away.
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