“It’s been a while since I’ve been here.”

Kang Tae-han and Yoo Se-ah return from a walk in Bukhansan Mountain. The restaurant the two went to for dinner was a meat restaurant where they had eaten together for the first time before.

“Iknow, right. Whoops.”

The spacious yard and nice interior are nice, but each room is separated, so it’s a good place to eat comfortably.

Yoo Se-ah, looking at the yard through the window, put her hand on her mouth and let out a simple smile.

“Can I grill some meat for you?”

“No, it’s fine.”

Soon after, when the meat you ordered came out.

She waved her hand quietly to send the employee away, then grabbed the tongs resting on the plate.

Today, instead of entrusting it to an employee, nor to Kang Tae-han, Yoo Se-ah herself intends to burn it herself.

“Can I bake?”

“What can’t you do?”

Yoo Se-ah carefully asks for permission. Then Kang Tae-han nodded as if it were natural, and a spleen look flickered on Yoo Se-ah’s face.

Chiyiyi… … .

Beef cooked over hot charcoal fire.

Piece by piece, the skirt trimmed to an easy-to-eat size went up on the grill and soon began to ripen to an appetizing brown color.

‘This is it.’

Has it been that long?

Yoo Se-ah moved the meat that was judged to be cooked to Kang Tae-han’s side, and Kang Tae-han said, ‘I’ll eat it well’ and picked up a piece of meat.

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Lightly season with salt and take a bite.

Yoo Se-ah was quietly watching Kang Tae-han, who was slowly mumbling, with an expression of tension and anticipation mixed in half.

“… how about it?”

“Is it delicious?”

Kang Tae-han answered her question in a plain voice.

The gravy is intact, and the grilling is appropriate.

At the same time, it is not overcooked so that the meat does not become tough… It is a piece of meat that has kept the middle point well.

In terms of steak, would it be about medium rare?

Kang Tae-han gave an honest yet short impression of the juicy and rich taste that oozes out the more you chew.

“… Phew, I’m glad.”

Yoo Se-ah smiled at those words, and then put on a relieved expression as if she had let go of her tension. At that exaggerated reaction, Kang Tae-han let out a chuckle.

“What are you so nervous about?”

“Actually, I practiced grilling some meat.”

Not long after she started meeting Kang Tae-han, when there was something to grill, Yoo Se-ah would go ahead and grab the tongs.

Whether it’s a private meeting or a dinner party on set, I’ve been practicing while accumulating experience points in my spare time.

“… If you eat with Taehan, Taehan always cooks for you.”

The reason I practiced so much was extremely simple.

just… He also wanted to grill Kang Tae-han some meat. Because I always ate what was baked.

“It’s meat, it’s just that if someone grills it, you eat it with gratitude.”

“Yeah, but… Taehan is so good at grilling meat. I couldn’t help but be a bit concerned. It makes me a little nervous.”

At Kang Tae-han’s words, Yoo Se-ah smiled and said.

It was nice to see that smiling face again, so Kang Tae-han looked at it for a while with a smile on his face.

“Oh right.”

In the midst of grilling meat over charcoal again.

As if she had suddenly remembered something, Yoo Se-ah lifted her head and looked at Kang Tae-han.

“I should have said this earlier, but I remembered now.”

“What is it?”

“that… There’s a concert we asked to go to, do you remember?”

At her words, Kang Tae-han thought for a moment before opening his mouth.

“Yes, it was an A1 concert, maybe?”

“That’s right, A-One.”

A1 is a famous singer-songwriter.

A singer who often sings popular songs that are comfortable to listen to and easy to sing along to. Thanks to that, there are many hit songs, and even Kang Tae-han, who is not very interested in these fields, can memorize the chorus of some songs.

‘I heard that concert tickets are especially valuable.’

Kang Tae-han said that Yoo Se-ah had received the ticket through an acquaintance, so in fact, he said, ‘I have a ticket, so let’s go.

Recalling the memory, Kang Tae-han nodded slowly.

“But why?”

“I can’t go to the concert.”

“Well… I can’t help it if it’s a job.”

If Seah Yoo had to cancel the appointment, it would be a fairly important event. The moment Kang Tae-han was about to think that way, Yoo Se-ah lightly shook her hand and added a word.

“It’s not like anything happened or anything like that, the concert itself was canceled.”

“Cancel? Do you think something is going on?”

Yoo Se-ah moved the finished meat to the edge and said in a slightly bitter voice.

“Why, a few months ago there was talk of A-One vocal cord nodules, right? I remember that there were many articles about it at that time.”

Taehan Kang nodded. I remembered it because it was the time when I was browsing the Internet news a lot.

“I haven’t heard it myself, so I don’t know for sure, but according to the words of the older sister who helped me get tickets, it seems that it seems to have gotten better after recovering.”

“okay.”

It’s a vocal cord nodule… … .

It is a symptom that naturally follows people who use their voices a lot. Whether it’s a teacher or lecturer, a singer or a voice actor.

However, the latter is more fatal than the former.

In the case of vocal cord nodules, there are many cases where the tone changes even if it is restored and cannot return to the original voice. For those who make singing or acting their business, this is a serious problem that may require them to retire.

‘It must be difficult.’

Most of the vocal cord nodules can be recovered naturally by simply not using the neck… If it’s to the point of canceling a concert I was preparing for, it must mean things aren’t that good.

Hearing the bad news from the few singers he knew, Kang Tae-han made a sad expression and touched his lower jaw.

“Then, will you come to the houses that day?”

But it’s not something for you to worry about.

Kang Tae-han put aside his thoughts about A1 and immediately started thinking of a schedule to replace the concert.

“A housewarming?”

“Yes, I am moving next week.”

Kang Tae-han spoke calmly as he dipped the meat he picked up in salt. At those words, Yoo Se-ah hesitated for a moment as if she was lost in thought, but then naturally clapped her hands.

“Then I should prepare a present too!”

“You can come empty-handed.”

“Ah, how would you do that?”

Speech and hand gestures that seem natural at first glance.

As if she couldn’t hide all of them, the tongs in her hand and the tip of her mouth trembled slightly.

‘What should I do when I go to my boyfriend’s house?’

My first relationship with Kang Tae-han.

Of course, it’s the first time I’ve been to my boyfriend’s house.

In fact, if you think about it, it might be a new thing while camping together and going to the pension, but it was enough to embarrass Yoo Se-ah.

* * *

“Chief, are you watching Moorim Hunter these days?”

“Moorim Hunter?”

Choi Seong-hyun sitting on the sofa as if lying down.

When he asked indirectly, Chief Hwang, who was sitting across from him and was organizing documents on his laptop, raised his head as he answered in a sullen voice.

“Put out the carrots, dude!”

However, he responded in an instant with a voice that was full of tension. Just looking at the reaction, you could tell how deeply he was interested in this topic.

“These days, the Moorim Hunter form has come up a lot. These days, I live by watching one episode every week.”

Moorim Hunter, a popular webtoon serialized on famous platforms.

I went through a proper stagnation from the middle of the day, went on a long-term hiatus, and I thought I would be forgotten like this… After returning a few months ago, the form started to return, and now it was considered a popular webtoon in name and reality.

[Fortress Moorim Hunter’s form is crazy ㅋ ㅋ]

[Lㅇ I thought it would fade after a long hiatus, but after coming back, it feels like the taste has come back to life. The setting is solid, and the development is tight.]

This kind of praise was what the majority of readers, not just the two, said. Can we say that we have succeeded in making a complete leap forward?

“Hyung, do you have any secrets?”

“Wow, this hyung’s skin has improved a lot. If you have something good, don’t be alone and share it!”

“Didn’t I tell you the other day?”

And Lee Byeong-ho, a webtoon writer who is serializing the Moorim Hunter.

After meeting some writer acquaintances after a long time, he put down his half-empty soju glass and said in a laughing voice.

“There is a hermit master who makes real massage amazing. I think I told you guys too?”

These days, I hear similar questions whenever I meet officials. Every time that happened, he was honestly telling the story of the giyeon he had met.

In fact, I came to know about this place thanks to being introduced to it by the PD in charge, but I thought it would be too narrow-minded to hide it.

“Ai, what about the hermit master? If you don’t want to tell me, just say no, don’t talk nonsense.”

“It’s real, ma’am. If you don’t want to believe it, don’t.”

The acquaintance who heard the words gave a stoic answer, but as if this kind of reaction came out not once or twice, Lee Byung-ho waved his hand with a nonserious expression.

“I make reservations every time these days and go often… Do you feel like there is such a thing as real energy and blood when your head is clear and your creativity is just springing up?”

“… Hey, where is that?”

“Did you see me talking empty words? You know why, writer Zion? The artist who draws ‘Age of the Gods’.”

“Among the webtoon writers, there is no one who doesn’t know Shion.”

Speaking of ‘Age of the Gods’, it is one of the most popular and representative webtoons that has continued from the beginning of the webtoon to the present.

Although he went through a slump for a while, he was evaluated as having found his original intention again as the recent episode came out with high quality.

“He is also a regular there. There was an opportunity to introduce them by chance, but after that, he just kept going.”

“… By any chance, when is that?”

“That did… Was it two months ago?”

At that, the man had a puzzled look on his face.

Two months ago, it was just around the time the recently acclaimed episode had started to come out.

“Aren’t you going on a long hiatus this time too? Don’t be deceived at this point, go and have a look. It’s direct bread when you break through the blockage of serialization, really.”

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Lee Byeong-ho said while eating a piece of pork skin on the grill as a snack. It was a calm tone, as if it didn’t matter.

In fact, how many people are going to see it in person just to hear these words? I just asked him, and he gave me an honest answer.

… However, after hearing his words, the number of people who visit and see him increases by one or two.

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Let some time pass like that.

Rumors began to circulate in the webtoon industry.

Rumors about a massage therapist who is said to pierce blood and spur creativity if you visit when the development is blocked and take a break… … .

* * *

“… how was it?”

“what?”

A clean black SUV just out of a car wash.

When the manager, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, asked a sneak peek while looking in the rear-view mirror, a sullen answer came from the back seat.

“It’s the result of the examination, what? Would you like to ask something else now?”

“… It’s the same, what.”

The man still spoke in a sullen voice.

Of course, he knew what the manager was asking. He was just reluctant to answer. He looked outside with a bitter expression, then rolled down the window and started to get some fresh air.

“hey! Why are the windows down? What if someone takes a picture?”

“Giggle, no, how do you take pictures on the highway?”

Park Si-joon, who is more famous for his stage name A1, a man, laughed lightly at the manager’s words.

“Hyung is having a hard time too, he went all the way to Daegu because of me.”

“… What. When you were walking around the festival for a while, you went on a nationwide tour all day. Do you remember coming from Busan to Seoul at dawn then to Yeosu again?”

“ha ha ha! Oh you know! How can I forget that?”

To the manager’s words, Park Si-joon replied with a smile.

The two have been working together for several years. There was such a bond between the two that you can relate to many memories with just one sentence.

“My brother is sick, and I am on my way to the hospital, what… … .”

So, even though the manager’s expression looked bright, he couldn’t help but feel bitter inside.

Park Si-joon’s vocal cord nodules suddenly worsened.

After a long period of not saying a word, the vocal cord nodules themselves have been somewhat healed thanks to… The changed tone did not return.

Should I say that it feels like it has been restored after being broken?

It feels like two steps down from the existing tone.

Of course, there is no problem with normal communication, but it was evident when he sang.

For a while, I thought I was still not fully recovered, but… I didn’t even have that expectation anymore.

[The vocal cord nodule itself seems to have recovered without any problems… It seems to be difficult to return to the tone.]

What I heard from a doctor at a hospital in Seoul.

As if those words weren’t wrong, I went to different hospitals and went to places recommended by other singers, but I couldn’t find any solution.

“… Brother, it’s okay.”

Park Si-joon said in a calm voice, perhaps recognizing his feelings after seeing the sunken back of the manager.

“Whatever you do, you can open a shop. Singing is my hobby.”

His voice was calm, but both Park Si-joon himself and the manager who was listening knew that it was something he hadn’t even thought about.

In the first place… He has endured a long life of obscurity, saying that singing itself is good. The manager’s expression was even more pitiful because he understood the complicated feelings better than anyone else.

“… Hey Sijun.”

“why?”

“Is there a rumor I picked up at the broadcasting station the other day?”

The manager spoke in a light voice.

“What are the rumors?”

“That means there is one really amazing masseuse. Actor Cho Chan-hyeok’s migraine was also cured by him, and Lee Han-geon seems to have benefited a bit.”

Park Si-joon nodded slowly.

“… therefore?”

“Actually, I was worried too, but I made a reservation just in case.”

The manager glanced at Park Si-joon’s face in the rearview mirror and said as if adding:

“It’s this Friday, so come visit.”

“Well… … .”

To be honest, I’m not looking forward to it.

By now, I had already tried too many things to believe such rumors. Hospitals recommended by seniors, folk remedies that were said to be effective… However, all of that was to no avail.

Are rumors just rumors?

Or is your symptoms that serious?

Either way, I’m exhausted now.

“Eggplant, what?”

However… Even so, the manager hyung took care of it to the best of my ability. Park Si-joon smiled casually and nodded happily.