Mr Mermaid | LK Adaptation

Chapter 63

Chapter 63

That night, Jungkook did not dare stay at home, hurrying back to the training base. When he returned, he asked Jaehyun and found out that Coach RM had not come looking for him. Lucky, lucky.

Still, Jungkook found that something was off with Jaehyun. Jaehyun's strange behaviour was not a sudden thing. It was just over the last two days — as soon as Jaehyun saw him, his mood would turn sour and he would be unresponsive towards him. During meal times, Jaehyun would made absolutely sure he did not sit next to him, and if he had something to ask, he'd seek out Soobin or Yoongi and the others, even going so far as to seek out Nana to avoid him.

It was so strange. Jungkook searched his memory and could not recall doing anything to offend Jaehyun, so why then did it feel like Jaehyun was... distancing himself from him?

Yes, distancing himself.

One could not beat around the bush when dealing with someone as straightforward as Jaehyun, so Jungkook asked him directly, "Jaehyun, are you mad at me?"

Jaehyun looked stunned. "Why would I be mad at you?"

"Then, are you still mad at Lisa?"

"Why would I be mad at her? Oh, she called me a mascot. Yes, I'm very angry about that. Hmph!"

So that wasn't it either? Jungkook thought of the worst possibility. "Are you interested in my Lisa? Are you planning on fighting a brother over a girl?"

Jaehyun bristled in anger. "Jungkook, are you mental?"

Jungkook spread his palms. "Then why have you been keeping a distance from me recently? Are you planning to end our friendship next?"

"I..." Jaehyun deflated. "You absolutely do not want to know the real reason."

"No, I want to know. I can only resolve the issue once I know what it is."

Jaehyun used his phone to pull up a video and showed it to Jungkook.

The video was a fanmade MV. The song and lyrics were haunting and sentimental, and then, the images in the video were all clips of Jaehyun and Jungkook interacting with each other. Hugging each other, staring at each other, smiling at each other, and so on... This fan was truly a whiz at video editing. He strung together clips of ordinary innocuous interactions and made them extremely clingy and cringey — the two men felt like their world view was crumbling around them by the end of the video.

Jungkook put a hand on his forehead. "This... just ignore it..." Honestly, it wasn't that easy to ignore it — this video had already inflicted some psychological trauma on him.

"There's also this." Jaehyun opened his Weibo and showed him some top comments.

Many of the hot comments were urging Jaehyun to become Jungkook's bride.

Jungkook: =?=

Jaehyun was sullen. "In fact, most of the comments were asking me to take you as my bride before, but after I became a mascot, now they're asking me to be the bride."

Jungkook: =?=

He suddenly felt that he had made a wise decision to not check his Weibo. If there were new comments every day urging him to take Jaehyun as his bride, he would not be able to take it.

Jaehyun said anxiously, "I don't know how to face you anymore. What if the netizens manage to make me bent?"

Jungkook wiped a drop of sweat from his temple. "Jaehyun, you're thinking too much." And even if you become gay, I am absolutely loyal to Lisa...