Chapter 46 - Alphie Likes You, Sir! (1/2)
”Wait, you only did this to someone you like? Does that mean you actually like me?” Cha Junshik asked.
”Oh, Alphie likes you, Sir!” Alpheus said happily. ”Alpheus really likes you!”
Cha Junshik's eyes widened. He didn't expect this werepom to actually harbor a feeling for him. They had only known each other for like… 4 days at best, and he was already in love?!
'That's not love. That's just him wanting to latch on me because I'm the only one familiar in this world for him,' Junshik concluded in his heart. He was pretty skeptical about love because he had gotten so many love confessions since he was a child.
He still remembered the girl who confessed to him when he was only 6 years old.
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”Cha Junshik, Saranghae…”
”… You're 10 years old.”
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Then, when he was 12 years old, another girl confessed.
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”Cha Junshik, Saranghae.”
”Really? What do you like from me?”
”Because you're handsome!”
”… Is that all?”
”Yes!”
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After he hit puberty and went to high school, the rains of confession started pestering him. Because he would get so many confessions, even daily, at some point.
He was basically the most popular guy in high school.
But the thing was…
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”Cha Junshik, Saranghae!”
”… we're both men.”
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He knew that he had been gay since middle school, but he never wanted to be in a relationship because he felt it was a disaster waiting to happen.
Cha Junshik was enrolled in all-boys high school, so all of the love confessions in high school were basically hundreds of boys liking him for his look.
Because… let's face it, men were visual creatures. They liked what they saw. Cha Junshik happened to fit all the beauty standards in Korea, so other than getting love confessions so many times, he also got scouted by many entertainment agencies to be an idol or actor.
But his true calling was always on academics. He loved teaching and doing research on many things. So he wanted to be an academician instead of an entertainer.
Anyway, he was so used to banal love confession that he grew numb to it.