Chapter 28: Since When?

“’What if Eunhan and Jemin dated?’ Ha, please don’t say stuff like this.”

At Jung Woohyung’s out-of-nowhere remark, Jemin’s facial muscles creaked as if they had broken down.

‘What on earth did that crazy bastard just read?’

Not only did he read something he should have pretended not to see, but watching him lecture a fan with a face like he just swallowed dirt made Jemin feel completely dazed.

It looked like social media and online communities were going to become Jung Woohyung’s playground again today.

Truth be told, Woohyung was dumbfounded in his own right.

From Woohyung’s perspective, Jemin was unilaterally pursuing Eunhan.

How could anyone encourage and support someone who was constantly looking for opportunities to satisfy his own selfish desires?

He thought they were like annoying elementary schoolers pushing from the side, chanting, “Go out!”, “Kiss!”, “Get married!”

Even if others threw those words out as a joke, thinking of Jemin getting pleased upon hearing that meant Woohyung had no choice but to interfere.

“Hm? I think a foreign fan just used a translator for that. They probably meant they wished they could date Eunhan or Jemin.”

“…If that’s the case, then whatever.”

Yunbin spoke offhandedly, simply assuming Woohyung had misread it or a foreign fan lacking Korean proficiency used a translator.

Because it was Yunbin of all people saying so, Woohyung let it slide naturally.

Come to think of it, there was no way fans would know Jemin liked Eunhan—who was a guy—so he figured he had just reacted too sensitively.

[HanJemRealCouple: What if Eunhan and Jemin dated]

With his sharp dynamic vision, Jemin even managed to catch that person’s handle.

That person was not a foreigner.

Drunk on the overflowing HanJem crumbs, they had unknowingly typed a thought aloud into the chat, never imagining Woohyung would read it out loud.

Meanwhile, the fandom watching and recording the fan live in real time blew up into absolute chaos.

SeoEunhan.mp4 @eunhan_4ever_mp4

Please don’t do things like this during a fan live.

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An influential clip account representing Eunhan’s fanbase posted a callout message first.

RPS accounts subscribing to SeoEunhan.mp4 hurriedly removed HanJem from their profiles.

HanJemIsDead @hanjemisrealdie

Clueless HanJem trash lol.

With all the members watching, you’re busy saying shit like this?

If you’re going to put your ship above the members, just leave the fandom.

Woohyung’s remark even spread beyond the social media frequented by fans and reached platforms widely used by the general public.

[Everything About Idols Page]

Real-time.. Jung Woohyung publicly executes a fan bd..

(4 Fan Live Screenshots)

Tag a friend who likes 4ever!

Non-RPS fans were enraged, launching a fandom self-cleansing movement.

HanJemmers, who had been feeling like they hit the lottery all day, were struck by a bolt from the blue and scrambled to set their accounts to private.

A few accounts got into fights with pure-solos, engaging in keyboard battles where loser-deletes-account was on the line.

HanDogJemRabbit @handog_jembit_4ever

Since this is a private account, I’ll speak honestly, do not repost…

f*ck Jung Woohyung that crazy bastard why is he throwing a tantrum at someone else’s party?

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Jemin couldn’t check fan reactions in real time, but guessing what the situation was like made him anxious.

‘Did that bastard do this on purpose just to screw with me?’

Unlike the frozen Jemin, the other members didn’t pay much mind and moved past it as if it were no big deal.

Eunhan seemed purely excited to run the segment he had prepared himself.

“Next up is the Eunhan Ability Evaluation!”

Eunhan used a tone reminiscent of a music show host, as if he were aiming to get scouted as a special MC.

“Eunhan Ability Evaluation? What’s that?”

“It’s a segment I prepared as a surprise event~ We’re going to test how much interest you hyungs have in me!”

“I’m confident!”

Jemin felt confident because he considered himself neither lacking in quick wits nor lacking in sharp observational skills.

“I’ll ask a few questions related to me. I’ll be disappointed if you get them wrong~”

Eunhan handed out mini whiteboards and board markers to the members.

“Let’s start off light~ What is Eunhan’s MBTI?”

“Ah~ This is way too easy.”

“Even if you haven’t heard it, isn’t it something you can just write down?”

Compared to the other members writing without hesitation, Woohyung was merely making dots with his board marker.

“Please show your answers!”

James shamelessly wrote IDOL, while Yunbin and Jemin wrote ENFP.

It was correct.

Feeling like he should write something instead of just dots, Woohyung wrote something down too.

“Wow. Look at Woohyung-hyung writing the exact opposite. How am I an ISTJ?”

Eunhan laughed it off and moved on, but as the questions continued, Jemin grew increasingly bothered by Woohyung’s wrong answers.

Shamelessly claiming that the song Eunhan listened to the most lately was Jung Woohyung’s own self-composed track…

Claiming that the favorite snack of Eunhan—who had a peanut allergy—was peanut cookies…

Choosing a movie featuring ghosts, zombies, and vampires as the favorite movie of Eunhan, who couldn’t even watch horror movies…

‘Is it really okay to make it this obvious that he doesn’t care about a fellow teammate?’

Jemin was certain that once this fan live ended, the relationship between their two individual fandoms would sour even further.

It would have been better if he had just drawn a single plain question mark.

Because Woohyung wrote completely wrong answers, Jemin could vividly picture Eunhan’s solo stans fuming in rage.

On the flip side, Woohyung was troubled for a completely different reason.

How could Jemin know every single one of those trivial details?

To attribute it simply to good memory, even Yunbin got a few questions wrong.

Yet Jemin got the answers right down to the exact wording, without missing a single syllable.

And across all ten questions, no less.

‘Is it really okay to make it this obvious that he’s interested in a fellow teammate?’

The Eunhan Ability Evaluation came to an end.

The results were as follows:

Jemin: 10 correct out of 10.

Yunbin: 7 correct out of 10.

James: 4 correct out of 10.

Woohyung: 0 correct out of 10.

“Wow~ Amazing!”

While Jemin was high-fiving Eunhan, his hand slipped, ending up interlocking their fingers instead.

Interlocking fingers?

Watching that sight unfold, Woohyung felt he couldn’t stand it any longer and abruptly stood up from his seat.

“Yoo Jemin, you come sit next to me.”

Everyone was taken aback by Woohyung’s sudden behavior.

Woohyung grabbed the hand Jemin was high-fiving Eunhan with and pulled Jemin toward his side.

“Stay next to me.”

Woohyung said it with the intention of telling Jemin to stop his atrocious behavior and step away from Eunhan’s side, but cut off from all context, no one could grasp his true meaning.

Yunbin didn’t know why Woohyung was acting like that either, but thinking he needed to shift the mood, he hastily changed the subject.

“It is about time to swap seats anyway, but if we do that, Eunhan won’t be in the center. James-hyung and I will go to the front row, so Woohyung and Jemin can come to the back row.”

Thanks to Yunbin’s mediation, Woohyung and Jemin were exiled to the back row together.

Pretending to move seats, Jemin turned his back to the camera and mouthed fiercely at Woohyung.

‘What’s wrong with you?’

Woohyung offered no reply, seemingly satisfied merely with having pulled Jemin away from Eunhan’s side.

Jemin was the only one dying of frustration.

‘He’s definitely venting about our fight earlier in this petty way.’

The moment Jemin sat down, he looked at the camera with a bright, beaming smile as if nothing had happened.

Meanwhile, Woohyung’s “Yoo Jemin, you come sit next to me. Stay next to me” remark caused the chat room and social media to explode into flames.

[HJZ: Good to see HyungJez ^^]

[RealEternity: Person above, don’t ship RPS.]

[HJZ: HyungJez is a public combo name? Seems like a certain group is feeling defensive after getting publicly executed? ^^]

In the chat room, delusional HyungJemmers were stirring up trouble while pretending to be innocent.

JungLeftHand @jungwoohyungisleft

Why my hyung is f*cking hilarious:

Gives insane RPS crumbs.

But gives them while looking totally disgusted with a ruined face.

Blocks fan service but feeds them content anyway.

He’s a weird bastard.

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MyHyungYourHyung @myhyungyourhyung

List of things my hyung is good at:

Slamming the door and leaving.

Shutting his mouth and eating meals.

Debuting as an idol and hating his fans.

Blocking fan service while handing out crumbs.

All these impossibilities are made possible.

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On social media, anti-fans obsessed with clout were turning it into a meme.

• Anonymous121: We’re honestly blameless, you fed it to us.

• Anonymous122: Doesn’t my hyung lowkey get insanely jealous lol, it’s not just once or twice.

• Anonymous133: Saying “please don’t say stuff like this” was probably him yelling in anger after seeing HanJem lol.

• Anonymous124: Tsk tsk, your member made it obvious he hates it, yet you still want to consume RPS?

└ Anonymous76: Who cares if he hates it, I like it.

└ Anonymous98: What Jung Woohyung hates is HanJem, he never said he hates HyungJem.

The online communities turned into a complete mess.

HanDogJemRabbit @handog_jembit_4ever

That bastard held a funeral for HanJem and then why is he pulling that shit, f*ck I’m so dumbfounded, anyone who stans Jung Woohyung please block me, no I’ll just go around blocking people myself, I’m so pissed I can’t even speak.

HanJemmers poured out their resentment on private accounts.

They had been absurdly suppressed because of a single HanJemmer who carelessly typed a comment, only for Jung Woohyung himself to say something with bizarre nuances, driving everyone collectively insane.

ForeverWoohyungie @foreverjungwoohyung

Why did Jung Woohyung read a useless comment again and blow things up to this point…..

OurHyungLoveTeam @woohyungsarangdan

Sigh, Jung Woohyung really is a lunatic attractor magnet, every single person stanning him is completely out of their mind.

Even if I want to self-cleanse, everyone’s acting like that so I’m losing energy.

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LiveAsYouLike @liveyourlifeasyoulikes

If you’re a Woohyung fan you know too.

You can’t endure stanning Jung Woohyung while sane.

What can you do, it’s his karma.

Only Woohyung’s pure-solos were burning up inside.

“I’m seriously leaving Jung Woohyung’s fandom this time.”

After saying that, they would watch Woohyung’s solo vertical cam video, and in less than an hour, restore the account they had just deleted.

Without knowing the complicated situation the fans were in, Eunhan’s birthday fan live came to an end.

Even after it ended, they had to listen to Yunbin preach about being a bound destiny community for about two hours, though it didn’t work on Woohyung in the slightest.

In the end, their cold war continued all the way until they arrived back at the dorm.

It seemed like the day would pass with things remaining uncomfortable.

As Jemin lay in bed, closing his eyes to sleep, Woohyung spoke to him.

“Hey.”

Though they had shared a room for a few months, they had barely conversed during that time.

Since nothing good was likely to come out of it anyway, Jemin chose to keep his eyes shut and sleep.

“…….”

“You’re not sleeping, yet you’re not answering.”

Woohyung reached out toward the switch to turn on the room light.

Jemin squinted his eyes, watching him before hastily answering.

“What.”

If they had to talk anyway, it was better to converse without looking each other in the face.

Hearing Jemin’s voice, Woohyung sat on the edge of the bed and asked in a serious tone.

“…Since when was it?”

“What?”

Woohyung let out a deep sigh before continuing.

“Liking Seo Eunhan. Since when was it like that?”