A/N: ***DOUBLE UPDATE*** Chapter 20 was posted on Friday. Be sure you've read that before reading this Epilogue.

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~~One year later~~

Jongin’s architecture firm gradually becomes a stable success. He starts by picking up additional projects from his mother’s knitting group, becoming a regular visitor at the end of their weekly meetings, much to their delight. The women are eager to help connect him to other friends and family they know once he’s worked his way through their homes.

Between the steady leads from his mother’s knitting group, Jongin tries to find commercial gigs, too, but no one wants to take a chance on someone whose portfolio consists of only residential work. He’s almost ready to accept his firm will be doing exclusively home renovations when he gets a call: His first corporate project is from none other than Prudence. Kris specifies he’s not hiring him because he’s concerned about Jongin’s fledgling business, but because it makes sense to use someone who already understands their corporation’s ‘unique needs’ in an office. Kyungsoo and Baekhyun both insist they didn’t pressure the boss, but Jongin’s not sure he believes them.

Prudence’s business is thriving and they need to expand. The job is to help redesign a building (that looks awfully familiar) into one that’ll host a new branch office. He finds out over drinks with Baekhyun that it’s one of DD’s old buildings. The agency went bankrupt, and Kris was petty enough to buy up their properties.

With a serious commercial project added to his resume, Jongin tries to secure more corporate or government contracts, but he’s not too confident when it comes to cold-calling places or establishing new business relationships. That’s where Kyungsoo volunteers to fill in, the strength to his weakness. It starts as a favor here, a favor there. Just a doting boyfriend helping out in his down time. But Kyungsoo is so good at it, that he rapidly accelerates the number of new clients coming to Jongin, doubling them within a month. Satisfied business partners start referring their friends to him, accidentally labelling Kyungsoo the firm’s sales contact, which Jongin thinks is an excellent idea. He suggests they make it official, turning it into a permanent position.

They spend a week in serious discussions interspersed with several saucy jokes from Kyungsoo.

“You want to boss me around, sugar?”

“Should I call you Mr. Kim just in the office, or in the bedroom, too?”

After careful consideration and a few rounds of roleplay , they both agree they’ve missed spending their workdays together. Kyungsoo quits his job at Prudence. Now, he handles all of the firm’s sales, making first contact with clients, following up on leads, and giving pitches at private and corporate functions. He’s outrageously successful at getting people to sign on, even prior to meeting Jongin, using his easygoing charisma that charms every person he meets. He’s such a natural salesman, he develops way more demand than they can meet. Jongin finds he has to hire another architect, then another, then another, just to keep up with the number of projects they keep landing.

The books quickly became too complicated for Jon