He was standing backstage looking at the monitors when he felt a presence beside him before he heard a voice.

“You know that I envied you, right?” 

Yonghwa looked at the owner of the voice to see that it was Jinwoon. 

The man didn’t look back at him but continued to speak. “I really did at first. It was torture sitting in that studio to watch you have what I can only hope to have. But as it ended I was somehow thankful. You did what a lot of us couldn’t do. You did the hard work and I could possibly reap the benefits as I am her friend and do not have the same complications that you have having been on the show.all I thought I had to do was reap the benefits.”

Yonghwa strained his eyes on the screen as well, it seems like it was that kind of conversation. One that you needed to have but didn’t want to have. “And you are reaping it now?”

Jinwoon gave out a small, bitter laugh. “Actually, I was expecting you to be there. Everyone was expecting you there, not me. I can see it in their eyes, in her eyes, even though she didn’t invite you. I don’t know what you did to win them all over.  All the gogumas you planted are growing and they ar