after scouring through guwon’s channel for around 30 minutes, he finally gets up and gets ready for the day. ***

yoo joonghyuk contemplates on sharing this channel on his own stream, but decided against it. that wouldn’t be fair now, would it? what if guwon didn’t want to be known by that many people? would he even handle the bullshit half his chat even says? he doesn’t want to think about it.

he subscribes, then looks through the channel to find more about this guwon. he unfortunately doesn’t find much, just that he began streaming just a month ago and that it always lasts for around two hours. at least he had a decent following of a thousand. that’s a bit unfair— he should have more.

soon enough, just as he sings the chorus, yoo joonghyuk’s eyes fall shut. when he wakes up, it’s right on time, but his phone’s battery has been depleted to 4%. he jolts up, quickly plugging it in and turning his phone on. luckily he was still on the stream and autoplay hadn’t kicked in.

even guwon’s laugh sounded nice in yoo joonghyuk’s ears. he could hear a keyboard being typed on before guwon clears his throat. the first notes of the song comes in, and yoo joonghyuk lays back on his bed. he places his phone just beside his head as he allows guwon’s voice to fill the silent air.

then he realizes he’s on his side account and his heart rate returns to normal. “hm? a new chatter, thank you.” guwon’s voice perks up despite it sounding a bit tired just a while ago. “eyes, nose, lips? one of the classics, i see.”

when the song ended, guwon laughed, then thanked the chat who spammed clapping emojis. “it’s getting a bit late,” guwon whispers, “i’ll do one last song.” without thinking, yoo joonghyuk types: :eyes, nose, lips. then he panics briefly.

now, yoo joonghyuk is no singer himself, but he can tell that whoever this guwon guy was, he was really good. it was in acapella, no background music, and a shitty mic. but he didn’t even need those. not with how beautiful his voice sounded.

there were only about 14 watchers, but if they were all watching at the same time, why not? the moment he pressed on it, he’s greeted with a melodic voice singing one of those ballads he’s heard in passing from kdramas.

it all started one night, he couldn’t sleep after a stream. it wasn’t new, having sleepless nights, but he couldn’t risk that now since he had somewhere to be tomorrow. while doomscrolling through his phone, he sees a random channel called “guwon” that was live at fuck-o-clock in the morning.