Impeccable (adjective): Flawless, perfect
Algorithm (noun): Computation, algorithm
Perfect matching.
“I’m pretty sure I asked you this clearly the first time we met. Which one of the two people in the photo is you?”
Kang Jin-han (27, su1), who has never once experienced dating in his life, installs an online dating app on a whim and ends up meeting Cha Jeong-yul (32, gong2). Jin-han, who somehow managed to keep up months of conversation with the highly suspicious Jeong-yul—a man with no profile picture and an unknown name—gradually begins to find his only solace in lonely city life through him.
Months later, at their first in-person meeting, Jin-han is rejected the moment they lay eyes on each other.
“Sorry, but Jin-han-ssi, you’re not my type.”
Jeong-yul firmly expresses his unwillingness to meet again, revealing that Jin-han had misunderstood every question he’d been asked up until now. But Jin-han, desperate not to lose the one joy in his daily life, blurts out,
“Well, we could still have sex, couldn’t we?!”
Unwilling to let go of Jeong-yul, Jin-han tries to negotiate any way to hold onto him.
“Hmm, my way is a bit… unconventional,” Jeong-yul replies, and Jin-han learns the real reason he’s been using the app.
“You might end up crying. Are you okay with that?”
Knowing nothing about SM3, vanilla4, or anything in between, Jin-han agrees to Jeong-yul’s proposal with nothing but blind faith that it’ll somehow work out. And so begins a relationship, with Jin-han completely unaware of the feverish emotions it will awaken in his heart.
Footnotes
- Su (수): A term commonly used in Korean BL (Boys’ Love) to denote the “receiver” or submissive partner in a romantic or physical relationship.
- Gong (공): A term in Korean BL meaning the “giver” or dominant partner in a relationship.
- SM: An abbreviation for “sadomasochism,” referring to a dynamic involving dominance, submission, or consensual pain.
- Vanilla (바닐라, banilla): A term borrowed from English and transliterated into Korean, used in romantic or sexual contexts to describe conventional, non-kinky interactions.
