What’s Meant to Be Will Be
From early morning, the community had been on fire.
No, let me correct that. It would be more accurate to say it had been burning since right after the stream ended yesterday, and probably would keep burning until the moment I went live again.
The spark was me blurting out “baby” to Si-a yesterday. Yeah. Honestly, what else was there to chew on besides that?
I turned on my phone, went into the Watch community, and tapped the hottest post.
[Wow, Jadu and Aengdu were honestly so damn embarrassing, but Hazy fixing it was god-tier]
I knew Luccia got broken by being called yeobo, so I understood there’d be no helping it, but still—Jadu and Aengdu were absolutely wild, honestly.
The fact that after saying, “Yeah, baby,” I’d asked if I’d said something wrong, then abruptly ended the stream right away… yeah, it did seem like I’d messed up. But even so, honestly, that was the good stuff.
That’s what makes the Hae-Ru couple fun to watch, isn’t it? I can’t be the only one. I’m shouting it to the world again today.
Hazy Is The One
- Honestly, it’s just these two for WGM, no question.
- lol yeah, just crushing people down purely on star power is insane
- “Yeah, baby” and five syllables was enough to make everyone lose it
- As expected, Hazy Is The One
- Finally Hazy’s normalizing the nicknames
- You’re all 100% right lol
- Honestly, whenever you’re starved for relationship serotonin, these two hit the spot.
- If she’s getting that broken from just a nickname, are they basically already dating?
- At this point there’s only people fooling themselves; nobody’s actually being fooled lol
- There was never anyone being fooled in the first place lol
- And in the middle of all that, Red and Kills already left, but Luccia stayed behind just to greet Hazy before going, which is ridiculously cute
- You know the moe point? Okay, you pass the pure-romance test.
- Ah, she has to say goodbye to her husband before she leaves lol
- No matter how I look at it, it reminds me of Haste and Yebin. Am I the only one?
- You too? Me too!
- Don’t tell me they’re doing WGM to cover up a real relationship here too?
- But there weren’t any connections between them to begin with.
- Didn’t someone Hazy knows say he knew Si-a during that explanation stream? Maybe they met through him?
- But Yura and Luccia are friends, and yet their WGM directions are complete opposites?
- That’s because of the content partner….
- Luccia + Saengsam / Yura + Hazy, and everything makes sense, right?
- Luccia + Yura / Saengsam + Hazy doesn’t work?
- Bro, are you gaygay or what….
As I scrolled through the massive flood of comments, a few caught my eye.
- Still, it’s a relief that one reason people watch the Hae-Ru couple hasn’t disappeared.
- What is it?
- The clash of two stubborn glass cannons.
- lololol
- It’s basically a battle over who breaks the other first.
- To be fair, that top comment isn’t wrong. Si-a breaking down like that isn’t something you get to see often.
- She’s only been in WGM for one day and she’s already broken down….
- Exactly. She’s only broken because it’s WGM; if not for that, she’d maybe do that once a year, tops.
- When she breaks, she covers her face and her ears go all red, which is seriously adorable. It’s my personal “this is how I got hooked” moment.
I had thought there were people who liked seeing Si-a get flustered, but I’d assumed they were a small minority.
But looking at the comments, that didn’t seem to be the case. The number of likes on that comment alone was enough to make me think it might actually be the audience’s main reaction.
It was true that Si-a getting like that wasn’t exactly an everyday sight.
“Maybe I should just go back to the original nicknames….”
Should I return to the old pet names and keep up the glass-cannon battle?
Of course, if I kept calling her that for long enough, Si-a would eventually get used to it….
But after thinking it through, I shook my head. The audience’s response was good, and more than anything, it was giving Si-a exactly the reaction she wanted.
Then maybe the right thing was to go in the direction the viewers liked. Of course, it wasn’t something I could decide alone, so I figured I’d talk it over with Si-a.
*
“Why are you talking about that after turning the stream on?”
“Because it’s when I’m going live?”
“This early?”
“Gotta practice.”
“Fair. Maybe I should turn mine on too.”
- So you’re saying you’re going back to the original nicknames?
- Hazy Is The One
- Shin Si-a
- I don’t care about anything else, but Jadu was honestly way too embarrassing.
- No matter how you look at it, Aengdu was a setup for “baby,” wasn’t it?
- lol
After turning on my stream and chatting with viewers for a bit, I told Si-a over Discord about the things I’d been worrying about. I asked whether it might be better to go back to the original way of addressing each other.
Of course, I could’ve talked it out with Si-a first and then just announced the decision on stream, but somehow this felt like part of WGM too.
Like we were adjusting things as if we were really dating.
“So, are you okay with it?”
“No.”
- Wow, that was blunt lol
- Why would she be okay if calling her breaks her every time lol
- It’s not like she breaks down every day, but it does happen pretty often lol
- Hazy isn’t exactly easy to handle either
- But when Hazy gets stunned, it lasts a long time, right?
- lol yeah
“But what can we do? The viewers like it. We should do it.”
“Good thinking, yeobo.”
“Hey!”
- lol
- It’s not hey, it’s yeobo
- Look at her going on the attack right away
- This is exactly why two glass cannons fighting is fun lol
- When I watch WGM here, the real move is to have both Hazy and Luccia open at the same time lol
- You actually know what you’re doing
In the end, we circled all the way back to yeobo and jagiya. And now baby had been added too….
Well, what else could we do if the viewers liked it? Si-a seemed to know that too, and had apparently given up. I figured she must have decided that there was nothing else to do except get used to it herself.
But would she really get used to it that easily?
“What’s the best way to get used to a nickname?”
“Maybe hearing it often?”
“As expected, my yeobo is smart.”
“Hazy, you really…!”
- lol
- Nice, that’s a good point
- It’s not wrong, though lol
- Right, you get used to things by hearing them a lot
- Then if she keeps getting broken a lot, does that solve it?
- Dunno lol
Looking at her reaction now, it seemed absolutely impossible… but somehow she’d get used to it, right?
Thinking that, I blanked out for a moment. I half-listened to Si-a calling me names and let them drift past my other ear, while picturing her all flustered instead.
A face flushed red even though both hands were covering it, ears even redder than that, and eyes peeking out between her fingers as she hid her face.
Was she like that right now? Quietly, I moved my mouse and opened Si-a’s broadcast screen.
“Are you going to keep doing this with the nicknames?”
“Jagiya.”
“……!!!”
Even while protesting, the moment I called her that, she changed into exactly the image I’d been imagining. The only difference was maybe her gaze—not meeting the camera. Right now, it looked like she was just staring at the floor.
“You’re pretty. No, cute?”
“...What?”
“I was trying to figure out which word suits you right now.”
Pretty wasn’t really the word for it, because she was always pretty anyway. It didn’t quite capture the version of her in front of me.
But if I called her cute, that didn’t make sense either, because she was absurdly pretty.
“Are you talking to yourself?”
“Yeah. I was just thin… talking to myself?”
“...You know you said that out loud, right?”
At Si-a’s words, I looked back at the chat to check the viewers’ reactions.
- Just announce the real relationship already
- The rose-colored glasses are insane lololol
- Is it Hazy’s turn to break now?
- Ah, this is ridiculously sweet
- Boss, here’s some Lysol. Don’t stir it; just drink it on the rocks.
- The truth is just spilling out on its own
- There’s no filter here lololol
…So I really had said it out loud.
I was damn glad there was no camera. I pressed the back of my hand to my face and could clearly feel the heat there. My face had gone red too, apparently.
Just as I was beginning to understand the situation through the chat, Si-a spoke again.
“My jagiya, are you losing your mind because I’m so pretty?”
“That….”
“It’s okay. I like you too because you’re handsome.”
“……!!”
- “Official partner declaration”
- At last, the real relationship shows its true face…!
- She says she likes him because he’s handsome, she says she likes him because he’s handsome, she says she likes him because he’s handsome, she says she likes him because he’s handsome
- This is seriously so fucking sweet, this is exactly it, this is WGM
- Hey now, this is a real relationship lol If this isn’t a real relationship, then what is?
- Thinking of Jadu and Aengdu instead of jagiya and yeobo makes it way harder to immerse myself lol
- lol anyway, since they changed it, I’m okay with it~
After hearing Si-a’s words, my face got so hot I couldn’t even describe it. I panicked and covered my face with my hands.
Even without a camera, I felt like I wouldn’t survive if I didn’t. So this was what Si-a usually felt like.
“Ugh… I’m kind of struggling right now….”
“Your face is burning, right? And if you don’t cover it, you feel like you’re going to die of embarrassment.”
“...Yeah.”
“That was me too. Now it’s your turn.”
Still, I could at least talk, so I was probably okay.
When I heard Si-a say she liked me because I was handsome, my mind had stopped for a second, and if that state had gone on much longer, it would’ve been rough.
“Haa…. It’s hot. So hot.”
I took my hand off my face and fanned myself while looking at Si-a’s screen. Her face, which had been flushed with embarrassment, was gone; in its place was a playful smile.
And then, for a moment, a mission notification appeared in the corner of Si-a’s screen.
[Say “I love you”] - 100,000 won
…Hm. What now.
If Si-a said “I love you” here, I’d be fully overheated. Like the character in that game I played who rode around in a robot, I’d probably get so overheated I couldn’t think, couldn’t talk, and would just stammer like an idiot.
But then Si-a looked at the mission, found it amusing, and called out to me.
“Hazy.”
“Y-yeah?”
“A mission just got posted in our room.”
“What kind of mission?”
I pretended not to know, even though I did. Was Si-a really going to do it?
Meanwhile, the mission fund was climbing, little by little, but fast.
“It started at 100,000 won, but the amount’s going up really quickly now.”
“How much is it?”
“150,000 won right now.”
The amount in front of my eyes was 250,000 won…? What was this firepower? I was scared.
“What kind of mission is it….”
“I’m not telling you yet. Let’s see how high it goes first.”
By the time it shot past 300,000, then 400,000, and finally reached 500,000 won, I was completely stunned.
Did they really spend money just to hear that one thing?
All at once, it felt like the heat in my face went cold. It was like the moment your slipping reason gets yanked back by the collar.
Right. They say that even if you enter a tiger’s den, you can survive if you keep your wits about you. The old sayings were right after all….
“I love you.”
“……”
“Jagiya, I love you!”
Okay, that was wrong.
How was I supposed to keep my wits about me? I don’t know how.
Feeling the heat rise back into my face, I gave up on thinking entirely.