In "The Absolute Value of Romance," Kim Hyang-gi was caught writing BL for math teacher Cha Hak-yeon but experienced a strange turn of good fortune.
On the 24th, the Coupang Play series "The Absolute Value of Romance" (writer Lee Min-ju; directors Lee Tae-gon, Kim Joon-hyung; production companies Pungnyeonjeonpasang, Borderless Film) revealed that Ye Eui-ju (played by Kim Hyang-gi) was caught in the school library writing a BL novel about Ga Woo-soo (played by Cha Hak-yeon), No Da-ju (played by Kim Jae-hyun), Jeong Ki-jeon (played by Son Jeong-hyeok), and Yoon Dong-ju (played by Kim Dong-gyu).
Ye Eui-ju, who became a huge hit as a BL writer in just two episodes, was filled with joy. Her friend Choi Goe-ya (played by Kim So-hee) asked curiously what kind of novel she was writing, but Ye Eui-ju could not tell the true situation. Her friend said, "You wouldn't be into BL, would you? It's about men liking men. I'm not really into that. It's a romance—why focus on two men? What's the point of that?" which made Ye Eui-ju even more unable to say anything.
At that time, Ga Woo-soo did not give up on Ye Eui-ju, a student who scored 4 on the math mock exam and was irritating in many ways. Jeong Ki-jeon wanted to bring Ye Eui-ju, who had athletic talent, into his after-school class, but when he learned her academic ranking was grade 9 he said, "Listen to the homeroom teacher," and gave up decisively.
To make matters worse, the after-school math class was made up only of model students, and there was also Eun Ha-su, who admired the math teacher Ga Woo-soo. Ye Eui-ju was the only one not interested in math. Ga Woo-soo assigned her math homework, but Ye Eui-ju did not do it. Ga Woo-soo said coldly, "Do you remember what I said about math on my first day? I said it's a discipline of thinking. You probably just let it go in one ear and out the other; you probably still are. I wanted you to think. I didn't expect you to be this hopeless. I'm disappointed."
For Ye Eui-ju, Ga Woo-soo's words were only raw material for her dialogue. As she cheerfully wrote BL in the library, a chilly presence passed behind her. It was Ga Woo-soo. Ga Woo-soo said, "The literature student, the rude one who appears as Choi Yoon, is Yoon Dong-ju; the math genius Joo Si-on is me; the simple-minded physical education student who tries to cover everything with brute force is Jeong Ki-jeon; and the one from Japan whose only asset is money, Han Jae-min, is No Da-ju," identifying the characters' traits as actual teachers and specifying himself.
Ga Woo-soo told her to delete it immediately or else he would call her parents. Ye Eui-ju feared the nightmare of rumors spreading throughout the school and her parents becoming distant. Meanwhile, Ga Woo-soo searched BL online and was puzzled that he was not the protagonist.
Ye Eui-ju begged that she could not bring herself to delete the work she had written with blood and sweat, and Ga Woo-soo said, "Then write the story with me as the protagonist and let me check it every day." Ye Eui-ju said, "As I write, the flow of the story might have to change," which she thought was absurd, but Ga Woo-soo countered, "Then delete it," playing a hard line.
Ye Eui-ju devised a trick: show Ga Woo-soo a different edited version and upload the web novel as she had been writing it. However, in the next episode preview, Ga Woo-soo found the web novel site and, seeing it differed from what he had read, said, "Look at this?" and showed even more competitive fire.
[Photo source] Coupang Play series "The Absolute Value of Romance"
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