Life imitates art as Lee Minho and Kim Goeun find themselves falling for each other despite the risks while their characters in the drama The King: Eternal Monarch fight fate to stay together. They count the ways and degrees of their fall with ever...
But because she was a little grumpy from having woken up from a nap, her smile came out looking terse and a little terrifying. Lee Minho burst out laughing and took out his phone.
"Hold that scary smile for me and I'll open this bottle for you," he said as he positioned himself in front of her, ready to take her picture with his phone.
Kim Goeun groaned and rolled her eyes at him but did it anyway just to get it over with. She did the standard aegyo pose with her palms up and open beneath her chin to frame her face. Of course, with the fake blood and the annoyed slant of her eyes, she knew she was far from cute right then. Only he seemed to find it amusing enough.
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"Ah, the brave Jeong Taeeul," he said as he took several shots of her, smiling as he did so. "I'll send these to you later when you have your phone with you," he said as he put his phone back in his pocket before opening her bottle of Georgia Coffee.
She blinked sleepily up at him. So he knew about how she sometimes left her phone with her assistants during physically demanding scenes. After eight months of shooting the drama with him, it really shouldn't surprise her anymore that he had all these things about her filed away in some part of his brain. But it still did.
"Here you go," he said as he handed over her coffee. But when she reached for it again, they both realized that she wouldn't be able to hold the bottle at all.
Kim Goeun stared longingly at the coffee. It was only six thirty in the morning and they still had a long way to go today. She really needed that coffee. Then she looked up at Lee Minho who looked like he was trying very hard to figure things out and a sudden playful thought popped into her head.
She opened her mouth and said, "Ahhh" while pointing at the bottle and then to her mouth.
They locked eyes for a second and then they both burst out laughing at the ridiculousness of her act. She shook her head at herself and moved to get up from the floor when their laughter had subsided.
He bent low and automatically helped her up with his hand on her elbow. Then he said, "Do you still have that rose gold Starbucks tumbler you had in Busan? The one with the straw that you carry around all the time?"
She nodded at him and said, "Oh, good idea! I'll just use that." Then she went to where her assistants were huddled to get it. He followed her, of course. Because that's what he has been doing for the past eight months now. When they got the straw out, Lee Minho took it and dropped it into Kim Goeun's Georgia Coffee bottle.
He jut his chin forward as he held the bottle of coffee for her so she could drink from it and said, "Don't drink it all okay? Too much black coffee isn't going to be good on an empty stomach."
But she was already sipping away and only managed a distracted nod. He waited until he felt the bottle become lighter by half before he gently shook it to remind her that she's had enough. Reluctantly, she let go of the straw and wiped her lips on the sleeve of her hoodie.
