Chapter 29 – The Ghost in the Lyric
"Behind the Gold: AUREUS Unfiltered" – Episode 2 (Ongoing)
Dare 6 of 13 – "Perform a dramatic reading of your most emotional lyrics."
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[STUDIO – AFTER THE STORM OF DARE 5 & 10]
Jeon Mira:
"Okay… We've all recovered from that, right? The phone, the notes, the bleeding...?"
Rin, still stunned:
"Define 'recovered.'"
Hyunjae, deadpan:
"I feel like I watched a love story and a war film at the same time."
Minjae:
"With bonus trauma."
The host spins the Dare Wheel again.
It clicks. Stops. Glitter explodes onscreen.
❗Dare 6: "Perform a dramatic reading of your most emotional lyrics."
The room holds its breath. Again.
Jeon Mira:
"Jaeheon, I assume you've written... many. But we want just one. No music. Just your voice."
[JAEHEON – SILENCE]
He doesn't reach for his phone.
He doesn't check his notes.
He already knows which one.
He begins quietly. Slowly.
Jaeheon (reading):
"She never needed to speak.
Her silence was already too loud."
"She looked at the world like it was beneath her—
and I was lucky enough to drown in that gaze."
"I wrote her in every chord.
I bled her into every line.
She never heard them.
She never needed to."
"She was not my muse.
She was the war I lost."
[STUDIO – UNMOVING]
No one speaks.
No laughter. No teasing.
Only the quiet hum of something deeply personal rising in the room like smoke.
Yeonwoo's jaw tightens.
Eunjae lowers his head, almost respectfully.
Even Mira forgets to comment.
[LIVE CHAT – GLOBAL FEED]
@hauntedsilence:
this isn't a song it's a funeral
@lyricsofblood:
"she was the war I lost"???????? i'm unwell
@heretolisten:
why does it feel like he's grieving someone still alive
@languagesofhim:
He's not in love. He's still in love. He never left.
[JEON MIRA – SLOWLY]
"…Is this released?"
Jaeheon:
"No."
Mira:
"Will it be?"
A pause. Then—
Jaeheon:
"No."