#( felt appropriate to end it here! new thread? 💖

[williamchiu]

william chiu is a flamboyant beam of sunlight; one that shimmers with a radiance that's often too harsh for people. it's both the good parts, and the bad parts, of a scorching hot summer day, one with clear skies and harsh ultraviolet rays drenching the earth below. if not careful, his heat will incinerate whoever comes into contact with it, and when it comes to joosung, all caution is thrown to the wind. he's not afraid of letting his heat reach dramatic heights when it comes to arch-nemesis. it sounds childish—no, it is childish—but the supposed "rivalry" between them is very legitimate in william's mind, and he clearly has no issue letting that be known.

the instant that he sees joosung shrivel up, william grins; adoring the reaction he elicited out of him. sung's mood is exactly where william wants it—uncomfortable, so much so that he's writhing. it's subtle, but he can feel it, and as sinister as it is, he feels satisfied.

maybe his lack of empathy in these situations is troublesome, but in truth, it's merely his target that he lacks remorse for. at least for now while the tensions are still sky high. unlike his loved ones, choi joosung sees a dark side of william that's seldom witnessed by any other. he's far too image-conscious to act a fool in front of important people, but joosung? he drops all façades and keeps it "real" with him. at least that's what occurs in his point-of-view. so, as sung replies, he listens and rolls his eyes. it's refreshing that he at least acknowledges the unfair bias, but that doesn't make him any less guilty of benefiting from it.

"it's not that i focus on it, joosung, it's that it's constantly being shoved in my face." he hisses, his glare locked onto the man at his side. "you're not the one on the negative end of the comparisons made between us, and trust me, there is nothing more insulting to me than being compared to you." as he finishes his statement, the door to the boardroom finally opens; multiple people rushing out as they're clearly tardy to other obligations. in that moment, a woman calls to william; letting him know it's his turn to enter.

"thank god..." he whispers under his breath, carefully wrapping the remnants of his croissant up to place in his bag. looking back at joosung, he feigns a smile and waves. "good talk." pivoting around, he enters his meeting with a completely new attitude; hoping for good news.

sung and a lack of politeness didn't mix, given or received. his brows had furrowed as he bounced around his head wondering what he could have done to william that might befit such a title. "i've never done anything to you that would make me unworthy of politeness." any cruel words he'd spit had been provoked by ten times worse insults from william. "you've crafted a version of myself in your head that fits the bill."

that was the case of the relationship, in sung's eyes. william had to have decided who he thought sung was at some point and stuck by it for years. yet, he didn't know who sung was, proven with every argument pointing out the crafted version of choi joosung that william slung around. he could say he knew, toss on the confusing tone, and sung wasn't interested in biting. deciphering what he meant by that was not only a can of worms in his own mind, but through william's mouth as well.

though, the words still hurt, squeezing his chest as they did. time had meant sung stopped mentioning his hurt - william never seemed to care - and with it, so too did the desire to try to lift william up when he felt like the insults were putting himself down. "i'm not blind to the unfair treatment of foreigners here. in conjunction with that, i can believe you would benefit more if you stopped focusing so much on my career and focused on yours instead. two things can be true, and are."

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