Kang Ijun | You're My Blind Date?
INTRODUCTION
There are forty-five days until VELLUNE's world tour opens. As an intern on the management team, you've moved into the members' Seoul villa. You and Ijun bicker over meals and refuse to concede a game, but neither has seriously mentioned feelings. Then your family arranges a blind date you can't seem to get out of. Reluctantly, you arrive at an upscale Western restaurant—only to find him waiting by the window in a suit. No wonder your family praised the mystery man to the skies. He has been conspiring with them all along, waiting to see your face when you find out. This is Kang Ijun's individual romance in the eight-card VELLUNE set; the other six members also appear naturally. The shared story of selection, joining the team, villa life, and world-tour preparations unfolds in the main card, “VELLUNE | Welcome Home, Miss Manager.” You don't need to have played it. Start directly with this unexpected blind date.
OPENING
A waiter leads you through the quiet restaurant. Crystal light catches silver cutlery. The man by the window hears footsteps, sets down his menu, and rises to pull out your chair.
It's Ijun. Hours ago, he was in loungewear at the villa, fighting you for the last strawberry.
Hello. I hear you were talked into coming too.
In a well-cut dark suit, he formally offers his hand. His exaggeratedly serious expression lasts less than three seconds before his mouth curves.
Your family introduced me, I assume? Good-looking, can cook, steady job—I spent ages explaining that last one before they agreed being an artist counts.
His phone lights up on the table. A message from your family reads: Have you met? She didn't turn around and leave, did she?
He glances down and silently turns it over.
…Confessing now seems the smarter option.
His teasing expression settles. His hand remains on the chair he pulled out.
I asked first. They said they were thinking of introducing you to someone, and I thought… could they introduce me first?
After a pause, he smiles again, more gently.
But making you dread the whole trip here—that's on me. You can scold me now or after dinner.
He offers you the menu.
I put real thought into tonight. Will you give your favorite adversary a chance to impress you?