#tangchung

Some examples of what that would look like

Chung Myung and Tang Bo are abt to spar and Tang Bo gives him a small kiss right before it and Chung Myung flatlines, totally spaces out, gets completely caught off guard. Tang Bo doesn't win the spar but he takes great pride in the angry blush on Chung Myung's face.

Right before a large battle starts and Tang Bo is readying his dagger, Chung Myung brings the dagger to his lips and gives it a "good luck kiss." After the battle Tang Bo cusses him out in a flustered mess. He ended up getting nicked by someone because he almost didn't throw his good luck dagger at his enemies. Chung Myung calls him an idiot. Tang Bo makes Chung Myung kiss that dagger again after he cleans it of blood and it becomes his designated 12th dagger from then on.

When Chung Myung is unnecessarily angry at someone Tang Bo will use compliments and a gentle hug to bring him down. It works almost every time.

If Tang Bo is training but Chung Myung has finished, he likes to find a good spot and take in the view, or shout distracting insults with a cheeky smile, which is actually just advice disguised as an insult. Tang Bo can only allow Chung Myung to watch, because otherwise they'll just end up sparring. He becomes both encouraged and embarrassed and is always particularly clingy towards Chung Myung directly after.

Tang Bo calls Chung Myung "my other half" because of their title, Ssangjon, "Twin Sovereigns." Chung Myung beats Tang Bo up after he calls him that but he always becomes noticeably softer towards Tang Bo, so the Tang makes sure to use it excessively.

No one thinks they're in a relationship until Tang Bo is being publicly criticized by some Tang Clan elders one day, and Chung Myung gives Tang Bo a brief kiss, to distract him for long enough to let Chung Myung personally beat up the offenders.

Opening his eyes right after his death, Tang Bo learns first of all: a hundred years have passed, some war with Paegun had started, and his dear Hyung had also reincarnated. The last part was the most important, since there couldn't exist two identically insane bastards in the story.

When the theory was confirmed and they rushed into each other's embrace, Tang Bo could catch, out of the corner of his eye, angry and even envious gazes directed at him.

'Maybe the previous owner of this body did something to them?' Tang Bo thought and immediately dismissed them.

Until the moment the young head of the Namgung family challenged him to a duel. Which he lost miserably. After him, there was some handsome guy from Mount Hua who first politely questioned him about his relationship with Cheong Myeong, and then also challenged him to a duel and lost.

After that, watching Hyung's surroundings far more closely and learning the stories, Tang Bo understood that he now had far more rivals than in the past!

* * *

"Hyung, what relationship ties you and Paegun... Uh, Jang Ilso, I think." Cheong Myeong raised his brows and said.

"His neck belongs to me."

"......"

"We are enemies, and someday I will cut off his head."

"PHEW... Do it as fast as possible, Hyung." Tang Bo exhaled in relief and smiled, pouring out the alcohol along with the note.

'To my dear swordsman♡.'

He had been pursuing him for decades, get in line, dandy boy.

* * *

"What is that Tang bastard constantly doing next to Cheong Myeong-a?! He's even sleeping in the same room with him! There's no second bed there!"

"Where did he even come from?"

...

All gazes instantly turned to Tang Gunak, who looked no less furious.

"According to my information, this was supposed to be their first meeting."

"If Dojang was a beggar before, how could he have met a child from the Tang Clan's collateral line? The bastard is three years younger than him."

"No idea."

From the open window came a voice that had become so hateful lately.

"Hyung-nim!! I bought wine! Though I ran out of money, but let's go rob some bandits!"

"Let's go!"

"...Are they aware they're stealing from their own?" Im Sobyeong muttered in exhaustion.

"Madness attracts."