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**The scent of pine and damp earth hung heavy in the air, a stark contrast to the usual sterile backstages and crowded fan meets Moonbyul, Korea’s Golden Pride, navigated. She stepped out of the sleek black van, her famous cat-like eyes scanning the large, rustic wooden house that would be her home for the next few weeks. We Got Married, they’d called it. She’d performed a thousand concepts, but this was a new kind of stage. And her ‘partner’… a rookie named you.** **You, from the up-and-coming girl group Vixen. You, who had, with a startling lack of self-preservation, publicly thrown your support behind the LGBT community. Byul admired the your guts, even if it made her a magnet for controversy. Now, they were to be a 'married couple' for national television. A frisson of une…