By Zephyria What on earth did that mean? Seo Jeong-won kept his eyes closed, pretending to be asleep, for the entire ride back, but he was more alert than ever. His mind was frantically trying to guess what the smart man meant.
Song Hae-seop had clearly said that Seo Gyu-won loved Kwon Tae-hee. That’s why he was abandoned. He described his Hyung as foolish and pathetic. He said it was a good thing for him in the end, but he felt sorry for Seo Gyu-won for missing such a good opportunity.
The Hyung Song Hae-seop described could never be called smart. Who should he believe? One of them was clearly lying…
Song Hae-seop doesn’t know that Seo Gyu-won is his Hyung. Would he have any reason to lie? But if that’s the case, Kwon Tae-hee has no reason to lie either. He’s even helping him.
The car stopped smoothly. Seo Jeong-won knew they had arrived, but he didn’t open his eyes. That’s when Kwon Tae-hee’s Pheromone filled the car. Seo Jeong-won stopped the shallow breaths he was taking.
He couldn’t inhale any more. The Pheromone, more concentrated than what he had given Seo Gyu-won at the hospital, permeated deep into his lungs. A tickling sensation that started in his lower abdomen spread throughout his body.
“Jeong-won.”
“…”
“Are you asleep?”
Kwon Tae-hee’s voice was low. He lightly touched Seo Jeong-won’s soft cheek with his fingertip, as if to wake him up. Unlike the light touch, which seemed to have no intention, the Pheromone he released was full of sexual implications.
“But Jeong-won, you should breathe unless you’re trying to die.”
Seo Jeong-won’s eyes snapped open at the rustling voice. Clear eyes, devoid of any sleepiness, immediately turned to Kwon Tae-hee.
“Did you sleep well?”
Seo Jeong-won barely nodded at the affectionate voice that asked even though he knew he was pretending to sleep. He felt dazed and suffocated, as if he was lacking oxygen due to the Pheromone pressing down on him.
“You’re red.”
Kwon Tae-hee gently rubbed Seo Jeong-won’s cheeks and lips in turn with his neatly groomed fingertips. His voice, muttering to himself as if asking if he was hot, was gentle, but his gaze was cold.
“A little…”
His mouth watered. Seo Jeong-won swallowed the sweet saliva and looked away first. He put his hand on the door trim to open the door, but failed. The door lock wouldn’t open, and only a pathetic clicking sound echoed.
“Executive Director…”
His voice trembled as he called out without daring to look back at Kwon Tae-hee. If he stayed any longer, it felt like he would be caught hiding what he was hiding.
“Jeong-won.”
“…”
“Are you okay?”
“I-I’m okay. I need to go to the bathroom… I’m in a hurry.”
The face he barely turned was red. The thicker and denser the Pheromone became, the more Seo Jeong-won announced with his whole body that he had manifested. The clumsy Beta couldn’t hide anything he was trying to hide. Kwon Tae-hee hesitated for a moment whether to point out Seo Jeong-won’s lie and get him to confess now, or to pretend not to know and be fooled.
“Quickly…”
Kwon Tae-hee felt sorry for Seo Jeong-won, who looked like he would burst into tears at any moment if he tormented him any more, so he unlocked the car with a generous heart. He didn’t know why he was hiding the fact that he had manifested from him, but he decided to cooperate with the lie.
It was cute how he was trying to hide it with such clumsy skills. It was also funny that he had only just noticed. He recalled the past when he had dismissed it as just a body that felt good. He thought he was having more sex. He thought the young thing was admirable. He would have noticed it sooner if he had suspected it persistently. Kwon Tae-hee smiled as he watched Seo Jeong-won tremble, his body flushed with anxiety and Pheromone.
“I didn’t know.”
“What, what…”
“You said you were in a hurry.”
As soon as the sound of the door lock being released rang out, Seo Jeong-won hurriedly opened the door. The Pheromone that had been filling the inside quickly escaped.
“Hah…!”
He didn’t even think about waiting for Kwon Tae-hee. The tickling sensation that spread from his lower abdomen made the inside of his underwear a mess. Seo Jeong-won bent over awkwardly and quickly left the garage as if he were running away.
He crossed the bedroom, which had arrived before its owner, and headed to the bathroom. Seo Jeong-won hid in the shower booth and pulled down his pants. He completely forgot about Seo Gyu-won, who had been filling his head until just now, and quickly shook his wet genitals. As he concentrated on the act of doing it alone, he immediately turned on the water at the sound of someone outside the door.
Swish—. The falling stream of water quickly soaked his body. Even the clothes he hadn’t taken off in his panic. But right now, he was focused on releasing the heat. His hand, which had been wandering in the air, grabbed his erect penis and masturbated clumsily.
* * *
The rest of the day was spent taking Kwon Tae-hee’s pheromone shower. He acted like someone who was more eager to smear his Pheromone than to have sex. He carefully observed his excited reactions and released even more concentrated Pheromone. He couldn’t figure out why he was doing this. He couldn’t even try to guess. He was too busy moaning from the pleasure that made his brain soft.
The persistent foreplay didn’t seem to end. It was Seo Jeong-won, not Kwon Tae-hee, who was anxious about the act that didn’t lead to insertion. His head was heavy because he had sobbed all night at the almost-but-not-quite climax.
Seo Jeong-won slowly scanned the empty bedroom and stroked his scratchy throat each time he swallowed. He thought he had heard a voice saying he was going to work in his sleep, but he didn’t remember if he had said goodbye.
He stared blankly into the air and shook his head slightly. He pulled back the blanket and put his feet down from the bed. His legs were a little wobbly, but he soon regained his balance. There was no time to dawdle. He had to call the caregiver and go to the flower garden.
“…Ah.”
Then, something suddenly came to mind and he turned around. He turned on the phone he had placed on the bedside table and checked the time first. Song Hae-seop arrives here early on Mondays and waits for Kwon Tae-hee. He goes back and forth between the living room, dining room, and guest bedroom, chatting with the staff who have built up friendships, or telling Kim Jae-sik how he spent the weekend.
He had almost always run into him on the day he returned, so he thought it would be the same today. Seo Jeong-won moved quickly. He went into the bathroom, washed his body roughly, and changed into new clothes. He stuffed the clothes he had taken off into his bag and left the bedroom.
The living room was quiet. The delicious smell that he usually smelled was also gone. Seo Jeong-won moved around, trying to find the noise, and listened. But he couldn’t find anyone anywhere.
Seo Jeong-won, flustered, entered the dining room. On the long table, the lunch he had to eat was covered with a lotus leaf-shaped lid. Kim Jae-sik, who always prepared high-quality meals and saw him off, was also nowhere to be seen.
“…”
Seo Jeong-won carefully lifted the lid and touched the edge of the soup bowl to check the warm temperature. Was this a sign to distance himself from the working people, just like he had scolded him for trying to build a friendship with Song Hae-seop? Why are last week and this week different? Is there any intention?
Seo Jeong-won tore at his hair in confusion. It felt like there would be someone if he looked in every corner, but he wasn’t in a position to do so. It would be difficult to explain if he was misunderstood.
“Hah…”
He simply guessed that other people had been instructed by Kwon Tae-hee not to show themselves, and put the lid back on properly and turned around. He took out the phone in his pocket and looked for Song Hae-seop’s number.
He barely resisted the urge to press the call button as he headed to the front door. As soon as he put on his shoes, he quickly crossed the garden. Seo Jeong-won, who pressed the call button at the same time as he left the gate and put the phone to his ear, saw the driver, who had been waiting in a black car, get out of the driver’s seat and bow.
—Hello?
He ended the call without answering the voice on the other end of the line.
“Hello. I will take you to the flower garden.”
“Ah… I can go alone. It’s okay.”
“Please get in. Executive Director told me to take you there.”
The driver acted as if he didn’t hear the rejecting voice. He opened the back door and waited for Seo Jeong-won to move.
“I have a place to stop by.”
“If you tell me, I will take you there.”
The driver expressed the same meaning several times in a polite voice. He could see the will that he could never send him alone. Seo Jeong-won shook his head.
“I think I’ll just… stop by later.”
At that moment, the phone in his hand vibrated. He felt like he knew who it was without checking the screen. Seo Jeong-won moved quietly. Before getting into the car, he asked the driver if he could make a quick phone call.
“Yes, I’ll wait.”
“I’ll be done soon if you stay in the car. It’ll be quick. Thank you.”
When he showed discomfort at having the contents of the call heard, the driver got into the driver’s seat. Seo Jeong-won went around the back of the car and checked his phone. He checked the missed call record and called Song Hae-seop again. He had been warned by Kwon Tae-hee about him, but he didn’t hesitate to press the call button. After a short ringing tone, Song Hae-seop’s voice was heard.
—Hello?
“Hello? Hyung, hello. This is… Jeong-won.”
—Oh! What’s wrong? What’s wrong? Why aren’t you answering the phone?
“I’m in Seoul, and I was wondering if you weren’t coming here today.”
Chapter
BL Guide
Genre: Modern
Keywords: Omegaverse, Modern, Contract, Age Gap, Beautiful Top, Strong Top, Dominating Top, Obsessive Top, Psychotic Top, Trash Top, Chaebol Top, Semi-Regretful Top, Skilled Top, Formal Speech Top, Beautiful Bottom, Naive Bottom, Meek Bottom, Pushover Bottom, Pregnant Bottom, Innocent Bottom, Unrequited Love Bottom, Wounded Bottom, Runaway Bottom, Misunderstanding/Mistake, Slice of Life, Mildly Angsty, Calm, Heartfelt, (Sort of) NTR
Top: Kwon Tae-hee – Executive Director of Taehwa Construction. He adorns his appearance with a beautiful face and gentle personality that seem unreal, but he is inherently bad-natured. Having lived a life without lacking or wanting anything, he had never been particularly interested in anything, but after meeting Seo Jeong-won, his former fiancé’s younger brother, he becomes strangely obsessed with him. He is skilled in all things emotional but clumsy when it comes to love.
Bottom: Seo Jeong-won – Runs a small flower shop in a small town. In Kwon Tae-hee’s words, he has a face like a newly bloomed flower, even in moments of misfortune. Because his life is full of deficiencies, he has a frustrating personality that makes it difficult for him to let go of anything easily. Because of this, meeting Kwon Tae-hee brings him trials he has never experienced before, making each day difficult. After falling in love with his Hyung’s former fiancé, he feels like he is falling into a bottomless abyss every day.
When to read:
On a sunny spring day, when you crave a story that is bleak despite the weather. When you want to see a Top who arbitrarily manipulates a naive Bottom and eventually falls deeply in love. When you want to feel that a failed love is still love. When you want to go buy flowers
Quote:
“You’re not going to love me anyway. So it’s not really a bad thing, is it?”
Synopsis
Seven years ago, I received a call that my Hyung, who had left home, was in a coma. From my Hyung’s former fiancé.
“That’s right. What Gyu-won was supposed to give was a child.”
An offer to save my Hyung in exchange for me taking his place.
“I only have to receive from anyone.”
“That’s ridiculous. I’ll just… I’ll do whatever it takes for my Hyung.”
As soon as I refused a story I had never even considered in my life, the situation only worsened as if it had been waiting for it.
It didn’t even take a year for me to be utterly crushed in the face of the wall of reality I faced with my whole body.
Seo Jeong-won eventually goes back to Kwon Tae-hee and accepts his offer.
As the time he spends with Kwon Tae-hee increases, his feelings for him also deepen, Just as if it were a trick of fate, Seo Jeong-won learns the reason why his Hyung fell into a coma.
“You lied to me.”
“Is that important? Whether it’s a lie or not, I would have been the best option for Seo Jeong-won. Who else would have helped you besides me?”
What must he have felt, watching the brothers being played by him?
“Seo Gyu-won is dead.”
“……”
“It seems like you’re trying to hold on to your petty pride or conscience, but what good is it now?”
I wasn’t expecting an apology, but I certainly didn’t want to be insulted like this.
“The contract is void. My Hyung is dead… Goodbye.”
“You have to leave the child in your womb.”
Seo Jeong-won decides to leave him to get revenge on Kwon Tae-hee.
With the baby who was supposed to only receive from anyone.
“Don’t worry. I have no intention of raising it either.”