By Zephyria 
When he heard that Shin Jeong-min had a fiancée, he was displeased, but it was acceptable. Her family background was good, and she was an Omega woman with a clean reputation. However, the moment he saw that Omega accidentally enter a hotel with another ‘Omega’ of the same trait, he let out a hollow laugh.
In the end, Shin Jeong-min’s taste in people—choosing someone like that—was disgustingly poor.
When he called and pretended not to know, and saw Jeong-min lie and say he was with the fiancée, he realized that Jeong-min seemed to know how his fiancée lived and who she was with. Only then did his mind race.
‘Ah, so that’s why he got engaged.’
Because she resembled his past self, because he felt pity. He thought it was typical of Shin Jeong-min.
That meant the engagement was bound to break soon anyway. There was even less need to worry. Given Shin Jeong-min’s personality, he wouldn’t be able to love anyone anyway. Because he was a man obsessed with Yu Shin-woo, looking only at Yu Shin-woo, damn it all.
“Hmm?”
What is it, Mr. Ju-hwan?”
However, when he saw the fiancée meeting another Omega at a hotel for the second time, and noticed that reporters were following them, he felt that the situation was unusual.
‘I suppose there is a need to tell him to be careful.’
It wasn’t pleasant for his reputation to be tarnished because of a small piece of debris. Still, thinking it would be better to at least warn him, he called him.
─ The phone is off…
At first, he thought the phone was actually off. He felt irritated that it happened at this timing, but then he opened the chat window to send a message and realized that the messages he had sent a few days ago hadn’t been read. He had been blocked.
“Ha…”
He was angry. Even so, to just cut him off without a word? He left the Omega he had called for sex and drove toward Shin Jeong-min’s house. Even in that moment, he found his own actions absurd.
From the moment he was born, no matter what he did or what happened, he had always held the initiative. But Shin Jeong-min was the only one who didn’t go his way. For some reason, in the relationship between himself and Shin Jeong-min, the initiative always lay with the other.
He parked his car in front of Jeong-min’s house. Suppressing his anger, he took out the phone he used for work and pressed the call button. He let out a hollow laugh at the cheerful ringing tone. Just as he was thinking that if the call wasn’t answered, he would open that door right now and at least see a flustered face, the signal cut off.
─ Who…
Absurdly, he became even angrier at the sound of his voice, which he hadn’t heard in days. Why was he doing this kind of nonsense for a bastard like this?
“Sunbae.”
─ Kim Ju-hwan, are you crazy? Calling at this hour—
Ha, such nerve. You always treat me like this.
“That’s my line.”
─ What does that mean?
“Didn’t you block my phone?”
Silence followed for a while, as if he had only just realized. He must have forgotten that he had even blocked him. Kim Ju-hwan pushed his hair back.
“I guess it was true.”
He could almost hear that small head of his turning.
“You didn’t answer the phone, and you didn’t read the texts, so I wondered. I see.”
Ju-hwan tapped the steering wheel. Because it was plastic, the sound of his fingernails tapping sounded similar to tapping on a table.
“Well, whatever. Sunbae, where are you right now?”
─ I’m… at home.
This time, he didn’t lie and say he was at a hotel.
“Can we meet for a moment?”
─ Why? Is it urgent? If not, let’s meet tomorrow.
“As if you’d actually meet me tomorrow. After blocking me, of all things.”
He was serious. Jeong-min probably wouldn’t meet him. Unless he forced his way in like this, there was no way Shin Jeong-min would come looking for him.
─ I’m hanging up.
As Jeong-min hung up the phone arbitrarily, Kim Ju-hwan snorted again. Truly a precious person whose face is hard to see.
Ah, by the way, he forgot to mention the fiancée. He thought it would be better to talk about that in person. He wanted to see that face distort the moment he confirmed that he knew a secret that Jeong-min couldn’t tell anyone. Just as he was thinking about whether to open that door,
Someone was lingering in front of Shin Jeong-min’s house. At first, he thought it was just a passerby, but the person was dressed more formally than expected. Looking closely, it was a man he had seen somewhere before.
‘Ji Su-han.’
The brother of Jeong-min’s fiancée, and an Alpha. Whenever he went to the hospital to see Jeong-min, he always saw the two of them together. Why was that man here? Kim Ju-hwan felt his body turn cold.
Soon, the man made a phone call, and after a short while, the front gate opened. The sight of Shin Jeong-min coming out with a bright smile and hugging Ji Su-han was so unfamiliar… that for a moment, he wondered, ‘Is that Shin Yeong-min?’ But no. That was Shin Jeong-min.
Shin Jeong-min, blooming like an Omega after receiving plenty of an Alpha’s love.
Kim Ju-hwan gripped the steering wheel tightly.
It wasn’t one piece of debris, but two. He hadn’t expected this. He didn’t know something like that was wedged in. He decided he had to clear it away. Along with that, he decided he had to crush any useless hope. Kim Ju-hwan called his secretary.
“The reporter I saw at the hotel earlier. Hold onto him.”
─ Yes, I understand.
The next day, Kim Ju-hwan held onto the reporter and obtained the photos he had taken. And he did nothing else. He told the reporter to publish the article as intended, and all he did was send those photos to Ji Su-han’s house. He only had to watch what kind of storm would be triggered by that one photo.
“Help me.”
Was this already the second time Shin Jeong-min had come to ask for help? The first time was to ask about ‘correction’, and the second time was today.
“I want to go with them too.”
You should not have said those words. In that moment, it felt like his reason snapped. He couldn’t control the sudden surge of anger. It was as if everything he had endured exploded, and his vision turned black, with only Shin Jeong-min standing in the center.
He bolted upright, kicked the table, and grabbed Shin Jeong-min by the collar across it. He insisted until the end that he wasn’t in ‘that’ kind of relationship with that man. But what could he do? He had seen you and that man pressing your lips together.
“…Anything… just say the word.”
The moment he heard those words, he instead cooled down. Did he think his body was some kind of magical charm? Maybe if it were before manifestation, but who would be swayed by a body that anyone could see is an Alpha. It was laughable that Shin Jeong-min would casually offer such a thing as a condition.
Right, since you’ve slept with Alphas a couple of times, adding one more is easy, is that it? No… maybe not a couple of times. He might have slept with Alphas he doesn’t even know. He’s practically a slut.
“Don’t act like you’re offering your body. It makes you look cheap. I have no interest in an Alpha’s body.”
He thought of the fairy tale The Little Mermaid.
The Little Mermaid who sacrificed her voice for the Prince. The princess who eventually turned into sea foam.
“Instead, let’s make a bet.”
But I’m different from that witch. Even if I take your voice, I’ll just restore everything to how it was. I’ll just get rid of that Prince.
And then he met Ji Su-han. He was a weak person. He pretended to be strong, but in the end, he couldn’t solve a single one of his own problems… And he strangely resembled Yu Shin-woo. Really, how could you be so repulsive, Shin Jeong-min? It was absurd that he decided to walk that gutter-like path with a guy like this. As if he would throw his own body away, Shin Jeong-min had come to him. Then how about this man? Is he someone who can throw himself away for Shin Jeong-min?
Everything moved according to plan, and as expected, Ji Su-han was lured by the pheromones of an Omega in heat and embraced the Omega. Of course.
No matter what, you are an Alpha, a beast that goes into heat at the scent of an Omega’s pheromones. If you had thought of Shin Jeong-min, you should have jumped into the Han River the moment you smelled the Omega pheromones.
“In the end, I dug my own grave, so I’ll take responsibility for this. But Kim Ju-hwan, I’ll never see you again.”
“…….”
“Get lost.”
Hmm, he thought it would be like this. It ended blandly.
Of course, he said they should never see each other again, but well. He would likely face him sooner than Ji Su-han would.
The next day, Ji Su-eun left the country, and not long after, Ji Su-han also left alone.
Contrary to his expectation that Shin Jeong-min would easily crumble because he had opened his heart to someone enough to leave with them, Shin Jeong-min was fine.
Afterward, Shin Jeong-min returned to the hospital and was soon appointed to the hospital run by his eldest sister-in-law.
Shin Yeong-min got divorced and handed over custody to the husband. The twins began living in one house again.
It might have been déjà vu, but after receiving all the reports, Kim Ju-hwan thought to himself.
That it felt as if he had returned to ‘that time.’