By Zephyria 
The man took the other person’s phone and stared at the Grand Imperial Concubine’s face over and over again. He even rubbed his eyes as if he couldn’t believe it. The face of the Grand Imperial Concubine, captured so clearly, was not unfamiliar at all. This face, which looked exactly like his own, could not be strange.
‘It’s Hae-joo, it’s Hae-joo. There’s no mistake. Just because time has passed doesn’t mean I wouldn’t recognize my crazy brat.’
Unable to hide his shocked expression, the man’s hands trembled as he swallowed his words, speaking only to himself so that no one could hear. Could he be seeing things? Could it be someone who just looked like him? Countless thoughts crossed his mind in a short amount of time. However, his instincts told him that this was absolutely no mistake.
“What’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?”
The owner of the phone carefully retrieved it while observing the man’s face. The man’s state—looking completely dazed and shocked—was strange to anyone who saw it.
“Ah, no. You said that person is the Grand Imperial Concubine user? Where can I download that photo?”
“A lot of them have already been taken down, so it’s not easy to find. I’ll send this one to you. You seem really surprised. Well, he doesn’t have a look you see every day, right?”
“Yes, that’s true. I’m very surprised.”
Surprised. He was truly very surprised. Because they had been separated when he was young, he hadn’t been able to see him as an adult and could only imagine what he would look like, but if the fourteen-year-old Hae-joo had grown up, he would have looked exactly like that.
Since the second son took after his mother and Hae-joo was a spitting image of him, this intuition was certain. The man stood blankly, anxiously watching the other person send the photo to his phone.
“Is this person in the palace?”
“Huh? He’s a concubine user, so of course he’d be in the palace. Why?”
“No, just… he left such a strong impression. I was wondering if I could host him during a cruise tour later.”
The man brushed it off with an awkward smile. Even then, he couldn’t shake the troubled look in his eyes as he stared at the received photo.
“Is it for business? I know you’re quite famous in the travel industry, but this person won’t be easy to meet. He rarely appears in official settings, so his private life is unknown, and from the videos, it seems the Emperor cherishes him more than usual.”
“…Is that so? Anyway, thank you for the information.”
Leaving the pub and returning to his room, the steps of the man, Cha Tae-jin, were incredibly hurried. Aside from being very busy, he decided he had to change his future schedule as much as possible. Work was not the issue right now. Someone he had only longed for in his heart had appeared.
It was something he had never dreamed of. The image of his two sons clinging to his cooling body and weeping just before he died was still vivid before his eyes. After death, Cha Tae-jin had been reborn here, carrying all his memories and names.
The more he recalled the memories of his past life, the more his heart ached, so he had lived trying not to think about them. However, the images of his two young sons became more vivid as time passed in this world, and until he turned thirty-two, they remained his “sore finger”—his deepest heartache. It was a daily agony thinking about how the two young children had lived without a mother to care for them.
What on earth had happened? Both sons had started getting sick because of that damn disease. Seo-joo, who was physically weaker, had it worse, and Hae-joo had just begun showing symptoms around that time. That was why Tae-jin couldn’t close his eyes in peace.
He would have to verify it properly, but a person presumed to be the son he had missed so dearly had suddenly appeared. It was something he had neither expected nor imagined. He was so shocked that the back of his head tightened and he developed a headache. His heart beat so fast that his face turned red and his hands shook.
He didn’t know what to do yet, but since he knew where the person was, things were easier. He just needed to create a pretext to approach him. Fortunately, he operated the world’s best travel agency and had built a vast network through cruise trips for VIPs.
Since he maintained good relationships with numerous royal families, including chaebols, politicians, and imperial and royal members, getting an audience wouldn’t be as difficult as he thought, provided the pretext was plausible.
If that didn’t work, since all he had was money, he could find a way regardless. So please… if only he could meet him again, he would want for nothing. If he could meet him again, he would do anything.
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My first Heat began thanks to Joo Min-hyeok’s rut. Although I was soaking wet, my buttocks suffered greatly from receiving that huge thing, and I could feel my unconditioned insides gradually stretching to accommodate Joo Min-hyeok’s size. I could also vividly feel the pulsing veins on his member throbbing.
“Ah, it hurts! Your Majesty, wait a moment!”
“It’s okay. It won’t hurt anymore.”
What do you mean it won’t hurt! Would anyone understand a situation where your breath suddenly hitches and stops? Just then, I felt Joo Min-hyeok’s warm lips on mine. He soothed me with a light kiss.
“Breathe slowly. It’s almost all the way in.”
Almost? Joo Min-hyeok was only kind with his words; his actions were not kind at all. My waist arched higher and higher in pain, and I felt Joo Min-hyeok’s movement come to a complete stop at a certain point.
It’s finally all in. I felt as if Joo Min-hyeok’s member had reached up to my solar plexus. I breathed slowly and calmed my heart while feeling Joo Min-hyeok’s pheromones.
“Ah, ah! Ugh, Your Majesty, it feels strange there! Ah. Ah.”
“Ugh… Kh, it’s not strange, it feels good.”
Joo Min-hyeok’s face turned bright red, and the veins in his neck stood out. His hot member relentlessly thrust in and out without pause. I repeated the cycle of gripping the bedsheets, wrapping my arms around Joo Min-hyeok’s neck, and screaming.
It didn’t take long for the pain to turn into pleasure. As if to remind me that I was an Omega, a large amount of fluid flowed from my body, and thanks to that, it became gradually easier for Joo Min-hyeok’s member to slide in and out of me. I could hear Joo Min-hyeok panting softly as he hugged my waist and stomach tightly from behind, burying his face in my shoulder.
As Joo Min-hyeok’s movements quickened, my body shook violently. The sound of flesh slapping—thud, thud—filled my groin. Joo Min-hyeok grabbed my legs and lifted them onto his shoulders. More, give me more. At some point, I tightened my body, trying not to let Joo Min-hyeok’s member slip out.
I had been scared because it was my first time, but my lower hole sucked in Joo Min-hyeok’s member as if it were clinging to it. As if I would never let go. Joo Min-hyeok looked at me with an expression full of ecstasy. Suddenly, I found that face, flushed with sexual desire, strangely appealing.
I felt an impulse to touch those prominent veins in his neck, and I wanted to keep capturing that face revealing its lust for me. When I let out a moan and touched the bulging veins in his neck, Joo Min-hyeok’s eyes flashed even more.
“Haa, Hae-joo. Ugh…”
Joo Min-hyeok called my name repeatedly. The low moans echoing from his throat filled the room. When my own cries grew even higher, only the sounds of us craving each other in a trance resonated. Joo Min-hyeok, who had spread my two legs wide on his shoulders, lifted his body and drove his member deep inside as if plunging it.
The force of it kept pushing my body upward. My legs were spread wide with my ankles held, but I didn’t feel embarrassed at all. Rather, I spread my legs even wider to help Joo Min-hyeok enter more easily, and I wanted Joo Min-hyeok to see me like this.
“Faster… move faster. It’s itchy.”
Was ‘itchy’ the right expression? I don’t know. My lower abdomen was all tingling and boiling with heat. Pheromones flowed excessively from my body. I wanted Joo Min-hyeok to move faster. My only thought was that I wanted him to stir up everything inside me.
“Fuck. Do you know how erotic you look right now?”
Rough words I had never heard from Joo Min-hyeok before came out of his mouth, and I helplessly lost my mind to a pleasure I had never felt in my life. The long-suppressed sexual desire reached its peak upon meeting the rut. Joo Min-hyeok grabbed my member, which was shaking up and down, and began to stroke it simultaneously.
“Ah, ugh.”
I felt like I was going crazy from the excessive pleasure. A pleasure akin to pain was felt from both front and back at the same time, making it feel as if fireworks were exploding in my head. Joo Min-hyeok, who had climbed on top of me and hugged me tightly without a gap, moved without rest. Thud, thud. Amidst the constant sound of flesh hitting flesh, Joo Min-hyeok sucked on my ear and called me.
“Hae-joo. Haa. You really taste crazily good.”
“Ah, yes,”
I didn’t have the leisure to answer. I could feel Joo Min-hyeok’s member entering and leaving me so vividly that I couldn’t control my body. Whenever I became exhausted and my breathing grew uneven, Joo Min-hyeok would stay inside me for a moment and hug me tightly. Every time, I could feel the rapidly beating pulse from the veins on Joo Min-hyeok’s member so vividly that I didn’t want to let go.
The pleasure of feeling another person’s pulse inside me was immense. Why was this so excessively good? Everything was good. Was it because I was in Heat? I was drowning in such intense pleasure that I couldn’t even judge that; I only sought Joo Min-hyeok.
Then, Joo Min-hyeok, who had been holding me, suddenly flipped me over, mounted me from behind, and lifted his upper body as if hugging my stomach. As my body was lifted in his arms, I shook along with Joo Min-hyeok, who immediately began moving at an incredible speed.
While my body trembled amidst the continuous climaxes, Joo Min-hyeok turned my face and pushed his tongue into my mouth. While blatantly teasing the inside of my mouth and sucking hard, Joo Min-hyeok continued the movement of his hips. We were more obscene and messy than imaginable, but none of it felt strange. My head touched the headboard of the bed, then fell outside the bed, moving all over the place.
“Pregnancy… do you want to get pregnant? Cha Hae-joo. I’ll make a baby for you right here.”
It was then that the word ‘pregnancy’ came out of the mouth of Joo Min-hyeok, who usually poured contraceptives into me, worrying that I might conceive.