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Familiar alarm sound. Familiar bedding.
And even in his sleep, a very familiar weight…
“Uwaaah! What the!”
…Not!
As soon as Hongdan came to his senses, he realized an enormous leech was clinging to his body. He immediately tried pushing it away using all his limbs, but that leech wasn’t ordinarily tenacious—the more he pushed, the closer it stuck. It was even rubbing its face against his chest.
“Mmmm… Hongdan. Just 5 more minutes…”
“5 minutes my ass, fuck. Why are you sleeping here? I definitely put you in that room!”
“That room’s cold, Hongdan…”
Hongdan was a heavy sleeper and insensitive about where he slept.
In a situation where he had to wander around looking for a place to lay his body, constantly moving between monthly and jeonse rentals, such a sensitive constitution was a luxury. Even people who were light sleepers had to become dull to survive. That was beneficial in many ways in the world of poverty, and Hongdan was a life form well-evolved to suit his environment.
It seemed the bastard knew this and had been waiting for him to fall asleep before entering the master bedroom. Well, even in high school, he’d constantly doodle on his sleeping face, getting beaten up on the way home from school every day. With his memory regressed to high school days, it wasn’t so strange for him to cling to him like this now.
But past memories were past memories, and for now, getting to work came first.
Hongdan twisted his waist with all his might to create space. But no matter how tightly bound he was, no matter how much he pushed Seonha’s shoulders, he wouldn’t budge. It seemed his body had grown even bigger in the past year. The more he moved, the more he felt his energy draining before even getting to work. He already seemed to be running out of breath.
“Ha, this pig bastard… shit.”
Slapping Seonha’s uselessly thick back, Hongdan briefly pondered whether yesterday’s choice had been right. But soon the voice whispering ‘half of all assets’ came to mind, and he couldn’t help but return to the same conclusion.
“I’m coooold… blanket… blaaanket—”
Taking good care of this trash that had even lost intelligence for 3 months.
No, keeping him alive without killing him.
It was his choice not to receive alimony, but it wasn’t because he really didn’t need it. He wasn’t in a position to do so. Even this 18-pyeong villa jeonse was barely arranged by scraping together all the money he had and didn’t have, even borrowing from the bank.
He just wanted to get away from Yeon Seonha quickly at the time. He didn’t want to extend the time with that bastard by having headache-inducing conversations.
But now he was offering to give it himself…
“Or Hongdan can give me a biiig hug…”
It would be the side refusing that should get examined at the hospital.
Hongdan steadied his mind thinking of the numbers that would appear in his bank account after about 100 days.
“Then turn on the boiler, you idiot. Ugh—”
Instead of draining more energy for nothing, he punched that annoying head once. Then this disgusting bastard went “Eeeee—” and acted cute, which didn’t even work.
But what use was getting angry?
If he swallowed this moment’s anger and thought about living comfortably in the future with the money extorted from Yeon Seonha, his heart naturally became merciful. Instead, he planned to contact the landlord on the way home from work to ask if he could install a door lock on the master bedroom.
“Hey, hey. I need to go to work, okay? Let go while I’m asking nicely. You said your hair was precious yesterday. If you don’t let go within 1 minute, I’m going to pull it all out.”
Hongdan grabbed the hair that had become completely disheveled from Seonha rubbing against him so much and shook it gently. Even though he’d become stupid, he seemed not to have lost his masculinity—the leech that wouldn’t fall off no matter how much he struggled quietly released Hongdan.
“Mean… You don’t like going bald either.”
Seonha stretched the corners of his mouth downward and rolled his eyes. Hongdan didn’t care and finally raised his freed body.
“As long as you’re not my husband, I don’t really care?”
“…Tch.”
His whole body felt much stiffer than yesterday. It seemed Yeon Seonha hadn’t just been hugging him in the morning but had been shamelessly crushing him with that huge body all night.
Hongdan stretched fully, extending his compressed muscles this way and that. As he left the room, he warned Seonha, who was still lying on his bed.
“Come sleep here one more time. Then I’ll really slap a leash on you while you sleep.”
“Why is twenty-nine-year-old Hongdan so ill-tempered?”
“I ruined my personality by marrying the wrong ex-husband.”
“…”
He seemed like he’d immediately go “Tch” and whine, but unusually there was no response.
But what use was there in lingering over that disgusting interjection?
Hongdan cut off the branch of thought that was needlessly trying to extend and just went into the bathroom. Either way, if he’d decided to endure 3 months with Yeon Seonha, he wanted to get through it as smoothly and uneventfully as possible. So he quickly cut off even the thoughts that habitually tried to rise.
***
Thud—
“This is the guy.”
Murky dust puffed up as a man fell to the floor. His originally pretty face couldn’t be found in his rag-like appearance.
The man in the pitch-black suit slowly nodded his head. His attire that seemed like it would swallow all the light in the world and his cold eyes immediately brought to mind the Grim Reaper.
The man silently looked down at the rag. The man standing picturesquely behind him quickly added words.
“You know. That omega who lied to the young master about being pregnant. This is that guy right here.”
“…Aha. That idiot.”
Only then did the Grim Reaper’s—Do Jaehyuk’s—lips part slightly.
His strong-featured face was still utterly emotionless. But to the eyes of people who had worked in sync with him for over ten years, it was enough to read as a positive response. The man serving as Jaehyuk’s subordinate nodded with a much brighter voice in response.
“Yes, that’s right. That idiot. Dusik and I discovered him at Gimpo Airport trying to run off somewhere nice with the money he received from the young master, so we brought him here.”
“Hmm.”
Jaehyuk slowly stroked his chin and hummed lowly. Then the idiot’s shoulders, which had been obediently crawling on the ground, jumped once significantly.
“Looking at him, he doesn’t seem to be the young master’s type, but the young master wasn’t nearby?”
“Yes. This guy’s face isn’t good enough to run away in the night with, is it?”
“The young master doesn’t look at faces.”
“Huh?”
When words that completely departed from context popped out of Jaehyuk’s mouth, who rarely said useless things, the subordinate blinked. But soon a hand gesture waving him away as if telling him to get lost came back, so he had no choice but to leave. The man bowed once more before completely closing the door and quietly erased his presence.
Click.
The wooden door twice the size of an adult male closed, and now the only ones left in this spacious office were the omega called ‘idiot’ and Jaehyuk—just the two of them.
Jaehyuk kindly lowered his posture for the idiot lying on the floor. Then he grabbed his chin to make him meet his gaze.
The idiot’s brown eyes, which had been trembling anxiously the whole time, shook even more violently as soon as they saw Jaehyuk’s face. It was because of the chilly complexion that seemed like it would freeze you just by facing it. Jaehyuk willingly observed that honest ripple and spoke in an indifferent tone.
“Why do something that deserves a beating?”
“I-I was wrong. I’ll return the money right away! Please just spare me, just spare me…”
“You never actually slept with Young Master Seonha, did you?”
Even though it was just a casual probing remark, the man who had been begging until his palms caught fire stopped moving.
I thought so.
The omega neither affirmed nor denied, but his gaping lips were soon an answer. The guess he’d held quietly since hearing the news had fit perfectly.
Jaehyuk affectionately stroked the back of the omega’s head, pleased by that honesty.
“Our young master’s tastes have been perfectly consistent since a certain point. Your pheromones just give me a useless headache too.”
That touch was so gentle.
“I, I’m…”
It created the illusion that he wasn’t being threatened right now.
“Did you think that because his ex-husband was a commoner, the young master would remarry just any commoner?”
However.
Thud—!
“Aaaaah—!”
“Hm? Presumptuously, I mean.”
Thud— Thud!
“Aaaaah! Aaaah!”
It was only sweet bait all along.
Jaehyuk grabbed the omega’s hair and slammed it against the floor. The bloodstains intermittently sprayed on the white marble increasingly expanded their range as the impact sounds increased. Before long, blood had even splattered on the hem of Jaehyuk’s pants. However, for the darkness that swallowed even light, swallowing the dark red color was even easier.
Jaehyuk only released the hair after the omega’s limbs began to droop limply. Then he pulled out two or three tissues from the reception table and roughly cleaned his hands.
“Well… I learned something thanks to you, so I won’t go so far as to kill you.”
“Wh-what…”
The omega muttered with his completely split lips, desperately trying to hold onto his consciousness that was drifting far away. But all that came back was light scorn.
Jaehyuk threw the blood-stained tissue not into the trash can but at him. A chillingly low whisper followed.
“But give up any thoughts of quietly going home.”
“…”
Jaehyuk, who had left a brutal warning, took out his phone from his pocket. Seeing him immediately put it to his ear, it seemed he was calling someone.
“Hey, Changhyun.”
Jaehyuk’s gaze landed on the omega. However, the position was slightly different from before. Now he swept over the area below rather than the blood-covered face.
And another scoff.
“Sell this idiot bastard somewhere suitable.”
He doesn’t give even the chance to defend oneself to an idiot who coveted what he dared not possess. Therefore, Jaehyuk had no hesitation in handing down the maximum sentence either.
“W-wait! What are you talking about! Sell?! Where are you trying to send me!”
On this cruel judge’s desk, only a single sheet of paper inserted in a document folder was swaying in the late autumn wind.
“No! Nooooo—! I said I was wrong, I said I was wrong! Aaaaaah!”
[Patient Name: Yeon Seonha (Alpha, 28 years old)
Treatment Date: 2025.Month.Day
Diagnosis: Natural Recanalization After Vasectomy
Findings:
Natural recanalization is presumed to have occurred at the existing vasectomy site.
Presence of sperm confirmed in semen analysis,
This suggests the possibility of partial or complete recanalization of the vas deferens.
Detailed examination and whether additional procedures are needed should be discussed with patient and spouse.]
Along with a yellow post-it note that looked like someone had scribbled on it.
‘I don’t fucking know what to do’
