END OF THE MONTH BONUS CHAPTERS!
5. Baek Gunho Wants to Live Quietly
Private Hanguk High School.
It was an educational institution that boasted the highest prestige and honor in the country, to the extent that there was a saying that anyone who hadn’t heard of its name was either a foreigner or a spy.
The fact that a private school established by a private company dared to use the country’s name in its title and received furious criticism from some politicians was now a distant memory. Now it had established itself as a prestigious high school where students from the top 1% nationwide competed to apply.
“Ah, fuck! Are you really not coming? We’ll be so disappointed if you don’t show!”
“That’s right! The other kids are super excited thinking you’re coming.”
“My uncle’s penthouse is huge as hell! We even hired a crazy famous DJ and celebrities, and you’re gonna pass on this?”
“You can drink until you puke!”
Of course, there were also quite a few children from political and business circles who slipped in by adding ‘a little donation money.’
In other words, this Hanguk High was a pandemonium where model students and delinquent chaebols coexisted.
“There’s even meth there.”
“Crazy bastard, talking about it so brazenly at school.”
“Why, who’s gonna report it? Is there anyone here who’d report it?”
Hanguk High students were largely divided into two types.
The type who wore their uniforms neatly and had thick-lensed glasses.
And the type who wore their uniforms half-assedly, sporting two-block haircuts, tattoos, luxury watches, and flaunting expensive styling to the fullest.
The louder the latter raised their voices and cackled, the more the former couldn’t even dare make eye contact and kept their gazes fixed on their desks.
“Hey, I’m really begging you! Let’s hang out this weekend! Huh? Seolheonaaa!”
And then, there was a student who didn’t fit into either category.
Black hair contrasting with white skin and dark blue eyes.
Long eyelashes and delicate features.
Broad shoulders that made the desk and chair look quite small, and long legs.
He wore his uniform perfectly, yet he wasn’t plain.
He wasn’t dressed up, yet he was uniquely dazzling.
Like a single wolf with sleek jet-black fur awkwardly placed in a birdcage chaotically mixed with chickens and peacocks, he alone shone brilliantly.
The student with such overwhelmingly beautiful looks that he seemed out of place finally opened his mouth.
“Sorry. Next time.”
A chillingly low yet smooth voice like rolling jade echoed throughout the school.
Following the faint smile that appeared, the faces of all the students turned red.
“Damn! He’s really playing hard to get.”
“When the hell will he hang out with us! Expensive bastard!”
The peacocks had such strong pride as they could count on one hand the number of times they’d been rejected in their lives.
And yet, far from feeling bad, they just melted away.
“Let’s give up. Baek Seolheon is usually an iron wall and then some.”
“It’s such a waste. If only he wasn’t ‘that.'”
“Bullshit. Then I would’ve eaten him up ages ago.”
As the flock of peacocks left the cage, the sense of intimidation disappeared, but a suffocating silence descended.
“……Uh, um. Seolheon.”
After a moment, Song Changu, the class president of Class 1, 3rd year—the head of the cage, so to speak—mustered his courage and spoke.
“Are you okay?”
“About what.”
“Th-those kinds of kids talk to you every time…… Isn’t it tiring?”
‘Those kinds of kids’ referred to the Class 5 students who had fallen behind in grades—the so-called silver-spoon delinquents.
To this, Baek Seolheon answered indifferently.
“They and I are similar.”
“N-no! You got in without any donation money…… and you were even the top student! You entered the school fair and square, so I should say it’s very different……”
“Fair and square?”
Baek Seolheon slightly raised the corner of his mouth and let out a brief laugh as if air was leaking out.
Though he didn’t know which part was funny, Song Changu’s face also relaxed naturally at that smile.
“It has been noisy since the new semester started. Next time I’ll go out and deal with them.”
“Th-that’s not what I was trying to say……”
“It must be uncomfortable for everyone.”
Baek Seolheon was perfect.
He had overwhelming grades good enough to pass through top departments at top universities with a free pass, and despite his beautiful appearance, he had never been the subject of any gossip until now.
He appropriately kept his distance from low-quality students without causing conflict, showed consideration by worrying about disrupting his classmates’ studying atmosphere, and even had the humility to never show off his superiority. That person was Baek Seolheon.
So those who disliked Baek Seolheon at school could be counted on one hand. Even they only found fault half-heartedly because they didn’t know Seolheon’s true nature.
‘If I had to find a flaw in Baek Seolheon, despite being so handsome and incredibly capable, his secondary gender is……’
Just as Song Changu was continuing his thoughts, Baek Seolheon slung a black backpack without a logo over one shoulder and left the classroom.
“Huh? Where are you going?”
“Home.”
“I-I have tutoring too! Let’s go together.”
Baek Seolheon didn’t stop Song Changu from going home with him.
“Seolheon, did you do well on the mock exam this time?”
“Decently. You?”
“M-me too, decently? As expected, you’ll probably rank nationally this time too, right?”
“We won’t know until the results come out.”
“R-right? Haha……”
Baek Seolheon smiled warmly and nodded, but didn’t particularly continue the conversation. He didn’t try to match his stride with Song Changu, who was about five steps behind.
But Song Changu stubbornly followed along with the sole intention of becoming even a little closer to Baek Seolheon. Two years had already passed like this, and they were now third-years facing graduation.
But those five steps had never narrowed even a bit.
When he glanced at Baek Seolheon’s face, his gaze was directed at somewhere far away.
Song Changu was always curious about where he was looking, but there was no way to know.
“……”
At that moment, a strange light appeared in Baek Seolheon’s eyes.
“……Hyung.”
Muttering softly to himself, he suddenly quickened his pace.
“Baek Seolheon?”
“I’m going ahead.”
In the blink of an eye, the distance from Baek Seolheon grew.
Song Changu just blinked and watched Baek Seolheon’s back growing smaller.
The place Baek Seolheon arrived at, walking as if running, was the parking lot exclusively for outsiders. Soon, without hesitation, he walked and stopped in front of a black mid-sized car.
The driver’s seat window rolled down, and after exchanging a few words, Baek Seolheon stood for a moment before familiarly getting into the passenger seat.
In that brief moment when he turned his body.
Song Changu couldn’t help but be startled when he saw Baek Seolheon’s expression.
“He, he smiled……?”
Baek Seolheon always had a smiling face. He smiled equally to everyone and treated them kindly.
So it wasn’t strange, but……
“He smiles like that too.”
Smiling so broadly with such a flushed face…… it was the first time he’d seen it since enrollment.
Song Changu stared blankly at the departing vehicle with a dazed face.
* * *
“You said you were so busy with returning to school. Why did you come?”
That’s what the kid said as soon as he got in the car.
At the words spat out with a suddenly stiffened expression, I chuckled and shot back.
“I came to pick up my high school senior brother who’s a test-taker.”
“Driver Park is here though. Why would you specifically, hyung……”
“You ran over like a puppy all excited as soon as you saw my car. Did you not like it?”
“……”
Then Baek Seolheon had no answer.
When I turned my eyes to look, I saw a beauty with black hair and navy blue eyes. The dark blue uniform was similar to his eye color and suited him very well.
The soft cheeks from just a few years ago had disappeared without a trace in the time I hadn’t seen him, leaving only a handsome sculpted face with a strong jawline. Despite being almost an adult, his height kept growing day by day, making the spacious interior of the mid-sized car feel packed.
Once again, my younger brother’s face, shedding his boyish look day by day, felt unfamiliar.
Still, the cute parts I knew about remained. For example, that face with slightly furrowed brows. That expression of being embarrassed and contemplating his answer.
‘Even his sullen face is handsome. Kid.’
I chuckled and smoothly turned the steering wheel.
I was already 24 years old. It had been a long time since I’d caught up to my age from my previous life, and Baek Seolheon was now a high school senior.
“Earlier it looked like you were going home with a friend. Did I come for nothing?”
“……No.”
“I heard from Father earlier that our Seolheon cried every single day saying he missed me while I was in the military.”
“What?”
A deflated sound came from the passenger seat as if he was dumbfounded.
I held back my laughter and patted Baek Seolheon’s shoulder with the hand not holding the steering wheel.
“This breaks my heart so much I just had to come to school.”
“That can’t be true. You believe what that person says?”
“Hey, calling Father ‘that person.’ Father may be good at exaggerating rumors, but he doesn’t make up stories that don’t exist, right?”
“I didn’t cry.”
“Really? When I think about how you had a scary dream and snuggled right into my arms……”
“Stop it. What old story are you bringing up?”
A sigh mixed with resignation came from the passenger seat. Even so, his face turned slightly red as he furrowed his brows again.
Eventually, as soon as I stopped the car briefly for a signal, I suddenly tucked Baek Seolheon’s face under my arm and thoroughly ruffled his hair.
“Yeah! I know you like me.”
“……Let go.”
“Don’t want to? My crybaby brother Seolheon.”
“I told you not to.”
While reacting stiffly, he didn’t actively stop me.
It wouldn’t be easy for a nearly 190cm giant to be this cute. Even though he was now similar in size to me, his inner self was still adorable.
‘I was an idiot for once mistaking this cute kid for a psychopath sex offender.’
Even if his outer appearance was similar to the image of that crazy bastard I had imagined when reading the novel…… the inside was different. Very different.
The reason goes without saying.
Because this world’s Baek Seolheon…… unlike the alpha crazy bastard Baek Wooheon who boasted tremendous sexual desire.
“Really, our Seolheon, what would I have done if you were an alpha? I wouldn’t even be able to hug you tight like this!”
Had manifested as a beta.
With this, I had completely thrown off the shackles called ’19+ drugged gay beast novel’ and was truly enjoying a happy second-life existence in peace!
“I’m so happy!”
“I can’t breathe.”
Oh so it’s alpha x beta
That’s fine