Mio — a special feline beastman who spent twenty-one years confined to a mansion under the protection of his two older brothers.
To see the glittering neon signs of the city. To find the husband he made a marriage promise to six years ago. In the end, he runs away from home.
And…… collapsed in some alleyway, he is forcibly picked up by an alpha named Yu Cheongmyeong.
“Shall we go get our Mei’s little peanuts?”
Cheongmyeong — a smitten manservant who gave him a name all on his own, and every single day would nip and suckle and dote on him endlessly.
One early morning, he spots Mio in his human form and mistakes him for a honeytrap spy — and proceeds to tease him about it.
“What’s wrong, didn’t like the kiss? It’s not like it was your first. You’ve been well trained. To think that even I almost believed you were a first-timer……”
Honestly, how can a man who’s an NIS agent of all things be this utterly clueless?! A spy — what on earth is he talking about?!
His precious little peanuts must be protected at all costs!
And he still has to find the ‘husband’ he’s been waiting six years for.
“No matter what form you take. I know you’re still my Mio.”
In that moment, Yu Cheongmyeong’s voice sent ripples through him.
The gentle waves spread and knocked against his chest. Through his ringing heart and its trembling, Mio finally understood what it was he had truly longed to hear.
Not love given with conditions or reasons attached — simply that he loved Chae Mio. That even if he never transformed into a cute little cat again, even if he was not a useful existence, he would still love and cherish him.
Having escaped the hollow, towering cage that had confined Chae Mio for twenty years, the eyes he met — Cheongmyeong’s eyes — pulled him down into the depths of a deep sea. Past fear. Past hesitation and a trembling heart.
Into those waves and that tide, endlessly filling the hole that had been left in his heart.
