Sixth grade of elementary school. Since he was added to Baek Seonghee’s family register at the age of thirteen, now that he had become a college student, he had been receiving successor training for eight years.
Changed position, changed treatment, changed lifestyle. But Baek Sahyun had not changed at all from when he was a young child. He expressed little emotion, was gloomy, and strangely cynical, to the point where even Baek Seonghee nagged him to at least pretend to be sociable.
She, who had added her older brother’s son to her family register, made efforts to be a better parent as she had promised. She wasn’t respectable enough to be admired, but neither was she bad enough to be resented.
“At parties, keep a smiling face. That’s our family’s weapon.”
She taught Baek Sahyun all the worldly wisdom she had learned throughout her life. Not only worldly wisdom, but she also attached a bunch of renowned educators so that Baek Sahyun, who had never once received private education, could live as an elite.
Since the food served at every meal was only first-class chef’s dishes made with the finest ingredients, Baek Sahyun’s appearance improved day by day. As he had hoped, he grew taller and taller, and his build also grew proportionally larger.
As a result, by the time he entered Hanguk University, he recorded a height of 188cm. When the unusually pretty boy grew into a beautiful man, Baek Seonghee congratulated him, saying she had gained another useful weapon, and someone withdrew their harsh gaze and began to drool.
That was Baek Seonghee’s spouse, namely Lee Yuseon, who was Baek Sahyun’s stepmother.
She was both the reason Baek Seonghee had to break up with her old lover and the reason she had to bring in Baek Sahyun. A strategic marriage had been promoted for the expansion of corporate power.
So Baek Seonghee had to break up with her beloved lover. And she was pressured to have a child with the dominant omega who became her marriage partner, to solidify the alliance between the two families.
But unfortunately, they showed no signs of having a child between them. Perhaps the child also didn’t want to be born under a loveless couple—they continued with implantation procedures, but there was no particular gain.
So Baek Seonghee went to find Baek Sahyun. She brought the son of her incompetent beta older brother, whom she hadn’t shown any interest in until then, and decided to raise him as her own son.
Otherwise, Lee Yuseon might have made the first move and brought an illegitimate child from her own family, insisting on making them the successor, so she dealt with it quickly without thinking twice.
“Where did she bring such a child of unknown origin from….”
So the relationship between Lee Yuseon and Baek Sahyun was not very amicable. Lee Yuseon, who had her opportunity stolen, turned her arrow of resentment not to Baek Seonghee but to Baek Sahyun.
Baek Sahyun had noticed early on that she didn’t think favorably of him, but he didn’t care. At least she didn’t choke or assault him like his biological father, so he rather accepted it good-naturedly.
“You’ve grown a lot, Sahyun.”
However, from the point when Baek Sahyun’s shoulders broadened, a different kind of heat began to be added to Lee Yuseon’s gaze. Lee Yuseon would fold her eyes like half-moons and send eye smiles when she saw Baek Sahyun, who had become a college student. Baek Sahyun, whom she had looked at with contempt every time they sat together, she now looked at with quite affectionate eyes.
That was because Baek Sahyun was a dominant alpha who was beginning to shine brightly, and she was a dominant omega captivated by a young alpha’s pheromones.
Baek Sahyun’s worst mistake, not being sufficiently skilled at controlling his pheromones, was revealing his pheromones in front of Lee Yuseon.
It seemed she had taken quite a liking to Baek Sahyun’s pheromones, as from then on, Lee Yuseon continuously began to pour out ripe pheromones.
“Disgusting….”
Thanks to that, Baek Sahyun always had to be gripped by the feeling that his nose would go numb. He even went so far as to separately get medicine that would allow him to not react to omega pheromones, fearing he might lose his reason and do something. Naturally, he also didn’t forget to firmly lock his door whenever he slept.
Even when he finally couldn’t endure Lee Yuseon’s seduction and moved out to live separately, he had no choice but to install security devices. Because Lee Yuseon came over and caused a scene from the very first day of moving.
“Why are you making such a fuss over a mother coming to see her son’s house?”
“…I’m tired. Please go back.”
To Lee Yuseon saying that, Baek Sahyun just wanted to ask since when she had thought of him as her son. But it was a situation where the suppressants had run out to continue the war of words, and so Baek Sahyun had no choice but to leave first as if fleeing.
So it could be said that Lee Yuseon’s contribution was significant in Baek Sahyun’s omega-phobia beginning to grow in size.
But even if not for Lee Yuseon, there were many, many omegas who tried to seduce Baek Sahyun. Among the omegas who openly sent flirtations asking to sleep together, the most troublesome type was undoubtedly the dominant omegas who came looking for him during their heat cycles.
When the heat cycle’s characteristic dense pheromones hovered around his nose, Baek Sahyun would insult them with a ruthless and cynical attitude that trampled on the omega’s pride.
“Rather than rolling around with an omega like you, it would be better to carve out my trait.”
“…Wh-what? Did you just say all that?”
“I think it’s time for you to stop spreading that filthy smell and get lost on your own.”
Baek Sahyun really thought that way. There wasn’t a single word that wasn’t sincere.
When Baek Seonghee learned that her son was receiving love offensives from numerous omegas, one day she called him in and gave him an order.
“It’s a bit early, but…, first have a child and tie up the lineage or something. I don’t want to care who you meet, but if it’s my wife and an omega who can still get pregnant, it will become quite a problem. I won’t oppose meeting itself, so make the child with a different omega.”
“…What do you mean by that?”
“Don’t think of deceiving me. Even though we don’t share blood, I’ve lived as your mother for over a decade already, so I’m not indifferent enough to not distinguish whose pheromones are on my son’s body.”
“Then you must also know this. Regardless of my will, it’s pheromones that the other party unilaterally marked on me.”
“Is that really so?”
“……”
“Do you think there’s a dominant alpha who wouldn’t react to a dominant omega’s pheromones?”
Baek Seonghee never got angry at Baek Sahyun. She merely recited calmly toward her son who stood marked with her wife’s pheromones.
“If you want to meet Lee Yuseon, then do so. As long as you have a child from an omega who will give birth to a dominant alpha. Then even if you say you’ll go find and meet not Lee Yuseon but your father, I won’t stop you. It might even be better. At least Baek Seongun is a beta.”
“……”
“That’s a joke. Relax your expression.”
“…Chairman, are you sick somewhere?”
“Business is politics. And politics is a word meaning a power struggle. I can’t let Haseon’s power be dispersed at this point. If Lee Yuseon gives birth to your child, a considerable amount of shares will go over to the Haseon Group side. With Lee Yuseon already furious about not being able to make a child with her blood the successor, there’s nothing more troublesome than that.”
In summary, Baek Seonghee was trying to prepare countermeasures by taking the affair between Baek Sahyun and her wife as an established fact. After handing over her position to Baek Sahyun, she must have wanted to receive guarantees in advance so that position wouldn’t be passed to Haseon’s bloodline.
So the relationship between Baek Sahyun and Baek Seonghee had no choice but to become completely twisted.
“You’re going to make me play the role of a stud horse.”
“I can’t say you’re wrong.”
“Wake up from your dream, Chairman.”
“……”
“There will never be a day, even if I die and come back to life, when I have a child with an omega.”
Baek Sahyun, who had been diligently receiving successor training in his own way, started to go astray from that day. He even made some kind of contract with Nam Heejae, the youngest of Intol.
Baek Sahyun had known from before that Nam Heejae was a fake alpha. He had been hanging out with him because there was no reason to attack him using that as leverage, but as soon as he thought he wanted to escape from the tiresome trait games, he began to see him differently.
“Do you want to become an alpha that badly? Why?”
This was because Nam Heejae, who went around spraying terrible pheromone perfume and acting like an alpha, felt like a complete idiot from Baek Sahyun’s perspective.
Nam Heejae wasn’t a fool either, so he had no choice but to realize that he had noticed his real trait. When he, who had at first tearfully appealed to keep the secret, changed his stance and proposed ‘trait transformation,’ Baek Sahyun impulsively accepted.
Nam Heejae’s logic was this.
“Omega or alpha, you say it’s disgusting to live being swayed by others’ pheromones. I’m someone who desperately wants to live being swayed by those pheromones, so let’s do it this way. You pour pheromones on me and become a beta, and I receive your pheromones and become an alpha.”
“……”
“How about it, isn’t it tempting?”
Actually, it wasn’t tempting. How could giving someone a pheromone shower feel pleasant?
But Baek Sahyun was annoyed enough by Lee Yuseon’s obsession to overcome his aversion to pheromone showers. At the same time, the thought of somehow screwing over Baek Seonghee filled him up.
Rather than obediently becoming a stud horse, let’s become a beta. While keeping it thoroughly secret since Baek Seonghee would make a fuss about confiscating all the stocks if she found out he planned such a thing.
At least until the existence named Chae Eunwoo appeared and Nam Heejae demanded a ‘rut’ from him, he really intended to pour his pheromones on Nam Heejae and make him an alpha.
