The Tiger That Bit and Let Go 29

"A wedding. I need to go to a wedding, and I need someone to go with me."

Do Beomwook needed someone — anyone — to ruin a wedding, by whatever means necessary.

And so, right now, he had to bite the man standing before him.

BS Securities Executive Director Do Beomwook, in order to prevent an arranged marriage with the Seosung Group, devises a fake breakup scheme — and spends a hefty sum of twenty million won to hire a guileless university student he's only just met, Baek Yeonjun, to play the role of his lover.

Dragged along by the forces of capitalism to the wedding venue, Yeonjun performs the role of Beomwook's younger Alpha boyfriend with a startling level of excellence(!). Riding the wave of his stellar performance, Beomwook successfully pulls off the breakup on the very day of the wedding.

But there was no time to breathe easy. The ripple effects set off by their fake breakup scheme end up thoroughly entangling Yeonjun — an ordinary university student — in the factional power struggle between BS Group, which rose from the mob organization "Beomsanpa" to become one of South Korea's most prominent conglomerates, and the Seosung Group.

Feeling a deep sense of guilt for having dragged Yeonjun into this mess, Beomwook watches as Yeonjun willingly tells him he'll endure it all — and stays by his side. But the real question remains: on that day of the wedding, was what Do Beomwook bit into… prey? Or a sacrificial lamb?

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What had been bitten and drawn into Beomwook's world was no ordinary prey. No — he was even beginning to think that perhaps it was he himself who had been bitten.

"…Insane."

The most absurd thing of all was that the other man's suggestion to stay with him hadn't been unpleasant in the slightest.

The corners of Beomwook's mouth were slowly beginning to move.