The Main Character is Obsessed With a Foreign Substance

The Main Character is Obsessed With a Foreign Substance (Volume 1)

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The Foreign Element Just Wants to Disappear Now

1.

Beep beep.

[AM. 08:00]

The current time appeared on the electronic clock on the desk with an alarm. Suhwan, who had just awakened from sleep, stared at the clock with dull eyes for a moment. Then he slowly rose from the bed.

Drrr.

As soon as he got up, his phone vibrated as if it had been waiting. A few characters that appeared on it pierced Suhwan’s eyes.

[See you later]

The message, neither long nor short, appeared on the screen and disappeared. When the letters vanished, Suhwan exhaled a short breath he had been holding.

“Haah.”

While wishing this day would come quickly, he also hoped it wouldn’t come at all. This conflicting feeling was becoming increasingly severe and troublesome.

Sighing, he entered the bathroom. As he undressed and turned on the shower, he saw the figure of an unfamiliar man in the mirror on the opposite side.

Startled, Suhwan unconsciously flinched and looked into the mirror with surprised eyes. A surprised-looking man was staring back at him, then followed Suhwan’s movements exactly.

“…Ha.”

Despite it being time to get used to it by now, Suhwan still found the man in the mirror terribly unfamiliar.

A month had already passed since he had manifested in this body. When he first opened his eyes in this body, he was just bewildered. When he woke up, he found himself collapsed under a telegraph pole in some unknown back alley.

This was a world inside a BL novel. Suhwan realized that exactly about a week after he manifested. Although he had no memories of the body’s original owner, he couldn’t help but understand the situation by observing his surroundings.

In truth, Suhwan couldn’t remember who he was before manifesting. But there was something floating vaguely in his empty mind—ironically, it was the content of a novel that he presumed his previous self had read. And it was an R-rated, bleak BL novel.

He couldn’t recall the title, only the miserable content and the characters’ names. And he shared the same name as the novel’s secondary male lead.

Secondary male lead? No, that guy wasn’t even treated as a secondary lead but as a foreign element. He was a criminal who obsessed over the main character, forced an engagement, and committed imprisonment and violence. Suhwan frowned at the novel content that surfaced again in his mind as he turned on the shower.

Swoosh.

As soon as he turned it on, water of the right temperature immediately fell onto Suhwan’s body. Well-defined muscles slightly quivered when the water touched them. Despite it now being his own body, somehow he looked down at it with cold eyes.

Jin Suhwan. A recessive alpha with severe inferiority complexes. Born as a third-generation chaebol, yet never satisfied, he hated himself for being recessive and took out his frustrations on others, eventually revealing his inferiority to the main character, a dominant omega, becoming obsessed with him—a foreign element.

Suhwan couldn’t understand him at all. His pre-manifestation self was probably a proper, ordinary citizen with a sound mind. So when he found out he had manifested into Jin Suhwan’s body, he just felt uncomfortable.

And he was terrified. It would have been better if he had manifested before the novel started, but Jin Suhwan had already met Lee Seunghyun, the main character. When he realized this, Suhwan’s heart sank. He desperately gathered information to find out what point in time he was at.

The fortunate thing was that Jin Suhwan hadn’t yet committed his crazed actions. If he had made a wrong move, he would have had to deal with irreversible consequences, but that wasn’t the case. Suhwan was really lucky. Fortunately, he had manifested just one day before Jin Suhwan was going to assault the main character.

Click.

After turning the shower button in the opposite direction to stop the water, Suhwan trudged out of the bathroom. The hotel room, with its monotone, clean wallpaper, had become somewhat familiar after living in it for a month.

As soon as he manifested, Suhwan ran away from the house where he had been living with the main character. In his confusion, he couldn’t face Seunghyun, who would cause his death, in his right mind.

And during that time, he began to correct the wrong things one by one. That’s why he stayed in a hotel room for a month.

Jin Suhwan, this crazy bastard, would stop at nothing to possess the main character in the early parts of the novel. Using his family’s power, he forced an engagement with the main character and nearly ruined the main character’s family, forcing him to live together.

Afterward, he imprisoned the main character who had walked in voluntarily and took him by force. True to an R-rated novel, he did all sorts of unspeakable things to the main character. Despite being a foreign element, he played around quite satisfactorily. Of course, the end was death.

Recalling that Jin Suhwan was eventually killed by the male protagonist, Suhwan shook his head vigorously. Anyway, since he had manifested, these things would no longer happen. Although the main character had been forced into an engagement with him, he was still pure and hadn’t been harmed in any way. That was because he had manifested the very night before Jin Suhwan, that bastard, was fully prepared.

Perhaps it was because he was drunk with joy that the main character had finally become his. Heavily intoxicated, Jin Suhwan hit his head on a telegraph pole in a dirty back alley and passed out. Because it was such a secluded place, no one discovered that he had collapsed, and when Jin Suhwan woke up in the morning, he was no longer “Jin Suhwan.”

Well, I guess he went straight to the grave. Now Suhwan, who had become “Jin Suhwan,” thought nonchalantly as he bit into a piece of toast that had just popped out of the toaster.

He had been quite busy during this month. To avoid death, he had to distance himself from the main character. After all, Jin Suhwan had died foolishly obsessing over the main character.

It would have been better if he had manifested before the engagement, but it was already done. Then, somehow, he had to make the engagement disappear. Originally, the main character’s family wasn’t that wealthy, so Jin Suhwan’s family wasn’t pleased. They reluctantly agreed because Jin Suhwan made a fuss with his nasty temperament. And also because the main character was a dominant omega.

Convincing the family elders again was difficult but not impossible. Jin Gilyoung, Jin Suhwan’s grandfather and the chairman of a large corporation, who had reprimanded him for taking engagement so lightly, promised to allow the cancellation of the engagement if he would meet three omegas that he had arranged. It took exactly a month to get that permission and organize things.

“Oh!”

Stuffing toast into his mouth, Suhwan realized there wasn’t much time left before the promised meeting. He hurriedly grabbed his jacket and left the hotel room.

Now he had to meet the main character and inform him of the cancellation of their engagement. And add a sincere apology too. Although it wasn’t his doing, he was willing to apologize until his hands wore out if it meant he could become strangers with the main character.

Eventually, the cafe that was set as the meeting place came into view.

[D.Clare]

It was the cafe where the main character worked part-time. Suhwan surveyed the stylish cafe surrounded by brown brick walls and carefully opened the door.

Ding.

A clear bell sound echoed softly inside the cafe. Suhwan scanned the small, cozy interior with his eyes. The cafe, located in a university area, was known for its delicious coffee through word of mouth, but perhaps because it was still vacation and early morning, there weren’t many people. Soon, Suhwan spotted a man with light brown hair sitting by the window.

A beautiful man was quietly gazing out the window, bathed in sunlight. It was as if time had stopped only around him. Even the dust particles, sparkling and floating in the light, seemed like decorations to highlight him.

Lee Seunghyun. The main character of this novel and the victim who had been shattered by Jin Suhwan’s obsession.

But not anymore. Unlike the original Jin Suhwan, he hadn’t laid a finger on Lee Seunghyun. After all, relying on his barely recalled memories, he had returned home, been shocked at seeing him, and immediately fled the house.

Now he was still… a scumbag who had forced an engagement using his power? A miserable stalker?

‘That’s not very reassuring.’

Recalling the novel’s content bitterly, Suhwan forced strength into his weakening legs and walked. Soon, Seunghyun, who noticed him, raised his bright brown eyes to look at Suhwan.

‘Wow, even his eyes sparkle.’

Is this the dignity of a main character? Suhwan gazed at Seunghyun in genuine admiration. His eyes were large but with deep double eyelids, and the corners turned upwards, making him look somewhat cat-like. But not in a sharp way—more like an elegant and graceful Persian cat with a dignified atmosphere.

Moreover, perhaps because he was a dominant omega, his broad shoulders and sturdy frame were no less impressive than Jin Suhwan’s, a recessive alpha. No, if they stood face to face, wouldn’t Seunghyun look more like an alpha on the outside? Thinking this inwardly, he sat down in front of Seunghyun.

“Sorry I’m late.”

Glancing at his watch, he saw he was a little late for the appointment. Seunghyun, who had been looking at Suhwan with peculiar eyes as he slightly bowed his head in apology, slowly opened his mouth.

“I just got here too.”

“Ah… really?”

For a while, the two looked at each other without speaking. Suhwan was watching Seunghyun’s reaction, and Seunghyun found something different about Suhwan that seemed unfamiliar.

Besides, facing the main character in person, he couldn’t keep his composure. Somehow, he seemed even more striking than when they had met a month ago.

“…I’ll go order too.”

“Okay.”

Suhwan, who had been hopelessly entranced by Seunghyun’s appearance, rose from his seat as if escaping. Only after he ordered his drink and returned to his seat could they finally have a conversation.

“Hmm, well.”

“Why haven’t you come home?”

“…Huh?”

Suhwan, who was about to start talking in earnest, was startled by Seunghyun’s question. For some reason, the main character’s words sounded like a reprimand to a husband who was staying out.

…Surely, that’s just a misunderstanding. Suhwan forced a smile and answered.

“I was kind of busy with work.”

“Do they give that much work to an intern?”

“Well…”

Suhwan was currently an intern at his company. Well, he was an intern in name only—actually, he was quite idle. Anyway, after graduation, he would leisurely work as an employee and then receive an ultra-fast promotion, so the company wouldn’t give him much work. Seunghyun also saw through this and made the comment, but Suhwan just vaguely brushed it off. That wasn’t the important point.

“More importantly, I have something to tell you.”

“…?”

Before speaking, Suhwan, whose throat felt dry, took a sip of his drink. Unable to drink coffee, he had ordered a cold grapefruit ade. The cool drink, sweet yet slightly bitter, went down Suhwan’s throat.