The Main Character is Obsessed With a Foreign Substance

As soon as he put down his glass, he bowed his head deeply.

“I’m really sorry for everything until now. I truly… did something terrible to you.”

“…!”

“I’m truly sorry.”

Suhwan, who had squeezed his eyes shut while apologizing, slowly raised his head. Seunghyun was staring at him with surprised eyes. Suhwan slowly uttered his words.

“Let’s break off our engagement.”

“…What did you say?”

Seunghyun’s eyes widened in surprise.

Even his surprised face was pretty like a painting. Perhaps that’s why Jin Suhwan had been so obsessed with him.

Suhwan internally shook his head at the thought that suddenly came to mind. What are you admiring his looks for? You’re not the disgusting Jin Suhwan.

Ahem, clearing his throat, Suhwan opened his mouth again.

“I said, let’s break off our engagement.”

Seunghyun’s face, which Suhwan had expected to be happy, darkened rapidly. When he lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes spread widely like a fan. Somehow, despite having just taken a sip of his drink, Suhwan’s throat felt dry, and he swallowed hard.

“Break off the engagement.”

“Yes.”

Seunghyun, who had been mumbling quietly, raised his eyes. Surprisingly, there was a slight anger engraved in his eyes. Even at a glance, he looked upset, which made Suhwan blink in confusion.

“You make everything seem so easy.”

“What?”

“Getting engaged as you please, forcing me into that house, and now breaking off the engagement? Are you joking right now?”

“No, that’s…”

Thinking about it, from Seunghyun’s perspective, suddenly asking to break off the engagement was indeed infuriating. The voice of Jin Suhwan’s grandfather, Jin Gilyoung, who had once shouted that engagement wasn’t a joke, suddenly came to mind. It seemed he hadn’t taken care of Seunghyun’s feelings delicately enough in his haste to cut ties with the main character and distance himself.

“I’m really sorry. I’m sorry that all I can say is sorry. I’ll compensate you however you want.”

“…”

“And the house is yours. Not as compensation, just a gift. I’ll never go there, so don’t worry.”

When the issue of compensation came up, Seunghyun’s face became ambiguous again. Seunghyun, who had willingly entered Jin Suhwan’s house because his family’s business was being held as collateral, wore a suspicious expression.

“What about my place?”

“…Someone else is already living there.”

“Ha.”

After running away from the house and checking into a hotel room, as soon as he regained his senses, he had tried to reclaim the studio apartment where Seunghyun had been living. However, the shrewd landlord had already rented it to someone else. Probably a college student starting next semester.

He couldn’t evict that person, and rather than pettily finding another studio apartment, it seemed better to generously give him Jin Suhwan’s current house. Additionally, if he demanded money as compensation for psychological damage, Suhwan was prepared to match it as much as possible.

“And if you need anything else…”

“What’s your ulterior motive this time?”

Seunghyun cut off Suhwan’s words and asked in a cold tone. Faced with that distrustful expression, Suhwan momentarily couldn’t think. His mind went blank, and after hesitating for a moment, he quickly shook his head and spoke rapidly.

“Ulterior motive? There’s none. Nothing like that.”

“…”

“Really. Please just believe me this one time.”

Suhwan desperately spoke while moving his frozen lips. Layers of old emotions could be glimpsed over Seunghyun’s cold face. Distrust. And contempt. Having suffered at the hands of Jin Suhwan for years, it seemed that Suhwan’s words no longer reached him.

“…I can’t believe you.”

At those quietly muttered words, Suhwan hung his head. He hadn’t realized that the main character would feel such repulsion. Perhaps he should have contacted him in writing rather than meeting directly. As he was feeling belated regret, Seunghyun opened his mouth again.

“Prove it to me.”

“Prove it?”

As he raised his head, calm brown eyes were staring at him. Facing an expression whose thoughts he couldn’t read, Suhwan slowly blinked his eyes.

“How?”

“How can I believe just words? Even a written agreement has no legal effect.”

“Uh, yeah, that’s true.”

Faced with Seunghyun’s surprisingly sharp words, he could only nod. Looking at him with a slightly disgruntled face, Seunghyun curled up the corners of his mouth and said,

“So, prove it with your body.”

“Body?”

Suhwan’s eyes widened at the unexpected words. It was a statement that could be misunderstood in a somewhat suggestive way. Anyway, was he saying to prove it with actions rather than words? But how? As he continued to look at him with questioning eyes, Seunghyun continued.

“For the next month, until both my heat cycle and your rut come once, let’s live together. If you don’t touch my body during that time, I’ll believe you.”

“Huh?”

Suhwan stupidly opened his mouth again. It seemed like the only words he could say in front of Seunghyun were “Huh?” and “What?” What am I, an idiot?

After feeling disgusted with himself, he finally began to understand Seunghyun’s words. Omegas and Alphas periodically experience times when they cannot control their pheromones. These are called heat cycles and ruts, respectively.

Since being manifested in this body, Suhwan had experienced a rut only once. But Jin Suhwan was a recessive Alpha with weak pheromones. It was a bit painful at first, but after taking the suppressants that Jin Suhwan carried around, it was bearable. Just like having cold symptoms, feeling a bit dazed and weak? So he had even thought it was fortunate that he had manifested in the body of a recessive Alpha.

He was a bit worried about Seunghyun being an Omega… but since he was dominant, wouldn’t he be able to thoroughly manage his pheromones?

Therefore, if Suhwan, who had no ulterior motives towards Seunghyun, just managed his rut well, no unfortunate incidents would occur. After safely getting through the promised month, Seunghyun would surely be convinced. That he had truly reformed.

After finishing his shallow calculation inwardly, he quickly nodded.

“Alright. If you really can’t trust me, let’s do that.”

Even though he had clearly agreed to do as Seunghyun wished, Seunghyun’s expression became ambiguous again. So as he stared blankly, Seunghyun frowned and said as he rose from his seat,

“Then come back home immediately. It’s time for me to work now.”

“Ah, right.”

Having risen in a daze, Suhwan reached for the drink he had left unfinished. Seunghyun then took it away, saying he would clean it up. Suhwan habitually muttered thanks, but either Seunghyun didn’t hear it or didn’t want to respond, as he coldly walked away.

Yet the fact that this didn’t make him look hateful at all—was it because he had manifested in Jin Suhwan’s body?

Muttering inwardly, Suhwan turned around. Although the conversation had ended in an unexpected direction, if he endured well for just one more month, he would exit from the original story and become a free man.

With only that thought in mind, he returned to the hotel to pack his belongings. He was the type who was quite quick to act once he made a decision.

Ding.

At the small bell sound that spread out, Seunghyun realized that the man he had been talking to until just now had left the café.

Seunghyun, who had dumped the remaining drink into the sink, frowned as if displeased.

‘What is he thinking?’

Jin Suhwan. He couldn’t figure out that guy’s thoughts at all. Until just recently, he had acted like a mad dog, howling with anger, but the Jin Suhwan he saw today was like a dog with its tail tucked in. A small puppy trembling and seeming ready to listen to whatever was said.

“No, what am I thinking…”

Seunghyun shook his head vigorously at the thought that had unknowingly crossed his mind.

He must not let his guard down. He must never forget what that man had done to him. Reminding himself once again, he washed the mug.

This time, he would deal with Jin Suhwan decisively. He didn’t know why he was suddenly acting this way, but surely there must be some ulterior motive again.

Snorting, Seunghyun quickly put away the mug and returned to the counter. He nodded gratefully to the employee who was working the morning shift with him.

Because the new semester would be starting soon, he wouldn’t be able to work the morning shift for a while. As Seunghyun looked around the empty café, he raised his wrist and glanced at the scar mark inside his shirt.

Just a few months ago, it was a wound inflicted when Jin Suhwan had lunged at him, saying they should die together because Seunghyun wouldn’t accept him. On his left wrist, there was still a clear scar.

Jin Suhwan was just a madman. Seunghyun was well aware of the inferiority complex he had due to being a recessive Alpha. But so what? Is there anyone who doesn’t harbor some inferiority complex in life? That guy was just too extreme.

If only he had been born into an ordinary family, it would have been fortunate, but having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he grew up to be trash who caused trouble for many people. The greatest victim of this was none other than Seunghyun. He had repeatedly faced threats to his life.

But now Seunghyun would no longer just take it. The suddenly changed attitude was bewildering, but that didn’t mean he would change his plans.

Surely Jin Suhwan would soon reveal his true colors. He would unleash that dark desire to possess Seunghyun and turn ugly. Perhaps he wouldn’t even have to wait for the heat cycle or rut.

And that was exactly what Seunghyun wanted. This time, he would thoroughly collect evidence and sue Jin Suhwan. It didn’t matter anymore if a large corporation was backing him. Seunghyun had been patient enough.

“Phew.”

Despite it being early morning, he exhaled while massaging his stiff neck with his hand. He was appalled at himself for not having put up a proper defense when he was being stalked or threatened by that guy like an idiot. Why hadn’t he thought of fighting back sooner?

Something that had strangely dulled his mind until recently seemed to have lifted.