Correction Chapter 60

When Shin Jungmin got a fiancée, it was unpleasant, but still acceptable. She was from a good family, an omega woman with a clean reputation. But the moment I saw that omega coincidentally entering a hotel with another ‘omega’ of the same secondary gender, a hollow laugh escaped me.

In the end, Shin Jungmin’s taste in choosing someone like that was disgustingly poor.

When I called him, pretending not to know, and he lied, saying he was with that omega, it seemed he also knew how his fiancée was living and who she was with. Only then did my mind start to work quickly.

‘Ah, so that’s why he got engaged.’

Because she resembled his past self, out of a sense of pity. I thought, that’s just like Shin Jungmin.

That meant the engagement would break off soon anyway. There was even less need to pay it any mind. In any case, given Shin Jungmin’s personality, he probably couldn’t love anyone. Because he was a man who, damn it all, only had eyes for Yoo Shinwoo, a man crazy for Yoo Shinwoo.

“Hmm?”

“What is it, Mr. Joohwan?”

But then I saw that fiancée meeting another omega at a hotel for a second time, and with a reporter attached, I sensed that the situation was somehow unusual.

‘I suppose I should probably warn him to be careful.’

His reputation being tarnished because of one small piece of foreign matter was not a pleasant thing. Still, thinking it would be better to at least give him a warning, I called him.

─The phone is turned off….

At first, I really thought his phone was off. Of all the times, I thought, annoyed, but then I opened the chat window to send a message and confirmed he hadn’t even read the message I’d sent a few days ago. Only then did I realize I had been blocked.

“Ha…”

I was angry. No matter, does he just cut me off like this without a word? I thought. Leaving behind the omega I had called over for sex, I drove my car to the front of Shin Jungmin’s house. Even in that moment, I found my own actions absurd.

From the moment I was born, no matter what I did, no matter the situation, I was always the one who held the reins. But Shin Jungmin alone did not go as I willed. For some reason, in the relationship between Shin Jungmin and myself, he was always the one holding the reins.

I parked the car in front of Jungmin’s house. Suppressing my anger, I took out my work phone and pressed the call button. A hollow laugh escaped me at the cheerful ringing tone. I thought that if he didn’t pick up this call, I would open that door right now and at least see his flustered face, but then the ringing stopped.

─Who….

Absurdly, hearing his voice for the first time in days made me even angrier. What the hell is this bastard that I’m going on this wild goose chase for?

“sunbae.”

─Kim Joohwan, are you crazy? Calling at this hour-

Ha, really, this audacity. You always treat me like this.

“That’s my line.”

─What do you mean by that?

“Didn’t you block my number?”

Realizing it only then, a long silence followed. It seemed he had even forgotten that he had blocked me. Kim Joohwan pushed his hair back.

“So it was true.”

I can hear the gears turning in that small head all the way from here.

“You don’t answer my calls, you don’t read my messages, so I thought, no way, but. I see.”

Joohwan tapped the steering wheel. Since it was the plastic part, the sound of his fingernails tapping sounded similar to tapping on a table.

“Well, whatever. sunbae, where are you now?”

─At home… of course.

He’s not lying about being at a hotel this time.

“Can we meet for a moment?”

─Why? Is it urgent? If not, let’s see each other tomorrow.

“Like you’d really meet me tomorrow. After blocking me, what do you mean.”

I was serious. Jungmin probably wouldn’t meet me. Unless I forced my way in like this, there was never a time Shin Jungmin sought me out.

─I’m hanging up.

As Jungmin hung up on his own accord, Kim Joohwan scoffed again. What a precious person, so hard to see.

Ah, by the way, I forgot to tell him about his fiancée. It seemed better to talk about that in person. I wanted to see his face crumple the moment he confirmed that I knew a secret he surely hadn’t told anyone. Since it’s come to this, should I just try opening that door? I was thinking, just at that moment.

Someone was loitering in front of Shin Jungmin’s house. At first, I thought it was just a passerby, but he was dressed more formally than I expected. Looking closely in that direction, it was a man I had seen often somewhere.

‘Ji Soohan.’

Jungmin’s fiancée’s older brother, and an Alpha. Whenever I went to the hospital to see Jungmin, I always saw the two of them together. Why is that man here? Kim Joohwan felt his body grow cold.

Soon, the man made a call somewhere, and not long after, the main gate opened. The sight of Shin Jungmin coming out with a wide smile and hugging Ji Soohan was so unfamiliar that… for a moment, I even thought, ‘Is that Shin Youngmin?’ But no. That was Shin Jungmin.

Shin Jungmin, about to bloom like an omega, having received an Alpha’s love in abundance.

Kim Joohwan gripped the steering wheel tightly.

There wasn’t just one piece of foreign matter, but two. I hadn’t expected it. I didn’t know something like that was mixed in. I thought I had to get rid of it. I also thought I had to crush any useless hope. Kim Joohwan called his secretary.

“The reporter I saw at the hotel earlier. Detain him.”

─Yes, I understand.

The next day, Kim Joohwan apprehended the reporter and obtained the photos he had taken. And he did nothing else. He told the reporter to publish the article as he had planned, and all he did was send those photos to Ji Soohan’s house. What kind of storm would arise from that one photo was something to watch for in the future.

“Help me.”

Was this the second time Shin Jungmin had come to him asking for help? The first time was when he came asking to be taught about ‘correction’, and the second time was today.

“I want to go with them too.”

You should not have said those words. In that moment, it felt like my reason snapped. I couldn’t control the sudden surge of anger. As if everything I had been holding back was exploding, my vision turned black, and in the center stood only Shin Jungmin.

I shot up, kicked the table, and vaulted over it to grab Shin Jungmin by the collar. He insisted until the end that he wasn’t in ‘that kind of’ relationship with that man. But what could I do? I had seen you pressing your lips against that man’s.

“…Anything… just say the word.”

The moment I heard those words, I cooled down instead. Does he think his body has some kind of magical charm? Maybe if it were before he presented, but now, who would be moved by that body, which is clearly an Alpha’s to anyone who sees it. It’s ridiculous that Shin Jungmin would slickly offer something like that as a condition.

Right, since he’s slept with an Alpha a couple of times, adding one more is easy, is that it? No… that’s not it. It might not be just a couple of times. He could have slept with Alphas I don’t know about. What a slut.

“Don’t act like you’ll offer up your body. It’s cheap. I have no interest in an Alpha’s body.”

The fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” came to mind.

The little mermaid who sacrificed her voice for the prince. The princess who in the end turned into sea foam.

“Instead, let’s make a bet.”

But I’m different from that witch. I may take your voice, but I’ll only restore everything to its original state. I’ll just get rid of that prince.

And so I met Ji Soohan. He is a weak person. He acts strong, but in the end, he can’t even solve his own problems…. And he strangely resembles Yoo Shinwoo. Really, Shin Jungmin, how can you be so sickening. It’s absurd that you decided to walk this path, which is nothing but a gutter, with a guy like this. As if he would throw his own body on the line, Shin Jungmin came to me. If so, what about this man? Is he someone who can throw his body on the line for Shin Jungmin?

Everything moved according to plan, and Ji Soohan, as expected, was bewitched by the pheromones of an omega in heat and embraced the omega. Of course.

No matter what, you are an Alpha, a beast that goes into rut at an omega’s pheromones. If you had been thinking of Shin Jungmin, you should have jumped into the Han River the moment you smelled the omega’s pheromones.

“In the end, I dug my own grave, so I’ll take responsibility for this. But Kim Joohwan, I’ll never see you again.”

“……”

“Get lost.”

Hmm, I thought it would be like this. It ended anticlimactically.

Of course, he said we’d never see each other again, but, well. At the very least, I’ll probably run into him sooner than Ji Soohan will.

The next day, Ji Sooeun left the country, and not long after, Ji Soohan also left the country alone.

Contrary to my expectation that Shin Jungmin would crumble easily since it was a partner he had opened his heart to enough to leave with, he was fine.

Afterward, Shin Jungmin returned to the hospital and was soon appointed to the hospital run by his eldest sister-in-law.

Shin Youngmin got a divorce and gave custody to her husband. The twins came to live in one house again.

It might be déjà vu, but after receiving all the reports, Kim Joohwan thought.

It felt like things had gone back to ‘that time’.