Rejected by Daughter’s Second Male Lead Chapter 89

Unaware that rumors of their wedding were spreading, Yuan and Gillen toured the city of Crowning, greeted the tourists, and even had dinner before returning. When they got back, it was just past eight o’clock in the evening, but all the lights in the inn were already out.

“Well, I’ll be, what a terrible inn.”

Gillen whispered with a smile. Yuan, who was in the middle of creating a ball of light in the air with magic, looked at Gillen.

“Didn’t you like it? You were just smiling and talking so nicely with the owner earlier.”

“Just because I don’t like something, do I really need to put on a stern face or raise my voice? It’s just better to go along with things agreeably.”

Gillen replied in a small voice, conscious of the quiet inn at night.

Yuan was genuinely surprised. He had thought Gillen found this inn to be rather decent. He thought Gillen had pitied the old woman, the innkeeper, for her story, and that’s why he had scolded the Knight Commander and readily agreed to pay the 4 gold that was clearly an overcharge. For his part, Yuan had liked that the old woman had called them a ‘married couple.’

“Now I see you’re a frightening person.”

When Yuan said this, sounding dumbfounded, Gillen raised one corner of his mouth in a smirk.

“You’re just now figuring that out?”

At that moment, Yuan’s heart pounded fiercely. It felt as if someone had punched him in the chest and walked away. He had always thought of him as a person who was the same on the inside as he was on the outside, and consistent, so this was unexpected.

“Let’s go up. Be careful not to fall on the stairs.”

Gillen whispered with a flick of his hand. He led the way, and Yuan followed. The ball of light created by magic was illuminating the stairs from above like a spotlight.

Yuan, carefully placing his feet to avoid making noise on the stairs, looked down at his lower body. He thought his heart was pounding, but now he wondered if it had been his dick that was pounding. His lower half felt twice as heavy.

Yuan silently swallowed and deliberately looked up. It’s a rule that if you’re conscious of it, it won’t go down. So he looked straight ahead, but…

Just as Gillen had looked at Yuan’s buttocks earlier, Yuan now found himself looking at Gillen’s. Large, firm, and taut…

“Ahem!”

Yuan let out an involuntary cough. What on earth am I thinking, looking at someone climbing the stairs?

However, Gillen, unaware that Yuan was desperately trying to compose himself, turned around abruptly in the middle of the stairs. He raised his index finger towards Yuan, who was below him.

“Shh!”

“…”

The problem was, regardless of whether Gillen was holding his index finger to his lips or not, all Yuan could see was Gillen’s crotch. Where his buttocks had been, a hefty crotch had appeared.

“…Gillen.”

“I told you to be quiet.”

Gillen frowned deeply and exaggeratedly waved his index finger. Yuan, who had been staring blankly at Gillen’s crotch, grabbed the index finger that was distractingly moving about in front of his eyes.

“I’m going to put up a barrier now.”

Yuan stopped whispering and spoke in a flat tone. At the same time, a dome-shaped barrier formed around Yuan and Gillen.

“This is…!”

“It’s familiar, right? I mentioned it earlier, and you’ve seen it once before.”

At the harvest festival party held at the Imperial Palace, on the fourth-floor terrace. It was a mysterious barrier that prevented anyone from seeing or hearing what was inside from the outside. The fact that he had created it again now meant…

“Surely you’re not suggesting we have an ex-exchange right here, are you?”

“That’s right. Why else would I have made this?”

“On, on, on the stairs?”

When Gillen asked in astonishment, Yuan laughed out loud.

“Well, that’s not a bad idea either. But considering your age and physical condition, I think we should do it on the bed in the room.”

That was a relief, at least. As Gillen was feeling relieved, Yuan asked.

“So, what’s your answer?”

“…Huh? Ah, uh…”

Gillen hesitated. He glanced upstairs.

“Will the sound really not leak out?”

“You’ve already experienced it.”

“But that was outdoors… Here, the walls are as thin as tracing paper, and in the next room are our Blake family’s knight order and servants. It absolutely cannot be heard—”

“I’ll make it so it’s absolutely not heard. I’ll stake my name as a mage on it.”

“Ahem…”

Gillen was slightly conflicted, but he didn’t drag out his deliberation for long. In fact, he even started to think that if he had sex with Yuan while sober, he might be able to understand his own feelings, which had been in question earlier, more clearly. He still didn’t know if he was making excuses out of lust or if he truly liked Yuan… well, he could find out now.

“Alright, fine. Let’s go up.”

Gillen nodded. It was his personal philosophy that it wasn’t good to drag out any worries or concerns for too long.

Even though it was his second time seeing it, this barrier was still amazing. At that time, he had only been inside the barrier, so it was hard to completely believe Yuan’s words—which made him even more anxious—but this time, Yuan told him to go outside the barrier first.

From the outside, no such barrier was visible, and Yuan seemed to not exist at all. All he could see was the empty scenery of the room. But when he reached out and felt around, he could feel a thin, cold surface. His hand, which had slipped inside, had disappeared as if it had been severed in mid-air.

Gillen walked back inside the barrier. The scenery of the room was the same, but the only difference was that Yuan was sitting on the bed.

“It feels like playing a spot-the-difference game.”

“What kind of game is that?”

“Huh? Oh, it’s a game Cecil used to play a lot when she was little. I hired an artist myself to create the game for her.”

He sometimes forgot that modern common sense didn’t apply here. No matter how long he had lived, his roots remained unchanged.

To change the subject, Gillen clapped his hands and deliberately smiled brightly.

“Well then, shall we get started?”

“…Did you want to sleep with me that badly?”

So that’s how it turned out. Gillen awkwardly reduced the size of his smile a little. Of course, he had been thinking about it constantly. He was curious about it as a means of confirming his feelings, and he was physically aroused as well…

“Ahem, anyway! Let’s do it.”

Thinking that if he kept looking for reasons, he would get hit by a wave of reality and wouldn’t be able to even start, Gillen vigorously lay down on the bed. Seeing his momentum, Yuan sighed and grumbled.

“Who on earth lies down for sex as if they’re heading into battle?”

“But your thing down there is standing up just fine.”

Gillen gestured towards Yuan’s groin with his eyes. Yuan’s face immediately turned red. He muttered to himself about not knowing the mood, being a real old man, and having no shame, as he took off his shirt and pants.

The body that was revealed in the process was so attractive and firm that Gillen gradually lost his smile. Even his horse-like cock, which had once been hideous and horrifying, now felt somewhat welcome.

‘I’m glad I’m an alpha…’

If he had been an omega, his heat would have already started by now, and he would be hard in the front and leaking slick from the back. The fact that only his front was hard at least preserved his pride.

However, Yuan seemed to think differently. His face returned to its original color, and a cocky smirk appeared on his lips.

“You seem awfully excited?”

“…What?”

“It’s almost like you’re in rut.”

Yuan said, tapping the tip of his nose. Only then did Gillen realize that all his emotions were being expressed through his pheromones. This time, it was Gillen’s turn to blush.

“To make such a rudimentary mistake… This is truly absurd.”

Trait-holders read each other’s emotions and auras through pheromones. It must have been designed that way because knowing whether the other party was angry, about to attack, or in a good mood, sad, or seductive was advantageous for reproduction.

However, dominant alphas or omegas could conceal their pheromones in a dual manner, except when they couldn’t control their emotions. The first level was to completely contain their pheromones like other trait-holders, and in addition to that, even when they did release pheromones, they could intentionally hide specific information.

Naturally, both Gillen and Yuan had been managing and perceiving their pheromones in this way until now. It was almost instinctive, except for when they had a conflict and deliberately attacked each other with pheromones, or when Yuan had a panic attack and couldn’t control his pheromones.

But now, due to his anticipation for sex, Gillen had exposed all his excitement and thrill through his pheromones.

‘I stopped making this kind of mistake in my fifth year of possession!’

Gillen covered his eyes with his forearm. It was embarrassing both as a fellow dominant alpha and as a much older adult.

“Haha, move your arm.”

But Yuan was laughing as if he was enjoying it. Well, it must be funny. How much must he want to tease an old man for making a mistake like this?

“Well, sometimes a stupid mistake like this is cute. Being stupid isn’t always disgusting.”

Yuan swatted Gillen’s arm away as if flipping a blanket. Kneeling on either side of Gillen, he looked down at him with eyes full of desire.

“It’s okay. It’s because you like me so much, Gillen. I’ll understand this much.”

And then, without giving Gillen a chance to make an excuse, Yuan immediately crushed his lips against his. At first, Gillen struggled, trying to protest that it wasn’t like that, but he gradually became engrossed in the kiss and wrapped his arms around Yuan. Yuan’s weight settled on top of Gillen’s body. A heavy, lukewarm sensation covered Gillen’s entire body.

And so, he failed to notice. That Yuan, having just read his pheromones, had so naturally spoken of the emotion of ‘liking’ him.