Pheromone Off Chapter 39

Is experience really that important?

A man’s experience? Sex? Estrus cycles? It wasn’t that he knew absolutely nothing, but was it actually different in reality once one experienced it directly? The Omegas who were Seong Suhyun’s partners always looked in pain, at least. Though Suhyun had a rough side to him, it was impossible to tell whether the dominant Alpha’s pheromones were fierce, or whether the pressure down below was too burdensome. Even so, they usually started out in pain and then gradually turned damp, as if soaking. As time passed, they would lose focus in their eyes to that extent.

He had never thought about it in this way before. Suddenly, he became curious about what experience actually was. What exactly was different during intimacy for a dominant Alpha, who wasn’t even a regular Alpha.

Because his thoughts bit their own tails in this manner, Hajin could not get a single wink of proper sleep, so he got up just like that and prepared to leave for work. While he lingered for a moment, Kwon Sayoung had already left for work. He was a truly diligent person. He never overslept, and he was always passionate about his company work. It was understandable why he was obsessed with his position. Because if someone was that consistently diligent, they might eventually want to possess even the things they couldn’t have.

Following that, Hajin washed up, prepared simply, and headed to the company. It was because of a message from his manager saying that a meeting schedule had been set. A meeting. It was fascinating to him that such a setting even existed for him. It seemed that a backer, a background, really was a good thing after all. Although he had existed as the youngest child of the Seongsan Group, he had never once benefited from that background. Aside from not starving and having a space where he could sleep.

Unlike his twin hyungs, he had never used that grand background as his own, nor did the adults even want that. Rather, they forced him to stay quietly like a non-existent person.

Hajin had repeatedly refused the manager who offered to come pick him up. No matter what, if the manager came to pick him up in front of Doseondang, it seemed like a lot of gossip would arise. Furthermore, if he carelessly ran into Kwon Sabin by any chance, what on earth would be said again…. Just like back in their high school days.

“You’re very leisurely, aren’t you?”

The moment he entered the meeting room while having that thought, the protagonist of his thoughts was welcoming him.

“…Why are you….”

Wondering if he had entered the wrong room by any chance, he stepped outside the meeting room and checked again, but it was correct. Hajin stared with a bewildered face at Kwon Sabin, who was sitting in the head seat along with his manager, and soon after, his own manager walked in right away.

“You’re here? Please have a seat.”

The manager guided him to a seat without even a sign of surprise. Hajin sat halfway awkwardly in the seat he pointed out with a stunned face.

“What are you staring so stupidly for.”

“You said it was a meeting setting…”

“Correct. An advertisement meeting.”

At Kwon Sabin’s returning answer, Hajin wore an even more bewildered face.

“You must have been surprised. An ad has been secured for us, and you’re going to enter as the sub-model. The main is Actor Kwon.”

Hajin’s manager calmly explained to Hajin, who was wishing for the details.

“This is the concept for this ad. The client will also arrive shortly. The CEO will come together as well.”

“Ah… but why me….”

“Well. I know that the company side singled out Hajin Mr.”

Hajin wore an even sillier face. Kwon Sabin, who had been sitting with a bored face, smiled askew.

“The one that signed the contract with that luxury brand is the HK Group. And the general marketing team leader of the head office is Kwon Sayoung.”

Kwon Sabin continued his explanation bluntly. At the fact he was learning for the first time, Hajin could not spare his lamentations and spat them out successively.

“That brand came in this time as an HK Department Store exclusive. You don’t even know that?”

How could he know…. Hajin felt his situation of knowing nothing to be a bit foolish, so he only shifted his lips with a shrunk face. Nobody told him, and since they were things unrelated to him, he could only be ignorant. He also hadn’t known he would obtain a job in this manner due to those matters.

“It looks like the two of you are acquainted?”

At Kwon Sabin’s comfortable way of speaking, Hajin’s manager asked with a surprised look.

“I don’t know him.”

Kwon Sabin threw a shameless answer to that question. At that, the manager tilted his head sideways and looked at him wonderingly. That fellow was always that way. Acting like they were acquainted more than anyone else, yet absolutely speaking the opposite.

“…We are high school classmates.”

Hajin answered quietly, thinking it was just the most suitable excuse. Only then did the manager nod his head as if understanding.

“The CEO also seemed to be aware of Hajin Mr., and you know Actor Kwon as well; unexpectedly, your personal connections are grand. But why were you at that kind of company before?”

At the purely thrown question, Hajin glossed over his answer with an awkward smile.

“But why am I the sub-model?”

“Then would you be the main?”

“No… you know I didn’t bring it up with that kind of intention.”

Hajin responded familiarly toward Kwon Sabin, who was grumbling in vain again.

“Why do you think.”

“…”

“It’s Kwon Sayoung’s doing.”

Kwon Sabin spoke that way, spun his swivel chair to the opposite side, and nonchalantly turned his gaze toward the wall of the meeting room, which was made of a full glass window.

“Hyung did?”

“Your backer is nice, Seong Hajin.”

“Eh? The sub-model was primarily your opinion….”

“Shh!”

At Kwon Sabin’s answer, his manager, who was listening nearby, glanced at him with wondering eyes and subconsciously continued speaking. In that instant, Kwon Sabin urgently blocked his mouth.

“…Did you propose it?”

Hajin immediately read that flow and asked calmly as usual. Kwon Sabin gave his manager a fierce glare once and continued speaking unacceptably.

“Well… one thing led to another. Anyway, it felt like Kwon Sayoung was thinking of you for this spot too… not that I particularly wanted to do it together. There just isn’t any guy with a decent mask among the rookies anyway…. Not that your mask is good, though.”

At Kwon Sabin’s rambling, continuous excuses, his manager glanced at him strangely. It was a gaze as if asking since when he was a guy whose words were this long.

“Thank you.”

“What?”

“I said thank you.”

When he delivered his emotions honestly just as they were, Kwon Sabin displayed a flustered look.

“…It’s my first time, an ad.”

Hajin continued his subsequent words with an embarrassed face.

“I’ll work hard so as not to cause harm.”

At the attitude of engaging diligently without getting discouraged, Kwon Sabin held an even more flustered complexion, but he desperately hid it and responded nonchalantly.

“O—Of course.”

At the reaction different from his expectation that he would act lofty and stiff, Kwon Sabin pretended to be look away and continued speaking successively.

“If you happen to get in the way or anything, then absolutely, there is no mercy.”

“…Yeah.”

“Grasp the concept properly before coming. Memorize the continuity too, and don’t act like a novice and behave countrified, huh?”

“Yeah. Teach me a lot.”

“I hate that. Why should I teach you?”

“You’re good at it.”

At the directly thrown praise, Kwon Sabin flinched once more.

“…That is true.”

“For you, an ad electronic display board like this even gets hung in America’s Times Square.”

“Th—That’s how it is, I guess.”

“There’s no comparison with me…. Thank you for saying you’ll do it together.”

“What do you mean thank you. Hey, I told you it was one thing leading to another for me too? Even if I had said I hated it, Kwon Sayoung was going to plug you in anyway.”

“Even so. You’re the one who said you’ll do it.”

“…”

“I know you don’t like me very much, but you said you’ll do it like that.”

“…”

“If a pro like you says you’ll do it together with a novice like me, for my part, I’m truly thankful.”

A guy who truly had no pride.

Even while acting lofty, he was submissive, and while being submissive, he was a guy who leaped out unpredictably.

Kwon Sabin met eyes with Hajin, who was confronting him clearly with somewhat narrowed eyes.

Because he was incredibly certain about public and private matters, his skill in lifting him up work-wise was extraordinary. He ruthlessly ignored him at home, but when working, it was apparently not the case. Kwon Sabin let out a dumbfounded breath at Hajin’s appearance of clearly distinguishing public work. Seriously, what kind of thing is that. He had guessed since childhood that he was peculiar, but the more he saw him, the more extraordinary he was.

Soon after, when the client arrived, the meeting began in earnest. Primarily from the concept meeting to the storytelling, the theme and atmosphere wished to be highlighted by the brand, etc., the elements necessary for a mere one-minute ad were infinite.

Because Kwon Sabin was doing this work solely through talent, this kind of old-fashioned meeting setting was the most boring and unfun. No matter how much they explained and disputed like this for days, in reality, if one couldn’t steal the gaze with intuition in front of the camera, it was an entirely meaningless act.

Because of that, Kwon Sabin, whose talent was excellent, actually didn’t view the concept meeting as that important. This field was one where something better could come out while shooting anyway. The actors or models placed as the main could alter the result of hundreds of people putting their heads together behind the scenes in a single bound.

However, Seong Hajin was concentrating more than ever. Holding the tip of his pen to his mouth, he could not take his eyes off the screen. Also, what on earth was there so much to write that he did note-taking whenever there was a gap. Signs of life faintly lingered in his unconcerned eyes. It was a rare sight to behold. Those lifeless eyes, which were always unconcerned and indifferent, were vivid for a change.

Kwon Sabin looked at Seong Hajin opposite him throughout the meeting. The manager poked him in the middle telling him to focus a bit, but he was unmoving. He held a face of concentrating even more than Seong Hajin, who was concentrating on the concept meeting with his chin rested on his hand.

He was a sub-model anyway, and though a sub-model played the role of the main’s pair, his face could truly appear for only a moment or stop appearing. But is it that good? He said he was sincere about this work, and it seemed it wasn’t a lie at all. What was a single ad even worth.