Flower Fiancé Chapter 68

As if he knew exactly what Ji Yeonwoo was worried about, all his concerns were washed away in an instant by a single phone call from Choi Moohyuk.

[ Even so, he’s a skilled person with a combined 9th dan across taekwondo, hapkido, and even judo, so you don’t need to worry about safety. ]

“Alright. You said you’re busy, didn’t you. Don’t worry about me and please go take care of your work.”

He had said it was an important prior engagement to the point that he couldn’t accompany him to the hospital, so imagining Choi Moohyuk struggling to make time and explaining this and that to him somehow made a laugh escape.

[ Have a good visit to the hospital. And when the results come out, share them with me too. ]

“I’ll do that. See you later. I’m hanging up.”

Gazing at the screen that read ‘Boss’ as if reluctant, Ji Yeonwoo pressed the end button firmly with his thumb.

“Thank you. I made good use of your phone.”

As he handed the phone back to Park Jincheol sitting in the driver’s seat, the man received it with a slight bow of his head and started the car.

Thanks to Park Jincheol hurrying, they arrived at the hospital a little earlier than the appointment time. The problem was what came next. He had a hard time shaking him off when he insisted on going up together, saying he wished to continue accompanying him even in the hospital. If it were Choi Moohyuk, he wouldn’t know, but going around the hospital with a stranger was an awkward affair for some reason.

After quite a tussle, Ji Yeonwoo left him in the underground parking lot, went up to the hospital, and sat down in front of the consultation room.

“Patient Ji Yeonwoo.”

Before long, he heard his name being called. Perhaps because it was the last time slot, the appointment order seemed to be progressing quickly. If he had waited a long time, he would have been nervous, but since he was called without even a chance to catch his breath, there wasn’t even time for nervousness.

“Yes.”

As he rose awkwardly and looked at the nurse, she guided him, “Please go into Consultation Room 2.” When he entered Consultation Room 2 as the nurse had instructed, a doctor in a white coat turned his gaze from the monitor toward Ji Yeonwoo and greeted him.

“Patient Ji Yeonwoo. Please take a seat over here.”

Following the guided seat, he sat down, barely perched on the round chair. For some reason, he felt his palms growing sweaty, so he kept rubbing them against his pants.

“You are a dominant omega, but you are currently experiencing pheromone deficiency.”

“Yes.”

“You said the approximate time the pheromone deficiency began was about 4 years ago. Is that correct?”

“Yes. I remember it being around then.”

“Hmm, then when was the last time you received a trait test?”

The doctor, who had been staring at the monitor with a serious expression, looked at Ji Yeonwoo and asked.

“The last trait test I took was 4 years ago. Why is that…”

Tension spread across Ji Yeonwoo’s face. It was because he felt something was amiss from the very first question.

“First, I think it would be better for you to go to a large hospital and undergo a detailed examination.”

At the doctor’s following words, he felt his heart plummet downward. Barely enduring the dizziness before his eyes, he opened his mouth.

“Is there some kind of problem?”

When he asked in a trembling voice, the doctor turned the monitor toward Ji Yeonwoo.

“Now, here, do you see the figures on the monitor? These are the figures from your first trait test. If you look, you can see that the values were fully packed, fitting for a dominant omega. And the figures you see now are the test values from 4 years ago—you see they’re scraping the bottom, nearly indistinguishable from a beta, right? Next are the values from this time’s test…”

The doctor, who had been explaining the figures on the monitor, brought up the last screen with the mouse. Seeing it, Ji Yeonwoo drew in a small breath.

“If you look, you can confirm that they’ve fallen slightly below even the values of a recessive omega.”

Ji Yeonwoo, who had been staring at the spot where the doctor’s mouse cursor was pointing, looked at the doctor with wavering eyes.

“That the values were this fully packed 6 years ago at the beginning means you were a dominant omega with excellent traits. I, too, have never seen a case where a dominant omega’s pheromones became this deficient, but the bigger problem is that the current recovery speed is very sluggish.”

“Then, are you saying it’s gotten even worse?”

He could clearly feel the ends of his voice trembling as he asked. Ji Yeonwoo felt the clamminess of his palms beneath the desk and clenched his fists.

“At present, I can’t say anything definitive. This is merely a numerical comparison, and it is only my opinion based on analyzing the test values. That is also why I am recommending that you transfer to a large hospital and undergo a comprehensive examination.”

In fact, he had been thinking ominously about his persistently poor condition. The fact that the symptoms were exactly similar to when he had lost his pheromones was adding even more weight to the ominous feeling. But now that he had actually gotten confirmation from the doctor’s own mouth, his heart became indescribably disturbed.

In the car heading home, Ji Yeonwoo looked out the window and saved his words.

Above all else, the first face that came to mind when he heard what the doctor said was not his parents’, but Choi Moohyuk’s. If he had known it would come to this, he should have steadily visited the hospital and received care. He regretted the time he had stubbornly refused, brushing off even his parents’ requests that he keep going to the hospital.

‘How am I supposed to explain this to Mr. Moohyuk.’

Who would have known that the time he had spent living idly, insisting that he could never love anyone again and that it was easier to live like a beta, would come back like a boomerang?

The doctor had said nothing could be determined yet, but Ji Yeonwoo knew well what that meant. The sluggish speed of the values’ recovery, and the doctor’s reaction of hesitating to answer, even if only briefly, were explaining everything on his behalf.

‘When he finds out that I might live like a beta for the rest of my life, what expression will Mr. Choi Moohyuk make? Can someone who’s practically a dominant alpha be satisfied with me, now no different from a beta? If I could recover my values just to the level of a recessive omega, then even if the chances were low, I could at least conceive, but if I stay like this, I…’

The more his thoughts continued, the more hopeless they became. After thinking only thoughts that held not a shred of hope, he finally shut his eyes tightly.

Once again, he felt dizzy and nauseous.

“Um… we have arrived at your home.”

At the voice that suddenly reached him, Ji Yeonwoo refocused his eyes and raised his head. The scenery visible outside the window, upon which darkness had settled, was familiar.

Before he knew it, it was the parking lot of the officetel where Ji Yeonwoo lived.

“Ah, I’m sorry. I had something to think about for a moment…”

“Are you alright? Your complexion doesn’t look good.”

Park Jincheol turned his body and asked, looking at Ji Yeonwoo sitting in the back seat. Was it that obvious? Flustered, Ji Yeonwoo hastily averted his gaze in the opposite direction.

“It’s nothing. Thank you for today. Take care on your way.”

After giving his greeting, Ji Yeonwoo opened the rear passenger door and stepped out. He hadn’t walked more than a few steps when suddenly his vision spun.

Ah, with a short sigh, Ji Yeonwoo staggered and barely steadied himself. Feeling a gaze on him, he turned his head to the side—Park Jincheol, who had gotten out of the driver’s seat, was attentively watching Ji Yeonwoo.

In fact, if one were to be precise, he was both Ji Yeonwoo’s reliable bodyguard and, at the same time, Choi Moohyuk’s eyes in this place where he was absent. Thinking that Ji Yeonwoo’s words and actions would later be conveyed intact to Choi Moohyuk, every word and action felt cautious. Thinking that he must not show weakness, he gritted his teeth and entered the front entrance.

After pressing the elevator button and waiting, he stuck his head out just a little and looked outside the entrance. He saw the red taillights of a car exiting toward the officetel entrance. He’s leaving. Only then did some of the tension ease.

From Choi Moohyuk’s unfamiliar person to the doctor’s words at the hospital.

Perhaps because it had been a continuous string of tension all day, there was no strength at all in his body. Ji Yeonwoo trudged into the arriving elevator, stood holding the railing, and felt his stomach churn as the elevator rose against gravity. Today, the sensation of his body floating in the air felt particularly unpleasant, so Ji Yeonwoo forcibly suppressed the nauseous feeling, got off the elevator, and hurriedly walked toward his home.

The moment he thought he wanted to get inside quickly and lie down, he pressed the passcode and opened the door to his house. That was when it happened. Startled by the presence he suddenly felt behind his back, he turned around.

A dark shadow rushed right up before his eyes.

“…Mmpph!”

Startled, he screamed, and the man urgently covered his mouth.

“If you scream, I won’t let you off.”