Flower Fiancé Chapter 97

At Ji Yeonwoo’s sudden action, Choi Moohyuk, equally startled, sat up halfway. He looked at Ji Yeonwoo, who was sitting pressed against the headboard.

“Mr. Moohyuk, just now….”

Ji Yeonwoo, about to say something, felt his own voice trembling and quickly closed his mouth.

The scent he had felt a moment ago brushed past the tip of his nose again. It was a dizzying scent, enough to make his vision spin. At first he had been too startled to understand, but upon reflection, it resembled a flower scent he knew.

It was the scent of magnolia. That deep, fragrant scent was unmistakably magnolia.

Was there a magnolia in the house? He looked around the bedroom with startled eyes, but there was no magnolia to be seen anywhere.

“Yeonwoo. What’s wrong? Hey.”

Sensing something amiss, Choi Moohyuk approached as carefully as he could. The closer he came, the more the magnolia scent surged deep into his lungs with every breath.

Ji Yeonwoo, slowly moving to take Choi Moohyuk’s outstretched hand, hesitated. He flinched and looked at Choi Moohyuk, his eyes full of bewilderment.

Before he knew it, his lower body had become damp. He thought it might be because of the caresses from moments ago, but that didn’t fully explain it.

There was a magnolia scent in a room with no magnolias. And if that intoxicatingly pleasant scent was…

Lost in thought, Ji Yeonwoo looked at Choi Moohyuk and took a small breath.

‘Surely, that magnolia scent I just smelled… was Mr. Moohyuk’s pheromone?’

He recalled what had happened at the hotel when they went to Jeju.

The abnormal physical state so similar to when his heat had come, the pheromones that had begun to flow without his knowing, and his lower body becoming damp at the fleeting unidentified scent.

‘Did I really sense Mr. Moohyuk’s pheromones?’

Gazing at Choi Moohyuk with trembling eyes, lost in thought, Ji Yeonwoo finally reached a conclusion and covered his mouth with both hands.

“Ha, Mr. Moohyuk….”

As he spoke in a trembling voice, Choi Moohyuk moved a little closer and carefully reached out his hand.

“It’s okay. Everything’s okay. Don’t overthink it. We’ll go to the hospital tomorrow, okay?”

Sensing something wrong, Choi Moohyuk said nothing more and embraced Ji Yeonwoo, soothing him.

“I think I might be….”

Ji Yeonwoo paused mid-sentence and looked away. His gaze landed on Choi Moohyuk’s phone, which was vibrating.

Choi Moohyuk, patting Ji Yeonwoo’s back reassuringly, reached out and picked up the phone. It was Yoo Seonho calling.

The call coming at nearly 9 PM was puzzling in itself, but the fact that he was calling at this hour didn’t feel ordinary.

“This is Choi Moohyuk.”

[Ah, sorry for calling so late. Yeonwoo wasn’t answering his phone.]

Choi Moohyuk then noticed that Ji Yeonwoo’s phone was lying face up on the nightstand.

“Is it urgent? He can’t take calls right now.”

[It’s about the appointment—I received a call from the attending physician saying they’d like to move the outpatient visit up to tomorrow.]

“Tomorrow, you say?”

[Yes. There are still two days left until the scheduled appointment, but first, they want to run one more test. A simple blood test—they said they’d explain everything after seeing these results.]

Choi Moohyuk looked down at Ji Yeonwoo in his arms. Was there a reason for the urgent test? Or had an abnormality been found in the test results? All sorts of unpleasant thoughts flashed through his mind.

Sensing something amiss, Ji Yeonwoo looked up from within his embrace.

‘Why? What’s going on?’

When their eyes met, Ji Yeonwoo mouthed the question. Looking at him, Choi Moohyuk unconsciously pulled Ji Yeonwoo’s shoulder tightly into an embrace.

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With the suddenly advanced appointment date, Choi Moohyuk ultimately couldn’t accompany him. It was because he had spread his schedule across the days before and after to keep the originally planned appointment date free.

“You must call me immediately if there’s anything abnormal at the hospital.”

Choi Moohyuk fastened Ji Yeonwoo’s outerwear securely and didn’t forget to admonish him. Looking at him, Ji Yeonwoo smiled brightly.

“Okay. I’ll go and come back. Don’t worry too much.”

He said, taking his hand reassuringly, but Choi Moohyuk’s expression still showed no sign of relaxing.

Ji Yeonwoo felt uneasy as well. He was still bothered by how openly he had shown his anxiety yesterday.

It was because of that unidentified scent he had smelled yesterday.

But something held him back from speaking prematurely now.

What if that scent he had smelled yesterday wasn’t Choi Moohyuk’s pheromone? It could have been an air freshener or the scent of a new body wash.

Strangely enough, at this moment as they saw each other off, he couldn’t detect any scent from him at all. That was precisely why he thought it might have been a mistake.

Since the appointment had been moved up anyway, it wouldn’t be too late to tell him after coming back. If he spoke too soon and the test results didn’t match, they would only end up disappointed.

Ji Yeonwoo swallowed the words rising to his throat and climbed into the back seat.

“Accompany him all the way inside the hospital today, and call me immediately if anything happens. Drive safely.”

Holding the back door open, Choi Moohyuk reiterated to Park Jincheol in the driver’s seat.

“Yes, understood. Managing Director.”

As soon as Choi Moohyuk closed the back door, Park Jincheol smoothly pulled away. As they exited the apartment parking lot, Ji Yeonwoo watched Choi Moohyuk’s shrinking figure through the rear window. Standing in place, Choi Moohyuk didn’t move until the car was out of sight.

Only after the car left the apartment complex and merged onto the road did Ji Yeonwoo sit up straight. The early morning roads were clogged with cars pouring out for the morning commute.

‘Why did they suddenly move the appointment up?’

There must have been a reason to change the schedule and advance the appointment. Had an abnormality been found in the test results? Of course, it could be good news. But he couldn’t help the worry that washed over him.

Gazing blankly at the congested scene beyond the windshield, Ji Yeonwoo let out a small sigh.

As soon as he arrived at the hospital, he had his blood drawn as instructed, and after waiting about two hours, his turn came.

The endocrinology attending physician, whom he was meeting for the second time, greeted Ji Yeonwoo with a bright expression. But even seeing the doctor’s cheerful face, Ji Yeonwoo couldn’t shake his tension, sitting in the examination chair without hiding his anxiety.

“Have you recently been prescribed any treatment medication?”

The doctor, looking at the monitor with the chart displayed and typing on the keyboard, asked Ji Yeonwoo.

“You mean medication for pheromone deficiency?”

“Yes. There are probably several types.”

Unable to grasp the intention behind the question, Ji Yeonwoo still wore a worried expression and shook his head.

“No. I’ve never taken any treatment medication. But why….”

“So you’re saying you haven’t? Hmm….”

Letting out a long breath and tilting his head, the attending physician turned the monitor to show Ji Yeonwoo.

“To give you the conclusion, your current condition is very much improving.”

Ji Yeonwoo, who had been sitting tensely, widened his eyes at the word “improving.”

“Your pheromone levels are much better than the test results from a month ago.”

“I-is that really true?”

He was dumbfounded. Just a month ago, when he had been tested, he had been told they were unstable—how could this be?

When Ji Yeonwoo asked in disbelief, the doctor pointed to the test values and added an explanation.

“Here, you see? Your pheromone levels have returned to normal, comparable to when you first presented as a superior omega six years ago. Honestly, I’ve never seen a case improve this much in my entire medical career. It’s nothing short of a miracle.”

Even while his mind was spinning, he followed the doctor’s explanation and looked at the monitor. As shown in the comparative graph, the latest test results had spiked as high as when he had first presented as a superior omega six years ago. The rise was even steeper than the test results from just a month ago.