My Alpha Era Began with Gongjindan Chapter 95

As I expected, Korea was already in an uproar.

[Thought he was only number one in looks, but he also took first place in his preliminary heat in swimming – national team athlete.jpg]

└[I signed up for swimming after seeing Yong-an warming up]

└[Normally there are no men like that in the pool, just middle-aged guys who don’t shave their body hair]

└[Ah f*ck canceling my registration]

[Now our president is Jung Pureum – he’s doing great]

└[Swims well, face is good too – president 1 loss, Jung Pureum 1 win]

└[Ah lol and on top of that he’s over in Japan doing this lol raising national prestige is insane]

[Pureum, it’s your noona – pretend to make a mistake during an interview and read out your bank account number, I’ll send my marriage funds by quick delivery right now]

└[Which bank is your main account? Tell me urgently]

└[– Get in line, noona – the waiting number goes up to 28,317,419]

└[Can’t we just do polygamy? I’ll ditch my husband and be like your one million and twenty-second concubine or something]

[Strange, the national team athlete is better looking than the idols I sell – are alphas originally like that?]

└[Snap out of it – the oppa you’re into is also an alpha]

└[Our oppa has eyes like a frozen pollock, but that guy’s like a fresh pollock – is it because he’s in the water?]

This was just the response from a bit of searching I did while sticking close to Nam Jungyoon. Of course, a few twisted people poured cold water on it, saying it was only the preliminaries, but the festive atmosphere was still unchanged.

To get such good results in swimming following archery. And on top of that, the host country just happened to be Japan, so all sorts of memes were going wild.

[Jung Pureum is going to be running preliminaries all day tomorrow too]

└[? His stamina is insane]

└[Right now, the men’s swimming national team athlete Jung Pureum is competing alone – normally two athletes compete, but one got caught for doping]

└[Doping? That’s crazy too]

└[No no, it wasn’t using some strange drug – he messed up his physical condition, took medicine, and that ruined things]

└[That makes me shed tears of blood – how regretful must that athlete be right now]

└[Probably not regretful lol – even if he had competed, he would have placed around 20th in the preliminaries anyway]

[What? This guy’s main event is long-distance?]

└[Since when was 100 meters long-distance?]

└[He’s also doing 800 meters and 1500 meters]

└[Wow, he’s really using the pool all by himself]

[Right now in Japan

At the opening ceremony, they got thrashed by Korea in archery

The very next day, Korea takes first place in the swimming preliminaries too

Hey lol are you crying? Your country still has zero gold medals, right? Don’t cry, tell me – you’re the host country, aren’t you~]

└[Where is the rising sun flag?]

└[Lololol ah so satisfying~~~ Yes! Even if we lose to everyone, we have to beat Japan]

└[Thrilling – Japan 0 gold, Korea 3 gold lol]

[My patriotism is overflowing, I can’t help it. I should hold a lottery event or something… If we win a medal in swimming too, I’ll send 150,000 won each to three people who leave a comment here.]

“When are the semifinals?”

“Tomorrow evening.”

“Now even my hands are trembling. What if our Pureum really wins three gold medals?”

What if? He’s marrying me….

Three gold medals in swimming, not archery. I thought it was nonsense, but I could feel it was possible. Is there anything our kid can’t do!

“But why do you keep calling him our Pureum?”

“Huh?”

“Jung Pureum is mine.”

“Wow….”

“Oh my.”

“I’m sensitive about possessives.”

“That’s seriously ridiculous. Then from now on, I’ll call him your Pureum.”

“Good.”

“When the director acts like this, my hands tremble too. What’s going on? The director is actually showing personal growth. I’m so impressed.”

Kim Miyoung suddenly started acting impressed with me. I didn’t know what kind of growth she meant, but I liked her patting me, so I stayed still.

And Jung Pureum, as everyone expected, delivered amazing results again the next day. He placed second in his heat in the 800-meter preliminaries, but took first in all the other events. Moreover, he set another Korean record in the 1500-meter freestyle.

Naturally, Korea was in an uproar again. Many people, like me, were now predicting that Jung Pureum would bring home three gold medals.

The public broadcasters all started airing the swimming events. Since he set a Korean record in the preliminaries, there was no way not to have high expectations for the finals.

“Now if your Pureum shows his face around in public, it’s going to be a huge deal.”

“All his personal info has been dug up. His Outstagram follower count skyrocketed. Even though he has no posts.”

“His elementary, middle, and high school graduation photos have all been dug up, and it’s spread everywhere that Pureum is the anonymous J-guy who went from beta to alpha.”

“A celebrity’s life is hell….”

Jung Pureum’s personal information was being gleefully exposed. At several times the speed compared to the last time things got dug up over that drama issue.

Even the fact that Jung Pureum’s parents were former national team athletes was circulating through all sorts of online communities. There were even posts sharing side-by-side photos of the auntie next door’s younger face and Jung Pureum’s face with the caption ‘Raising national prestige #mood’.

With this situation, our Korean medicine clinic also resurfaced. Because it had been revealed that Jung Pureum was the anonymous J-guy who went from beta to alpha.

As it spread that one could become an alpha from a beta using our clinic’s Gongjindan, which had already been involved in nonstop incidents, a flood of inquiries poured into the clinic where only Hong Seonghyeon was left on duty.

Hong Seonghyeon had been dying over the past few days, dealing with the torrential flood of Gongjindan inquiries while we lay around in our hotel room watching the Olympics. I truly feel sorry for him.

“Deputy Director Hong’s life is hell.”

“Now we really can’t postpone the clinic closure. Let’s think of it as saving lives and officially close the clinic.”

“What’s this? I thought you’d work people like slaves, saying you have to strike while the iron is hot.”

“No way. We have to make sure Seonghyeon sunbae can’t run away.”

I had to trap him in the clinic forever, but I couldn’t burn him out already. As I let out a sinister chuckle, the two people who had been influenced by me also let out mean, snickering laughs.

“Still, since we feel bad, let’s buy him some raw chocolate when we go.”

“Let’s buy him all kinds of souvenirs. What’s that banana thing? That’s famous too.”

“Good idea. We have to bribe him so he can endure.”

Of course, not all the attention toward our clinic was positive. All sorts of researchers suddenly started showing interest in the Gongjindan I had created.

Even when we appeared on the show “I Want to Know Everything,” experts hadn’t shown any interest, but at this rate, I might actually get invited to academic conferences.

Plus, the bastards trying to tear Jung Pureum down were making snide remarks about his birth designation. The most absurd thing was them criticizing him for not being a born alpha.

What? Whether he’s born one or not, Jung Pureum is already mine? He’s off the market and not for sale, so you born-alpha worshippers will never get to meet him anyway.

[But who the hell is this Yeonghwa hyung that keeps appearing in every interview? Jung Pureum athlete keeps looking for Yeonghwa hyung right after his parents every time he says anything]

└[Since his name appears in a place where one should be calling on God, it seems like a folk religion only we don’t know about]

└[This bastard is preemptively blocking the possibility that Yeonghwa hyung is his lover lol he’s trying so hard]

└[Lover? Pureum belongs to everyone, there’s no such thing as a lover]

[Yeonghwa hyung seems to be the director of W Korean Medicine Clinic – if he made me an alpha too, I’d look for Yeonghwa hyung in every interview too]

└[How do you know?]

└[His name was on the clinic’s introduction page]

[Still, it’s amazing that he looks for Yeonghwa hyung in every interview – even his parents were omitted at least once]

└[He gave him a new life as an alpha, so he’s more grateful than to his parents]

└[No, isn’t he just his lover? He looks for him so affectionately]

└[Stfu don’t jinx it – Pureum needs to shoot a lot of commercials]

Because Jung Pureum was charging ahead triumphantly, not only our clinic but also I, whom Jung Pureum kept looking for in every interview, became a hot topic.

Since I don’t have any personal SNS aside from my name listed on the clinic’s introduction page, my follower count didn’t suddenly skyrocket by tens of thousands like Jung Pureum’s.

If Jung Pureum had only looked for me once in an interview, I probably wouldn’t have received this much attention either. However, with the coach subtly expecting him to call out to him in the background, Jung Pureum only desperately sought out his parents and me.

―Yeonghwa hyung, you’re watching the interview, right? I’ll do well next time too.

―I’m always grateful to Yeonghwa hyung….

―The person I miss most right now? Yeonghwa hyung….

With him doing that, there’s no way people wouldn’t be curious about ‘Yeonghwa hyung.’ Even if I were in their shoes, I would have looked up who Yeonghwa was.

“Director, you should avoid going out for a while too.”

“Is he going to propose during the interview after he wins a gold medal? Yeonghwa hyung, please marry me now!”

“Hoho, that could happen. The way he’s acting now might be him laying the groundwork. A lot of people already think you’re lovers.”

“If that really happens, I’ll die from getting stoned.”

If Jung Pureum, who is in the middle of legendary national prestige-raising, wins three gold medals and publicly proposes to me, I’m really dead. Fortunately, I don’t have any personal info that can be dug up online. Aside from being the director of our clinic, nothing about me has been leaked.

However, there’s no way netizens would leave me, a devoted omega, alone. They’d clearly use the precedents of sports stars that have been cropping up everywhere to attack me. Calling me a gold digger or whatever, and spouting outdated remarks again.

How unfair! I’m richer than Jung Pureum!

I’m the one who’s been feeding, clothing, and putting Jung Pureum to sleep all this time, but just because I’m an omega, I have to become this vicious bastard who approached Jung Pureum with ulterior motives and manipulated him. Just thinking about it briefly already brought on a throbbing headache.

“Director, don’t worry too much. There will be people who pick fights over the age difference. But still, it’s not an affair or a shotgun marriage, so what are they going to do about it?”

“Right. You’re worrying too much for nothing, sunbae.”

Kim Miyoung and Nam Jungyoon shoved konjac jelly into my mouth. They nagged me to come to my senses by eating something sweet.

“That’s true. …Now that I think about it, it’s infuriating. Jung Pureum says he likes me, so why should anyone else have a say?”

After eating a couple of peach-flavored konjac jellies, my headache completely cleared up.

“If anyone says anything, from now on it’s just lawsuits.”

“Hmm, great attitude. I like the director best when you’re a little crazy like this.”

Anyway, the marriage course, which was already a given after dating, was right around the corner. Haha! Go ahead and curse me while gritting your teeth! Jung Pureum is already mine anyway, you humans!