Author: 난기류 Editor: Flo

#12

 

[Wait!]

 

“Why?”

 

[Is it a good thing…….?]

 

‘What? I said it coldly like Seong Chan-young so that he doesn’t feel anything weird.’

 

You’re not going to catch me. Having been sensitive due to a nightmare with a dog named Joo Tae-kang for several days, I flinched at Baek Do-jun’s words.

 

But it was a useless worry.

 

[You’re not going to marry me, are you?]

 

‘What is he saying?’

 

Marriage? Marriageeeeeeeeee? Who has been drinking kimchi soup that went bad? I’m meeting you to break up you, but marriage???

 

As soon as I heard it, the line of reason was nearly cut off, and I almost cursed at him.

 

“Shi… no. It’s nothing like that. Just come, okay? I’ll hang up now.”

 

[What…]

 

I quickly pressed the end button before Baek Do-jun could say anything more. I felt refreshed once I couldn’t hear Baek Do-jun’s voice.

 

‘That’s great. I can safely break off the marriage with Baek Do-jun tomorrow.’

 

I slapped my cheeks and put a cross on the to-do list I wrote down in my notebook. A line indicating completion was lined up above “Setting an appointment to break up the marriage with Baek Do-jun.”

 

I sighed deeply as I looked at the list of Gongs written down one after another.

 

“When will we do all this? Hmm… Should I just block everyone and finish it?”

 

Oh. It wasn’t bad for saying it thoughtlessly.

 

‘Baek Do-jun is his fiance, so he should meet and ask for a breakup out of courtesy, but honestly, the rest of the relationship couldn’t be established without Seong Chan-young’s unilateral stalking.’

 

I ran into Joo Tae-kang while I was on my way to apologize to Seo Eun-soo, but I didn’t have to meet the rest of them in person.

 

‘Then there’s nothing to worry about!’

 

Let’s just block everyone. I don’t think these guys should exist in my life.

 

I was so excited that I called Secretary Choi right away.

 

[Yes, young master]

 

“It’s me. Secretary Choi. You know the Korean restaurant reservation I made at 1 o’clock tomorrow, right? Take me there then.”

 

[Are you talking about Yeon Hwa Gung? All right. I’ll be there to get you]

 

“Oh, and just in case. You know the guys I followed because I liked them, don’t you?”

 

[Are you talking about the Dominant Alpas around Seo Eun-soo?]

 

I was embarrassed to say it out of my mouth, so I turned around and said it [1] , but Secretary Choi understood it quickly. It was comfortable because they understood me perfectly, even if I said it like that.

 

“Is there anyone who is following him?”

 

[There are people who followed him secretly because you asked me to do it the other day…….]

 

Phew, you poo fly-like Seong Chan-young. It’s really disgusting.

 

“Take them all off.”

 

[What?]

 

“All the things I told you to stalk, stop.”

 

As long as I’m Seong Chan-young, I’ll never do anything like that.

 

Perhaps it was an unexpected order, Secretary Choi was silent for a while and finally accepted it.

 

[… I understand. I’ll take care of it as you say.]

 

“All right. See you tomorrow, then.”

 

After ending the call with Secretary Choi, I unblocked and texted all the Gongs stored in the contact at the speed of light.

 

「From now on, I won’t be hanging around either you or Seo Eun-soo, so eat well and live well on your own. I apologize for exhausting you all in the meantime.」

 

If it was really Seong Chan-young, I shouldn’t have let it slide by saying this, but I decided not to mind because I’m not even Seong Chan-young. It was because he realized that there was nothing to apologize while pretending to be Seong Chan-young to the Gongs after the incident of Joo Tae-kang.

 

I felt relieved after I blocked all of my Kakao Talk and phone numbers again.

 

“The only thing left is Baek Do-jun.”

 

I am looking forward to tomorrow. I didn’t have a single nightmare that day, maybe it was because I blocked the scary gongs.

 

⚝ ⚝ ⚝

 

So now, I was drinking a cup of tea at the promised Korean restaurant, watching Baek Do-jun, who is as handsome as a painting, frowns.

 

“What’s the important matter that you asked me to meet at a place like this?”

 

Yeah, I’ve been waiting for that.

 

“Let’s break up from today.”

 

“……what?”

 

“Us. Let’s break up. Let’s go our separate ways from now on.”

 

The more he spoke, the more Baek Do-jun’s face became stupid, as if he had been beaten.

 

“……All of a sudden?”

 

“I don’t like you anymore. Let’s break off the engagement. You didn’t like me either, did you?”

 

“Are you serious?”

 

“Of course, I mean it. Why else would I have called you all the way to this place and asked you to have a meal?”

 

The tea tasted sweet today. It tasted so good.

 

Baek Do-jun’s face, looking at me, was colored with embarrassment. He looked as if he had never expected it.

 

‘Of course, if I was the real Seong Chan-young, I wouldn’t say it even if I died.’

 

I understood Baek Do-jun’s complicated feelings, so I waited for his answer. Baek Do-jun, who had been agonizing like a scholar who had seen a problem that had not been solved for a long time, finally opened his mouth.

 

“……Are you really going to break off your marriage with me? You?”

 

“That’s what I’m saying.”

 

In response to my answer without any hesitation, Baek Do-jun asked with disbelief.

 

“Why? What’s the reason?”

 

“I told you. I don’t like you anymore.”

 

“Since when did you like me? You were the one who chose me as his fiance because you didn’t even like it from the beginning.”

 

My body shrank unconsciously at the frosty voice. Baek Do-jun was angry with me now.

 

I made a mistake.

 

‘I have information about the original work, so I knew that Seong Chan-young has a crush on Baek Do-jun.’

 

There was no way that Baek Do-jun could not know Seong Chan-young’s feelings. I had overlooked it. So he now thinks it was a lie to mock him and make him angry.

 

“Don’t try to get away with lying that doesn’t even work, Seong Chan-young. Tell me. What’s the real reason for breaking up the marriage? No, are you really trying to break up the marriage?”

 

The subtle scent of the delicate juniper grew thick and bitter. It was an alpha pheromone from Baek Do-jun. The momentum was growing threateningly.


****향나무 (Juniper) has a touch of pine to it: a bit sappy, a touch bitter, but definitely fresh – and powerful, so it’s generally used in small doses.

 

Juniper berries, on the other hand, have a strong, pungent aroma that is often described as being similar to pine, cedar, or even gin. Some people find the scent refreshing and invigorating, while others find it overpowering and unpleasant.

 

In this world, there are drugs that completely prevent rut cycles and heat cycles, and pheromones are educated to be controlled at an early age, but pheromones have inevitably exploded like that when emotions become intense in everyday life.

 

And if you get caught up in that opponent’s pheromone and lose your reason……. An accident was inevitable.

 

It was even more so in the case of Seong Chan-young, recessive omega. There was no strength to endure in front of the vicious pheromones emitted by Alpine Baek Do-jun.

 

In fact, I felt dizzy and stiff, so I ended up swearing.

 

“This fucking….”

 

Is this punk purposely threatening me with pheromones?

 

“What?”

 

I wanted to tell him to clear the pheromones, but I couldn’t. Externally, Seong Chan-young was a beta.

 

‘Baek Do-jun knows that Seong Chan-young is a beta, but…… I can’t make it obvious with my own mouth.’

 

There was no need to reveal Seong Chan-young’s weakness for no reason and create something to be held back. He had already made up his mind to return to farming, but he couldn’t be stopped here.

 

He barely held his breath and said while clenching his teeth.

 

“I know very well what you think of me, Baek Do-jun. I’ve wanted to show my teeth, but I couldn’t. How could I hold it in?”

 

“If you’re going to threaten me with this again…….”

 

“Shut up. And if I was going to threaten you, I wouldn’t have come to this restaurant.”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“I meant it literally. I called you here because I wanted to break off my marriage with you. Nothing else.”

 

So get rid of that creepy pheromone, you punk.

 

I threw away all my appetite before I even ate. It was because I thought I was going to choke on the alpha pheromone. I couldn’t even show my pain, so the pain doubled.

 

“Well, uh… uh, the food is here…….”

 

Just in time, the staff who brought the meal finally talked to us with a pale face, afraid of Baek Do-jun’s terrifying pheromone.

 

Mount Kumgang [2] is also a matter of eating, and I didn’t want to just go home with delicious rice in front of me.

 

‘Among the restaurants that Seong Chan-young visits often, this was my favorite.’

 

The best thing after I transmigrated was that I could eat as much delicious food as I could thanks to Seong Chan-young’s wealth. I chose this place because I wanted to get mulberries before I went to farm, but I didn’t want to go back without eating them.

 

“Come on in.”

 

At my words, the staff put down the side dishes neatly at Mach Speed [3] and retreated as if they were running away.

 

Baek Do-joon frowned at me and said what he had to say, whether or not rice was served.

 

“How can I believe that…….”

 

“Let’s talk while eating first. If you’re nervous, just look at this.”

 

Let’s eat, you punk. Don’t you even know the old saying, ‘ give one more rice cake to the child you hate?’ [4]

 

I held out an envelope to Baek Do-jun, who was constantly trying to raise an objection.

 

“What’s this?”

 

“A memorandum.”

 

  • 1. Although the raws used ‘said it’, I’m pretty sure it’s meant to be ‘made some noises’ or something like that. :’)
  • 2. 금강산도 식후경 The literal meaning is ‘Even the sights of Mount Kumgang must wait until after the meal. This is a word used to mean, Let’s eat first before doing anything else, even if it’s important.
  • 3. Mach Speed is the speed when an object moves faster than the speed of sound.
  • 4. 미운 놈 떡 하나 더 준다 means You will give a rice cake to a bad child instead of teaching him. It has the same principle as’ Spare the rod and spoil the child’ and ‘Kill your enemy with kindness.’
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Comments (6)

  1. Thank you for the translation. Got excited for next chapter!!!😭😭

  2. Thank you for the chapter! So happy we got to this point so quickly 😭👌

    1. I agree! The pacing is really good in this novel.💖