TBM Vol 5 Part 6

Slap. A red handprint remained on Seung-yeon’s cheek along with the sound of cutting through the wind. It was such a strong impact that even the confused Il-seo flinched his shoulders.

“Ah, shit, that hurts.”

The reason that was about to be blurred by pheromones barely returned, but it was terribly painful. Seung-yeon, who frowned and opened one eye, asked with blood on his lips.

“Do you have medicine?”

“Ugh….”

“Do you have heat cycle medicine?”

He asked in a low and firm voice, but Lee Il-seo was just looking up at Seung-yeon with a dazed face. His already soaked eyelashes were so heavy that even opening and closing them was very slow.

“Ah… heat…”

He muttered slowly and suddenly reached out his hand. He wrapped his hot hands around Seung-yeon’s neck and pulled him in.

“What are you doing…”

It seemed like he was trying to pull him into an embrace, but perhaps because of the large difference in weight, Il-seo ended up being pulled up instead. Il-seo continued to pant and rubbed his forehead against Seung-yeon’s collarbone.

“Hng, ugh…. It, it feels… strange….”

Il-seo, who couldn’t bear the distant fear of his first heat cycle, instinctively chased after pheromones. The desperation to find an answer permeated the hand that grabbed his neck.

“Ah.”

Eventually, Seung-yeon closed his eyes tightly and opened them. As he released the swaying pheromones, the hand that was hugging his neck slid down. He had only released a little bit, but perhaps it was too stimulating, Il-seo just lost strength in his body and collapsed.

Seung-yeon wrapped his arms around Il-seo’s back and slowly laid him down on the bed. When he pulled back the hot blanket, there were already dark marks here and there under the gray sweatpants that Lee Il-seo was wearing.

Seung-yeon’s hand pulled down Il-seo’s pants. The area around the hard, outlined shaft, as well as under his buttocks, was wet. When his fingertips brushed over the hard thing, Lee Il-seo’s waist twisted.

“Ahhk!”

He wondered what he did to make him moan, but for Lee Il-seo now, every gesture of an Alpha would be an enormous stimulus. Il-seo, who was surprised by the stimulus, pushed Seung-yeon’s hand away and covered his dick with his palm. Seung-yeon lightly pressed down on Il-seo’s two hands with one hand.

“Stay still, I have to get it out.”

“Ughh….”

When there is no medicine, the only way is to quickly remove the accumulated pheromones with the help of an Alpha. The one that had become too hot from being overly heated fit perfectly in his hand. He had become an Omega. The feeling was different from when he last held Lee Il-seo’s dick. It wasn’t a misunderstanding. The body hair was also thinner, and even the muscles that were there had slightly disappeared.

Seung-yeon, who clicked his tongue lowly, tightened his grip and slowly shook his dick. Clear liquid poured out as if waiting from the glans, which was already wet with thick pre-cum. The pheromones gradually thickened each time Il-seo rubbed his head and groaned.

It was like a past life that Lee Il-seo, who had tried to teach him that it would tear if he put it in right away, was gone. Eventually, blue veins popped out on Seung-yeon’s forehead. A tingling sensation continued from his thighs, and his dick also twitched.

“Do you like it? You’re all wet.”

“Ugh. Ughh, I like it.”

Both of their voices were wet. Il-seo, who had been shaking his thighs, shook his shoulders and rubbed the back of his head against the sheet. Each time he moved his body, Il-seo’s dick pushed Seung-yeon’s palm harder as if thrusting.

“I’m seeing Lee Il-seo’s horny face right in front of me.”

The color of Seung-yeon’s eyes was also gradually darkening. He thought he should hold on to his reason, but since the person he loved was emitting pheromones that actively seduced him, the impulse to just get it over with was dangerously rising.

At that time, Il-seo spread his legs so that his white skin was revealed and deeply lowered Seung-yeon’s hand under his butt.

“What are you doing.”

“Put it in, put it in…….”

“What?”

“Hurry… do it.”

Shit. Seung-yeon eventually cursed to himself at the overly stimulating scene, and Il-seo pulled down the hand with bulging veins without knowing anything.

He tried to push Seung-yeon’s finger into his wet hole, but it was impossible. He struggled a few times with a hand that had no strength, then threw his hand away as if giving up.

“It’s hard…….”

Tears welled up in Il-seo’s eyes as he muttered in a voice that could barely be heard. He felt sorry for him for not knowing what to do, but Seung-yeon closed his eyes tightly and opened them, making a firm voice.

“No way.”

There was no way he could maintain his reason inside Lee Il-seo. Then Lee Il-seo’s eyes quickly drooped. Then he asked in a voice that sounded like he was about to cry.

“…Do you hate it?”

“Would I hate it? It’s a problem because I like it too much.”

If he lost his reason as well, Lee Il-seo’s lower body would definitely be ruined. Seung-yeon, who swept back his hair with an expression that he was enduring something, raised the corners of his lips diagonally.

“By the way. He’s subtly dropping honorifics under the guise of heat.”

Instead of answering, Il-seo made a crying sound and turned his head. Seeing that he wasn’t answering when it was disadvantageous, it seemed that the childishness that he didn’t usually show was flowing out recklessly under the guise of heat. Well, pretending to be mature and enduring it is only for a day or two. He hoped he would act as he pleased even during heat.

“Don’t turn your head. Let’s see your feeling face since you’re in heat.”

Seung-yeon, who grabbed Il-seo’s chin and turned him around, grabbed Il-seo’s dick again. This time, he put his hands together and intertwined his fingers so that Il-seo couldn’t stop him, and attached them to Il-seo’s thigh. And he slowly lowered his head.

The stiff head of his penis was engorged with blood, a plum color. Even knowing it was something he had never done before, he strangely felt no resistance. His wet head, dripping with transparent fluid, was quickly sucked between Seung-yeon’s lips.

“…!”

His thin legs flailed, and a gasping breath escaped Lee Il-seo’s throat. His interlocked fingers gripped Seung-yeon’s hands so tightly that his knuckles ached.

Seung-yeon’s head moved up and down between Il-seo’s thighs. With each movement, the sound of saliva and pre-seminal fluid lubricating his mouth echoed explicitly.

“No, uh, ah, heuk!”

With hiccuping breaths, Il-seo’s pupils rolled back. His toes curled, and Il-seo’s thighs pressed firmly against Seung-yeon’s ears.

“Ah, ah, heung… I’m gonna, gonna cum….”

As Il-seo’s climax approached, Seung-yeon’s movements became even more obsessive. His glans hit Seung-yeon’s uvula, but Seung-yeon didn’t even let out a groan of discomfort, lowering his lips even further until his nose touched Il-seo’s pubic hair.

“Heu… euheut!”

With a phut sound, Il-seo’s hot bodily fluids went straight down Seung-yeon’s throat. The semen of an Omega in heat was plentiful. With each successive spurt, Seung-yeon’s Adam’s apple bobbed up and down.

“Heu, eu….”

Seung-yeon, without lifting his lips from the base of his pubic hair to the head of his penis, swept upwards, then pulled out his tongue to lick the hole in the hollow part between the head. After swallowing even the last of the cloudy fluid, Seung-yeon raised his head, his eyes so dark that not a single ray of light could penetrate them.

***

When Seung-yeon moved his hips, a creaking sound leaked from the bed.

His fully erect member moved in and out of the thickly lubricated hole. But it was at a very slow pace, and only half of the shaft was inserted.

The slippery fluid pooled inside the hole overflowed each time the thick penis moved. The inner walls wriggled, urging Seung-yeon’s penis to penetrate deeper. The moment the swollen head and thick shaft slid deeply inside, Il-seo squeezed his thighs together and shook his head.

“Ah… deep… heuk.”

Covering his stomach and trembling, Il-seo sobbed in a fading voice.

“Baby…. Our baby.”

“…Seriously, you need to stop that.”

Eventually, Seung-yeon’s brow furrowed. Since earlier, whenever his stomach was pressed or his penis entered even a little too deeply, Il-seo would start with the ‘our baby’ talk, clutching his stomach and shaking his head.

-Put it in, put it inside….

Immediately after the fellatio, Il-seo was the one who urged insertion, while Seung-yeon barely managed to hold onto his fleeting reason. Il-seo, whose pheromone release during his heat cycle was insufficient with just ejaculation, repeated only the words to put it in, with slurred pronunciation.

After being rejected once more, he shed tears like raindrops, so Seung-yeon ended up doing as he was told, but the last shred of his reason seemed to be trying to protect the baby, instinctively avoiding deep or aggressive insertion.

The nagging question of whether what you’re trying to protect is really ‘our baby’ rose to the tip of his throat, but lacking the courage to hear a negative answer, he swallowed the curse and pulled his penis back.

But as soon as his penis withdrew, Il-seo, with a flushed face, reached out and groped below. Grabbing Seung-yeon’s penis, which was placed near his hole, Il-seo tried to insert it back into his hole, but his hand lost strength and he flailed, dropping it. Il-seo, panting with tears, wrapped his white legs around Seung-yeon’s thighs and urged him on.

“Put it, put it in….”

“I’m really going crazy.”

Seung-yeon rolled his eyes at being treated so blatantly like a sex toy. But Il-seo also had a more confused expression than anyone else.

Seeing his face so excited that it was pitiful, he wanted to plunge it deep into his heated inner walls and ejaculate, but that wasn’t the purpose now. He needed to quickly release Il-seo’s pheromones to end his heat, while also ensuring that his organs weren’t damaged.

It was frustrating, but there was only one way. Seung-yeon slowly moved his hips, stopping when his penis was about halfway in. Then, he pressed only on the spot where Il-seo felt it with the head of his penis, so that Il-seo would reach climax quickly. With each measured thrust, breaths and moans dripped and broke from Il-seo’s throat.

“Heu, eung, eueung.”

Il-seo was moaning and feeling with an expression and voice that Seung-yeon had never seen before. Just seeing him panting, spilling clear fluid next to his navel, made Seung-yeon’s breathing rough and the ease on his lips disappear.

The reason he had only ever spent his Ruts with drugs was because he hated those who lost their reason and became aroused like beasts, unable to overcome their pheromones. But, when those dim, chocolate-colored eyes spasmodically tried to capture him, and when Il-seo, who had been busy ignoring and pushing him away, used his arms and legs to pull his body closer, a feeling that was hard to explain welled up. Seung-yeon grabbed Il-seo’s slender chin, made eye contact, and thrust his hips. It was the first time he felt such mental satisfaction.

“Eung, eung… heu-eut.”

Il-seo, with tears welling up in his eyes, eventually hiccuped as if he was about to pass out, and spat out thin semen again. Feeling a stinging pain, he looked down and saw that Lee Il-seo’s fingernails were embedded in his arms and shoulders, and his soles were pathetically pushing against the sheets before stiffening and starting to twitch.

“Heueu….”

The convulsions spread throughout his body. The strength drained from Il-seo’s body, which was trembling all over while clutching his penis, and only then did the inner walls, which had been clenching his penis as if to bite it off, soften.

“This, this is strange… euheuk.”

It was probably heat, so the pleasure must be overwhelming. Especially since it was his first time experiencing it. Seung-yeon hugged Il-seo’s trembling body tightly, so that he wouldn’t be surprised. When the Alpha’s strong scent gently suppressed the Omega’s restless pheromones, Il-seo’s hot breath faded away.

“Heu… eu…”

Seung-yeon buried his lips in Il-seo’s neck and waited quietly until Il-seo’s fingers, which had been clutching Seung-yeon’s arm, loosened. The carotid artery was throbbing busily, like someone who had been running non-stop on a track, and it was clearly transmitted to his touching lips.

When he pulled his penis out of the body sprawled on the bed, a thung sound was made and the wet head hit Seung-yeon’s navel. His penis, which had not ejaculated while erect, was swollen and hard. Seung-yeon, without wiping it, pulled up his pants and checked on Il-seo first.

Lee Il-seo, whose cheeks were soaked with tears, had his mouth slightly open and his eyes closed. He wondered if he was even breathing, so he put his finger under his nose and felt a faint but warm breath.

It was his first time encountering an Omega in heat. He couldn’t tell at all whether he could just leave him like this, or whether he was sick somewhere.

“Lee Il-seo?”

His sensitive eyes scanned every part of Il-seo’s body, and his large hand gently patted Il-seo’s hot cheeks. Perhaps because they were wet, the slapping sounds were particularly loud.

“Are you okay?”

However, his tightly closed eyelids showed no reaction. Seung-yeon put his hand under Il-seo’s nose again. If it weren’t for the faint breath, he would have been so limp that he would have mistaken him for dead.

“You’re just sleeping, right? Say something.”

He hurriedly put his ear to his chest. He could hear a thumping sound, but it was too fine and fast. Seung-yeon bit his lip. Blood oozed again from his lips, which had been torn from slapping his cheeks.

Seung-yeon left the room with wide strides, picked up the cell phone he had thrown on the sofa, and made a call. Seung-yeon paced anxiously in the living room until the call connected.

***

[Calm down, he’ll be fine.]

At the words to calm down, Seung-yeon stared at the display case in front of him. His reflection was visible in the clear glass. His hair was disheveled, the bodily fluids on his clothes hadn’t dried yet, and his complexion was whiter than usual.

Only then did he realize that he was in a state of losing his composure. Seung-yeon, who had called Director Lee Joo-seung, skipped the greetings as soon as the call connected and immediately rattled off Lee Il-seo’s condition.

He said that he had gone into heat, and that although the insertion wasn’t deep, they had had intercourse. That the other person had climaxed several times and then finally lost consciousness, and was he okay? Should he go to the hospital? How do Omegas in heat usually resolve it, and what should he do if this act damaged Lee Il-seo’s organs?

Lee Joo-seung, who had been answering the flood of questions calmly, eventually calmed Seung-yeon down first. Seung-yeon only shut his mouth when he said that the pheromones of an anxious Alpha couldn’t be good for a pregnant Omega.

[In the first place, it’s almost impossible for a heat cycle to occur during pregnancy. Judging from the situation, it doesn’t seem like it was a perfect heat cycle either.]

“Why does only the impossible happen to Lee Il-seo?”

At the somehow disgruntled voice, the other person on the phone laughed helplessly.

[He’s probably just deeply asleep. Heat is usually similar to an Alpha going through Rut. Just like Seung-yeon takes medicine and sleeps soundly, Omegas also fall into a deep sleep after releasing all their pheromones. It wouldn’t have been a very strong heat, so he’ll wake up soon.]

The heartbeat, which had been pounding so hard that his ears were ringing, gradually returned to its place at the explanation in a low, calm voice. Seung-yeon swept back the bangs that had fallen down with a low sigh.

“…That’s a relief.”

A low, hoarse voice dropped. Then, the sound of Director Lee laughing softly came from across the receiver. Seung-yeon frowned.

“Why are you laughing?”

[I’m sorry. It’s just… it’s the first time I’ve seen you so out of composure. I thought, so Seung-yeon is an Alpha after all. Anyway, don’t worry too much.]

Seung-yeon just closed his eyes tightly without answering, then opened them. Lee Joo-seung cleared his throat once.

[More than that, the problem is that Il-seo’s body doesn’t even recognize that it’s pregnant. I keep judging that it’s impossible to give birth with his organs in a stable condition.]

Director Lee brought up the most urgent problem. A short silence followed between the two, and then Lee Joo-seung, who had made a groan, asked cautiously.

[Um. It’s hard to say this, but… how about forcing him to have surgery? I’m worried that something bigger will happen if we spend time like this.]

Even by force.

It wasn’t that Seung-yeon hadn’t thought about it either. He was holding out because Lee Il-seo’s choice was purely the most important issue, but in his head, he had dragged Lee Il-seo to the operating table several times. He knew that if he released his pheromones strongly, it would be easy to bind Lee Il-seo’s entire body. But.

“I want to, but I’ve done a lot to him.”

[Yes?]

“He told me not to use force on him.”

[Ah….]

Director Lee, who had saved his words, only groaned. At that moment, the door opened with a thud. Seung-yeon told the person on the phone that he would hang up first.

When he turned his head, Lee Il-seo was standing there holding the doorknob. But his sweat-soaked face was in a state of panic. Lee Il-seo’s anxious pheromones were sharply transmitted even from a distance.

“What’s wrong? Why aren’t you sleeping more?”

“Ah, uh, because you weren’t there….”

Il-seo, whose hair was a mess and whose face was full of fever, was panting as he ran. When Seung-yeon approached Il-seo, Il-seo’s large eyes followed Seung-yeon’s movements without missing a single one.

“Just because of that, why did you run all the way here?”

Only then did Il-seo blink and wipe his cheeks. Yes, why did he run all the way here when he could just think that Seung-yeon was beyond the room?

When he woke up from his sleep just now, his body jumped out before he could even recognize the situation. Memories of Rut, when he woke up on an empty bed covered in bodily fluids, flashed sporadically, and anxiety surged.

That incident was a long time ago, and he thought it was okay, but strangely, just now, he was so scared and sad that his heart felt cold. He felt dizzy from the unfamiliar anxiety, and the surroundings narrowed darkly. He wondered if he had been abandoned again, and his heart pounded without him being able to stop it. Forgetting to put on his clothes, he ran straight to where he could hear Seung-yeon’s voice. Even now, that desperation was so blindly single-minded that it was strange.

Seung-yeon, who had approached Il-seo, who was standing blankly, put his forehead on his to check his temperature and grabbed his wrist.

“Should we wash up since you’re awake?”

When he nodded vaguely, Seung-yeon gently pulled Il-seo’s arm. Only when he got to the bathroom did Il-seo pull his hand away and say.

“I’ll wash myself.”

“I’ll wash you. You can’t even walk properly.”

“I’m really okay. I was just surprised earlier….”

“Don’t fall and bleed, listen to me.”

He couldn’t argue with that. He didn’t have any strength in his fingertips, and his thoughts were turning slowly, as if something had melted somewhere in his head.

Seung-yeon, who had seated the blankly standing Il-seo in the shower booth where there was a difference in height, turned on the shower and adjusted the water temperature. It was awkward for a grown adult to be washing him, even though they had seen each other’s bare bodies several times.

But Seung-yeon, as if it were nothing, calmly poured water on his body and rubbed every part of his body with a lathered shower ball. Il-seo also thought that this was better than falling and getting hurt or collapsing, so he ended up silently entrusting his body to him.

The hand holding the shower ball brushed between his thighs, and the back of his hand brushed under his limp penis. Il-seo quietly held his breath even as his sensitive areas were unexpectedly and casually brushed. Seeing his docile appearance, not telling him not to do it like usual, or shrinking his body in embarrassment, Seung-yeon silently raised the corners of his lips.

“Close your eyes, the foam will get in.”

When he lowered his eyelids as he was told, he heard a snicker from above his head.

“You’ve become a baby.”

It was teasing, but there was a gentle smile in his voice. Seung-yeon’s hands were fast and delicate. He almost felt sorry that he had washed off all the foam so quickly. Seung-yeon, who had draped a shower gown over his shoulders, took off his short-sleeved T-shirt by turning it inside out and said.

“I need to wash up too. Go sleep more.”

When Il-seo just stood there blankly, holding the hem of the shower gown, Seung-yeon raised one eyebrow.

“Why. Should I take you to bed?”

“Ah, no.”

Seung-yeon chuckled and went into the shower booth. Il-seo pulled down the towel covering his head and slowly walked outside.

He collapsed onto the bed with his languid body. His body was tired, but his mind was clear, so he couldn’t fall asleep easily. Before long, Seung-yeon, his hair wet, walked outside in his gown. This time, he sat on the nearby sofa and played a song on his tablet PC, as if he was going to stay with him until he fell asleep.

He didn’t remember the title, but it was definitely a song he liked. Il-seo, who was slowly blinking his eyes to the beat, looked at Seung-yeon, who was crossing his legs on the sofa, and asked.

“Did I sleep for a long time?”

“No, you just fainted for a while. It’s a heat cycle.”

“Ah….”

“It’s your first heat, so it came on suddenly, and you’re a recessive Omega and pregnant, so it passed incompletely.”

Now he finally found the reason for all the sensations that were hard to describe.

“I felt… really strange.”

“Do you remember?”

Our baby, the pleading voice, the supple arms and legs wrapped around his body. They were all things that were too precious to remember alone.

“I remember bits and pieces.”

“….”

“How can I forget this….”

Seung-yeon frowned and smiled bitterly at the unintended pointed answer. Il-seo fiddled with his fingers under the blanket with a strange expression.

It was a short, clumsy heat, but he couldn’t forget how clear it was that all the anxiety in his heart had been erased while they were together. The way the Alpha’s pheromones poured down on him as if to pierce him from head to toe was like all the sensations in his body, which had lost control and were collapsing, were gravitating towards one person.

Perhaps that’s why, when Seung-yeon wasn’t by his side when he opened his eyes, he didn’t feel disappointment, but rather terror and anxiety rushed in, and he couldn’t think properly. It was probably an inevitable symptom of being an Omega, and moreover, of carrying his child.

Il-seo’s weak eyes captured Seung-yeon.

That person can’t be my Alpha. He was too precious for me to drag down. He told himself that he shouldn’t rely on him like this, but after experiencing such a strong sense of stability for the first time in his life, he became even more anxious.

These overwhelming emotions must be because of the pregnancy. He was being swayed by pheromones and hormones. He had to find a hospital and erase it quickly before his heart was swept away even more. Il-seo cleared his throat and asked cautiously.

“Haru was sick, so you’ll take one day off out of the two weeks, right?”

“There’s no such thing. There are ten days left until tomorrow. Look hard.”

Il-seo, who was tossing and turning with a disappointed face at the cold answer, closed his eyes. But even with his eyes closed, Il-seo followed Seung-yeon’s presence several times. He was afraid that he would leave the room, so his eyelids repeatedly opened and closed anxiously.

Fortunately, he stayed by his side until drowsiness quietly blurred his consciousness.

***

“Yes, I understand.”

Il-seo, having pressed the end call button, listlessly put down his cell phone.

「Daejeon Future Obstetrics and Gynecology」

A red line was drawn across the note. He had checked hospitals not only in the Seoul metropolitan area but also in Daejeon. However, even at the last hospital in Daejeon, he received the answer that recessive omegas cannot undergo abortions without an Alpha. Il-seo, having flung the pen away, buried his face on the table and lay prone.

There was nowhere that would perform an illegal abortion on a male omega whose traits had just changed. When Seung-yeon initially threatened that he couldn’t perform the surgery, he was more hopeful. Even if it was difficult in Seoul, he thought there would surely be one hospital in the entire country that would accept him.

But there wasn’t, really. Staggering, Il-seo barely managed to sit up and picked up his cell phone again. He bit his nails while searching for hospitals in other regions. Blood reappeared in the spot where it had been visible yesterday, and his eyes, busily scanning the screen, trembled anxiously.

Thump, thump, his heart beat so fast at times like this. It had been three days since his heat cycle ended, and the time remaining from the day Seung-yeon had predicted was one week. Perhaps it was an aftereffect of the heat, but anxiety gripped him for no reason, and he developed symptoms of palpitations.

There were many of Seung-yeon’s clothes within reach. Recently, Seung-yeon had noticeably reduced his schedule under the pretext of focusing on his ‘Alpha duties,’ but when he inevitably had to leave the house, he always left after drenching his clothes or bedding with pheromones.

He grabbed Seung-yeon’s coat and buried his face in it as a temporary measure, but this was a psychological cause, so his anxiety did not easily subside. Eventually, the coat fell to the floor under the sofa without much effect.

Il-seo, biting his lip, wandered aimlessly around the large living room. He walked and walked, but the anxiety did not disappear.

Sitting on the sofa, Il-seo picked up his cell phone again. Illegal abortion, abortion, recessive omega abortion, surgery without an Alpha, abortion hospital. He pressed each of the long list of search terms again.

“…”

At that moment, one word appeared in the related search terms. His hand, which had scrolled down pretending not to see it, hesitated and then raised the screen again.

In the afternoon’s yellow sunlight, the dust floating in the house was faintly visible. The vibration of the cell phone placed on the table echoed through the eerily quiet house. Il-seo, who had been lying sideways on the sofa, listlessly killing time, sluggishly got up.

The caller was CEO Kim Jin-hong, whom he thought might be Seung-yeon. Il-seo, raising his eyebrows, quickly pressed the call connection button.

“Hello?”

[Oh, Il-seo. How are you?]

“Yes, CEO Kim.”

CEO Kim, who had been asking about what he had been doing and how his condition was, broached the subject with a voice that was clearly hesitant.

[Um… Il-seo. There’s going to be an article out at midnight tonight.]

Now, just hearing the word ‘article’ made his chest ache. It wasn’t just a feeling, but a real, tight pain in his chest, and Il-seo pressed his chest with his hand as he replied.

“What… article?”

[It’s going to be an article about Gu Dong-yeong and drugs.]

“…Excuse me?!”

[The informant is me. I got it from somewhere too.]

Following CEO Kim, who was subtly lowering his voice even though it was a phone call, Il-seo also hunched his shoulders and quietly asked back.

“CEO Kim? CEO Kim, you’re informing?”

The content itself was too shocking, but more than that, it was strange that CEO Kim was telling him about Gu Dong-yeong, so Il-seo asked the reason.

[Did you know that the reason this controversy got so big is because of that trashy media company that Gu Dong-yeong’s uncle is investing in?]

Il-seo’s eyes narrowed slightly.

[It seems like there was something between you two in the past? I don’t know what grudge he has against Sa Seungyeon and you, but they’ve been focusing on articles that damage the drama and bash you. Since Sa Seungyeon doesn’t have any dirt to dig up, they forcibly created a dating rumor and blew it up. Well, it was buried like a dog.]

Rather, they received support that they looked good together, and Lee Yeon-ju was on a roll, even snagging the lead role in the drama.

“I didn’t know….”

[Yeah, you wouldn’t know. Anyway, in the early stages of your pregnancy, they massively released malicious articles about you, and the cyber wreckers picked at it, and the initial public opinion was swept away. The drama and you are so popular that attention is focused on you, but the entertainment industry is actually trending positively. Your magazine pre-sales are all sold out, and seeing that, more companies are asking about casting you. I got a vitamin commercial offer. I didn’t reject it because it’s something you often eat. Let’s talk about that later.]

Of course, there were companies trying to take advantage of this moment when interest was exploding, but CEO Kim read the positive possibilities as he saw the indiscriminate criticism decreasing and the supportive public opinion growing, and at the same time, inquiries about Il-seo’s casting subtly increasing.

[Anyway, it’s been a while since I handed over the information about that bastard, but the reporter is quite cautious, so it seems it took a long time to quietly collect evidence.]

“Yes….”

[What I’m worried about is that the moment the drug thing blows up, they might try to muddy the waters by releasing your articles more maliciously. In a way that says I’m innocent, so tear him apart.]

“…”

[But I’ll blow it up every time. After drugs, it’s prostitution, after prostitution, it’s tax evasion, then casting power abuse. That reporter is no ordinary person, and he’s even collected testimonies about him acting as a pimp, bringing in trainees. You only have a private life controversy, but he’s a criminal. He won’t have the energy to damage the drama or you if he has to respond to this. Do you know what I mean?]

It meant that if he just held on a little longer, this controversy would be quelled. Il-seo nodded with a small sigh.

“Are you… safe, CEO Kim?”

He was really grateful that he was responding without regard for the consequences, but Il-seo wanted to stop CEO Kim if he was taking a dangerous path for him. Half of it was a sense of futility, wondering if that would even work, and the other half was a sense of helplessness, just getting tired of everything.

[You can’t even imagine how meticulous the person who handed over this data is. He changed his cell phone several times while reporting this.]

Whoever it was, Gu Dong-yeong must have been seriously disliked. He thought that you really can’t live with sin these days.

[Stop worrying about useless things. Let’s pay back as much as we’ve been hurt. So what I want to say is….]

Il-seo listened carefully. After a moment of silence, CEO Kim’s firm voice was conveyed.

[You have to endure, even if it’s hard.]

How did he know that his steadfast mind was gradually cracking and he was having a lot of useless thoughts? Il-seo felt strangely guilty at his urging. Il-seo stroked the blood-stained ends of his nails and replied quietly.

“Yes, I understand, CEO Kim.”

[Have you thought about how you’re going to do the surgery?]

“I’m looking for a hospital, but… there aren’t many.”

[Hmm. Yeah. If you’re thinking of getting rid of it, it might be better for you to have the surgery when Gu Dong-yeong’s thing blows up. How’s your body? Are you in a condition to have surgery?]

The call ended only when Il-seo’s ears became hot with CEO Kim’s worries and nagging. Il-seo, having put down the phone, rubbed his face with his palms.

“Ha… crazy bastard.”