Chapter 5

[Honey, come straight to the back gate parking lot after class!]

‘Ha. Crazy. Fucking adorable. I could just eat her up.’

Dohwi couldn’t stop the corners of his mouth from lifting as he read Ari’s message. He burst into a goofy grin.

’Look at her saying “okie” instead of “okay.” She’s totally being cute with me, right?’

“Dohwi, what’s got you grinning like that again? Something good happen?”

His classmates, noticing him chuckling to himself while glued to his phone, glanced at his screen curiously.

“Ah, nothing. Haha. Just work-related stuff. Hahaha.”

Dohwi quickly shoved his phone into his pocket, afraid someone might see.

He desperately wanted to shout from the rooftops, “Choi Ari is my girlfriend! Choi Ari is my omega!” But he vowed to exercise infinite patience and keep it to himself.

He had promised Ari he wouldn’t stand out or cause attention on campus. He didn’t like it, but he agreed.

“I’m heading out first. Have a good weekend, everyone.”

“Again? You sure you don’t have a girlfriend?”

“Ah, it’s nothing like that. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha.”

His forced laughter and robotic gestures were painfully obvious. Dohwi gave his classmates a perfunctory nod and vanished from the lecture hall at lightning speed.

His classmates, who had been taking the same classes with him, shook their heads at Moon Dohwi’s recent habit of disappearing the moment class ended.

“Anyone know why he’s acting like this? It’s obvious he has a girlfriend, even if you look at him upside down.”

“Looks like he wants to keep it a secret. He should never try acting—he’s terrible. He’s like a robot.”

“He’s definitely dating Choi Ari, right? Someone said they saw them holding hands and walking around campus at night.”

“Hey, look! Another post just went up on Everytime. Someone’s asking if Moon Dohwi has a girlfriend.”

“Sigh. Give it here. I guess I’ll have to defend him and say it’s not true. What else can I do?”

Completely unaware that others were catching on to their relationship, Dohwi sprinted toward the school’s back gate.

The athletic field near the back gate was rarely used by students for parking, and the area was generally deserted, making it a discreet spot.

“Ari!”

As soon as Dohwi spotted Ari crouching beside his SUV, trying to hide, he pulled her into a tight embrace and showered her with kisses.

“I missed you, Choi Ari.”

He had only been apart from her for half a day, yet he missed her so intensely. The faint pheromones tickling his nose sent an inexplicable flutter through his chest.

The way she nestled quietly in his arms, like a baby bird, was so endearing it made him feel dizzy.

It was hard to describe. A paternal instinct, a fierce urge to protect and cherish this small, fragile woman, surged within him.

He wanted to caress her with utmost tenderness, feed her delicious, high-quality food until her cheeks and belly were plump, stroke her rounded stomach, and knead her chubby, adorable cheeks all day long…

“Ah, hey, hey! What if someone sees us?”

“Don’t worry. I checked multiple times. No one’s watching.”

Dohwi showered Ari’s plump lips with kisses, who was glancing around like a meerkat, worried someone might appear.

“You’ve been taking your suppressants regularly, haven’t you?”

“Yeah. You were right—my pheromones seem stronger lately, so I’ve been taking them every day… Can you still smell them intensely?”

“I can detect a faint scent, but it’s subtle enough that other Alphas probably won’t notice. It’s fine.”

Dohwi gently stroked the hair of his beloved girlfriend, who always followed his advice and took her suppressants diligently.

But having taken alpha hormone suppressants for years himself, Dohwi knew better than anyone how harmful they were to the body. Making Ari take them so often couldn’t be good for her in the long run.

If they imprinted each other and bonded sooner, her pheromones would no longer attract other alphas.

If they kept the imprinting well-hidden, she could continue living as a beta without needing hormone suppressants.

In his heart, Dohwi longed to imprint her immediately, bond, and set a wedding date. But rushing into marriage was only for extremely dominant alphas, not recessive omegas.

They had just become lovers, and he didn’t want to burden her unnecessarily. Dohwi forcibly swallowed the words that were about to spill from his lips.

He helped Ari into the passenger seat, fastened her seatbelt himself, and then expertly took the wheel.

As they approached the restaurant Dohwi had reserved, he glanced at Ari and carefully opened his mouth.

“Ari, I’m sorry, but I don’t think we can meet this weekend.”

This weekend was the day of the character pop-up event Ari had been looking forward to.

She had been excitedly anticipating it for days, having managed to secure a reservation after much effort.

She had chattered endlessly to Dohwi about her plans for the day, eager to buy exclusive merchandise and indulge in plenty of desserts.

“Okay,” Ari replied, nodding casually, as if Dohwi’s apology for canceling their weekend date was no big deal.

“Uh… are you sure you’re okay with that?”

“Huh? I thought you were busy with something. Well, there’s nothing I can do about it then.”

Dohwi had expected Ari to whine and complain, saying things like, “Why not?” “I’m so disappointed,” or “Are you telling me to go alone?” But when she coolly said “Okay” and then fell silent, a strange unease washed over him.

Of course, he was the one who had unilaterally canceled their plans, but her reaction was far too calm.

‘What’s going on…? Is she planning to go to that pop-up with another friend instead of me? No, wait—she was the one who said she wanted to go there with me in the first place…?’

In truth, this weekend marked the start of Dohwi’s rut cycle.

Normally, he didn’t need to keep track of his rut and never checked his calendar for it. But after booking the pop-up event with Ari, an alarm suddenly went off, reminding him that his rut was imminent.

Dohwi desperately wanted to ask Ari to spend his rut with him, but he couldn’t guarantee he could treat her gently while completely losing his reason to the rut.

More than anything, Dohwi was desperate to imprint her and claim her as his mate right away.

He knew that if the last shred of his self-control vanished, he wouldn’t be able to suppress his instincts as he was doing now.

He had finally won her heart, and he didn’t want to risk her hating him again.

After much deliberation, Dohwi decided to spend his rut alone.

‘She wouldn’t go with another alpha, would she…?’

But seeing Ari’s nonchalant reaction to their canceled date, he felt a sudden, irrational fear grip him.

Forcing a smile at Ari, who still showed no sign of distress, he tried to quell the growing anxiety within him.

***

“Ha, this is driving me crazy.”

It was the weekend after his date with Ari.

Dohwi swept back his sweat-drenched hair, panting heavily.

He’d noticed an unusual fever rising in his body since early morning. His limbs felt heavier than usual, and his pheromones were spiraling out of control.

He stared down at his already stiff, erect member, glistening with pre-ejaculate.

It seemed his encounter with Ari two days prior had triggered something.

Knowing he wouldn’t be able to have sex with her for a while once his rut began, he’d impulsively booked a night at a nearby hotel after their date, driven by a desperate longing.

Whether it was the lingering scent of Ari’s pheromones from that night, or something else entirely, his sexual urges had refused to subside since returning home. Then, starting at dawn on Saturday—the day his rut was expected—he felt an even more intense heat than usual.

A recessive omega whose hormones could affect a dominant alpha? Anyone hearing this would dismiss it as absurd. But to Dohwi, Ari’s pheromones were more potent than those of any other omega, making such a phenomenon entirely plausible.

Dohwi frantically grabbed the underwear he’d taken from Ari during their last date and began inhaling deeply.

“Ah, Ari…”

The moment he caught the scent of her pheromones emanating from the palm-sized panties, an overwhelming urge to ejaculate surged through him.

His engorged member, even more swollen than usual, throbbed with a desperate need to be inside his beloved omega.

“Haah… I miss Choi Ari so much…”

Could there be anything more blissful than spending a rut with the omega he loved?

Finally having a beloved girlfriend, Dohwi glanced down at his poor, lonely member, destined to endure the rut alone, and performed a dry wash of his face.

His mind knew it was impossible, yet the longing to spend this time with Ari kept surging within him.

Clinging to his fading rationality, Dohwi gripped his cock with his large hand and began to masturbate.

“Hah… Ari…”

Even before his full rut had begun, his body felt unusually hot, as if it no longer belonged to him.

Masturbating while inhaling Ari’s pheromones stirred an excitement as intense as when he had first inhaled her pheromones during her heat cycle.

If his lust was already this overwhelming, he knew he would transform into nothing more than a beast when his full rut began.

Convinced that keeping silent from Ari was the best course of action for both of them, he threw off his robe and stood completely naked, rubbing Ari’s pheromone-soaked panties against his nose.

But even this fell far short of savoring Choi Ari’s vulva right in front of him.

Normally, the pheromones lingering on her underwear were enough to satisfy his urges, but today, even that felt insufficient.

He frantically retrieved the vial containing Ari’s vaginal fluids and poured it over his erection.

Dohwi loved inhaling Ari’s pheromones directly, but he was even more obsessed with the way her scent mingled with his own.

When their pheromones merged, he felt an overwhelming sense of possession, an almost euphoric high that defied explanation.

“Haah… Not enough… Choi Ari.”

But it still wasn’t enough.

The parching, burning thirst remained completely unquenched.

He inhaled Ari’s pheromones as he headed to the dressing room. Then he gathered all the clothes she had left at his house previously and returned to the bedroom.

Dohwi’s apartment contained quite a collection of Ari’s clothes, secretly accumulated under the pretense of having them laundered after each overnight stay.

He piled the clothes, still carrying her scent, on the bed and hugged the heap tightly, breathing heavily.

It was while he was hugging the pile of her clothes and rubbing his erection against it that the front door suddenly burst open with a series of beeps.

Then, the light thump-thump-thump of small footsteps drew closer to the bedroom. Choi Ari suddenly appeared before Dohwi, who was buried in a pile of her clothes, masturbating.

“The password is my birthday. You really like me a lot, don’t you?”

Ari, fresh from the shower, stood before him with her bare face, completely devoid of makeup. The musky scent of the body cleanser and shampoo he had gifted her lingered in the air.

“Ch-Choi Ari, why are you…?”

Ari strode toward Dohwi, who was staring at her with a stunned expression, and climbed onto the bed where he sat.

As she drew closer, the intoxicating pheromones she exuded threatened to overwhelm Dohwi. His head swam with dizziness.

His engorged member, now even thicker than before, throbbed with a painful ache.

“Why… huff… why are you here?”

“…Dohwi, you’re different. Not like usual.”

Was it the sweat glistening on his skin, or the slickness of her arousal? A distinctly dangerous pheromone radiated from him, unlike anything she’d sensed before.

Ari slowly gazed at his sweat-drenched body.

His pale skin, flushed crimson with heat, was noticeably warmer than usual.

Even his well-defined arms and legs, now taut with visible veins, looked like those of someone who had just finished a strenuous workout.

The forearm-sized member protruding beneath his sculpted abs resembled the menacing erection of a furious carnivore.

‘How could something so huge have always been inside me?’

Ari stared intently at his unusually large erection, which seemed even more enormous than usual.

Blazing red with heat, it resembled the grotesque demon’s club from folklore.

“Ari, I’m sorry, but let’s talk later. It’s dangerous for you to stay here… Hurry.”

Dohwi sighed roughly as he watched the innocent omega before him, her eyes sparkling as she gazed at his throbbing cock.

The moment Choi Ari had entered his home, he had felt his body temperature surge as if a fever had gripped him.

If he stayed like this, he knew he would inevitably lose control and pounce on her like a beast.

It was clear that their rough encounters would continue, with him relentlessly thrusting into her and emptying his seed deep within her womb, even as she sobbed and begged him to stop.

Worse still, this was the rut of an extremely dominant alpha.

Unlike the heat cycle of a recessive omega, an extremely dominant alpha’s rut could last for days on end.

“Haa… Choi Ari, please. Go back now. It’s dangerous here,” Dohwi gasped, barely managing to push Ari away slightly. But instead of retreating, she pressed herself even closer against him, unyielding.

Ari gazed up at him with her irresistibly round eyes, asking, “Because of the rut?”

“…What?”

“Hehe, I’m your girlfriend, after all. I should know about your rut cycle, right?”

Ari snatched her panties from Dohwi’s dumbfounded hand.

After all the rubbing and frantic handling, her apricot-colored panties were already a mess, stained with Dohwi’s slippery arousal fluid.

‘Once they fall into his hands, panties are as good as dead, never to return.’

And with his rough handling, there was no way this small, delicate piece of fabric could survive.

“Is that all it takes to satisfy you?”

“It’s not like I only brought one or two pairs of panties. Plus, I’ve got your pheromones saved from my darling, just in case…”

“Exactly. Do you really think that’s enough? You idiot.”

Before he could even ask what she meant, Ari grabbed his large hand and pressed it against her vulva.

Choi Ari rarely acted so provocatively, and Dohwi’s eyes widened in shock.

“…I’m wet, Dohwi.”

His gaze immediately shifted to his hand pressed against her vulva.

The front of her short training pants was already damp and soaked.

“I guess I’m weak to your pheromones too. Just the scent… and I’m like this. What should I do?”

Dohwi desperately clung to the fraying thread of his rationality, struggling to push away Ari’s hand that was gripping his.

“…I can’t promise to be gentle.”

Ari quietly nodded at his words.

“Hah… You know, spending my rut with me is the same as agreeing to marry me. I have no intention of holding back. I… I want to get you pregnant.”

Ari nodded again at his rough, metallic-tinged words.

She hadn’t come to this house without knowing what she was getting into.

Even as a recessive omega, the chances of her getting pregnant would skyrocket if she were repeatedly impregnated by an extremely dominant alpha in heat.

Dohwi was already an alpha who relentlessly pursued her, never tiring once he started.

Spending his rut with him, completely devoid of reason, meant enduring days and nights of relentless penetration—a certainty as clear as day.

But why?

Being with him felt like his overflowing lust had somehow transferred to her. She was both terrified and thrilled by the prospect of experiencing her first rut with an extremely dominant alpha.

Just the thought of spending his rut with him sent a strange, ticklish sensation swirling below her navel.

“It’ll be okay,” she murmured.

“…What?”

“Whatever happens, I think it’ll be okay. I… I really like you. I mean it.”

The moment her lips parted to grant full consent, Dohwi began tearing off her clothes with savage urgency.

“Haa… Ari… Choi Ari.”

No alpha in the world could possibly retain his sanity when his omega, already irresistibly lovely even when still, was begging for penetration like this.

As Dohwi watched Choi Ari passively accept his touch and allow her clothes to be stripped away, his eyes burned crimson with mounting excitement.

The full force of an extremely dominant alpha’s rut had begun.

“Fuck, Choi Ari. Ari.”

“Mmm, uh…!”

Dohwi sank his teeth into her neck and collarbone, leaving bite marks in a frenzy. Like an alpha in rut, his canines, sharpened beyond their usual state, repeatedly marked her delicate flesh.

“Haah, Choi Ari. I’m going to get you pregnant.”

“Hng, Dohwi, ugh…!”

Now fully consumed by his rut, Dohwi was like a beast in heat. Between the constant, carnivorous growls escaping his lips, his movements grew even more brutal and relentless than usual.

Completely losing his reason and driven solely by instinct, Dohwi climbed atop Ari’s delicate frame and began to bite and suck her skin relentlessly.

“Dohwi, gasp, it hurts, be gentle…!”

“Hah, you’re not going anywhere now. Fuck, let’s get you pregnant today, Ari.”

Dohwi showered frantic kisses on her slender belly, rubbing the head of his already slick cock against her tight, wet entrance.

“Hah, you’ll carry my child now. Hmm?”

“Yes, I want it, uh, ah, mmm…”

“Fuck. Ari.”

Without any foreplay, he thrust inside her immediately.

“Haah, ugh…!”

Ari gasped as his hot, throbbing cock pierced her inner walls in one swift motion, her breath coming in ragged gasps as she welcomed him.

With trembling limbs, she wrapped her arms and legs around the alpha above her, doing everything she could to ease his penetration.

But something strange was happening. Even though his already engorged member was fully inside her, she could clearly feel it growing even larger against her inner walls.

“Hah… hng… My stomach… gasp…”

She had learned in sex education class that an alpha’s member changed shape during rut to prevent it from slipping out. But experiencing it firsthand was completely different from learning about it in theory.

As his already overflowing member swelled to its limit inside her, Ari’s breath caught in her throat, making it difficult to breathe.

“Hah… Dohwi, wait… It hurts, it hurts, Dohwi…!”

The pressure filling her abdomen, as if his member were piercing her uterus, made Ari tremble violently. Tears streamed down her face as she felt the thick member relentlessly grow larger, seemingly without limit.

“Hah… Ari. Good. I love you.”

Dohwi licked away Ari’s tears as they streamed down her face, as if even those drops were too precious to waste. He gripped her slender waist and thrust his cock into her with brutal force, thwack, thwack, thwack.

His crimson eyes gleamed menacingly as he continued his relentless thrusting, driven by pure instinct.

“Hngh… Dohwi, it hurts… there… hngh… it feels… strange…!”

The heat and size of his cock, even more intense than usual, relentlessly stabbed deep into her womb. A searing pain, like her insides were being torn apart, surged through her, accompanied by a violent orgasm that crashed over Ari’s fragile body like a tidal wave.

Bound tightly by Dohwi’s relentless movements, Ari could only feebly flail her arms and legs, completely helpless.

“Hah… Ari, Ari…”

Ari felt like her entire body was floating in zero gravity as Dohwi relentlessly thrust into the parts of her that were most sensitive.

Yet at the same time, she was terrified by the brutal, invasive force of his savage member tearing into her.

The point where his glans roughly rubbed felt so intense it was almost numbingly painful.

“Wait, Dohwi, gasp, just a little, slowly…”

“Ari, gasp, Ari, I like it… Ari.”

Her fragile body trembled uncontrollably, unable to withstand Dohwi’s merciless, animalistic thrusts that pounded into her again and again.

Completely lost to reason, Dohwi mindlessly left bite marks on her pale skin as he repeatedly rammed his member into her.

“Hngh, hah, ah, ahh, ahng…!”

Soon, she felt a warm, sloshing liquid fill her abdomen. More semen than usual had been poured into her, filling her completely for a long time.

“Dohwi, hng… wait, hah, ah, hng!”

Even after emptying his seed as if to fill her barren womb, his member remained unyielding. Without pausing, Dohwi immediately resumed his thrusting.

The sensitive area, still raw from her recent climax, was once again subjected to intense stimulation. Tears streamed endlessly from her wide eyes.

“Hng, Dohwi, I… hng… I think I’m going to… hng…!”

The pounding, firebrand-like cock hammered against her inner walls, causing her to gush uncontrollably.

With each rapid, forceful thrust, Ari’s bladder began to feel like it was about to burst.

“Dohwi, please, just a moment, I… I think I’m going to pee!”

The sensation was different from what she expected an orgasm to feel like. Ari struggled, trying to pull his member out.

But no matter how she writhed and twisted her hips, his member remained firmly lodged inside her, like a bolt and nut tightly locked together.

The violent, reverberating thrusts sent her mind blank again, and electric currents surged through her body.

That’s when it happened.

“Dohwi, I… gasp… I’m really… pant… haa… ahhh…!”

A clear stream of liquid erupted from her lower body with a gurgling sound, like a fountain bursting forth.

Ari’s eyes widened as a thin stream of liquid gushed from below her, and she burst into tears.

She had wet Dohwi’s bed.

“Hng, ugh, uh… I, I… the blanket…”

“Cute, huff, Ari, so cute.”

The map she had drawn on the bed intensified the concentration of Ari’s pheromones, filling the room with her scent.

Dohwi, driven to extreme arousal by the mingled scent of her vaginal fluids and urine, finally gripped her ankles and lifted her into the air while still inside her. With her legs raised high, he began thrusting wildly into her.

“Wait, Dohwi, hng…!”

With crimson eyes gleaming wildly, Dohwi had completely lost his reason, reduced to little more than a werewolf in his frenzy.

“Ari, hic, I love you, Ari.”

“Dohwi, slowly, please, hngh, ah, ahngh!”

Dohwi lowered her legs, which had been dangling weakly in the air, and pulled her into another tight embrace, ejaculating hot semen against the inner wall of her womb.

“I love you. I love you. Ari, I love you.”

He nipped at her neck with his sharp canines, then sank his teeth deep into her flesh, injecting his pheromones into her for a long, agonizing moment.

“Hngh, uh…!”

Ari gasped, feeling the hot liquid surge and fill her womb once more.

Perhaps due to the sheer volume of semen already expelled, a milky, viscous fluid overflowed from their joined bodies, pooling and dripping between them.

Ari glanced at Dohwi, who was pressing his fangs against her neck. She squeezed her small hands together, her eyes tightly shut.

His canines, sharper than usual, pierced her skin, and she felt his pheromones spreading through the wound.

Knowing exactly what he intended to do, her entire body trembled with tension.

Through her tear-blurred vision, Ari dimly sensed their pheromones slowly intertwining.

Though she couldn’t see it, she knew it was happening.

Their pheromones, beautifully binding in the air…

“Haa… Ari. I love you. I love you…”

Dohwi stroked the vivid imprint he had left on her neck as he thrust deeper inside her.

“Hah… my omega… Ari. Hah…”

His crimson eyes gleamed with a vivid, triumphant light.

Now, no one else would ever be able to smell Choi Ari’s pheromones, and she would never again be able to smell another alpha’s pheromones.

Choi Ari would become his omega. She would be his mate.

The moment his sole, most fervent desire had been fulfilled.

“Ari… huff… I love you. Ari…”

Dohwi showered relentless kisses on the lips of the omega who was now his forever, resuming his relentless thrusts.

Ari desperately clung to her fading consciousness, fully accepting the hot alpha who was roughly thrusting into her.

Her snow-white body was covered in crimson bite marks from his sharp canines, and her inner walls were already overflowing with semen.

In Dohwi’s bedroom, the intense pheromones of the two mingled, creating an even more stimulating scent than usual.

‘Ah… this is what an alpha’s rut is like…’

Ari squeezed her eyes shut, staring at her legs dangling helplessly in the air.

The first day with an extremely dominant alpha in rut had only just begun.

***

From that day on, Ari spent three consecutive days with Dohwi.

The relentless thrusting continued, so brutal she wondered if she might die.

It was no exaggeration to say their sex was solely for procreation. Dohwi relentlessly deposited his semen into Ari’s inner walls.

After Dohwi’s rut ended, Ari suffered a severe body ache and fever, bedridden for a full week. It was hardly surprising.

In the end, Ari had to visit Dohwi’s cousin’s hospital and receive the prenatal nutrition drip he had been so insistent about.

“Maybe it’s because it’s still early, but it doesn’t feel real yet,” Ari murmured, gently rubbing her flat stomach.

Given their constant rut-induced sex, pregnancy was inevitable. Yet she still couldn’t quite believe there was a child growing inside her, in a place where she felt nothing at all.

As soon as Ari became pregnant, she took a leave of absence from school. For someone who had planned to live her entire life pretending to be a beta, pregnancy was entirely unplanned. Yet she never hesitated in her decision.

Perhaps it was because they had wandered for over three years without recognizing each other. She desperately wanted to start living with Dohwi as soon as possible, longing to spend every moment of their future together without a single gap.

Contrary to her fears, Dohwi’s family took an immediate liking to Ari.

They had been deeply worried about their perfectly healthy son, who acted like a defective Alpha, never dating and only taking hormone suppressants meant for alphas.

Whenever his family had urged him to settle down with an omega and start a stable family as soon as possible, the aloof Dohwi had always been indifferent. Now, he had suddenly brought home a rabbit-like girlfriend, and to top it off, they were mated and expecting a child. For his family, there could be no greater cause for celebration.

In truth, the Dohwi family had opposed his debut as an entertainer because they hoped he would meet an ordinary omega who had grown up diligently and properly.

As an extremely dominant alpha, Dohwi was already bound to attract countless omegas. They worried that if he entered the cutthroat entertainment industry, he would meet countless unsuitable people and form undesirable relationships.

His particularly conservative grandfather harbored a deep-seated prejudice against entertainers, viewing them as students who neglected their studies from a young age, focusing only on superficial appearances.

The thought of Dohwi, immersed in the entertainment industry, getting into trouble with some flashy omega and disgracing the family name gave his grandfather constant headaches.

But when a well-educated, diligent, and polite young woman of the same age appeared as his match, she became the perfect marriage prospect in the family’s eyes.

“Darling, you don’t need to bring anything. Just come empty-handed. Why don’t you and Dohwi move in together right away? In fact, let’s get you settled in today. You’re not alone anymore, and it’s dangerous for you to be by yourself.”

Dohwi’s family, fearing Ari’s sudden change of heart might lead her to call off the wedding, strongly pushed for the marriage to proceed.

Following the adults’ consensus that it was dangerous for a pregnant omega to live alone, Ari was semi-forcibly moved into Dohwi’s apartment that very evening after greeting his parents.

Having frequented his place countless times since their casual, friends-with-benefits arrangement began, Ari already felt completely at home there.

“The view from this place is truly breathtaking,” she murmured, leaning back against the sofa and gazing out the window at the soft orange glow of twilight. The panoramic view of the Han River stretched out like a painting, its beauty almost surreal.

When she had first started visiting this house, she had never imagined her relationship with Dohwi would develop like this.

Even though her long-cherished crush had finally come true and she was happy, it still felt surreal to be living under the same roof as Moon Dohwi, the celebrity had once only admired from afar.

Ding-

Just then, a notification popped up on Dohwi’s phone.

Report to the high school auditorium by 6 PM.

Ari, who was lounging on the floor near the sofa, tilted her head in confusion as she read the message.

“What’s this about? Why does he need to go to the auditorium?”

Today was supposed to be the weekend they had planned to go furniture shopping together.

After a leisurely brunch, they were going to visit the department store to browse furniture, have a fancy dinner at a nearby restaurant, and then head home.

After breakfast, Dohwi suddenly announced an urgent meeting and left alone.

Though Ari was disappointed by the sudden cancellation of their plans, as a master of solo entertainment, she figured spending some time lounging around alone without Dohwi wouldn’t be so bad.

Truth be told, Dohwi, who clung to her like a piece of gum and never wanted to leave her side, could sometimes, very occasionally, be a bit bothersome.

She gazed at the massive wall-mounted TV, practically a home theater, and scrolled through the various streaming services Dohwi had subscribed to.

For two hours, she’d been browsing titles, unable to decide what drama to watch, when a sudden message from Dohwi popped up, telling her to come to the high school auditorium.

Ding-

“Huh? A concert today?”

Ari’s eyes widened as she saw the series of photos that had just arrived.

The photos showed Dohwi singing, with the caption “Moon Dohwi’s 1st Guerrilla Live*” superimposed over the images.

[*T/N: a type of concert performed in a non-traditional setting or arranged in an unusual fashion]

“No way! If he’s doing a guerrilla concert, he should have told me beforehand! How can it be a surprise to me too? We’re married now!” Ari grumbled, her lips pursed like a chick’s beak, as she jumped up from her seat.

‘If I’d known this was happening, I would have bought a camera in advance. Should I bring my vlogging camera? Oh right, I need to call a taxi right away.’ As she frantically tried to organize her chaotic thoughts, a call came from the black taxi driver Dohwi had already booked.

After a brief call with the driver, who said he’d wait in front of the apartment complex until 5:30 PM, Ari hurriedly got dressed.

‘So that’s why he’s been sneaking out every night lately, saying he had practice… He was preparing for this event!’ she thought, feeling a surge of excitement and anticipation.

“How long has it been since I last saw Dohwi perform live?”

It had been since that day in her first year of high school—the last time she’d seen him perform in person.

Since gaining considerable recognition, Dohwi had been invited to perform at various festivals. Yet Ari had never once gone to see him perform at any of them.

Since Dohwi had never given her a single invitation during her time working as his editor, she worried that attending his performance might be imposing.

To make matters worse, after their liberal arts class ended, Dohwi had even asked her not to acknowledge him at school. She didn’t want to risk getting on his bad side by showing up at the festival to watch his performance.

Well, all that was in the past now.

As Dohwi’s pre-booked taxi pulled up to the school, the familiar security guard greeted her warmly.

“Uncle! How have you been?”

“Ari, why are you so late?”

“Huh?”

“Never mind. It’s nothing. Go on now.”

Ari bowed politely to the guard, who was grinning like he was hiding something, and hurried toward the auditorium.

Even for a guerrilla concert, not a single subscriber was visible in the wide athletic field leading to the auditorium.

“It said the concert starts at 6 PM… Could it be that it still hasn’t been promoted?” Ari frantically checked Dohwi’s social media and YouTube community, but found no mention of the guerrilla concert anywhere.

Just then, as she cautiously approached the auditorium, still clueless about what was happening, a sudden buzz of an electric guitar reverberated from inside.

The moment she heard the guitar, time seemed to rush backward, creating the illusion that she had returned to the day she first saw him in her freshman year of high school.

Clutching her overwhelming emotions, Ari burst into the auditorium. There, on the stage, stood Dohwi, guitar slung over his shoulder, gripping the microphone.

“…Dohwi!”

Moon Dohwi stood before her, dressed exactly as he had been the first time she saw him in high school: a black T-shirt and school uniform pants.

“This song is dedicated to Choi Ari, the only omega who makes my heart race,” he said in a soft, mid-range voice. Through his crimson lips flowed the very song that had made her fall for him all those years ago.

The first person she’d ever met who shone like the sun.

A person who sparkled brighter than any star.

The celebrity she had once only admired from afar in her youth was now singing just for her, on a stage meant for her alone.

Overwhelmed with emotion, tears of overwhelming joy streamed down her face.

Caught completely off guard by the surprise event, Ari’s large eyes overflowed with hot tears.

As soon as the song, its lingering notes echoing through the auditorium, came to an end, Dohwi knelt down on the stage and extended his hand to her.

“Ari, will you marry me?”

Tear-streaked Ari nodded, smiling through her tears. Dohwi grinned so widely his dimples deepened, pulled a ring from his pocket, and slipped the diamond-studded band onto her left ring finger.

“Hic… how am I supposed to wear this around?” Ari chuckled through her tears, her small, slender hand dwarfed by the comically oversized ring.

“You need to wear something like this to make it clear you’re married. You look too young… people might misunderstand, so it’s a must.”

Dohwi’s lips curved into a smile as he spoke, as if he found Ari’s small hand, adorned with the wedding ring, particularly pleasing.

“By the way, how did you get permission to use the auditorium so suddenly?”

“Of course I got permission in advance. They readily agreed. After all, I’m the school’s most successful alumnus.”

“That’s right. Moon Dohwi is our school’s biggest star.”

Ari nodded, gazing up at Dohwi standing on the stage.

Though he never debuted as an entertainer, Dohwi had always shone brighter to her than any celebrity on TV—both in the past and now. In this vast universe, he remained her one and only ultimate bias.

“Choi Ari. I’m sorry for finding you so late.”

Dohwi leaped off the stage and rushed to embrace the woman who had stood by his side, cheering him on without wavering for years.

The moment he held her, Ari’s lovely pheromones, redolent with the scent of wildflowers, tickled his nose pleasantly.

“I swear to shower you with love for the rest of our lives, so that your beautiful scent will never fade.”

Dohwi stroked the indelible imprint on her pale neck, like a tattoo etched forever, and showered her full lips with kisses.

A vow of eternal love, unbreakable even by death.

[The End]

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And there it was! Another omegaverse by 애착인형. I’m a sucker for possessive men so these two captured my attention immediately haha. Though the first one was only after reading the manhwa and I found this one after searching for the novel of the other one. Hope you guys enjoyed the pining of the two guys. My next one should (hopefully) be more lighthearted. I’ll see you there!