#16

Secretary Choi, if I return to farming, you will naturally lose your job, but I didn’t tell you that. It was my own little revenge. He wasn’t really a person of Seong Chan-young anyway.

“Yes, Chairman-nim. It’s Secretary Choi. Can I go up to the parents’ house with young master Chan-young now?”

Secretary Choi called Chairman Seong in front of me. After some seconds had passed, Secretary Choi made an OK gesture with his hand.

“You can come right up.  He said that it would be nice if we could have dinner together.”

“Tell him it’s alright.”

If you told an elderly person that your grandson had broken off the engagement he had made when he was young, he would pretend otherwise.  However, having already experienced the temper of the dog-like gongs, I decided to push ahead with perseverance.

‘…..Maybe it’s better to be told that someone like you is not my grandson.’

Seong Chan-young’s family was not my family.  In order not to be swept away by the flow of the original work, it seemed like a wise choice to block it altogether.

‘I won’t die.’

With that in mind, I pulled out a suit as neat as possible from the closet and put it on.

Extra clothes and towels were also packed in preparation for what Chairman Seong would do.

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I was so nervous while riding in Secretary Choi’s car to my hometown, but the atmosphere was completely different from what I had expected.

“Ai-goo, my baby is here!”

‘What…. Why the hell did Chairman Seong come out to meet me with a bright smile on his face?

For a while, I wondered if ‘damn it’ or ‘bad shit’ should be put between “my”’ and “baby,” but Chairman Seong called me once more warmly right away.

“You must have had a hard time getting here.  Ai-goo, how come you only have half a face left?”

‘I didn’t exactly suffer, but…….’

Seong Chan-young’s house was not that far from Chairman Seong’s home, and the only one who had a hard time getting here was Secretary Choi, who was behind the wheel.

It wasn’t even half of my face.  These days, I ate everything I wanted with a lot of money, so the surface of his face was shining.  To the point where Secretary Choi secretly told me that I didn’t have to make an appointment with a dermatologist.

It took less than a second for my thoughts to reach this point, and I soon summarized Chairman Seong’s reaction like this.

‘He must be welcoming me out of courtesy!’

No matter how mean a bastard he was, his grandson was still his grandson.  It was said that blood is thicker than water, and Chairman Seong did not seem to have any intention of neglecting his own flesh and blood member, Seong Chan-young.

‘Or perhaps he wants to save face in the eyes of others.’

The employees working around me were standing in a line and welcoming me. It was embarrassing enough to bear.  

If he had heard that he deserved to be dug out of the family registry in front of so many people, he would have wanted to dig a tunnel and run away right away.

 I decided to act like a decent grandson and be compliant.

‘Because I have to bring up the story of breaking up my engagement with Baek Do-jun later.’

“Thank you for coming to meet me, Grandpa.”

I was afraid of the atmosphere that would harden in an instant if I brought up the story of breaking up the marriage, so I decided to be polite first.  

No matter how much Seong Chan-yeong sold his personality, Chairman Seong never had the courage to leave him.

So, I did the common sense gesture of bowing down, but I heard a sniffling sound from somewhere.

“Sniff, let’s go.”

‘Huh?’

Strangely, I raised my head and looked at Chairman Sung….. There was something unusual about the profuse tears.

‘Isn’t he said to have expressions as tough as a tiger’s…..?’

What? What did I do wrong? Did I say something that would touch his heart?

In the midst of confusion, Chairman Seog marched down the path with dignity, as if the tears hanging from the corners of his eyes were fake.

‘Well then. I must have looked at something wrong.’

The leader of Seong Eun Group, who is not afraid of anything, must have suddenly had tears in his eyes from some kind of wind. It is said that menopause comes late for dominant alphas.

“Household Jin!  My grandson is here today, so prepare a feast for him [1] !”

Is he hinting that my leg will be broken?

“It’s alright, Grandpa.”

The banquet is too much for the grandson of the fire attribute who came to break off the engagement.  I want to decline because it will soon become my ancestral rite.

“Uh huh.  This grandfather prepared only a special health food for you.  Accept it without reservations.”

The reservation sounded like poison [2] .  At this point, pretending would be the default option.  Are my hearing organs working properly?

‘Whatt healthy food is better than that?’

Does this mean that, like in Hansel and Gretel, he feeds him heartily and delicious food before he dies? Don’t they say that ghosts who died after eating are said to be beautiful?

Everything Chairman Seong said in a stern voice seemed threatening.  It seemed that this was also due to the subtle alpha pheromone.

‘He’s full of vitality like a hearty person.’  

Coping with the pheromones was a difficult power for Seong Chan-young, a recessive omega.

I wondered if Chairman Seong’s real intention was to simply sit in front of him before I broke out in a cold sweat.

“Grandpa should eat more than me.”

I answered with a trembling body due to tension and pheromone pressure, but something was strange again.

“Our, our Chan-young said such an admirable thing.”

 “Yes?”

Isn’t this just something anyone can say?

“Hmm, no. Come on, eat. It is more delicious to eat before it cools down.”

Chairman Seong even poured a glass of expensive liquor and gave it to me.  The table was full of sumptuous dinners.   The feast of food,

which was so full that I did not envy the manjeon seats in China, automatically made my mouth water.

‘It looks delicious……’

In the meantime, his tongue, tamed by the delicious foods of the chaebol family, immediately fired a torch to serve those foods.

However, it was not possible to touch until Chairman Seong ate the first bite. That is the basic table manner for adults.

So I could only wait…….

“Oh my. Is Chan-young waiting for me to eat first?”

“What? Yes….”

“How admirable. Ha, grandfather didn’t even know you were such a good boy and misunderstood you all this time.”

‘What?’

What the hell is going on now?

“As expected, was Doctor Kim right?”

Chairman Seong muttered and soon looked at me with a very moved eye.

“From now on, this grandpa will protect you!”

“What do you mean, I’m just…….”

“It’s okay! Don’t hesitate to take it!”

What, is he talking about checks? Looking at Chairman Seong’s strong eyes, which sparkled very burdensomely, my head ached from the pheromones again.

‘I don’t know what it is, but let’s just say I get it.’

“Yes, sir.”

And then Chairman Sung looked very…… With a happy expression, he pulled out the lobster claws, removed the flesh right away. The sound of the shell crackling was superb. He can remove it without using scissors. As expected, Dominant Alphas are different.

The sitting posture became more polite. I didn’t want to be like that lobster…….

“There must have been a lot accumulated for you, but thank you for accepting it right away. Here, take a bite of the lobster.”

“Yes. Thank you.”

I received the plump lobster flesh with both hands and the moment I put it in my mouth, the flesh practically melted. As I chewed and ate it eagerly, I could feel the gaze in front of me.

‘Why are you staring at me like that?’

It was definitely Chairman Seong. Chairman Seong and I were the only ones sitting at this table!

The food was really delicious, but at this rate, I could feel an ominous feeling that I would not be able to digest all the wasted food and would be filled with diarrhea.

On top of that, I felt an abnormal reaction in my body. My whole body was itchy and my throat was itchy, so I had a bad feeling.

‘Oh, damn it.’

“……Well, Grandpa.”

“Huh? What’s wrong? Do you want more? There is fresh red-banded lobster sashimi here, too.”

“Please give me an ambulance….Please call. Hurry up. Please.”

This was definitely an allergic symptom. It’s also something I ate that caused a pretty serious reaction.

‘Fuck… this wasn’t in the original. How should I know what Seong Chan-young can’t eat?!’

No wonder there was no seafood in the refrigerator. I thought it was Seong Chan-young’s taste, but it wasn’t. It’s because he couldn’t eat.

But why didn’t Chairman Seong, his family, know this?

…… Did he do this even though he knew it?

‘I hope that’s not the truth…….’

Then even if Seong Chan-young is the world’s trash man, it’s still pitiful.

“Oh, my! My baby! Dr. Kim! Dr. Kim!”

‘Noisy, Grandpa…….’

My consciousness was clouded. Both my face and body were hot and itchy. It was painful that my skin stung.

“Green onion, green onion…”

Even in the midst of losing my mind, I tried to break up the news of my broken engagement with Baek Do-jun, the purpose of coming to my parents’ house.

Fortunately, Chairman Seong listened to my voice and put his ears close to my mouth.

“Yes! Chan-young, what do you want to say?”

“Green onion… Green onion… Green onion…….”

“Is there something wrong with the green onion? Or should I call your father?”

I almost burst into laughter. No, but why would you mention father here?

“ I broke up my engagement [3] … with Baek Do-jun….”

“What?”

“That’s why I came here….today to tell you.”

1. 상다리 부러지게 차려 오게 can also sound like bring a broken leg xD2. The word, 사양 sounds similar to 사약, which means poison.3. 파 means green onion and 파혼 means broken engagement