Contract Marriage with Memory Loss on Top - Chapter 43

As the dark night blanketed the sky, Yeon-woo was lying alone on the bed, quietly looking up at the ceiling.

I should have stopped when I felt uneasy. Paradoxically, this time, he had an accident while fully conscious. How did something that was meant to just apply medicine and end up like this? The moment of realization hit the back of his head so hard that his ears were ringing.

‘Is this really okay?’

Of course, it doesn’t make any sense. What kind of crazy employee gets help from their employer to satisfy their sexual desires? What’s even more absurd is that there was no coercion in any of it. A consensual relationship, can this really be packaged as an “accident”? Even without thinking deeply, the answer existed.

“I must have gone crazy for a moment…”

There were so many things that were hard to explain unless he had gone crazy. Filled with complicated feelings, Yeon-woo hugged a teddy bear, unable to relax his furrowed brows. The ugly teddy bear that Ki-won had won for him was glaring at him annoyingly again today.

Applying ointment down there wasn’t a problem. Although it was embarrassing, the intention wasn’t impure. However, it was definitely wrong for Ki-won’s hand to go towards the front. And of course, it was even more problematic that he accepted it as good.

Yeon-woo, who had been tormenting only the innocent teddy bear, sat up abruptly, embracing a chest full of frustration. With the sudden change in his field of vision, his head felt dizzy and a headache came on. Holding his throbbing forehead, Yeon-woo let out a small sigh and picked up the cell phone he had put down at a distance.

In the future, absolutely, this kind of thing should never happen again. Determined to take care of Kwon Ki-won like a rock, Yeon-woo lightly slapped his own cheek, thinking that he might do something useless again. Mutterings like ‘You can’t do this, get a grip’ followed.

To ensure that his resolution wouldn’t waver, thorough preparation was needed. Although he was taking medicine, it would be a lie to say there was no anxiety about when the heat cycle would erupt. In order to relieve his unrelenting emotions, Yeon-woo started searching the internet. If he searched for anything, wouldn’t there be posts from people with similar experiences to his? And if he could find a solution in the process, that would be great. Honestly, it was an attempt without much expectation, but he was able to gain unexpected results.

[Study abroad diary, changes in the heat cycle period.]

From the title alone, Yeon-woo’s eyes lit up at the familiarity of the situation. With the anticipation that he might be able to find a solution, Yeon-woo was about to click on the post. That is, if there hadn’t been the sound of movement outside. Yeon-woo’s eyes quickly moved in the direction of the sound.

“I thought you were sleeping, what are you doing?”

Ki-won, who had finished his backlog of work in the study and came, approached while pressing his eyes, looking tired. Yeon-woo, who had been sitting alone in the dark bedroom, hurriedly hid his rising agitation.

Although they tacitly didn’t mention the incidents involving sexual contact, unlike the usual Ki-won, Yeon-woo’s inner thoughts were quite flustered. After briefly contemplating whether to tell him or not, Yeon-woo eventually showed his cell phone slightly.

“I was searching the internet to see if there are people whose heat cycle period has shortened.”

Of course, a doctor’s opinion is the most trustworthy, but since he could only get an accurate story a week later, he searched in a way that had nothing to lose. If he could really find a solution, his anxiety could be relieved before going to the hospital, so it wasn’t a loss.

“Hmm, is that so?”

Ki-won, who had been quietly staring at the screen Yeon-woo held out, briefly nodded his head. It seemed that Ki-won also understood that it wasn’t bad to relieve worries in this way.

“Then let’s read it together.”

Ki-won, who was sitting diagonally at the head of the bed, leaned towards Yeon-woo. Does he mean to read it together? Strictly speaking, since it was also a matter related to Ki-won, it didn’t seem bad to read it together. Yeon-woo sat close to him so that he could read comfortably and entered the post.

The beginning of the post was filled with chatter about how it was a diary written while reminiscing about the experiences the writer had while studying abroad. Yeon-woo scrolled down quickly until the desired part appeared.

“We can start reading from here.”

There was a subtitle in the section where the core topic of the post appeared, making it easy to identify at a glance. Ki-won moved his Adam’s apple while keeping his eyes fixed on the screen.

The writer said that they had seriously met a dominant alpha while studying abroad. And then their lover suggested living together, so they ended up living together.

‘The situation is quite similar.’

Although Ki-won wasn’t Yeon-woo’s lover, the part about ending up living together with a dominant alpha caught his eye. Was it because he lived with someone with a different constitution, and a dominant one at that, that caused the change? His eyes, which were reading the text from left to right, were busy.

“It seems like this is a country where the cost of pheromone testing is very expensive.”

“Hospital fees are generally expensive there.”

It felt strange when Ki-won said it was expensive. Yeon-woo, who had been examining the post intently, lifted his head with an “Oh?” and an exclamation.

“Why?”

“It’s weird when you say it’s expensive.”

Yeon-woo, who laughed playfully, tapped on the cell phone screen, saying let’s focus again. Hearing that sound, Ki-won let out a light breath and lowered his gaze.

Unlike my lover who was a dominant alpha, I was a recessive, so the pheromone deception was so annoying. Due to the heat cycle that could erupt at any time, I always had to keep suppressants on hand, and the stress I received every time I went out was so great that I also developed chronic headaches. (Maybe I should be grateful that only my heat cycle period changed… ^^ If my lover’s rut was also a problem, it would have definitely been a total predicament.)

They said that changes in pheromone levels are mostly temporary. Should I say it’s like a recessive’s ordeal to adapt to a dominant? ^___^

We put off the quite costly hospital treatment and explored various methods. If we really couldn’t find an answer, we were going to return to Korea to receive treatment and come back, so I think we were a bit daring. Looking back now, it seems like it was a bit reckless… haha Anyway, if I were to pick the most effective one, it was ‘contact’.

Yeon-woo’s fingertips, which had been reading for a while, stopped. That was because the ‘contact’ part was absurd. He would have to check in detail what kind of contact it was, but it was very suspicious.

‘If living together had a big impact, wouldn’t contact be a bad method?’

It wasn’t that they used separate rooms or gave up on living together, but it was untrustworthy to say that it could be cured with just contact. As it seemed like reading would only be a waste of time, he was about to exit the post when Ki-won’s low voice stopped Yeon-woo.

“Are you going to stop reading?”

“Just… I thought about it and it seemed like a waste of time. It’s not clear…”

Although he said that, there was hesitation in Yeon-woo’s fingers. He thought he should grasp at straws, but the fact that internet posts could only be used as a reference brought about concerns.

“Still, it would be better to just read it, right?”

It just so happened to be an account of a very similar situation, so if he ignored it and moved on, it seemed like it would leave a lingering uneasiness. In response to Yeon-woo’s question, Ki-won raised his eyebrows as if in agreement. Finally, the fingers that had been still started moving, and the rest of the post was fully revealed.

Fortunately or unfortunately, there were quite a few people around us who were dating dominant and recessive partners and experienced difficulties with changing pheromone levels. We gained credibility about contact while talking with those people.

Ah, the contact mentioned here refers to contact where flesh touches flesh. (That doesn’t mean to get naked and hug each other, so don’t worry haha)

If the constant eruption of the heat cycle is a change in the body to adapt to a dominant, wouldn’t it work to speed up that rate of change? It was a hypothesis that crossed my mind.

Yeon-woo’s eyes, which were scrolling down quickly, shook rapidly. The writer said that they hugged their live-in lover tightly every day. They also said that they periodically took pheromone showers to try to get used to the dominant’s pheromones, which was quite a reckless challenge. If the pheromone levels had risen excessively and caused shock, it could have led to an accident.

‘Well, if I couldn’t go to the hospital, I might have tried this and that method too…’

Rather than trembling in fear not knowing when the heat cycle would erupt, it would have been much better to use their lover in a last-ditch effort.

Whether it was a coincidence or not, when I got retested after coming to Korea, my pheromone levels had changed stably. (Actually, I went back to Korea in the middle and received pheromone and medical treatment. I remember being surprised that my pheromone level was 6 times the average at that time.) The doctor said… Originally, it would have taken a few more weeks for my heat cycle to slowly adapt and be a mess, but receiving dominant pheromones directly and indirectly every day was a method in its own way haha

In short, I whipped my lazy body and did Spartan adaptation. Believe it or not, 4 years ago, I was able to return my pheromone levels to stable without even getting a prescription using this method.

I wonder if they are doing well now^^ I have fond memories of hugging them even while sweating profusely in the middle of summer.