I Became the Only Omega in a Makjang Novel - C106

“Are you cold?”

Seeing me get goosebumps, Do Seung-jo mistakenly thought I was cold and asked in a worried voice.

“No, it’s nothing. By the way, shouldn’t you go?”

As I shook my head, I made eye contact with Secretary Jo, who was looking at me with pitiful eyes.

Having seen that gaze several times when I was hospitalized, I couldn’t pretend not to notice.

“It’s fine.”

Do Seung-jo shook his head without even glancing in Secretary Jo’s direction, as if he had already noticed.

“We should go greet the Chairman together.”

Looking around, I could immediately see Chairman Do surrounded by a crowd of people.

‘Come to think of it, it was the Chairman who arranged the marriage.’

I had heard there was still contact after the divorce, but I didn’t know it was to the extent of coming here to show support.

“Hey, hurry up and go. Secretary Jo looks like he’s about to cry.”

“Okay, I’ll be back in just a moment then.”

“No, you can take your time.”

“…Stay right here.”

Do Seung-jo looked anxious as if he was leaving a child by the water, so I elbowed him in the stomach and glared.

“Am I a child? I got it, so go.”

“I’ll be back after greeting briefly.”

Do Seung-jo moved with heavy steps, letting out a shallow sigh. Actually, I had heard the Chairman’s suggestion to greet other people at this event today, but Do Seung-jo had cut it off at his level.

[It doesn’t seem right to introduce you to people before properly greeting the family elders.]

As it was burdensome for me too, I agreed with Do Seung-jo’s opinion and we agreed to only greet Do Seung-jo’s mother today.

With no one around to pay attention to, my earlier thoughts naturally continued.

Clearly, when Do Seung-jo’s birth mother reappeared in the middle of the original story, it was after the male lead and female lead had married and even had a child.

The female lead voluntarily endures living with her in-laws, but unable to please the male lead’s stepmother until the end, she secretly attends a party hosted by his birth mother to try to please her instead.

But the male lead finds out about this and immediately goes to the party, where trouble ensues.

<‘You don’t have to come all the way here seeking approval.’

‘How did you know I came here?’

‘Nothing will change by doing this. I’ve already prepared for the divorce lawsuit.’

‘…What do you mean? I have no intention of divorcing.’

‘Saying that while meeting my brother lacks persuasiveness.’

‘W-what.’

‘Wouldn’t it be better to raise the child with their biological father rather than me?’

‘…You knew everything?’

‘Yes.’

‘…Since when?’

‘From the beginning.’

‘Then why… why didn’t you say you knew?’

‘I was afraid you’d break up with me first if you liked that person more.’>

The male lead nonchalantly points out the parts where the female lead feels inferior, and by coincidence, she also encounters the female protagonist who attended the party after joining the male lead’s mother’s company.

<‘After making a fool out of me, did you think I’d just stand by and watch you two live happily?’>

Unable to contain herself, the female lead obtains a knife and ends up stabbing the male lead in front of many people.

Thinking of the scene from the original work, I unknowingly hugged my arms and shuddered.

Although it was an impactful scene, I belatedly remembered the somewhat hazy location where it took place.

But originally, this was supposed to happen years later, and now the female lead and male lead hadn’t even become involved.

So there was no chance of suddenly being stabbed with a knife.

“No way, that’s impossible.”

Besides, at least half of the characters wouldn’t even be attending today’s party.

But before that thought could finish, someone approached me directly from the side.

“Hyung.”

“Oh? Woon-jae.”

Woon-jae greeted me awkwardly in a neat outfit. I was happy to see him after a long time, but I hesitated as I remembered the scene from the original work.

“It’s been a while.”

“Ah, yes it has.”

But I quickly regained my composure as I remembered Hae-na, who said she couldn’t attend because she was busy.

“You seem very surprised to see me here.”

“Huh? No.”

I could fully understand Do Woon-jae attending. If anything, he was more likely to be at an event like this than I was.

Though it was a bit early, I thought it made sense that this party had been moved up.

“Mother told me to come, so I was dragged along. What about you?”

It was probably small talk, but I wasn’t sure if I should readily tell Do Woon-jae the reason I was here, so I trailed off.

“Oh, I…”

As I briefly pondered how to answer Do Woon-jae’s question, his gaze landed on Do Seung-jo in the center of the crowd.

“I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable with the question. Let’s skip it.”

“Huh?”

“I know the reason. You don’t have to be so surprised.”

Do Woon-jae smiled. I noticed he seemed more mature than when I last saw him.

He knows the reason? I wanted to act nonchalant, but I couldn’t hide my wavering gaze.

“I’m the only one who knows.”

“…Really?”

The way he was talking, it seemed he definitely knew about my relationship with Do Seung-jo.

I hadn’t planned on keeping it a secret forever, but I was flustered that an acquaintance suddenly said they knew.

“I didn’t greet you to talk about this. I was just glad to see a familiar face in an unfamiliar place.”

“I’m sorry.”

I covered my face with my hands, embarrassed by Woon-jae’s mature behavior in noticing and being considerate of my discomfort.

My ears grew hot, feeling like I had shown an embarrassing side.

“I won’t go around telling others that I know first.”

Did something happen to him too?

The development was different so I couldn’t guess, but he had become so mature in such a short time.

“You…”

“You’re staring at me too much, and I don’t want to get on his bad side.”

“Huh? Seung-jo?”

“Yes. He’s glaring intensely.”

I wanted to talk more, but Do Woon-jae quickly noticed Do Seung-jo’s fierce gaze and said goodbye.

“I’ll go first. I came all this way, so I want to make a good impression.”

“Oh… okay.”

Do Woon-jae soon disappeared into the crowd with Kang Woo-ryeon, who had come with him.

“Phew.”

I let out a sigh. I kept telling myself there was no need to be so nervous, since the other important characters hadn’t come.

“Oppa!”

“…Eom Hae-na.”

But Hae-na, who had definitely said she couldn’t come due to lack of time, tapped my shoulder with perfect timing.

“…Huh? I thought you couldn’t make it.”

When I spoke in a dumbfounded voice, Hae-na grinned.

“I made time on purpose to come. Were you surprised?”

I forced a smile, unable to look serious at her confident face saying of course she had to put aside other things and come for such an important event for her oppa.

“Oh, yeah…”

“Yeon-seo came too.”

Hae-na pointed to Yeon-seo awkwardly standing at the entrance, and Yeon-seo waved when she saw us looking.

“…Yeon-seo too?”

Though I knew the original plot had completely changed, cold sweat ran down my back as key characters who weren’t supposed to come arrived one after another.

“Why do you look like that, oppa?”

“It’s nothing.”

I smiled and waved back. Surely nothing would happen.

* * *

Unlike the tension I felt when all the characters suddenly gathered in one place, nothing happened.

Hae-na and Yeon-seo stuck together, fully focused on devouring the food, while Do Woon-jae seemed busy dealing with people in Kang Woo-ryeon’s absence.

If there was a problem, it was just Do Seung-jo. When he returned to me, his face was stiff.

I was about to worry that something had happened, but then Do Seung-jo pouted and said:

“You were laughing so much earlier.”

“…What?”

“Why was your face red?”

“When did I…?”

“When you were with Do Woon-jae earlier.”

“…You saw well from far away. We didn’t even talk for long.”

“Then what did you talk about in that short time?”

“Why are you being jealous about me talking to your brother?”

“…”

I couldn’t help but laugh at the childish content despite Do Seung-jo’s fierce voice.

He’s always jealous over nothing.

‘Wait… jealous??’

I had momentarily forgotten with all the big events happening one after another.

The fact that Do Seung-jo is extremely jealous.

“Don’t tell me… you’re jealous over this?”

“…”

Do Seung-jo didn’t answer, but in this situation, his silence was more telling than any answer.

“Really?”

“You might not understand since it’s not your first time, but everything is a first for me.”

The impact was no joke when someone with a face that looked like they could seduce anyone regardless of gender said something like that.

Could it be that all this time he’s been trying to ask me something but closing his mouth because I still haven’t told him who my first kiss was with?

My eyes widened like saucers at the realization that hit me like lightning.

“Will you forgive me if I tell you the truth?”

“…What did you do wrong?”

At the word “wrong,” Do Seung-jo moistened his lower lip with his tongue and asked in a lowered voice.

Do Seung-jo’s expression hardened at my behavior of calling my conversation with Do Woon-jae wrong and even asking for forgiveness.

Seeing his momentum as if he might go find Do Woon-jae and beat him up right away, I quickly stood on my tiptoes and whispered my wrongdoing:

“You’re my first too.”

“…?”

Seeing that he didn’t seem to understand my words right away, I quickly followed up with an explanation.

“When I said I had my first kiss before meeting you, that was a lie.”

Understanding the meaning of my words a beat late, Do Seung-jo finally turned his head to look at me.