But instead of that, he was asking to meet like this one more time.

After arriving at the train station and boarding the train, Seoan leaned by the window and bit the tip of his nail beside the sleeping Taeseong.

‘Next… next.’

The strong pheromones that others would feel did not register for Seoan. To him, only Taeseong’s faint scent reached him softly.

It was like the scent of grass that one can faintly sense by taking a deep breath in the middle of a forest full of green. Taeseong had that kind of refreshing scent. The more their bodies intertwined and moved toward climax, the stronger his scent became.

For Seoan too, sex with an omega was something he had not experienced in a long time. He had thought he was tired of it, but because it had been so long, it was not bad. No, it was quite satisfying.

‘It’s kind of fun after a long time.’

Taeseong, who had been dozing off, suddenly tilted his head and let it fall onto Seoan’s shoulder. Seoan stiffened for a moment, but did not push him away and let him be.

Taeseong’s soft breath brushing against him was ticklish. Yet for some reason, it was not unpleasant.

* * *

After returning to Seoul, Seoan welcomed Taeseong, who came to the center one day later.

Taeseong shut the director’s office door tightly, sat down in the chair with a serious expression, let out a deep sigh, and then explained the reason he had requested a special outcall from the director.

Honestly, he was not that curious. It was obvious. He had expected Seoan to stay by his side while he could not control his pheromones.

But the more he listened to Taeseong, the more the development unfolded in a completely different direction from what he had expected. With Taeseong finished explaining in front of him, veins stood out on Seoan’s forehead.

“So, the outside schedule I’m asking for this time isn’t an outcall like last time……”

“Yes.”

Taeseong’s eyes sparkled as he clenched his fist. With a lively expression, he cheerfully declared:

“I’d like you to accompany me to my blind date tomorrow!”

It was truly an absurd request.

“Ha!”

Seoan let out a bitter laugh at how ridiculous it was, but Taeseong, apparently not noticing the absurdity of it, held out his smartphone with a serious expression. On it was a captured image from a variety show.

“Do you know avatar blind dates? It’s a content item that sometimes appears on variety shows. The avatar moves according to the instructions of the main body……”

“So you’re saying I should hide and give Taeseong-nim instructions, so you can show your appeal as an omega?”

Only then did he remember what Taeseong had said to him yesterday.

“If Seoan-ssi were really an omega, you could probably seduce any alpha.”

He had thought it was a remark spat out after being deflated by his own words that had poked Taeseong’s sore spot, but to think he had secretly been planning such a strategy. Facing the stunned Seoan, Taeseong nodded eagerly with a bright face.

“You’re really perceptive. Exactly.”

“What do you mean……”

“As you said, I don’t really have many weapons to seduce alpha men. Even if my family and wealth are pretty good, I don’t know whether the other person will find marriage appealing. The one who stands to gain more from marriage is probably me, rather than the other person.”

Seoan swallowed dryly. He knew Taeseong’s background as well.

After all, this place, the Model Omega Training Center, had very expensive tuition. Even the most basic training course cost more than twice the price of a typical high-end aesthetic course. What Taeseong had chosen was the most expensive full course of all, and on the first day he had paid without hesitation.

From the beginning, Seoan had been curious about his identity because he gave off a distinct wealth and aura, so he had immediately begun investigating his background.

An executive in the marketing department of the edited shop, Pinset. The additional information he found was only that Taeseong was the youngest son of Pinset’s president. A member of Pinset, which had been growing frighteningly fast since the brand’s launch, especially the youngest son, would surely have grown up showered with money and affection.

Knowing all this, Seoan roughly understood why Taeseong was so confidently talking about his own background.

‘Just how impressive could the other side be?’

But it was hard to accept that the other party had no merit to gain.

As Seoan listened in silence, Taeseong placed a hand on his chest and said firmly.

“Therefore, I have to win with myself.”

“……”

“More than you’d think, I don’t have many chances to go on blind dates. Even among alpha men, many prefer women over omega men, and even if they want omegas, they often reject recessive ones.”

Taeseong’s hand clenched tightly over his thigh. He lifted his head with the determined face of an athlete about to enter a life-or-death match.

“I want to do my best so I don’t miss this chance.”

Watching those eyes shining with motivation, Seoan clenched his teeth.

‘Disgusting.’

Every time he saw Taeseong burning with enthusiasm, it irritated him like a thorn stuck in his throat.

He was, in every sense, a man who lived diligently and properly. Completely unlike himself, who let time pass by without motivation for anything.

‘Why are you trying so hard even for this?’

It annoyed him especially when Taeseong threw himself into useless things as well. Doing this much just for a blind date. He was the kind of person who could live without much trouble even if he stayed single or dated anyone at random, so Seoan could not understand him at all.

From a young age, there had been many people around Seoan who lived more diligently than average. Especially his family, who were not merely passionate, but practically evangelists of “passion.” Study harder, live more actively. At some point, he had grown tired of them constantly stressing that to him.

When he ended up in charge of running the omega training center, he had been glad to distance himself from his family’s nagging about passion, but he had never expected to meet someone similar here too. In this center, where most of the customers were desperate and listless.

For that reason, Seoan kept feeling a sense of discomfort and alienness toward Taeseong. He was definitely someone he could not empathize with or understand, and that was what kept irritating him.

Seoan forcibly suppressed the rising irritation and lifted the corners of his mouth.

“…Anyway, this is a service where I care for you regardless of the content, and since you’ve paid the fee as well, I’ll agree.”

“Really?”

“I can’t guarantee whether the blind date will succeed, though.”

He could feel the corners of his mouth trembling. It was easy to read alpha bastards’ inner thoughts and match the answers they wanted, but whether he could stomach doing that the whole time was another matter. Even imagining it now made his stomach turn.

Taeseong did not seem to pick up on Seoan’s mood. He grinned brightly and shook his head.

“It’s okay if I fail. If I do everything I can and it still doesn’t work out, that would be refreshing in its own way.”

“……”

“Thank you so much. I’ll send you the detailed schedule by text.”

The expression on Taeseong’s face, which had been serious when he entered the director’s office, had been bright ever since some point. Following Taeseong as he rose from his seat with a grin, Seoan asked abruptly,

“What kind of person is the other party?”

“Pardon?”

Earlier, Taeseong had said he was meeting someone through his mother’s introduction. If it was arranged by his family, he would surely have received at least a simple profile. Seoan had experienced his own family shoving a complete stranger’s information at him, so he knew without needing to see it.

“Give me the blind date’s information too. That way I can give you some proper tips.”

“Oh, the information.”

“Photos or name, job…… Do you know anything? Since I’m going to see them soon anyway, just share it.”

He spoke with a relaxed smile, pretending to be composed, but in fact he had felt his stomach turn the whole time. An alpha man who would say a recessive omega was fine, and even better if it was a man, as Taeseong’s blind date partner. He was not normal.

Taeseong would probably think it was a good chance, but from the perspective of another alpha, it felt like he would not be an ordinary bastard.

‘Let’s at least see what kind of bastard he is.’

Suppressing his unpleasant feelings, Seoan held out his hand. Taeseong hurriedly searched for something on his phone and brought up an image on the screen.

“Um… this person.”

Seoan took the phone Taeseong held out. There was a photo on the screen, and the moment he saw the face in the photo, a deep crease formed between Seoan’s brows.

“…Lee Hyungchan?”

At the words that slipped out naturally, Taeseong’s eyes widened.

“That’s right. Do you know him, Director?”

“Yes, I know him, but……”

He knew who it was the moment he saw the photo. Lee Hyungchan, the nephew of the fashion brand Slow’s president.

Since Slow had originally started as a luxury clothing business using silk, it was also a brand connected to the silk fiber company Group Aure, which Seoan’s father ran. Because of that, Hyungchan and Seoan had known each other for a long time.

But even if they were acquaintances, they were not especially close. In the first place, unlike his brothers, Seoan had not been very interested in the family business, so all they had done was see each other a few times at parties and the like.

Seoan frowned and enlarged the photo. Hyungchan’s photo, smiling at the camera with a neat expression, looked just like a clean-cut civil servant. In stark contrast to the man Seoan knew, Seoan let out a hollow laugh.

‘A blind date with this man?’

Seoan recalled a boring party he had attended long ago. At the time, Seoan, who had been living in the United States, had briefly returned to Korea to attend a family event, and that was the party held then.

There had been a group of people laughing and making a ruckus loudly. Since they were all alphas and the pheromone scent coming from them was revolting, Seoan had not bothered to go near them. One of the people at that table was Hyungchan, holding an empty wine glass.

‘Omegas are like consumables.’

With a few shirt buttons undone and his tie worn loosely, he sat in a relaxed posture and said that. When the alphas grinned and agreed, Hyungchan leaned his upper body forward and added one more line.

‘So it’s important to choose a human being who won’t break easily and is sturdy. Whether they’re dominant or recessive, that stuff is all unnecessary.’

The giggling laughter was painful to hear, so Seoan had left the party immediately.

As he replayed those memories, Seoan frowned.

‘He didn’t look like someone whose view of omegas was normal.’

Seoan himself was not in a position to judge others, since he made money by bringing in omegas whom trash alphas had labeled defective, brainwashing them, and training them.

But even so, he could be certain that Lee Hyungchan was not the ideal groom this omega customer in front of him, whose head was full of flowers, was hoping for.

Seoan briefly wondered if he should tell him to stop this blind date before it started. But then he thought about who he was to interfere with it, and that it was excessive meddling, and his resolve weakened.

Besides, it had already been several years since Seoan had seen Hyungchan. Hyungchan may have been bragging that day, and after being adopted by his uncle and becoming an heir, he may have come to his senses somewhat.

‘He said it was okay even if he failed. He’ll learn something from it then.’