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      by Emerlyn The secretly shared news meant nothing to me. I just thought, That's what Joo Do-hwa wanted all along. That was my only reaction. "You're quite skilled. How did you do it?" Lee Yuna asked playfully, her eyes sparkling like two large jewels. As expected, she clearly didn't believe I was real. Her bright smile resembled when she had laughed it off saying, "This is completely crazy." "I didn't do anything." "But you know..." She tilted her head to one side. Her tied hair flowed over her round…
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      by Emerlyn "..." Breaking off the engagement? Hadn't he said until recently that he had no particular reason to do that? "I'm joking." Joo Do-hwa smiled and shrugged his shoulders. When I still gave him a dubious look, he leisurely stretched his lips. "I don't plan to yet." It was a similar answer to last time. Hadn't he said why bother doing such a thing? He showed the same indifferent attitude as if, like Lee Yuna said, he didn't care either way. Suddenly, I remembered when I first met Lee Yuna.…
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      by Emerlyn His tone was casual. That made this whole thing feel even more surreal. "..." For a moment, I couldn't even respond. The unbelievable words made me feel distant, as if in a dream. His gaze looking down at me, the voice from his lips, even the pheromones I had just felt—it all seemed like some sort of fantasy. "Me..." My first word came out broken and unsightly. A strange flutter mixed with the excitement I had felt earlier. I swallowed hard and asked carefully,"You'll take me to the…
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      by Emerlyn His pheromones drew close. Their presence, never faint to begin with, gradually expanded its territory with that very question. The sweet scent, potent enough to attract insects, seemed to seep in and soak through me. It wasn't intentional pheromones. Rather, he simply wasn't controlling them since he thought his partner was a beta. "...What are you going to do?" I stammered, feeling flustered. At a distance close enough for our breaths to mingle, where our lips might brush with the slightest…
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      by Emerlyn "..." It felt like my breath had stopped. My heart sank and my blood seemed to run dry. I reflexively tried to turn my head, but couldn't because Joo Do-hwa held my face in place. "Look at me properly." His eyes, shining like a beast's, seemed to pierce right through me. Though it was clearly dark, I felt a sense of crisis that everything would be discovered. Though my fingertips gradually grew cold from tension, I forced myself to speak casually. "...What's wrong with my eyes?" There was no…
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      by Emerlyn I seemed to be sick for several chaotic days. My body would shiver as if I had the flu, and then my lower abdomen would cramp as if my intestines were twisting. The unpleasant pain was different from differentiation pain from the start. They said it was strong enough to damage pheromone glands, and it was certainly doing its job. I had expected and accounted for this fully. I just hoped that if side effects were inevitable, they would damage my trait. “...You're feeling sick?” Joo Do-hwa's…
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      by Emerlyn "..." It felt like my blood in my veins had just turned into ice. How did he know? The thought 'I've been discovered' filled my head. Unlike his earlier question, his ice-cold voice felt like it was choking me. When I could only clutch the blanket without answering, he continued more slowly. "You said you wouldn't look at me like I'm a ghost." Why did that sound self-deprecating? His languid voice was as leisurely as ever, far from self-deprecating. "Easy come, easy go... Did you start…
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      by Emerlyn I remember the first moment I sensed pheromones. No, more precisely, the moment I realized it was pheromones. The day I learned that the warm scent emanating from the woman wasn't just a smell. "Why don't I have that scent?" "...Scent?" When I asked that, the woman looked at me with an unusually serious expression on her face. A hint of unease flickered across her eyes, blue as the vast sky. Her voice, too, carried the same hesitation as she asked me back. "Um, what scent?" "The nice…
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