For eight years, Alpha lover Cha Joowon and Beta Seo Yoonwoo were bound not by pheromones, but by mutual trust.
But one night of betrayal shattered everything — and left Yoonwoo deeply wounded.
“Want me to be honest? That rut I had with that Omega — someone I didn’t even know — was so much more intense and satisfying than any night I ever had with you in those eight years.”
With those cruel words, the man who was once everything to him became part of the past.
Having lost it all, Yoonwoo fled and locked himself away in deep despair.
All that remained was a hardened distrust toward Alphas and Omegas, and a life spent behind emotional walls.
Then one day—
“Um… Are you… Seo Yoonwoo?”
A new Alpha appears — Kim Dojin, gentle and warm, radiating pure admiration.
The younger Alpha begins to seep into Yoonwoo’s wounded heart like sunlight through a crack.
And just as Dojin’s persistent and tender comfort begins to melt his frozen heart… the man from the past returns and knocks once more on the door Yoonwoo had finally started to close.
“Yoonwoo… breaking up with you… every night — no, every moment — I’ve regretted it so much I thought I might die.”
Cha Joowon, now consumed with bitter regret, pleads for another chance.
But even now, the shadow of his unstable relationship with another Omega looms over him.
Caught between past regret and the thrill of something new,
Can Yoonwoo rebuild the broken walls around his heart and finally find happiness?
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“Someone I once dated… when he went into rut, he left me — his partner — and spent the night with an Omega. Then he looked me in the eye and said that one night with that faceless Omega was way more intense and better than any night he ever had with me during our eight years together.”
After a small sigh, Yoonwoo finally spoke the hardest, most selfish truth.
“…My ex… is getting engaged next week. And today… I got a personal invitation from that Omega he’s marrying.”
As the words left his mouth, a blurred flash of that hellish night in the hotel played behind his eyes — two bodies tangled, Joowon’s face lost in pleasure and madness…
That scene still lingered vividly in his mind — a trauma he hadn’t escaped.
“…So I’m thinking of going to the engagement party. …But I just… I don’t have the courage to go alone.”
Dropping his gaze, he struggled to finish the thought.
“So… I know I’m asking a lot, but… Dojin, would you maybe go with me? I’m not asking you to pretend to be my partner or anything. You don’t have to do anything. I just… need someone beside me. Just to be there — in the same space.”
