I possessed a supporting sub character.
As the villain who gets engaged to the main gong and, unable to let him go, bullies the main su.
The supporting su, Yeon Yuri, grew up pampered. Thanks to parents who ran a corporation, he never faced financial problems, and thanks to a harmonious household, he never suffered emotional ones either.
However, if there was one greatest flaw in Yeon Yuri’s life, it was that he was obsessively attached to anything he considered his.
It was rather astonishing.
With that much wealth, you’d think he’d have the mindset of, “If I lose one of my things, well, I’ll just buy a new one.” But Yeon Yuri wasn’t like that.
At seven, he bawled his eyes out when the tiger plush he cherished went missing. At eleven, he ran away from home for three days demanding to adopt a puppy. At sixteen, insisting he would attend the same high school as the alpha he liked, he fled overseas.
Deliberately releasing pheromones until the entire house was saturated with a suffocating rose scent was commonplace, and it happened more than once that the housekeeper, unable to endure the smell, fainted and had to be taken away in an ambulance.
In short, Yeon Yuri was, in every sense, a willful, arrogant, self-centered rich dominant omega.
The problem was that someone like Yeon Yuri fell in love.
It began with an engagement.
Yeon Yuri and the main gong, Do Jihoon, got engaged at twenty in order to unite company with company, family with family. It was at that engagement ceremony that Yeon Yuri first met Do Jihoon.
Yeon Yuri was a dominant omega. Wherever he went, alphas followed, and there was no shortage of people who liked him.
However, Do Jihoon was the exception.
At a gathering arranged by both sets of parents to encourage the two to grow close, Do Jihoon treated Yeon Yuri in a strictly businesslike manner and parted cleanly. Yeon Yuri’s pride could not allow that.
After that, Yeon Yuri contacted Do Jihoon every single day. Under the pretext that they attended the same university, he went to the College of Business almost daily to find him. When an exasperated Do Jihoon stopped answering his calls, Yeon Yuri tattled to his future in-laws, causing Do Jihoon to be forced to return the car he cherished.
Yeon Yuri believed that if he pushed that far, Do Jihoon would say GG and bow his head to him.
But Do Jihoon was no easy opponent. To shake off the clingy Yeon Yuri, he created a fake lover. And that person was the main su, Ha Min-young.
Naturally, Yeon Yuri’s fury soared. In his eyes, whether in looks, wealth, or personality, he was superior—yet rumors spread across campus that Do Jihoon was dating a mediocre recessive omega.
Yeon Yuri resolved to retaliate. Mobilizing all his connections, he spread malicious rumors about Ha Min-young. That he had latched onto a dominant alpha to climb the social ladder, that for a recessive omega to date a dominant alpha, his backing must be something extraordinary. Rumors that bordered on outright character assassination trailed behind Ha Min-young.
Because of that, Do Jihoon developed guilt toward Ha Min-young, for whom he had previously felt nothing in particular—and that became the beginning of Do Jihoon’s love.
At the same time, it marked the starting point of Yeon Yuri’s downfall.
Yeon Yuri realized that the way Do Jihoon treated him was starkly different from the way he treated Ha Min-young. What Yeon Yuri felt for Do Jihoon was no longer innocent love. It was sticky obsession, possessiveness, and jealousy.
His actions began to cross the line more and more. He subdued Ha Min-young with pheromones, locked him in a hotel room with an alpha in rut, and finally even went so far as to hire someone to kill him. That was when Do Jihoon made his move.
First, he broke off the engagement. In front of both families, he made the unprecedented declaration that he had someone he loved and left the room. Yeon Yuri’s parents were furious at the unilateral announcement, but they had to suppress their anger to calm down the one raging uncontrollably—Yeon Yuri.
Through media play, Yeon Yuri’s parents exposed Do Jihoon’s impropriety and simultaneously announced the dissolution of the engagement. For a while, their story dominated news headlines. Online, posts exposing Do Jihoon’s supposed lack of character sprouted like mushrooms.
When public opinion was at its peak, Do Jihoon, as if he had been waiting, handed over to the press records documenting Yeon Yuri’s vile behavior.
Public sentiment flipped in an instant.
All the bad words about Do Jihoon vanished, and Yeon Yuri took their place.
As if that weren’t enough, corruption within Yeon Yuri’s family company came to light. Naturally, it was information provided by Do Jihoon.
The company’s stock price plunged 13.8 percent in a single day and continued to fall daily. Evidence proving Yeon Yuri’s atrocious conduct circulated across the internet, and in backlash, posts praising Do Jihoon’s keen judgment poured in.
They called it a quick cut-off, said Do Jihoon had a third eye, a human-decency-detection dog.
At that point, Do Jihoon revealed that he had someone he loved—and that he was an ordinary college-student omega. The idea that a chaebol heir who seemed to live above the clouds would marry a commoner drew nationwide attention. Most of it was praise for Do Jihoon.
Naturally, the goodwill toward him affected his family company’s stock price. Do Jihoon’s parents remained silent regarding their son’s eccentric actions and accepted Ha Min-young as their son’s spouse.
Do Jihoon was truly thorough to the bone. Once his situation with Ha Min-young had roughly stabilized, he brought up Yeon Yuri’s instigation of attempted murder.
The media grew noisy once more. Yeon Yuri was swiftly summoned to the police station.
Yeon Yuri was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Do Jihoon and Ha Min-young succeeded in marrying under the attention of the entire nation. Standing before the officiant, they looked at each other and smiled brightly.
It was truly a Cinderella story.
A sigh escaped me without meaning to.
Because I had possessed Yeon Yuri, the supporting su in this makjang drama-like novel!
***
When I first possessed him, I didn’t even want to think. The moment I opened my eyes, I was staring at a place I’d never seen before, and a stranger came up to me asking if I’d slept well. In that situation, who could possibly stay sane?
I used a bewildered, “Who are you?” on the stranger, and the woman—probably a household employee—turned pale and called for my parents.
After hearing about my condition from her, Father and Mother immediately took me to the hospital.
Of course, there was nothing particularly wrong with my brain. If anything, the problem was that its contents had changed. But it’s not like I could say that outright.
And as if things weren’t bad enough, this strange world had a concept called secondary genders.
Everyone possessed an organ called a pheromone gland between the neck and collarbone, and whether or not one could use that gland determined their secondary gender.
Alpha, Beta, and Omega.
Alphas and omegas, who made up roughly half the population, could use their pheromone glands to emit pheromones. By releasing them, they could express their mood or suppress others by rank like animals. The remaining half, betas, had pheromone glands as well, but the function had atrophied—they could neither smell nor emit pheromones.
Alphas, regardless of being female or male, possessed testes, and omegas likewise, regardless of sex, possessed a uterus and ovaries.
I wondered what kind of grotesque situation this was, but fortunately, I managed to keep my sanity.
Because a female friend I’d been close with since we were snot-nosed kids in my original world loved this genre. Unfortunately, we advanced through elementary, middle, and high school together, so I had to hear all sorts of stories from her. Just as I had always seen her as a man with breasts, she must have seen me as a woman with male parts attached.
Anyway, I realized I had entered a novel about men entangled with other men roughly a month after possessing this body.
The Yeon Yuri I possessed was a third-year high school student who had just finished the college entrance exam. A cheat-level character who had been admitted early to the Department of Chemical Engineering at Hanguk University, a rare dominant omega. His family was the owner family of one of South Korea’s most renowned pharmaceutical companies.
Though busy, his parents loved their children, and with an older sister set to inherit the company, Yeon Yuri’s future was, quite literally, paved with flowers.
Perhaps because of that, the original Yeon Yuri seemed to have had serious issues with his character.
When I thanked the housekeeper for waking up my oversleeping self, she nearly fainted, and the strawberry scent she emitted in shock filled the room.
Not long after waking in this body, I lazed around at home playing mobile games, and my older sister came in, saying, “So you finally came to your senses after something went wrong in your head?” and wired one million won to my account.
When I had nothing to do and picked out a book to read in the study, my parents hugged each other so tightly their waists might break, saying, “Our Yuri picked up a book!”
It really made me wonder just how terrible Yeon Yuri’s personality had been.
Ah, and among the many problems that came with becoming Yeon Yuri, there was one particularly serious issue.
The fact that I couldn’t properly control my pheromones.
