Coach, I Can Smell Your Pheromones

Travel Blogger Omega X Scuba Instructor Alpha

(Peach Blossom scent) X (Pear Blossom scent)

On the second day of her junior-year summer volunteering at the Marine Animal Protection Society on the Pamilan Islands, travel blogger Tao Nan has a diving accident.

After being pulled onto the boat, Tao Nan sees the person who rescued him. With an alluring face, they calmly introduce themselves: "Hello, I'm Li Yan, the diving instructor hired by the society."

Tao Nan: Isn't that the ridiculously handsome guy who pretended to be my boyfriend yesterday?!

After returning to shore, Tao Nan announces, "I'll post a special island series. When we gain 100,000 followers, there'll be a treat."

Followers: "What? A video with that blue-haired instructor?"

Tao Nan acts on the idea at once and finds a chance to ask Li Yan, "Instructor Li, would you like to make videos with me as a special guest?"

Li Yan: "Sure."

Li Yan thinks this is just a brief reunion, so he keeps his distance and doesn't dare cross the line.

Then he opens Tao Nan's profile for the first time and sees fans discussing the "white-moonlight mountain guide," mentioning that Tao Nan learned to dive because of him. The Alpha, already in his rut, is consumed by jealousy.

The next day, during their first livestream together, he deliberately asks in a sour tone, "That 'mountain guide' of yours... is he good at diving, too?"

Tao Nan, the poor sap who regained his memory on the first day of the other man's rut and helped him, only for Li Yan to think it was a dream, raises an eyebrow and answers with a question: "Instructor Li, are you jealous? Then can I pursue you?"

Li Yan is stunned. "...What?"

The fans are even more stunned. "Wait, was that a confession on livestream? Are we witnessing the start of a beautiful love story?"

It turns out that Li Yan gets so excited while in rut that he loses control of his pheromones, triggering Tao Nan's heat early.

During the shipwreck five years ago, Li Yan not only helped Tao Nan, who couldn't differentiate due to the accident, to differentiate, but also lost his own olfactory gland.

What he doesn't know is that he's absolutely dependent on Tao Nan's pheromones. After they reunite, their pheromones' symbiotic reaction also makes him the first person to develop the aftereffect known as "Pheromone Exclusivity Syndrome."

In other words, his pheromones belong only to Tao Nan, and Tao Nan can mark him.

#TheStoryOfHowMyWifeCanMarkMe

PS: Some of the professional details may not be entirely accurate, so please don't scrutinize them too closely ^_^ Please be understanding, everyone.

An Alpha can be marked because of "Pheromone Exclusivity Syndrome." It makes him want to belong to his beloved, but he's still the top. The couple is just flirting, that's all.

Here's the blurb for my new story:

(Full manuscript completed) A Korean-Chinese mixed-race young man, the illegitimate second son of the chaebol Kim family. This is the kind of identity that could fuel eighty episodes of a melodrama. Three years after his mother dies, when he's in his second year of high school, the Kim family suddenly brings him back to Seoul to study. He doesn't care. The food, clothes, and place to live are all fine, and the school cafeteria is pretty good, too.

As for the Kim family's affairs, they have nothing to do with him.

The second son of the Kim family has two other children, but the eldest has only one son, Kim Jaehwan.

Everyone at school knows him. He's been groomed as the heir with ruthless intensity, and it actually worked: he's always at the top of his class, student council president, and when he smiles, the girls in the auditorium scream. But he's always accompanied by the two sons of other powerful families who are his friends.

A friend Kang Siwoo makes at school says, "Stay away from him. He's not as gentle as he looks. A chaebol heir's methods can be ruthless." Then she tells him a whole list of Kim Jaehwan's cruel deeds.

Kang Siwoo says, "He doesn't even know me."

"Now I do." Kim Jaehwan himself appears behind him, smiling as he says, "Siwoo, don't go listening to her nonsense."

The next day, Kang Siwoo goes to the rooftop to eat bread and runs into Kim Jaehwan.

The boy leans against the railing, his uniform jacket draped over his shoulders and his shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms. Backlit, his expression is hard to make out. All Siwoo can see is the unlit cigarette between his fingers. Hearing a noise, he turns his head. Kang Siwoo stops, too.

"Come up here for some air?" The boy's voice is lower than expected, a little hoarse. His tone is mild, but his eyes subtly sweep over Kang Siwoo's face, as if trying to identify something. Siwoo doesn't back away under his gaze. He pulls something from his bag and holds it up.

"Want some?" he says. "It's from China. Pretty sweet."

Kim Jaehwan looks at him for two seconds, then smiles and takes the Yakult. "Thanks."

The rooftop becomes their regular meeting place. Siwoo brings an increasingly eclectic assortment of snacks, and Kim Jaehwan accepts whatever he's given, eating anything. One time, Kang Siwoo brings a packet of spicy strips and makes the heir to the Kim family cry from the heat.

He did it on purpose.

He just wanted to see what the seemingly flawless student council president would look like when a three-yuan bag of spicy strips broke him.

Kim Jaehwan looks at the smug Kang Siwoo. "I'll make you cry even harder someday."

Later, Kang Siwoo runs into some street punks he'd beaten up before, cornering Kim Siwoo.

He really didn't want to get involved.

But three minutes later, the three punks are sprawled all over the alley. Kang Siwoo rolls his wrist, thinking that although he's easygoing, the eight years of mixed martial arts lessons his mother signed him up for before she died have paid off.

Kim Jaehwan leans against the wall and looks up at him with a beaming smile. "How about I repay you by giving myself to you?"

Kang Siwoo: "..."

"Just kidding. How about I become your underling?" Kim Jaehwan's muffled voice reaches his ears. "I'm yours now ^_^"

Kang Siwoo: "...Did you get hit in the head?"

Later, when Kang Siwoo is being harassed at home by his younger brother, Kim Jaehwan sees it and beats the other boy into the hospital. His hands are stained with blood, yet he still wears a smile. He turns to the second son of the Kim family and speaks calmly, so calmly that he doesn't sound like someone who has just beaten up the man's son.

"If you can't raise him properly, then give him back to me."

The words are vague, but the meaning is clear: Kang Siwoo belongs to me.

And so, for no apparent reason, Kang Siwoo moves into Kim Jaehwan's home. Not the Kim family mansion, but a house registered in Kim Jaehwan's own name: the penthouse at the top of the tallest building in Hannam-dong, with views of the entire Han River at night through its floor-to-ceiling windows.

That day, he also learns that Kim Jaehwan isn't the heir to the Kim family. He's the orphaned heir to the Jeonju Lee clan, an even more powerful family than the Kims.

Kang Siwoo: "This ridiculous plot just keeps getting more ridiculous."

Later, on Kim Jaehwan's eighteenth birthday, the drunk Kim Jaehwan sees Kang Siwoo chatting with the handsome older neighbor like the rest of the world doesn't exist. Ignoring the glasses of liquor being offered to him, he drags Siwoo away in front of everyone and kisses him against the door of an empty room.

"My darling Siwoo, will you be with me? I've liked you since before you came back to me."

Kang Siwoo says he doesn't want to date a chaebol heir either, but the other guy is seducing him, he's only a regular guy, he can't help himself, and he doesn't want to resist.

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