I Became a Villainous Character with a Limited Lifespan

Episode 69

As the news had been making a fuss, snow began to fall with the morning sun on Christmas Eve. However, Seung-hyun was so out of it that he ended up staying up all night without even noticing the snow falling outside the window. 

He thought that whatever he left behind would be meaningless anyway. So it didn’t matter what other people thought of him or what suspicions they had… but this was a shock he never expected.

He didn’t know what Seok-hyung was trying to pull off, but it didn’t matter. If he did something to the company, he could just ignore it. But he couldn’t ignore the remarks that seemed to know his identity.

He knew Seok-hyung was the person who knew ‘Han Seung-hyun’ the best, but for him, who doesn’t assume such nonsensical situations, to come to this conclusion. It didn’t seem like a good sign.

Even he himself seemed unable to rationally acknowledge it, and even if he told others, who would believe it, but he couldn’t think of it as no big deal.

A feeling that someday this incident would somehow have a big impact on him.

It was complicated enough that his life had a time limit, but now it was definite that the rest of his life wouldn’t be peaceful either.

Seung-hyun let out a long sigh and finally looked out the window. The bright outside with thick snow belatedly caught his eye.

‘Jae-young will like this.’

That was the first thought that came to mind. Since he seemed interested in fantasies and whatnot, he would probably be happy about the snow falling to commemorate Christmas.

Even though his mind was very complicated, the moment he saw the snow, he had such a silly thought. Seung-hyun, who had been looking out the window for a while, got up from his seat.

Although he was afraid of what would happen in the not-so-distant future, when he thought of Jae-young, he felt that way. A feeling of wanting to focus only on the present for now.

‘He’ll come here for a day, today or tomorrow…’

Seung-hyun couldn’t stop Seok-hyung. Because he wasn’t the owner who could put a leash on the neck of that mad dog ‘Han Seung-hyun’ and control him.

There was no one left in this world who could control him. The unleashed dog was sure to engulf his peace like a natural disaster.

Then, even if only for the remaining time, only for the time he could pretend not to know. Wouldn’t it be better to think only of good things rather than trembling with anxiety?

Thinking like that, he wanted to see Jae-young a little more. Seung-hyun found the cell phone rolling around on the sofa.

It wasn’t difficult to enter the chat window with Jae-young, but once he did, the problem was that he couldn’t think of what to talk about.

It was just a while ago that he said how much of the year is busy and that he has to earn his keep. If it were someone else, it would be fine to just go out brazenly, but this always bothered him.

Only with Jae-young, not others.

“…Haa.”

In the end, Seung-hyun put down his cell phone without sending any messages. If he fell asleep, wouldn’t the waiting time be a little shorter? With that thought, he decided to try to get some very late sleep.

‘Come to think of it, it’s been a really long time since I’ve been this leisurely on a snowy day. I’ve never had a time like this except when I was very young.’

Seung-hyun turned his eyes back to the outside where snow had already begun to pile up little by little. Usually, when it seemed like snow would pile up, the first feeling was the bleak thought of when will all this be cleared. Now, there’s no need to clear it, but today, he kept thinking of Jae-young’s face saying isn’t it nice when it snows?

‘…Maybe snow falling isn’t such a bad thing…’

Seung-hyun threw himself on the bed thinking like that. Would Jae-young see that snow and think happily of today? He was a bit curious.

***

“Good work.”

“What do you mean? I just have to show my face and that’s it.”

Jae-young lightly shook hands with his mother’s secretary and greeted him. It was a time when there were bound to be many events due to Christmas and the year-end.

Thanks to that, he was meeting his mother’s secretary so often that he was mistaken for his own secretary. The fortunate thing was that the schedule ended here today.

“There’s an after-party tomorrow, wasn’t it?”

“Yes. The CEO especially told me to pay attention to it. It’s not an official event, but she said it will be of great help…”

“I guess it’s a place for networking?”

“Yes. These days, she often says isn’t the youngest at the age to slowly get married?”

The secretary said without hiding it. It wasn’t something that needed to be hidden.

“She thought you had someone you were dating, but since that’s not the case, she said she thinks she needs to step up now.”

“Mother is really interested in useless things.”

“I also think it makes sense for the CEO to say that. Of course, you’ll do well on your own, but a parent’s heart doesn’t work that way.”

“Didn’t you say Secretary Hwang’s eldest daughter is getting married next month?”

“Ah, yes. You remembered. Time flew by so quickly.”

The secretary smiled awkwardly and scratched the back of his head. As Jae-young said, his daughter was about to get married.

Having worked as Seong-ah’s secretary for a long time, Seong-ah also helped quite a bit with that marriage. Because his daughter and Jae-young were of similar age, Seong-ah often talked to Jae-young about her in a tone that implied what she wanted.

“Actually, it still doesn’t feel real. She still seems like a child to me…”

“Secretary Hwang’s daughter was a beta, right? Then the person who will become your son-in-law must also be a beta.”

“Ah, no. The new family member is an alpha, and a woman. The same age as our daughter.”

A beta and an alpha, it was a rare combination. Secretary Hwang smiled awkwardly and said,

“I was also surprised at first. My wife and I, as well as most of our relatives, are all betas. So when she brought the person she was going to marry, I was surprised.”

It was a bit of a personal story, but since Jae-young had known him since childhood, he continued the story comfortably. Jae-young listened quietly.

“But… when I saw her talking tensely, with even her voice trembling, I had this thought. She must have worried a lot to say this. She must have been afraid that we would object and say hurtful things.”

“……”

“Thinking like that, I felt bad for no reason. That my expression hardened as soon as I saw her, that I didn’t give her trust…”

It wasn’t recent that the third gender, alphas and omegas, took a place in the world, but there were still quite a few people with old-fashioned thoughts in the world.

In particular, the societies of betas and constitutional individuals were quite clearly divided. Even if dating was one thing, there were many who said marriage should follow the laws of nature.

“Honestly, I didn’t accept it naturally from the beginning, but because that bothered me, I couldn’t say anything else. After talking a bit more like that and hearing what kind of person she was… I thought it would be okay.”

“……”

“And above all, if the child likes her, what right do we have to say this or that? They also say there are no parents who win over their children.”

Somehow, it reminded me of Seung-hyun. Both Seung-hyun and I were alphas and of the same sex.

‘Well, there’s no point in worrying about it when the person who’s supposed to care doesn’t even think about it.’

But the two of them weren’t lovers and their relationship was still just going around in circles, so it wasn’t right to compare Secretary Hwang’s daughter’s situation with his own.

However, who knows what might happen in the future? Lost in such thoughts, Jae-young unknowingly said,

“…You’re a good father, Secretary Hwang. My parents would never understand.”

Even Seon-hu, a fervid omega, was treated like that, so two alphas together? He didn’t even want to imagine what kind of reaction they would show.

“Could it be that to Young Master Seon-hu, you still…”

“Don’t imagine something like a morning drama.”

Jae-young curtly said to Secretary Hwang, who had a perplexed face. Come to think of it, there’s no way that would happen. Secretary Hwang spoke again.

“At that time, it wasn’t simply because Young Master Seon-hu was a fervid. Although the CEO often said that Director Lee was annoying or that the young master was a waste…”

“If it wasn’t for that, why would she have broken that promise without hesitation?”

“But while always doing that, she never completely drew the line saying it was impossible. Although she bickered with Director Lee… in the end, the one who completely broke that promise was Director Lee.”

Indeed, the one who finally decided on Seon-hu’s marriage was Seon-hu’s father, Director Lee. But even considering that, it was Seong-ah who kept showing dissatisfaction throughout.

“She didn’t push that promise because Young Master Seon-hu was a fervid, but if you two had said you were on good terms, she would have pretended to give in.”

“……”

“Since you two were never in a dating relationship. If you had been, who knows what would have happened.”

He had liked Seon-hu all along. But Seon-hu had never even imagined that his friend had such feelings for him, and Jae-young had secretly feared crossing the line of friendship.

‘Was I the one who drew the line on possibilities and was anxious?’

The thing with Seon-hu was a meaningless story of the past, but if that was true, could he think a little hopefully about the future?

‘…But just in case, I should keep the name transfer as it is…’

Jae-young thought so and looked out the window.