The Price of a Kiss

Whether it was struggling or headbutting Baek Seohan—Seohan hoped Lee Dohun would escape this situation by any means necessary. However, the person he placed his expectations on simply lowered his eyes and remained still.

‘You aren’t that type of guy?!’

Where did the man who looked like he was about to kill someone a moment ago go? Along with that tearful thought, their lips finally touched.

And just like that, Seohan had his first kiss snatched away like a pickpocket in broad daylight.

It wasn’t that he was particularly saving his first kiss, but he had lived as a “solo since birth” because he was too busy with work. That’s why he had resolved to try dating in this life. He had vowed to do it only when he found someone he liked…

To think it would be stolen away so casually.

‘Th-this is strange.’

He could somehow endure the soft lips touching and rubbing against his. But the moment Baek Seohan’s tongue pushed into Lee Dohun’s mouth, he shuddered with revulsion.

His body tingled as their damp tongues tangled. Even though he wasn’t moving, it felt like the sensation was being forcibly injected into him, making him feel bizarre. If it had been taken by force, he would have taken it out on the other person, but since it was his own body, there was nowhere to direct his anger.

Whether Seohan trembled with rage or got goosebumps from the sensation in his mouth, the kiss between the two continued steadfastly. Perhaps Baek Seohan liked Lee Dohun’s submissive reaction, as his hand stroking the back of the other man’s head became quite suggestive.

And then.

“I don’t recall there being a rule about not biting the tongue.”

His tongue was bitten.

Seohan had handed over control of his body to Baek Seohan several times now, but this was the first time the man had frowned so deeply.

However, Seohan could fully empathize with his feelings.

‘It hurts like h*ll…!’

This guy wasn’t a dog, yet he bit a tongue. And he did it so hard that drops of blood immediately began to drip from Baek Seohan’s mouth.

Since they had been kissing until just a moment ago, the aftermath remained on Lee Dohun as well. Bloodstains were clearly smeared on the corner of his grinning mouth. With a fierce smile and blood on his lips, he looked quite macabre.

“Ha, I’ll have to retrain your habits…”

It was the moment Baek Seohan began to speak. That now-familiar floating sensation enveloped his body. When he blinked, control of the body had already returned to him.

The speech was naturally cut off. However, Seohan had no intention of continuing the sentence, nor the mental capacity to handle the situation.

Because his tongue hurt like death. The taste of blood kept filling his mouth, and when he lightly wiped his lips, his hand came away soaked with blood. He had never had his tongue bitten this hard before, so he suddenly began to feel scared.

When he tried to move his tongue slightly, it felt as if it were dangling. It was likely just his imagination, but the sensation was overwhelming at that moment. Right then, as his vision blurred, a window popped up.

[Synchronization has increased by 0.1%.]

But Seohan had no room to care about such things right now. He wanted to check if his tongue was still attached. After all, isn’t there a saying that you can die if your tongue is cut off?

“…”

“…Baek Seohan?”

Seohan’s eyes grew watery. Not to the point of shedding tears, but just moist from injustice, fear, and pain. At least, that was how Lee Dohun, looking up from below, perceived it. He even squeezed his eyes shut and opened them repeatedly, as if doubting his own sight.

“Baek Seohan.”

Only after hearing Lee Dohun’s voice once more did Seohan snap out of it. The problem was that when he finally met his gaze, the face he had just seen up close flashed in his mind.

At the same time, the lingering sensation on his lips was extremely bothersome. Seohan tried to believe it was merely annoying. Even though his face was heating up.

His face felt hot and his head felt dizzy. It seemed like Lee Dohun was saying something to him, but nothing reached his ears.

In the end, Seohan scrambled out of the room.

“…Ha.”

As soon as he escaped the basement like a fugitive, Seohan locked himself in the bathroom. It was partly to rinse out the mouth that still tasted of blood, but also because he was overly distracted by an unspeakable sensation rising from below.

Baek Seohan had become aroused while having his tongue bitten by Lee Dohun. He was a pervert Seohan never wanted to associate with, but the problem was that Seohan shared the same body. Why did he have to be the one to clean up when the other guy was the one who got excited?

For the first time in a long while, Seohan poignantly felt what shame and self-loathing were. Truly, it was a feeling he never wanted to experience again.

“…Secretary Choi.”

Not long after he returned to his room, dragging his feet, the secretary he had called earlier arrived. Having entered after a practiced knock, his eyes grew as wide as saucers.

“What on earth happened… are you hurt?!”

“Ah, this.”

Since he was wearing light-colored clothes, the few drops of fallen blood were particularly noticeable. Only then becoming conscious of his appearance, Seohan let out a hollow laugh.

“I got bitten by a dog…”

“A dog? What do you…”

“Go buy some ointment for the tongue.”

He seemed flustered, but like a secretary who carried out his duties faithfully, the ointment was soon in Seohan’s hands. Standing before a mirror with a cotton swab, his movements were incredibly careful as he applied the ointment to the wound on his tongue.

The moment the ointment touched his tongue, he felt sharp pain. For a second, tears actually welled in his eyes.

[Synchronization has increased by 0.1%!]

Ding. The system notification was unusually cheerful.

…He wasn’t happy at all.

Now that the second operation—to ignore Lee Dohun—had also failed miserably, Seohan decided to prepare countermeasures for the countless failures that would surely follow.

He didn’t know when or where Baek Seohan would seize his body. This meant he didn’t know what the man would do with this body. While he hadn’t crossed the line yet, he could be screwed over irreversibly as early as tomorrow.

“Look into ○○ Capital.”

Seohan commanded with a bright smile toward Secretary Choi, who visited his room again today. The man nodded and withdrew without a word. Having a “limbs” that did everything and looked everything up for him was truly convenient.

Once he disappeared, Seohan’s expression quickly turned solemn.

The third operation was ‘Evidence Elimination.’

The reason Lee Dohun was locked in that basement all stemmed from a single ‘contract.’

[Info | There are two copies of the ‘Lee Dohun Transaction Contract’—one with Baek Seohan and one with ○○ Capital (•̀▽•́)✎!]

‘Lee Dohun Transaction Contract.’ This contract, whose name alone was quite bizarre, contained the absurd content that Baek Seohan would pay off the debts Lee Dohun’s father owed to loan sharks in exchange for the rights to Lee Dohun’s person.

It all started with Lee Dohun’s father. The contract had a clause stating that if the debt was not fulfilled, the right to decide over his person would be transferred. Addicted to gambling and blinded by a large sum of money, he had signed the contract.

The problem was that he blew that money too and committed suicide after incurring even greater debts. In the end, the debt was passed down to his son, Lee Dohun, and the same applied to the contract clauses.

Baek Seohan, who approached Lee Dohun and learned all this, immediately spoke with the loan sharks and drafted a different contract. It was a contract stating that in exchange for transferring the rights over Lee Dohun to Baek Seohan, the debt would be paid back twofold. They readily accepted the offer, and eventually, all rights over Lee Dohun’s person were handed over to Baek Seohan.

“…Is this even possible?”

Though he had managed to find one copy of the contract by scouring Baek Seohan’s room, no matter how much he looked through the clauses, there was no way to know what Baek Seohan was actually plotting when he made the deal. He even doubted if such an absurd clause could have any legal effect.

[BL is a fantasy, after all… ღ꒡ ᴈ꒡)♡.]

“What are you talking about?”

He decided to ignore the system spouting nonsense.

Seohan decided to destroy his copy of the contract along with the ones held by the loan sharks all at once.

He was being cautious because it didn’t seem like Baek Seohan would stay quiet if he just released Lee Dohun right now, but… if his relationship with Lee Dohun didn’t improve, he had to keep in mind the future where he is destroyed by Jin Yeono.

So, at the very least, he had to leave no documentary evidence that he had treated Lee Dohun like a dog.

Less than half a day later, the capable secretary appeared with a thick bundle of documents and a knock. Seeing the amount of paperwork through the intercom even as the front door opened automatically, Seohan had to suppress his churning stomach.

Having died after doing nothing but work, he felt incredibly unwell just seeing the silhouette of documents.