Eun-Yul stared blankly down at the pregnancy test. Eun-Yul, who confirmed he was pregnant, raised his head and looked up in the mirror. The young man's face was reflected in an old mirror that had fallen out.
His hair is a very dark black while having exceptionally light brown eyes that exhibit his iris well. A neat nose that is not too high but rather aristocratically slender
His lips, with raised corners of his mouth, drew a smooth line giving the general handsome appearance.
It's a good face if you look at it one by one, but its evaluation is pitiful.
His eyes are swollen alongside his messy hair from where it was pulled out. One cheek had been drawn, but the other was unnaturally swollen. He didn't have anything to say about his lips. He was covered with bruises and scaly skin.
"I mean...."
Eun-Yul's mouth opened as he looked at his face. The tingling in the corner of his mouth and the pounding in his swelling cheeks led him to halt for a while before continuing.
"I tried to be the main character and even became pregnant when running away from another alpha?"
And he transmigrated at the exact time?
"No... If I'm going to transmigrate, shouldn't it be before I lose everything? What's the worst situation?"
As the parents of this body passed away, the remaining property was lost to all kinds of bad luck, and all that was left was 100 million won that was received from the main character.
The problem was the desire to beat out another main character and take the position. To pay the price, he tossed away the money and hid in an abandoned inn after narrowly escaping an attack by gangsters.
In the meantime, He took a pregnancy test because he felt sick, but damn, it's two lines.
"I didn't want this...."
He has nothing more to lose.
"Grandmother, this is a fraud."
He thought it would get better.
Eun-Yul covered his face.
Before the transmigration, Eun-Yul's life was at rock bottom. Even though he lived hard, working daily on the construction site, his circumstances did not improve. After he was born an orphan with nothing, money was always the problem whenever he tried something. Everything in the world needed money.
One day, when he was living by pouring money into a bottomless pit, he met an old woman with a strange ability and made an offer. Instead of giving his body to his grandmother, she would put his body in another body. It was ridiculous, but he was fascinated by what she said. He did it because he wanted false hope for a moment. After all, it was a life with no future in sight.
The grandma held out three books. She said she would put him into the story, so he must read it. Out of curiosity, he sat there and read it down.
It wasn't a book he liked, but he didn't have any other books.
So he read regardless, and the result is this.
"Sung Eun-Yul."
He transmigrates into the body of one of the characters in the book.
"But why Sung Eun-Yul?"
After spending a night with an Alpha, he was a villain who got pregnant because he fell to the floor while pretending to be something.
"The end of this villain...."
He thinks he has given up his life. That's also....
"It's now." He had a miserable end in a crumbling inn. The grandmother kindly put him in his body just before he died.
"What should I do now?"
It didn't make much of a difference before he was possessed. What is the difference between having 50,000 won on hand and being pregnant?
He can see why this villain chose death. He grew up without a shortage, was popular, and lived his way as if it were his world. He couldn't be sane.
However, he couldn't be out of his mind because he plunged to the floor.
"But I am not...."
It was originally a life of nothing. Not to mention 50,000 won in hand, compared to a life full of debt and barely living day by day.
"It's not the worst."
It was originally hopeless for the body's owner, but he didn't think it was that bad.
"I have no debt; I have money...."
Eun-Yul touched his belly.
"I have a family."
He doesn't know how hard and painful it will be in the future, but he decides to change his fate as he enters the villain's body.
"Let's live somehow."
***
Kang Ha-Joon looked around the old restaurant without saying a word.
The yellow walls, the old signboard, the only menu, and the water purifier are all vintage and make you question if they've been discontinued. Half of it was set up like a ballroom, with a counter where you could remove your shoes and sit, while the other half was a table. The infrequently occupied seats were taken by elderly folks who, instead of dining, were enjoying refreshments as if they were in a pavilion somewhere.
The hard and narrow chair made an unpleasant sound because it was too hard to bear his weight, so he restrained himself from moving.
"Even though this place looks old, the meals are good."
Kang Ha-Joon caught his face collapsing several times when he came to a restaurant that was not even a proper Korean restaurant. He wasn't here to eat anyway. He was here to make conversation with the lawmakers. It is useless to complain about such things.
"You look sympathetic."
Kang Ha-Joon put down the tableware in front of Han Cheol-Seung with a proper answer.
"That's true. I came across this place by chance, but this is a hidden restaurant. It just happens to be there."
"Huh? You're here?"
Han Cheol-Seung raised his hand when he found someone while bragging as if he were the store owner. Kang Ha-Joon tried to turn around due to the lively voice coming from behind, but then he saw the familiar face.
"Where are you going?"
"An errand for my grandmother. She said she ran out of onions, so I'm on my way to the market there."
It seemed like a young man with a fairly bright personality to change the store's atmosphere at once. Not only Han Cheol-Seung but also the elderly in the seats were talking to the young man.
"No, you can buy it at a nearby store when you're in a hurry. What's the point of it being 500 won cheaper? It costs more to go to the market by bus."
A young man who passed Kang Ha-Joon put down the onion net in his arms and put his hands on his waist. And yet he seems to be complaining, "You punk. You should walk and come; why would you take the bus?"
The shopkeeper in the kitchen came out and mercilessly hit the young man on the back. The young man turned his back on the granny's threshing, even though he thought the young man would come. Everyone watching was laughing. It was obvious he was usually beaten like this. Even Han Cheol-Seung, who was sitting across from him, was laughing.
"No, how can I walk with that heavy thing? And honestly, the reason I don't go to the store next door isn't because it's 500 won expensive. Do you think I don't know that you made money with the Go-Stop yesterday?"
[Go-Stop (Korean: 고스톱; RR: Goseutop), also called Godori (Korean: 고도리, after the winning move in the game), is a Korean fishing card game played with a Hwatu (Korean: 화투) deck. The game can be called Matgo (Korean: 맞고) when only two players are playing.]
"Argh, argh! It hurts, Grandma."
The young man turned away as if trying to escape the stronger beating. At the same time, the young man's face was revealed. He had a very obedient face. Kang Ha-Joon's brows were narrowing even more as the time he saw the young man's face increased.
'He looks familiar.'
He looked familiar. However, since no one immediately came to mind, Kang Ha-Joon looked closely at him to find out who the young man was.
"Grandma, stop hitting me. Everyone is watching. I'm not a kid who can get hit like this. I'm an adult. Yes? An adult!"
"You think you are an adult after earning some money?"
"This is the problem with real grandmothers. Since I'm 50 years younger, you won't even treat me like an adult."
"What?"
The young man straightened his back as if telling her to stop hitting him. While grandmother Lim Boong-Son flinched at the momentum, Eun-Yul screamed. "I'm young here, but I'm an adult outside. Is that all? A very cute and soft child...."
Eun-Yul and Kang Ha-Joon's gazes locked as they squeezed their fists to communicate with their hands.
"...."
"...."
Their eyes were looking at each other, and Eun-Yul was the first to react.
'It's Kang Ha-Joon!'
Eun-Yul's mouth opened wide at the silent consternation. It wasn't anyone else, even if he looked at it again. From Kang Ha-Joon's broadcasts to magazines and articles, he memorized his face.
If he sees him, he has to run away... Therefore, there was no way to be mistaken because there was a child who looked exactly like Kang Ha-Joon, there was no way he could be mistaken.
He was this novel's main character, the child's father.
'Why are you here?'
This was a restaurant that Kang Ha-Joon would never come to, and he has lived well without encountering it. Embarrassed by the sudden reunion, Eun-Yul noticed Kang Ha-Joon's eyes, which still only looked at his face.
'Did he recognized him?'
He was frowning, but it didn't look like he knew who he was. Eun-Yul turned around, continuing the words that had been cut off.
"...That's right. Yes, I'm very cute, right? Don't you think so?"
Eun-Yul, who was clapping and talking, entered the kitchen pretending to avoid Lim Bong-Soon, but in reality, it was to avoid Kang Ha-Joon.
"You thought I wouldn't catch you if you ran away? I'll bring hangover soup soon, so wait."
Later, when Lim Bong-Soon spoke to Han Cheol-Seung and followed Eun-Yul, the disturbance subsided quickly and returned to the quiet atmosphere of the previous one.
Only one person, except Kang Ha-Joon.He had seen that face, but he couldn't remember.
"It was loud, wasn't it? It happens sometimes so you can ignore it."
Han Cheol-Seung spoke to Kang Ha-Joon, who was lost in thought. Only then did Kang Ha-Joon cut off his thoughts and look at Han Cheol-Seung. When he recalled that he came here because of Han Cheol-Seung, his memory clouded like a fog on the face of a young man he just met.