The World of Contrasts

“My name is Seol Daeyeong. Nice to meet you.” The transfer student, who was said to have been born to a mother working in a diner and a father whose identity was unknown, had a physique that unmistakably marked him as a dominant alpha. “An anomaly, huh.” Jaemin, who had spent his entire life pretending to be an alpha to survive, disliked Seol Daeyeong from the start. “Or should I say a defective type?” “Sorry, are you talking to me right now?” Seol Daeyeong’s gaze, fixed intently on Jaemin, was the first intense alpha stare Jaemin had experienced since realizing he was an omega. “Not an anomaly, not a defective type. Seol Daeyeong.” Instead of the scent of an alpha, he smelled like cheap fabric softener. The hand Jaemin refused to shake did not withdraw but landed on his shoulder with a pat. “Nice to meet you, Jang Jaemin.” Since that first day at eighteen when they met and ended up in a fistfight, Seol Daeyeong had made a habit of pestering Jaemin. And now, five years later, their relationship is beginning to change…