What are the chances of a person falling into an open manhole while walking down the street?
What are the odds of being swept away by a rip current while swimming in the sea? Or being struck by lightning on a rainy day while holding an umbrella?
Such events might be difficult to experience even once in a lifetime. But now, Sunwoo was facing an equally absurd situation.
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Congratulations, Mr. Choi Sunwoo. You re pregnant.
What? Pregnant?
Sunwoo blinked.
Yes. We ll need to do an ultrasound for details, but it seems to be about 6 weeks along.
Sunwoo stared at the doctor standing beside the bed with a dumbfounded expression. The doctor smiled kindly at Sunwoo, genuinely congratulating him.
That s impossible…
But Sunwoo couldn t understand the current situation. Pregnant? But I m a man?
Above all, Sunwoo was single. He hadn t even dated properly until now at the age of thirty-one.
How could he possibly be pregnant?
Sunwoo tried to think about what had happened before he fell asleep.
It didn t take long to recall.
Late at night, or more precisely, in the early morning.
Sunwoo had dragged his exhausted body home. After two weeks of overtime and all-nighters.
Even the bed that smelled of stale dust was welcome.
Sunwoo fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow, and when he woke up, he was in the hospital. That s when he started to think something was strange.
Who brought me, living alone, to the hospital? And this hospital room, it s too luxurious.
Sunwoo s gaze swept around. The private room looked like it could be from a drama or movie, with an atmosphere like a hotel suite.
But there was something even more bizarre than that.
Now, take good care of your health for the baby. You ve been overworking and not eating properly, so your nutritional state is a mess.
The doctor had been confusing Sunwoo since earlier.
We ve given you some nutrients through IV. Make sure you finish that before you re discharged, okay?
The doctor s gaze moved to the IV bag on the pole, then back to Sunwoo.
Really, I m pregnant?
Sunwoo asked with a face that showed he still couldn t understand, despite the kind explanation.
Yes.
The doctor s expression changed. He finally realized that Sunwoo wasn t particularly happy about it.
Is there perhaps a problem…?
The doctor asked cautiously. Sunwoo opened his mouth but couldn t answer. A problem? There was, a very big one.
Is it possible for a man?
Sunwoo asked what he was most curious about. The doctor answered with a face that suggested this was an obvious question.
Of course. You re an Omega, even if you re a recessive one.
An Omega?
Yes. Even recessive Omegas can get pregnant. It s more difficult than for regular or dominant ones, of course.
Sunwoo s expression became even more blank. Recessive Omega. It wasn t an unfamiliar term.
The culprit that had driven Sunwoo into a murderous schedule for two weeks. It was a term from female-oriented web novels.
A strange world view that divides human traits into Alpha, Omega, and Beta. The one called Omegaverse.
Am I dreaming right now?
Sunwoo s suspicion was justified. The schedule of the past two weeks had been grueling even for Sunwoo.
Sunwoo was a 5-year veteran PD in charge of web novels. He had gotten a job at a publishing company right after graduating from college and had worked passionately since then.
At first, he made mistakes and struggled to learn the job, but now he was a veteran.
Whether it was work or people, he was confident in handling everything in his own way. But even Sunwoo found this time a bit difficult.
Just before the launch, the author suddenly decided they weren t satisfied with the content and dropped a bomb by saying they would revise all the previous chapters.
Thanks to that, I had two weeks of hell.