Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Park Jimin, the omega son of a country gentleman, and Min Yoongi, a rich aristocratic alpha landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love...
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The first week of their return was soon gone. The second began. It was the last of the regiment's stay in Meryton, and all the young omegas in the neighbourhood were drooping apace. The dejection was almost universal. The two elder Parks alone were still able to eat, drink, and sleep, and pursue the usual course of their employments. Very frequently were they reproached for this insensibility by So-min and Aejin, whose own misery was extreme, and who could not comprehend such hard-heartedness in any of the family.
"Good Heaven! what is to become of us? What are we to do?" would they often exclaiming the bitterness of woe. "How can you be smiling so, Jiminie?"
Their affectionate mother shared all their grief; she remembered what she had herself endured on a similar occasion, five-and-twenty years ago.
"I am sure," said she, "I cried for two days together when Colonel Yee's regiment went away. I thought I should have broken my heart."
"I am sure I shall break MINE," said Aejin.
"If one could but go to Brighton!" observed Mrs. Park.
"Oh, yes!--if one could but go to Brighton! But appa is so disagreeable."
"A little sea-bathing would set me up forever."
"And my aunt Yun is sure it would do ME a great deal of good," added So-min.
Such were the kind of lamentations resounding perpetually through Longbourn House. Jimin tried to be diverted by them; but all sense of pleasure was lost in shame. He felt anew the justice of Yoongi's objections; and never had he been so much disposed to pardon his interference in the views of his friend.
But the gloom of Aejin's prospect was shortly cleared away; for she received an invitation from Mrs Tam, the mate of the colonel of the regiment, to accompany her to Brighton. This invaluable friend was a very young omega, and very lately married. A resemblance in good humour and good spirits had recommended her and Aejin to each other, and out of their THREE months' acquaintance they had been intimate TWO.
The rapture of Aejin on this occasion, her adoration of Mrs Tam, the delight of Mrs. Park, and the mortification of So-min, are scarcely to be described. Wholly inattentive to her sister's feelings, Aejin flew about the house in restless ecstasy, calling for everyone's congratulations, and laughing and talking with more violence than ever; whilst the luckless So-min continued in the parlour repined at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.
"I cannot see why Mrs Tam should not ask ME as well as Aejin," said she, "Though I am NOT her particular friend. I have just as much right to be asked as she has, and more too, for I am two years older."
In vain did Jimin attempt to make her reasonable, and Taehyung to make her resigned. As for Jimin himself, this invitation was so far from exciting in him the same feelings as in his mother and Aejin, that he considered it as the death warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter; and detestable as such a step must make him were it known, he could not help secretly advising his father not to let her go. He represented to him all the improprieties of Aejin's general behaviour, the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of such a woman as Mrs Tam, and the probability of her being yet more imprudent with such a companion at Brighton, where the temptations must be greater than at home.
