11 Virtues A Hero's Civilian Friend Must Uphold (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 72
If you press the elevator in headquarters and descend deep underground for a long while, you’ll reach the place she always visits whenever she’s feeling down.
At the end of the corridor—deliberately designed like a maze to prevent escape—the same sound always echoed from the iron door.
Huh? Why’s it so quiet today? Seol Ah tilted her head in confusion when the usual agonized screams failed to spill out into the hallway.
As soon as she opened the door and stepped inside, she was startled even further to find someone had arrived before her.
“Oh my. What brings you all the way here…?”
Pushing past the personnel bowing respectfully toward her, she walked toward the center of the room—but froze mid-step when she spotted a silhouette through the hazy cigarette smoke.
Jae Kyung’s usually neat semi-formal suit was splattered with sticky bloodstains, and he stood expressionlessly in a disheveled shirt, extinguishing his cigarette.
The ashtray lay on the floor—it was the tongue of the man tied up at his feet.
The man, already convulsing from unbearable pain, had his eyes rolling back, utterly unaware that his own tongue was being seared by the burning cigarette.
Nearby personnel were performing emergency measures to keep him alive, but his body, tortured far beyond recovery, refused to return to its normal state.
Eventually, after a few more violent spasms, the man’s breath gave out weakly, and those around him began gathering his lifeless body.
Seol Ah frowned at the sight.
Though it was the executives’ prerogative to punish traitors who endangered the organization however they pleased, it struck her as deeply odd—Jae Kyung had never come down to this basement unless absolutely necessary.
After all, Jae Kyung was the type who disliked torture except when truly necessary.
He claimed he hated blood spattering his clothes, hated the noise of screams—something like that, anyway.
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After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
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