“The fact that I, I couldn’t protect them keeps choking me. Whenever I think of my family who must have been calling for me hopelessly in that cold place, I, I just can’t live in my right mind.”
For Clint, alcohol was not an escape. The liquor he drank every day was a desperate struggle to survive.
“What’s the use of becoming the strongest knight on the continent……? Me, who couldn’t protect even one beloved family…… Do I, do I even deserve to be called the strongest knight on the continent?”
Clint’s hand trembled slightly. That trembling soon overwhelmed Clint and consumed him entirely.
“……Kkhuk.”
Clint bit his lip tightly and covered his face with his other hand. Clear tears ran down his jawline, falling without resistance to fill the glass that had not been filled.
“I want to apologize…… I’m sorry…… I’m sorry for not coming sooner, for not finding you sooner…… I don’t know where to say it……. ”
His once massive shoulders heaved violently.
“I miss them so much…… They don’t even appear in my dreams…… What happened…… Who hurt them so much…… Even if you appear in a dream…… Just one word and I, I can take revenge for everything……”
“…….”
“The husband who did not return because he said he would protect the empire, do you hate him? Or is it that the father who can’t come no matter how much you call for him, do you resent him? ……No one appears.”
Clint cried like a child, his sorrowful wailing enough to awaken even Jarim, who had been asleep and drunk on wine.
“If you call me ‘Dad’…… That’s enough, please, I miss you so much……”
“…….”
“I should have hugged you at the end. I should have hugged you. I should have told you I love you. Why was that so difficult…… For me, for me, I should have told you that it’s a treasure I couldn’t exchange even for everything.”
Watching Clint cry, Levanfell scrunched up his face and gulped down the bottle of alcohol.
The grief that had been kept inside and rotting away was so severe that it wouldn’t have been strange if it had made him sick.
I couldn’t dare say that time is the remedy or that you should live anyway.
It would be poison to say such things to a person who has lost the reason to live.
I couldn’t even guess his pain, so I couldn’t say such words. I just hoped that these few words he had barely managed to utter would help him sleep a little more peacefully tonight.
That was all I could wish for.
“If I’m allowed, if I’m boldly allowed, I want to be with my family.”
“Clint.”
“I want to die.”
“Clint, that’s not.”
“……I know my family wouldn’t want that. ……Actually, what if that’s just my ugly desire to live?”
Clint lowered his hand from his face. The face of an adult male, soaked with tears, looked so sad that it hurt to look at.
“Actually, actually, my family is waiting for me. They are in so much pain, waiting for me to come and hug them.”
“……. ”
“If I, if I want to live, so I can’t die, then what?”
Clint drank the glass stained with red blood and tears in one gulp, soothing his aching heart.
“……You were a father to me.”
Levanfell whispered softly, looking at Clint, who was crying. Clint raised his head.
Their gazes met in midair.
“To me. You were my family. Clint.”
“…….”
“You didn’t feel that way?”
“Me too, me too.”
Clint gritted his teeth, but it was of no use.
Tears flowed down his cheeks.
“I wanted to see you too…… sob.”
Clint couldn’t finish speaking. He bowed his head and slowly turned it after holding back tears for a long time.
And stared out beyond the window frame.
“…….”
Clint slowly rose from his seat. His body swayed weakly, like a tree about to be uprooted. Then he slowly left the office with a familiar stride that he could not even catch.
“……I’ll follow you. Jaerim. Please take care of Levanfell.”
Hearing Clint’s answer, Levanfell seemed to be choking back tears too. I asked Jaerim to take care of Levanfell and quickly followed Clint.
Although he was heavily drunk, Clint’s pace was faster than mine. Even though I hadn’t gotten drunk, I felt tipsy because I had been drinking with him.
‘Where is he going all of a sudden?’
Clint went down to the first floor and completely left the mansion. The cold night air clung to my body, sending chills through me.
Clint left the mansion and headed silently toward a corner of the garden, neither too fast nor too slow.
‘The grass is pressed down where he steps…….’
Only the dead grass in this place was pressed down by footsteps, as if someone had been moving back and forth continuously.
What on earth is there here?
I glanced around and slowly followed Clint so as not to lose sight of him. Then Clint reached the end of the garden.
A garden left unattended, where everything had rotted and the roots were pulled up and dead.
At the end of it, a small flower pot was placed very carefully. Clint was crouching in front of it, watering it.
“……My daughter and wife wanted to see a flower when they were alive.”
“…….”
Clint’s tears fell onto the pot. The longgrown plant, sadly, was not flowering. It even looked as if it would die soon.
“I found out that it’s a very difficult and strenuous plant to grow. ……To bring such a plant and want to see a flower. ……Isn’t it really funny?”
“…….”
“I’ve tried several times already, but they all died, and this is the last one.”
Clint let out a selfmocking laugh.
“If the flower blooms, if it blooms, then it will feel like my wife and daughter have forgiven me.”
I felt a lump in my chest. His clinging to an unattainable hope, floundering desperately, was so pitiful.
“……But I guess this is the end. For this guy, and for me too.”
I was so sorry that there was not a shred of hope to hold onto unless I did so.
If the memories he held became thorns, piercing deeply inside, even killing him.
“Then.”
I walked forward as if enchanted.
“I will give you that hope.”
“……What?”
“The hope you wish to hold onto.”
I just spread my arms wide. Clint then raised his head weakly.
Our eyes met. I moved instinctively, as if I knew how to use this power.
“That hope. The meaning for you to live. I will provide it for you.”
And the starlight swirled. A warm light spread enough to ward off the cold night air.
As if trying to chase away the darkness that had been obscuring the view all along, the light glowed. The starlight, woven like the Milky Way, kissed the leaves that were dying powerlessly.
And then.
“What on earth…….?”
The darkness lifted, and flowers bloomed all over the garden.
I shall be your salvation.
Top Celebrity Younger Brother Bears Her Child (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Forced to live stream romance with a top celebrity in a female-dominant world.
Yan Jin transmigrated into a brothel, with a fellow transmigrated junior beside her.
Hearing the obscene words coming from outside, the unfortunate junior covered his ears tightly, his cheeks flushed red, and whispered to comfort her, “Don’t worry, I will definitely help you escape.”
“Don’t worry, I will definitely defend your chastity.” Yan Jin looked at the flawless and delicate features of the unfortunate junior and gently comforted, “Because we have transmigrated into a female-dominant world.”
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Top celebrity Yu Shu suddenly fell into a coma during a concert.
Research scientist Yan Jin fainted in the lab after working overtime.
Two people with no connection were rushed to the same hospital.
Three days later, neither of them had woken up.
Suddenly, the entire nation discovered that a live streaming app had been forcibly installed on their phones.
Upon opening it, they heard the two discussing how to escape from the brothel.
The entire internet was in an uproar.
After the two successfully escaped from the brothel, Yu Shu’s fan group rushed to make a banner and sent it to the hospital overnight.
“Big sister bravely took action to defend the chastity of our idol!”
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When Yu Shu was diagnosed with pregnancy, Yan Jin stared at his belly for a long time.
Covering his stomach, he muttered gloomily, “If you don’t like it, I’ll go get an abortion.”
“It’s not that I don’t like it.” Yan Jin hugged Yu Shu and said softly, “I just feel like I’m not human.”
Yu Shu comforted Yan Jin, “I was already an adult when we got together.”
Yan Jin hesitated, “But you won’t be of legal marriageable age even after giving birth to the child.”
At the same time, a flood of bullet comments appeared in the live streaming room that the two couldn’t see.
[Although it’s inappropriate, I also want a young and handsome boyfriend to have my child.]
①Male pregnancy (highlighted)
The female lead is five years older than the male lead, and the male lead is already an adult when he appears.
