“Uh, uh! Ugh! Huh!”
As soon as Jung Jaehoon woke up, he writhed like a person struck by lightning. His terrified eyes shook uncontrollably, and he began to scream with all his might, making incomprehensible sounds.
Right beside the hospital bed, within Jaehoon’s line of sight, stood Taeseo, with both hands tucked into the pockets of his slacks.
“Your fortune’s looking good. Overslept, huh?”
Tutting, Taeseo checked the time by lifting his wrist. He had wasted a precious 40 minutes waiting for Jaehoon to wake up. The look in his eyes, gazing down at the trash that had once again wasted his time, glinted with a cold light.
“Ugh… Uh, ugh!”
“Happy to see me?”
“Uh, uh, huh!”
“Whether you live properly, work hard, or die. Choose one of the three.”
“Uh, huh!”
“I heard you got beaten up by people sent by your cousin sister. Shouting like that, you’re going to hurt the few intact parts left. Ah, this is not a concern but advice. I hope you won’t recover anywhere.”
Taeseo, smiling with one corner of his mouth raised, approached Jaehoon closely. However, Jaehoon, struggling as if having a seizure, couldn’t move a muscle with his limbs wrapped in plaster.
“Do you find it pleasant looking at me? Just in case, I’m taking care to make sure you don’t miss any of my words by wrapping you in bandages, even your ear holes. Today should be the last day you and I live like this.”
“…”
Whether he understood Taeseo’s words about the next meeting needing more than just broken bones and severed nerves, Jaehoon, who had been noisy until now, closed his mouth.
“But your cousin sister seems to have some compassion for family ties. Considering that she put effort into saving your life.”
“…”
“Of course, you’ll have to live lying down for the rest of your life.”
“…”
“Ah, you won’t even be able to move your head. Still, as long as you have consciousness, you can reflect on what you did wrong until you die.”
Taeseo, smiling sarcastically, looked down at the plaster-wrapped Jaehoon. Even if he had consciousness, he was an individual who would suffer a lifetime of agony, surrounded by anger and resentment.
“They say they’ll move you to a rural nursing home once your fractured bones heal. Did you hear?”
“…”
“Well, what can you do? Your nursing mother is probably too busy dealing with the shit you’ve dumped.”
Jaehoon was involved in the entertainment business, and he illegally gained profits through laundering by using his mother’s name.
His mother, trusting only her son, unknowingly lent her name and became the highest earner in the drug distribution and prostitution business. Taeseo was the one who provided evidence to the prosecution to prove this.
Without directly touching the person harboring resentment towards her son, the mother who lent her name unknowingly was processed without harm. It was Taeseo who had longed to look at her suffering form for a long time and wanted to trample her slowly and carefully, but it was too wasteful of his time.
Jaeein declared yesterday, accepting his proposal, that from now on, her time belongs to him. Willingly. Where is there only time? Taeseo was already prepared to dedicate everything he had to her.
Reflecting on the events from a few hours ago, a gentle smile spread across Taeseo’s face as he thought of Jaeein in his arms. However, this smile faded momentarily as Taeseo looked at Jaehoon, irregularly exhaling breath, with an expressionless face.
“I hope the rural life suits you.”
“…”
“No, it doesn’t matter. You’ll just be lying in bed wearing diapers anyway, right?”
“…”
“Living in some rural nursing home, breathing and someday finding even that unbearable. The more you dwell on what you never had, what you achieved, and the past where you trampled on people, the more pitiful your current self will become.”
Taeseo’s lips, drawing the future for Jaehoon instead of the silent Jaehoon, curved as if sketching a picture. However, his gaze remained firm.
“In your desperate desire to live like a person again or in your meager revenge, you might rehabilitate, burn with a crazy desire to miraculously stand up again. Truly miraculous.”
“…”
“In that case, the prosecution won’t leave you alone.”
There’s still a lot of evidence I haven’t handed over. I left it with the ones with long statutes of limitations just in case. Well, live well, I guess.
Bending at the waist, Taeseo whispered into Jaehoon’s ear as if chewing on it, then straightened up after a moment, staring at Jaehoon.
The doctor said there was nothing more to be done for Jaehoon.
The person who reported Jaehoon to the police, having set up a trap for wild boars near a mountain near the factory, claimed to have found the body while trying to catch the boars. Unfortunately, Jaehoon was still alive.
After a surgery that lasted for nineteen hours, the doctor said Jaehoon would have to spend the rest of his life lying down, only staring at the ceiling.
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
