Angela quickly untied the knot with her free hands much faster than me.
“I know the way out. If we go to the back of the village, there’s a path leading to the mountains. Once we distract the guards, we should be able to hide and escape easily.”
Angela whispered. Instead of sharing the joy together, I remained frozen.
“But… what about the children?”
“I want to take them with me, but it’s impossible to escape without getting caught with so many children.”
I lowered my head at Angela’s words.
What she said wasn’t wrong. Even if the two of us manage to sneak away…
I looked to the side.
The small children appeared to be around five years old. Even if, by some stroke of luck, we managed to release all these children from the pillar, could they all move silently?
“But I…”
I couldn’t bring myself to say that I would leave the children.
Leaving these kidnapped children like this would undoubtedly result in something bad happening to them later.
There must be a way for all of us to escape together.
That’s when it happened.
A Chingana with a beard braided into two strands appeared, swaying with a bottle in hand. He tapped the shoulder of the guard who had been dozing off all this time.
“Hey, I told you to bring the liquor. Why are you dozing off after putting it down?”
“Ugh, it’s too late. I thought my mouth would freeze from the cold.”
The man received a bowl of liquor.
Wait a moment, that liquor… it feels familiar.
Pure white color, a refreshing appearance.
Could it be makgeolli? No way, right?
I nudged Angela next to me.
“Do you happen to know what that liquor is made of?”
“Yeah, I know. That’s Chingana’s traditional liquor. It’s made from rice.”
So it’s real makgeolli?
At that moment, a good idea flashed in my mind. A plan that could free all the children from the pillar and allow us to escape without being noticed.
“Excuse me!”
I called out loudly to the two men. The two Chingana men raised their eyebrows and looked at me, then they thumped the ground with their sticks.
“Be quiet!”
Both their size and demeanor were threatening.
“What are you doing now? If you come over here and find out our hands are untied, it’s over for us!”
Angela restrained me from behind.
“I’ll handle it all, so Angela is pretending to be tied up diligently.”
I reassured her and raised my voice again to the Chingana.
“I have something good to tell you.”
“Something good?”
“That liquor, I’ll tell you a way to make it taste even better.”
“The liquor is already good.”
“Nah, that’s not true. You can see a whole new world you’ve never tasted before. Of course, if you don’t believe it, you don’t have to. I’m just tied up here and can’t do anything anyway, but if you don’t even listen to what I say, then there’s nothing I can do.”
As I shrugged my shoulders, the two men exchanged glances.
“Sugar? Do we have sugar?”
“It’s in the warehouse. We stole it last time.”
“Well then… let’s give it a try.”
“Can we trust what she says?”
“Eating it once won’t cause any trouble.”
Hmm, they’ve already taken the bait. Their eyes are gleaming with appetite.
After a while, the two men were sitting on the ground, laughing heartily.
The sugar-soaked makgeolli seemed to suit their taste perfectly, and they gulped down six bottles of liquor on the spot, licking their fingers.
Then, soon, the eyes of the two men began to close little by little. Despite their heads knocking together with a thud, no one woke up.
Ah, they had a good time. Be careful of the hangover tomorrow!
“Now’s the time.”
I got up in a hurry and ran towards the children.
“Cecilia!”
Angela called out to me as she was untying the knots. She was a considerable beauty, with long orange hair. It seemed she knew why she was kidnapped; after all, a beautiful woman’s ransom would be higher.
“Hurry, let’s escape. We can’t take all the kids and leave the village. We have to cross Chingana’s headquarters.”
“No, Angela, trust me and release the kids.”
“This is insane! Doing good things is fine, but choose the right time and place…!”
I shook my head firmly.
“Trust me now. I have a good idea.”
(Note: The name “Cecilia” is used in the translation, as it’s a common English equivalent for the Korean name “세실리아” (Sesilia). If you have a specific preference for another English name, feel free to let me know.)
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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