I answered briefly and stared at them, giving a feeling that if there was anything else to say, they should continue, but the look in their eyes briefly showed surprise as if this was not the reaction they were expecting.
‘Isn’t this it?’
I was a little taken aback by the protagonist’s reaction. I hurriedly racked my brain.
…Upon reflection, asking to be taken along could be interpreted as asking to be accepted as a disciple.
Perhaps coming to me in the first place, and even uttering those words, meant something like ‘I want to be your priest. If possible, I want to serve the same master. What do you think about that?’
I realized my mistake as I thought about it.
‘Did I… make a mistake?’
Did they want me to express my feelings clearly, whether I liked it or not? Should I have at least pretended to be happy or willing to help to get along?
“……Ah, you were in the middle of training. I must have been a disturbance.”
In the midst of this, the protagonist, perhaps judging that I was not giving the information they could use, or that I was a difficult person to understand, seemed to have decided to leave altogether.
“I’ve been very rude. I’ll take my leave.”
“That.”
“I hope to see you again, dojo.”
The protagonist, who greeted with a neat attitude to the end, quickly moved away without giving me a chance to hold them back. Watching their retreating figure, I summed up the situation in one word.
‘I’m screwed.’
In any sense, I was definitely screwed.
(This is a time separator.)
“Jang Munin, Yu Un is here.”
“Come in.”
Upon hearing the answer, Yu Un opened the door without hesitation and entered Jang Munin’s room. Jang Munin seemed to be waiting, as the tea set was already placed on the table.
When Yu Un sat down in front of Jang Munin, a cup of tea was pushed forward.
“Let’s talk over tea.”
“……Yes, thank you.”
In fact, Yu Un was eager, having just returned from watching a disciple’s training for the first time in a long time. They didn’t want to sit leisurely and chat over tea.
But they couldn’t refuse tea poured by Jang Munin, and indeed, they knew Jang Munin would call them at some point today. The timing was just tactful.
‘I can’t help it.’
While not childlike, which sometimes worried them, Ha Hyun was good at doing anything on their own. Thinking of returning quickly after the conversation, Yu Un looked at Jang Munin.
“You know why I called you?”
Fortunately, it was straight to the point. Yu Un answered immediately.
“Yes, it must be about that child.”
“Yes.”
Jang Munin nodded.
The previous evening, Yu Un had returned to the volcano with a young boy. Because of that child, a schedule that would have been more than enough in a month and ten days stretched over two months.
The reason was briefly conveyed through a letter. It wasn’t wrong for Yu Un, as a disciple of the dojo, to ignore those in crisis or disregard those asking for help.
However, one problem was that the action when bringing Baek Yeo Heun last year was almost the same as now.
The Grandmaster of the Volcano, Jinheo Jinin, momentarily reminisced about the time when the youngest disciple of this generation had just arrived at the volcano, and asked,
“Did you bring that child to make them your disciple as well?”
“No.”
“Then, but… Huh?”
The Grandmaster, continuing his speech, paused and opened his eyes wide.
“…You said no?”
“Yes, no.”
The Grandmaster reacted as if he had heard something very unexpected, but Yuwoon’s answer did not change. The Grandmaster was speechless and blinked his eyes for a moment.
The situation was too similar to the time he brought Haheun, so he naturally assumed that the same result would happen again.
He had thought that giving special treatment twice in advance would be difficult, but he didn’t guess that he himself would draw the line first.
The Grandmaster made an effort to compose himself and asked,
“Then?”
“As I told you in the letter, the child was being pursued, and seeing the way they talked, the situation seemed complicated in many ways… so I brought them only because I couldn’t turn a blind eye as a Daoist. I also interfered myself.”
“…Is that so?”
“Yes.”
Yuwoon took a deep breath for a moment. And then he began to utter a long sentence.
“I already have Haheun as my disciple, don’t I? Even though I forced it, you didn’t punish me and immediately granted asylum to the unstable child, so I must thank you for the family’s decision. The child was too young to fit the distribution, so there could have been dissatisfaction, but thanks to being accepted into the Volcano’s embrace early on, the child quickly calmed down and is unfolding their talent.”
The Grandmaster listened to the ensuing words, slightly dazed. In fact, apart from when Yuwoon was memorizing the scriptures, he had never heard him speak so extensively.
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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