“Are you saying a demon is coming towards the Nam Gung family’s estate? And to where grandfather is?”
“It would be safe inside the estate, but you know. Grandfather can’t be everywhere at once.”
“But that person to grandfather…”
“Yes, he’s the one who fled after taking a hit from father’s sword. The Murim Alliance is searching for him, but who knows when he’ll be caught.”
Nam Gung Hwa Su could immediately understand what Mo Yong Hee meant.
There was only one grandfather, and Anhui Province was vast. It meant there were places beyond grandfather’s sight.
Moreover, Hyungmyeonsura was a demon who held a great grudge against the Nam Gung family.
‘He’s strong enough to be considered one of the world’s top hundred masters.’
That wasn’t all.
He had a vicious hobby of enjoying ruining children with exceptional martial arts talent.
At that moment, Nam Gung Hwa Su’s gaze turned to Nam Gung Yu Cheong. Nam Gung Lin was beside him, receiving food.
Nam Gung Hwa Su smiled coldly as he looked at them.
He felt a tingling sensation on the cheek where Nam Gung Lin had hit him.
[This is the timeline separator]Huff, huff.
Ji Cheon Wu woke up from his sleep, exhaling rough breaths.
It was still early dawn. A time when everyone in the estate would be deep in sleep. He stared at the ceiling, lost in thought.
‘Why did I wake up?’
He remembered having a terrible nightmare. It was truly an unlucky dream.
Ji Cheon Wu touched his cheek.
In the dream, blood had splattered on his cheek.
Remembering whose blood it was, Ji Cheon Wu shook his head.
‘It must be just a bad dream.’
It was better to forget strange dreams quickly. Especially such an ominous one.
Ji Cheon Wu felt like he had been living in a dream every day lately.
After meeting Nam Gung Lin, his life had changed 180 degrees.
No one hit him anymore, and he didn’t have to worry about meals every day.
‘I haven’t seen Nam Gung Hwa Su recently either.’
It was all thanks to Nam Gung Lin’s consideration.
Nam Gung Lin had apparently gone to the scary Nam Gung Jin Cheon to ask for him. To make him her personal servant.
Ji Cheon Wu couldn’t understand Nam Gung Lin.
Nam Gung Yu Cheong, whom he had met recently, was also someone he couldn’t understand.
They showed kindness to Ji Cheon Wu for no reason.
Even though it was kindness they would never get back…
They touched his head with warm hands and spoke to him gently. Whenever they did such things, Ji Cheon Wu felt a tingling in his heart.
But now he knew.
The pain in his heart wasn’t due to the aftereffects of his severed meridians.
It was because his frozen heart was starting to melt from their warmth. Ji Cheon Wu got up.
He didn’t think he could fall asleep again.
He grabbed the wooden sword he had carefully placed beside him.
He planned to go to the training grounds to practice. He had recently started learning martial arts.
It was thanks to Nam Gung So So’s kindness.
Nam Gung So So had expressed admiration for him.
Even if they were empty words, they warmed his heart. Ji Cheon Wu had never thought about learning martial arts.
After all, he would die before turning twenty, and any martial arts he learned would be for nothing.
However, Nam Gung So So never mentioned such a future while teaching him martial arts.
Ji Cheon Wu learned what it meant for time to be precious.
Each day became precious to him.
To the point where he feared the death that would eventually come. Ji Cheon Wu stopped as he arrived at the training grounds.
There was already someone there.
“Ji Cheon Wu?”
Nam Gung Lin, who had been swinging her sword, looked surprised to see him.
“What are you doing at this hour?”
Nam Gung Lin approached him with a bright smile. Just her smile was enough to make Ji Cheon Wu feel better.
Looking at Nam Gung Lin, Ji Cheon Wu thought.
‘It really was just a dream.’
The nightmare he had today was just a dream. Nam Gung Lin was by his side, and peaceful days would continue.
Ji Cheon Wu was content with his current daily life.
‘I hope it doesn’t change.’
He liked this life of moderate training and being with Nam Gung Lin. He wanted to live like this forever and meet a peaceful end.
Until his severed meridians finally consumed him, that is.
[This is the timeline separator]After aunt arrived, my daily life changed a lot. First, I started learning swordsmanship from her.
[I am your master!]There was one dagger that strongly opposed the fact that I was learning swordsmanship from aunt, but it couldn’t be helped.
‘Please bear with it, we still train in the evening, don’t we?’
[Kup, if only I had a physical body, this wouldn’t have happened.]I opened my mouth to appease Uncle Dagger.
‘If you grant one of my wishes, I’ll go out to train at dawn too.’
[Why should I grant your wish when you’re the one training?]‘So, are you not going to grant it?’
[You really are a naughty dumpling.]In the evenings, I learned swordsmanship from Uncle Dagger, and in the mornings from aunt. Sometimes I would go out to train at dawn because of my promise with Uncle Dagger.
Aunt marveled at how quickly my skills improved.
“I thought Yu Cheong was a genius, but…”
Nam Gung Yu Cheong was indeed a genius.
One that could be compared to Ji Cheon Wu, at that.
‘It’s just that I’m cheating in an absurd way.’
The swordsmanship Uncle Dagger taught was special.
‘Uncle Dagger must have been a member of the Nam Gung family, right?’
The fact that he knew how to use the Changgung swordsmanship. And it was easy to tell from the Nam Gung family’s swordsmanship techniques he taught me.
I don’t know how he ended up trapped in the dagger.
Uncle Dagger was very reluctant to talk about his past.
‘Aunt is strong too, but…’
She was no match for Uncle Dagger. Uncle Dagger would sometimes borrow my body to demonstrate directly.
When he demonstrated, I felt chills even as I wielded the sword myself.
I couldn’t use any special techniques because I lacked inner energy.
But I could feel it.
That Uncle Dagger’s swordsmanship was special. It was a feeling I couldn’t describe.
Uncle Dagger would sometimes say things I couldn’t understand.
[When I had a physical body, I wanted to become the sky. I wanted to capture the sky in my sword.]I couldn’t understand his words.
I only thought I might understand a little in the distant future. Anyway, I had been spending peaceful days recently. Since aunt arrived, the family servants couldn’t openly look down on me, and my relationship with Ji Cheon Wu was smooth.
“Lin, what are you thinking so deeply about?”
I came to my senses.
Nam Gung Yu Cheong was already in front of me. I looked at Nam Gung Yu Cheong with a puzzled face.
Aunt, who should have been beside him, was nowhere to be seen.
“Why did only brother come?”
“Mother urgently went to provide support at the Murim Alliance’s request this evening.”
“What?”
“I heard Hyungmyeonsura was discovered in Anhui Province. The Murim Alliance is said to be pursuing him with an extensive network.”
My complexion turned pale upon hearing Nam Gung Yu Cheong’s words.
Hyungmyeonsura.
If my memory was correct, it was Hyungmyeonsura who had taken Nam Gung Yu Cheong’s eyes.
Nam Gung Yu Cheong patted my shoulder as if to say not to worry.
“Don’t worry. Grandfather and mother are strong.”
The fingertips of Nam Gung Yu Cheong, who spoke thus, were trembling slightly. He was afraid right now. But even so, he was encouraging me, fearing that I might be afraid.
While pretending to be composed.
“I’m planning to stay within the family estate as much as possible today.”
I agreed with his words.
‘It’s okay, it’s safe if we stay within the family estate.’
Although grandfather and aunt were gone, there was no safer place in Anhui Province than the Nam Gung family estate.
But still, I couldn’t shake off the ominous feeling. The Nam Gung Yu Cheong in the original work must have had similar thoughts.
‘But Nam Gung Yu Cheong was eventually kidnapped by Hyungmyeonsura.’
Then what was the reason?
Why wasn’t he protected in the Nam Gung family estate?
It was then.
“Young miss!”
Yak Ran was running towards me.
She opened her mouth to me with a pale face.
“Ji Cheon Wu has disappeared. Others say Young Master Hwa Su forcibly took him away.”
After grandfather and aunt came, I had forgotten. How ruthless the Nam Gung family estate could be to me without grandfather and aunt.
For over 8 years, my uncle Nam Gung Hyun Jong had made the Nam Gung family estate his own world.
‘Grandfather and aunt are gone.’
It meant I had no allies in the Nam Gung family estate right now. I also knew how vicious a demon Hyungmyeonsura was.
He was a demonic person who ruined talented youths.
He never killed them.
Instead, he just left them in a state no different from death.
In Cheonma Jijeon, the target was Nam Gung Yu Cheong. And this time it became Ji Cheon Wu.
The original work had changed.
Ji Cheon Wu, who should have injured his leg, didn’t get hurt. Uncle Dagger, who should have been just an antique sword, was no longer just an antique sword.
It meant that the Cheonma Jijeon I knew could be completely different from now on.
I put Uncle Dagger into my bosom with an expressionless face.
“Lin, this isn’t something you can do alone.”
Nam Gung Yu Cheong blocked me, perhaps sensing my unusual determination.
Nam Gung Yu Cheong’s words were right.
Nothing would change here if I searched for Ji Cheon Wu.
For now, Nam Gung Hwa Su had just forcibly taken him away.
“I’ll go find Hwa Su, he’s probably just playing another mean prank.”
__________
“Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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