The strength left my father’s arms.
He let go of the sword.
I blankly stared at the scene.
[Ha, hahaha! Euhaha! The kid did it.]I blinked my eyes. I tried to understand what had just happened.
[He accomplished in an instant what took me decades! He overcame the loneliness.]The dagger uncle said it took him a long time to overcome the loneliness.
‘Father broke free faster than the dagger uncle?’
[Long years of effort, talent, and desperation. All of that combined created a miracle!]A miracle… The dagger uncle said it was a miracle that father broke free from the loneliness.
I felt sick to my stomach.
I saw father reaching his hand out to me.
But father’s hand didn’t reach me.
Father collapsed.
Just before his body hit the ground, I managed to jump and catch him.
[His body seems very weakened.]Father’s body was so thin, I didn’t know how I mustered the strength.
That’s when I heard it.
Hyeol Sin-ui’s scream.
“What, what trickery is this?!”
I turned to look at him.
I saw Hyeol Sin-ui being grabbed by Ji Cheon Wu.
Ji Cheon Wu was stamping on him with his foot. It seemed he knocked down Hyeol Sin-ui who was trying to run toward father and me.
“This is impossible!”
Hyeol Sin-ui’s eyes were bloodshot red. It was a completely different, dejected face from when he mocked me.
“How, how did this happen?!”
I safely laid father down then approached Hyeol Sin-ui.
Our eyes met and I saw Ji Cheon Wu let go.
Without saying a word, he knew what I wanted.
Ji Cheon Wu slowly stepped back.
He left handling Hyeol Sin-ui entirely to me.
[This is the timeline separator]Hyeol Sin-ui looked at Nam Gung Lin in front of his eyes. Her eyes were flowing with murderous energy.
Unlike when pleasure dominated his mind, his reason was now screaming at him.
As he came to his senses, fear rushed in.
It felt like everything was crumbling down. The Blood Sect had put in decades of effort to bring down Nam Gung Jin Cheon.
The result was Nam Gung Hyun in front of his eyes.
‘My efforts, everything I’ve achieved so far!’
All of it had failed.
He had various plans.
Make Nam Gung Hyun a slave to loneliness. Then make him commit countless murders, and inform Nam Gung Jin Cheon of Nam Gung Hyun’s existence.
There were many other schemes in Hyeol Sin-ui’s mind besides that.
That’s why he wasn’t afraid when Nam Gung Lin caught him.
‘The plan was to kill Nam Gung Hyun in front of Nam Gung Lin anyway.’
It was his plan for the worst-case scenario.
Nam Gung Lin would be greatly shocked to see Nam Gung Hyun’s death before her eyes.
Many young disciples of the righteous faction that he had seen so far were like that.
And she would tell Nam Gung Jin Cheon the truth.
Then Nam Gung Jin Cheon would also fall into great rage.
His gaze turned to Nam Gung Hyun. Deep regret welled up.
‘If I knew this would happen, I should have killed him long ago.’
Nam Gung Lin asked him.
“Was it fun?”
“Wh… What.”
“You played with me and my father.”
Nam Gung Lin said that as she met eyes with Hyeol Sin-ui.
They were eerie snake-like eyes.
As if looking at his master, the Blood Demon…
His heart sank.
‘To make me think of the Sect Leader.’
Hyeol Sin-ui faltered and stepped back at the thought that came to him without realizing it.
‘The Sect Leader will not forgive me.’
The Blood Demon told him to ignite Nam Gung Jin Cheon’s fury.
The goal of Hyeol Sin-ui’s life was to follow the Sect Leader’s orders.
So he had to kill Nam Gung Hyun and drive Nam Gung Lin to despair.
A voice seemed to speak in his head.
Saying that a fool who can’t even successfully carry out the Sect Leader’s orders should die.
Hyeol Sin-ui tried to bite his tongue.
But Nam Gung Lin was faster, grabbing his face with a brutal hand.
For a moment, he felt like Nam Gung Lin had changed again.
“Wh, who… are you.”
[Don’t even think about dying peacefully.]Hyeol Sin-ui’s eyes opened wide.
He cried out in anguish.
“Kill me, kill me!”
[No, you will not die.]Nam Gung Lin said that as she pressed his numbing acupoint.
His body instantly stiffened and he couldn’t move. Hyeol Sin-ui stared at Nam Gung Lin with hollowed eyes.
[Rin is soft-hearted, but will Nam Gung Jin Cheon be the same?]Hyeol Sin-ui trembled.
[He will not leave you alone. He’ll make you beg to be killed.]“Heu, heuk.”
[He will slowly dismember your limbs. You’ll want to lose consciousness from the pain. But Nam Gung Jin Cheon won’t even allow you to pass out.]Nam Gung Lin dispassionately prophesied what would happen to Hyeol Sin-ui.
Hyeol Sin-ui knew it too.
That’s why he tried to take the poison he prepared in advance and meet his death.
Nam Gung Lin pressed his acupoint again.
His body was still stiff, but he could move his mouth.
Nam Gung Lin forcefully opened Hyeol Sin-ui’s mouth. Then she took out the poison that was in his mouth.
Despair colored Hyeol Sin-ui’s face.
“Pl, please kill me…”
[Don’t worry. I will personally behead that Blood Demon scum you are so loyal to.]Thump, Hyeol Sin-ui felt his heart start to beat.
Kill the Sect Leader?
It was just the nonsensical words of this brat in front of his eyes who hasn’t seen the Sect Leader. The Blood Demon was truly a god.
No matter how monstrous a talent Nam Gung Lin in front of him had, he was nothing but a drop in the ocean before that person.
So he didn’t need to feel anxious.
‘But is the person in front of me really Nam Gung Lin?’
Hyeol Sin-ui glared at Nam Gung Lin and shouted.
“You think you can lay a finger on the Sect Leader?!”
[You think I can’t?]For some reason, Hyeol Sin-ui couldn’t answer definitively to Nam Gung Lin’s words.
That was definitely strange.
To him, the Sect Leader was the sky, the absolute.
He had to say it firmly.
That you won’t even be able to look the Sect Leader in the eye.
Because he did!
“Have you ever seen the Sect Leader? If you do see him, you won’t be able to spout such nonsense!”
[I have seen him before.]That couldn’t be.
As far as he knew, since Nam Gung Lin was born, the Sect Leader had never taken a single step out of the Blood Sect’s headquarters.
So how could Nam Gung Lin have met the Blood Demon.
But.
Hyeol Sin-ui felt like his heart was sinking. For some reason, he felt like Nam Gung Lin was telling the truth.
“Y, you… are not Nam Gung Lin.”
[That’s right.]“This… monster…”
He whispered to Hyeol Sin-ui.
[I will cut him down. I will definitely make him pay the price for deceiving so many people.] [This is the timeline separator]I carried my father on my back.
Next to me, Ji Cheon Wu was walking while keeping watch over Hyeol Sin-ui.
Father’s body was light.
Suddenly, I felt afraid.
‘What if father can’t wake up like this?’
[No. He’s just sleeping. He probably hasn’t slept properly for a very long time.]The dagger uncle told me about when he was afflicted with loneliness.
[When I lost my mind, I was afraid every day that my hands would be stained with blood. So I tried my best not to fall asleep.]The dagger uncle continued.
[Your father is probably in a deep sleep because of that too.]Feeling very unpleasant, I kicked Hyeol Sin-ui who was being dragged by Ji Cheon Wu.
Hyeol Sin-ui looked at me then hid behind Ji Cheon Wu’s back with a horrified face.
I saw Ji Cheon Wu looking at Hyeol Sin-ui like that with a dumbfounded expression.
Anyway, dragging Hyeol Sin-ui ended up being Ji Cheon Wu’s job.
Because I didn’t know what I would do if I had Hyeol Sin-ui next to me. I looked at Ji Cheon Wu and said.
“Thank you, Ji Cheon Wu.”
“Rin…”
“It would have been harder without you.”
Suddenly, I thought it was fortunate to have Ji Cheon Wu by my side in this situation.
I smiled slightly at him and said.
“Just, thank you for everything.”
At my words, Ji Cheon Wu lowered his head with a reddened face.
[This is the timeline separator]Ji Cheon Wu and I arrived at the inn where Sin So-gyeong and Dang Hwa-ryeong were staying with father.
As soon as we arrived at the inn, Sin So-gyeong was startled and approached me and Ji Cheon Wu.
“Lady Nam Gung! What in the world… Goodness, who is this person? And who is following behind?”
Sin So-gyeong seemed surprised to see father and came running.
“Miss Sin, Miss Dang, please follow me for a moment.”
Sin So-gyeong and Dang Hwa-ryeong followed me. After entering my room, I laid father on the bed.
Sin So-gyeong looked at Hyeol Sin-ui being dragged by Ji Cheon Wu and asked.
“That person is…”
Hyeol Sin-ui looked miserable.
Because the dagger uncle had beaten him up and Ji Cheon Wu had treated him roughly on the way.
Hyeol Sin-ui sent a gaze toward Sin So-gyeong as if asking her to save him.
Not a chance.
I said in a firm tone.
“Madu. Don’t worry about it.”
Sin So-gyeong’s worried eyes turned cold as she looked at Hyeol Sin-ui.
Sin So-gyeong muttered softly.
“Goodness, the nerve of him.”
Sin So-gyeong, who had completely lost interest in Hyeol Sin-ui, asked me.
“This person’s body is very injured. What in the world happened to him…”
“He’s my father.”
“What…?”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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