When they came to their senses, they had arrived at the gate exit.
‘Ah…’
Min Joo stopped in her tracks.
It was regrettable. To end the conversation like this.
She had unknowingly tightened the hand she was holding. Eun Ha turned her head toward Min Joo.
“Why?”
“No, just…”
What to do? Should she use a trick to hide the exit? But doing something silly might risk getting trapped in the gate forever. Still, it was too regrettable to part ways like this…
At that moment of deep thought, she heard.
“Ah, found them!”
A stranger’s voice came from somewhere. Eun Ha turned her head.
Six adults, dressed alike and wearing identical capes, were looking at them.
“Mas…!”
Whisk.
Min Joo hid behind Eun Ha. At her action, not only Eun Ha but the others stared with wide eyes.
Hiding behind her back, Eun Ha quietly asked the boy.
“Do you know them?”
Shake, shake. Min Joo vigorously shook her head. Her shoulders hunched as if scared, she looked like a fragile herbivore, clutching Eun Ha’s sleeve.
“Who are they?”
At the boy’s denial, Eun Ha asked them.
The slanted berets and green capes. The clothes they wore… were very similar to the military uniforms Eun Ha remembered.
The sturdy man in the lead, secondincommand of the legion, Bae Jun Hwan, came forward.
“We are from the legion… Huh?”
Something twinkled at the edge of his sight. The purple orb held by the woman in front of him. It was undoubtedly the gate core. The moment he discovered it, Jun Hwan’s eyes suddenly turned hostile.
“……Are you a stealer?”
“Stealer?”
Eun Ha cocked her head.
“What is that?”
“Hmm…….”
Junhwan blinked his eyes as if he couldn’t believe it. Did he really not know, or was he shamelessly brazen?
‘What on earth is the Master thinking?’
This was almost at the level of picking one’s nose with one’s eyes open.
That woman was holding the Gate core as if to show it off, and their Master, the Trickster, did not impose any sanctions. No, he even went so far as to hide behind the woman.
‘Why?’
He had always been one to confound expectations, but this time was no different.
Junhwan sent a strange look to his colleagues standing behind him. They all shook their heads in unison. Among them, there was no one who understood the capricious Master 100%.
Turning his gaze back to Eunha, Junhwan focused on the Gate core she was holding and sternly opened his mouth.
“This area is the territory our legion has won at auction. Therefore, the monsters, resources, and that Gate core, everything belongs to us. This is a very valid claim under Hunter Law.”
At his words, his colleagues standing behind him nodded their heads. Junhwan was not speaking falsely. At a distance where their noses might almost touch, Junhwan opened his mouth again.
“If you don’t intend to declare war on our legion, put down that Gate core right now—.”
At that moment.
Startled.
Junhwan froze like a statue.
“…….”
Behind Eunha, the hidden boy, their Master, was glaring at this place with a chilly gleam in his eyes.
‘Ma, Master?’
Junhwan looked at Minjoo with bewildered eyes. Minjoo was fiddling with the bazooka on her shoulder and grinned slightly.
Mouth, shut, up.
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
