‘Just because the plot has changed in the original doesn’t mean the possibility of Danmokbi becoming a villain has disappeared.’
Not everyone with an unfortunate past becomes a villain. In his heart, there already existed a seed that could make him a villain.
‘If you’ve grown up eating only white rice porridge and learning that you have no parents or siblings, it would be natural for your character to collapse.’
And that environment has not changed. Even after I became Danmokbi’s servant, no one looked after him or took care of him.
‘I must diligently educate him at the dinner table when he’s young.’
After all, education for upright character cultivation was important from a young age. I made promises again and again to use proper and graceful language in front of Danmokbi, and opened Danmokbi’s door.
“Master, please have some treats.”
“Yeona.”
I extended the meticulously made ginseng treats to Danmokbi. At first, Danmokbi squinted at the dull color, but his eyes widened at the sweet honey taste.
“Where did this come from?”
“Hehehe, I put in some effort.”
Honey is as precious as sugar! I managed to get ginseng, so how could I not get honey? As I puffed out my chest and bragged, the White Tiger shook his head back and forth.
This human surely has a tongue coated with oil. He talks so well that he’s unknowingly fooled into giving it.
Hehehe, I did use some colorful language in the kitchen. Danmokbi was still not allowed anything but white rice porridge, so the other ingredients had to come to me.
‘It was lucky that I knew the general’s weakness.’
I didn’t really want to blab, but the general was startled every time he saw me and allowed anything.
As I recalled my time in the kitchen and chuckled, Danmokbi asked with a slightly stiff face.
“Did the White Tiger sir go with you too?”
“Yes? Yes.”
Were you anxious because the White Tiger was gone? As I tilted my head, Danmokbi drooped his eyes and mumbled.
“I want to go out with Yeona too…….”
“You’ll be able to go out soon.”
Oh dear, what was he saying? I picked the pretty words and pinched Danmokbi’s cheek a little.
“When you get healthier and the danger is gone, we’ll go out together and eat lots of delicious food, and buy whatever you want, okay?”
Danmokbi’s face, smiling brightly, was something I wanted to see too. As I looked at Danmokbi with a contented expression, he widened his eyes and asked,
“Do you want something?”
“Huh?”
Why was he stuck on the last thing I said? I blinked in surprise. I had not really thought about what I was saying, so I was at a loss for words.
Seeing me like this, Danmokbi spoke, his eyes twinkling,
“I’ll get everything for you. Everything Yeona wants. Even if I have to search the whole world.”
“Young master.”
It was cute and lovely to make such a blank promise, but
I asked a very practical question,
“How will you get everything, young master?”
“Huh?”
“You have neither money nor land.”
“That’s….”
Danmokbi, who had been confined only to the outbuilding, seemed slightly shocked by my question.
‘He might not even know that you have to pay money to buy things.’
He might not even know what money is.
Worried that he might get into trouble trying to do something for me, I soothed Danmokbi in a gentle tone,
“I’ll buy what I need myself. I’m thankful for just your feelings, young master. I don’t ask for anything special from you.”
Now’s the time. Time for some tableside education.
I looked Danmokbi in the eyes and spoke in a tender tone,
“I hope you become a good person.”
“A good person?”
“Always be fair, help the weak, and scold the bad people.”
“But….”
I was nervous that Danmokbi might say he wants to punish all the people who had imprisoned him here.
But contrary to such tension, the words flowing from Danmokbi’s lips were incredibly light,
“I can’t be like Yeona.”
“Oh my.”
So to Danmokbi, a ‘good person’ means me.
“I’m honored by your words.”
I was grateful, but at the same time, I felt a heavy sense of responsibility. It meant that Danmokbi might actually follow my actions.
‘I must become a righteous youth.’
I reflect like this. On my past days. Have I lived a life worth being someone else’s example?
I stroked Danmokbi’s head and said,
“Just grow up as beautifully as you are now. I really don’t want anything.”
“But….”
When our conversation was about to drag on, Baekho, the white tiger, stomped its thick front paw and got angry,
What’s all this talk? Hurry up and finish.
“Ah, that’s right. Eat quickly.”
I handed a plate to Danmokbi. Thanks to the honey marinade, Danmokbi ate the ginseng cleanly without fussing.
Now sit back and relax. The energy will come soon.
It was reassuring to have Baekho. I sat quietly in one corner. I planned to keep this spot until the entire process was over.
Soon enough, the heat in the room started to rise, and sweat began to bead on Danmokbi’s forehead.
It was just as I tensely clenched my fist,
“Yeona.”
“Yes?”
Danmokbi, who had to close his eyes to feel the energy, suddenly asked me in an urgent voice,
“If I become a good person, will you stay by my side forever?”
I must be really imprinted on Danmokbi like a mother hen. I smiled and nodded,
“Yes.”
I have nowhere else to go after leaving the Danmok clan.
Even though I nodded calmly, Danmokbi still seemed uneasy,
“You promised.”
Danmokbi said again in a serious tone,
“If you break the promise…….”
He said something, but I didn’t hear the next words.
It took a whole week to turn the energy of the evergreen ginseng into inner power.
After that, I broke a few more piggy banks.
I brought the Heavenly Silkworm Cloth (a legendary silk that is said to never tear) that was hanging in the ancestral master’s tomb, and the secret weapon ‘Danmok’s Best Sword Scripture’ disguised as a portrait. I also caught the golden carp that had been hiding and living with the other carps in the pond and boiled it into a spicy stew.
At this point, I wonder if you’re a spy who came to rob Danmok’s World.
“Ahahaha, if that were the case, I would have been caught.”
I awkwardly laughed and made such an excuse, but I was secretly embarrassed.
‘Besides, it seems like my skills are growing.’
Is this how I find it, my hidden talent?
A grave robber!
‘But the ancestral master, my grandfather, will understand. It’s not someone else, but his own grandson using it.’
If you don’t understand, you’re a bad person.
‘If you hadn’t been so eager to become stronger and passed on the [Danmok’s Best Sword Scripture] to your impatient son, this trouble wouldn’t have happened. You didn’t know about this secret martial art and only knew [Danmok Spear Technique], so you decided to seal the water deity to gain power, didn’t you?’
Anyway, you have some responsibility too, so please understand, ancestral master grandfather.
And Danmokbi grew rapidly so that my efforts wouldn’t be in vain.
“Yeona.”
Holding the finished golden carp spicy stew, I entered the annex, only to stop at the sight of the bright smile welcoming me.
‘Ah, dazzling.’
Her face was pretty to begin with, but there was no comparison to now.
Her complexion had become healthy and peachlike, and her face, now with a bit of flesh, looked adorable like a doll’s.
Above all, her greatly grown height!
‘How starved she must have been all this time.’
Danmokbi’s height was growing noticeably every day, just like bean sprouts.
“Is it heavy? Let me carry it.”
“It’s okay. Bringing your meal is my job.”
Danmokbi, who approached me like a puppy, quickly snatched the tray from my hand. Then he looked down at the pot with a stiff face.
“But this is…….”
Perhaps it was due to my willingness to break the piggy bank, but Danmokbi recognized the extraordinary thing at once.
“It seems to be something extraordinary again, right?”
“Ahahaha.”
Yes, it’s a spicy stew boiled with a legendary golden carp that you can’t buy even with a mountain of gold.
I just smiled awkwardly.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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