If I say that I don’t want to return to the world where I used to live, that would be half a lie. How could I give up the world where I was born and raised?
But I soon gave up on the idea. It was because of Hyul Jung Hyuk’s words.
“The same blood price. I can’t offer such a sacrifice just to return to my hometown.”
Some might say so. After all, if I return, those people only exist as characters. So why do I need to empathize with them like that?
But don’t I already know? This world is not just a world that exists as characters, and the people here are really living, breathing beings.
“I can no longer make Danmokbi, or Danmokchang, or Hyul Jung Hyuk unhappy.”
Now that I knew they were people moving with free will, even if I went back to that world, I could no longer bang on the keyboard like before.
“So, it’s best to do everything in my power to change this unhappy fate in this world.”
But can I do it?
Thinking of the future that I must change, my heart was swept with anxiety.
“Right now, if Hyul Jung Hyuk were to seriously injure Danmokbi……”
What should I do in that situation?
“That must not happen.”
I wanted to rush out and stop the two of them right away. In my haste, I stood up, only to sit back down again. It was because of the heavy shackles that creaked around my ankles.
“They said it was made of iron that never rusts.”
So this cannot be broken. I cannot break it because I wrote that no method could break it.
“Ah, what was I thinking when I made this! I must not have been thinking at all!”
As I was pointlessly banging my head with my fist, Baekho grumbled, stroking his whiskers with his front paw.
[Dash] Stop acting crazy and just sit and wait.“How can I just sit and wait?”
[Dash] Being anxious won’t change anything.“That’s true……”
Baekho’s words were not wrong at all. I nodded my head and shut my mouth for a moment.
But that silence didn’t last even three minutes. I shook the shackles and yelled as if I had never nodded my head.
“Ugh, Hyul Jung Hyuk! Where did you get these annoying shackles!!”
If it weren’t for these shackles, I could run out right now and join Danmokbi’s party, who came to rescue me. I ended up just shaking poor Baekho and saying,
“Lord Baekho, what do we do? If the young master is hurt, I cannot calmly watch. I will surely act like a madman!”
I was really speaking out of anxiety, but Baekho was utterly calm. As if he was feeling seasick from my shaking, he irritably scratched the back of my hand and replied curtly.
[Dash] If you’re right, it’s your fault that Hyul Jung Hyuk got that role. So, you must wait calmly.“That, that’s true, but……”
That was right. Since I came to this world, most of my actions were my fault, and my way was to correct the original work by blaming myself.
But this time, I couldn’t just accept it and nod my head. I said with a determined voice,
“Danmokbi must not be hurt.”
[Dash] Why?“Because.”
Just as I was about to say why Danmokbi was special to me,
A familiar voice called me from outside the door.
“Jegal Sojeo, are you there?”
I opened my eyes wide and lifted my head. The door opened, and the face of the person who entered was very familiar.
“Young master?”
But the moment our eyes met, I came to my senses as if cold water had been poured over my head. The man standing before me was not Danmokbi. It was Danmokchang, Danmokbi’s twin brother.
“……Danmok Sohyup.”
Was it because my voice was so full of disappointment? Danmokchang froze for a moment. But soon, he smiled kindly and nodded his head.
“Yes, I hear you.”
The pain in my chest was as if it had been stabbed with a needle. The conversation we had just before parting came to mind.
I didn’t pass the opportunity to Danmokbi to make him unhappy.
In the original, Danmokchang deeply regretted sealing the White Tiger in his body. So, he just thought it would be good for both of them if Danmokbi failed as a seal and it became void.
How could he have thought that Danmokchang would compare himself to Danmokbi and get hurt?
‘And yet, he’s so gentle.’
Even at this moment, he’s pretending not to be hurt for my sake, isn’t he smiling?
Hesitating, Danmokchang reached out to me.
“Danmokbi’s eyes are drawn now, and the Blood Cult is completely empty. Let’s go quickly. Now is the chance.”
It sounded like an opportunity to my ears. And leaving quickly would be helping Danmokbi.
But there was an important reason why I couldn’t leave. I pointed to my ankle with my finger and said,
“That, that’s it. Shackles are fastened to me.”
“Shackles?”
Danmokchang frowned at the location being the ankle, his face reddened slightly, and he bowed his head.
“May I look at your ankle?”
“Of course.”
In this world, showing one’s bare legs is something to be shown only to a husband… but this is a special situation, so it can’t be helped, right?
Danmokchang’s ears turned bright red, probably aware of the custom. He carefully grabbed my ankle and examined the shackles, mumbling in a small voice,
“How barbaric…”
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
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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