Baekho ran over and hit my back with his small front paws as I watched his fluffy fur with a contented eye.
Give me some too! Don’t eat it all yourselves!
“Ouch, yes yes. Baekho sir, should I remove only the white flesh of the fish for you?”
I am a great mystical beast. I can chew even the bones.
Yes yes, you would certainly say so.
I placed a dish of steamed fish in front of Baekho. Usually, he would nap without eating, even if we were eating, but today the food must have looked appetizing.
As I looked at Baekho’s fluffy fur with fond eyes, I felt a sharp glance on my cheek.
“Young master, what’s wrong? Shall I get something else for you?”
“It doesn’t taste good.”
“What? That can’t be!”
“It’s true. It doesn’t taste good. Let Yeona taste it.”
“That’s strange.”
Surprised by Danmokbi’s words, I tasted this and that with my chopsticks. But contrary to Danmokbi’s words, everything was flavorful.
‘Perhaps I made it too spicy for the young master?’
Since I wasn’t a real Midland person, the seasoning or condiments I used might have been different from what they were used to.
‘I’ll have to think about this.’
While thinking so, I tasted this and that seriously. In the meantime, Danmokbi and I ended our meal on friendly terms.
‘Oh dear, I think I ate more.’
With a variety of colorful dishes, my hands kept reaching out. Reluctantly, I tried to get up, pushing my knees with force.
“I’ll bring some refreshing tea… Huh?”
As I was about to get up, Danmokbi embraced my waist with both arms. Because of that, I plopped down into his arms.
Startled, I turned around, and he buried his face in my back, whispering in a soft voice,
“Don’t ever go anywhere without telling me again.”
‘Such a scare, he must have been.’
This was the first time I had seen Danmokbi so withdrawn. But considering his position, I understood. The maid, who had laughed and talked with him for the first time since he was born, suddenly disappeared.
‘Ugh, Danmoksu, you wicked one. Come out from the food.’
I cursed the Lord who had tormented Danmokbi in my heart. Then I wrapped Danmokbi’s hands with both of mine and replied,
“I promise. I’ll never leave.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
As I made the vow, the strength in his hands holding me seemed to diminish. I turned to face Danmokbi and smiled brightly.
“If I disappear, it must be the work of a bad person. So you must come and save me.”
“……Of course.”
Danmokbi’s lips had taken the shape of a ‘시,’ perhaps from biting down in determination. His appearance was so adorable that I involuntarily chuckled.
I didn’t notice then.
“Are you friendly with the General?”
“Me? No? What would we have to be friends about?”
“That quarrel he had with you?”
“He was a friend who shared a room with me. He must have been worried since I wasn’t there.”
“Yeona.”
“Yes?”
There was a point to Danmokbi’s casual question, proceeding like an ordinary conversation.
“……It’s nothing.”
Danmokbi’s dark eyes darkened once more, like a clouded sky.
[This is the time separator]After Danmokbi left, taking care of Yeona, a small disturbance occurred in the main hall. A warrior who, like the General, had come to greet the provincial lord, asked the General with a stern face.
“General, did you see?”
“…….”
The General, rigid as a rock, did not reply. The warrior mumbled with a troubled expression.
“When did he grow up so splendidly? He seems even healthier than Lord Danmokchang…….”
“Be quiet.”
Danmokchang and Danmokbi. The twin brothers were not something easily spoken of.
The General spoke in a heavy voice.
“I will tell the Lord myself.”
The second son, who was so weak he was expected to die soon, Danmokbi.
‘But what was that energy I felt earlier? That momentum.’
The General wiped the cold sweat with the back of his hand.
The second son, thought to die soon, had grown robustly, and the first son, expected to return as the best in the world, came back as thin as a skeleton.
‘What in the world is happening?’
It felt like a foreboding omen.
[This is the time separator]
Yeona fell asleep quickly, perhaps due to fatigue.
Danmokbi gently stroked Yeona’s hair, looking down at her face, as if etching every corner of it into his retina.
‘I thought my heart would drop.’
No matter how long he waited at the palace, Yeona did not come. White Tiger, who appeared after a while, said grumpily.
Something urgent must have happened. They were just dragging her away.
His heart stirred uncomfortably at those words. Had the three rascals finally reached out to Yeona? Were they trying to take away the only thing he had?
If White Tiger had not stopped him, he would have rushed to the main hall and flipped it over. It was torture to endure the assurance that Yeona was not in danger, to endure it again.
And during those three days, Danmokbi realized to the bone.
How special Yeona was to him.
A night without Yeona was chillingly cold and scary, and eating alone without her felt like chewing raw sand.
Enduring and enduring, he finally kicked up and went to fetch Yeona.
‘There was a Yeona I didn’t know. Smiling brightly, talking, being loved.’
She was smiling brightly even without him.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
