“Master is not in Sega?”
Upon hearing those words, I recalled another setting I had made.
“That’s right. Danmokchang has lived in Sin Mountain since childhood to gain his power. He trained there and first met the heroine.”
I had forgotten about it because the childhood story passed so quickly. Remembering the original work, I tilted my head.
“Then who’s that child?”
The child who ate plums and apricots with me, and had soup.
My face turned pale.
In Sega, there are not two beings called “master.”
One is the protagonist, Danmokchang.
And the protagonist’s twin brother, the sweet potato answer to the original work’s inferiority complex, Danmokbi.
He later became a martial arts hero, initiating the martial arts grand battle as the final villain.
“Then the last one is…”
Only Danmokchang had inscribed the spell to seal the divine beast in the novel.
But Danmokbi had clearly said that it was inscribed on him too.
It was a curse.
He said he’s a futile existence that will soon disappear, without parents or siblings.
The moment I recalled those words, I could no longer endure it.
I jumped up from my seat. Sibi grabbed me.
“Kid! Where are you going?”
“To the toilet!”
I ran down the path that I had been lazily walking on.
And when I climbed over the wall of the annex where Danmokbi was staying, huffing and puffing.
Danmokbi was lying on the floor.
Even at best, it looked dire. His head was buried in the ground, and his disheveled hair covered his face, so I couldn’t see his expression. Dark red blood was spread on the floor like a shadow.
It looked like a creepy ghost had crawled out and gotten caught somewhere.
“Master!”
Though the situation was difficult to approach, knowing Danmokbi’s usual appearance made it nothing more or less than pitiable to me.
I rushed to him and tried to support him, but I froze.
“You…”
The black tiger image was tightly engraved on his back where a cloth usually wrapped around.
“Don’t come here… Cough! Cough!”
Danmokbi coughed up a rough cough again. I held Danmokbi. His body temperature was cold as ice, making my palms tingle.
“What is this? What happened?”
With shaking eyes, I stared at Danmokbi’s back and bloodstained lips.
‘I never imagined this situation. I only set Danmokchang’s ordeal!’
Why the tiger that should be behind Danmokchang is here, why Danmokbi is suffering so much while sealing the white tiger in Danmokchang’s body, I couldn’t understand anything.
Looking at my confusion, Danmokbi answered firmly.
“I told you. It’s a curse.”
Frozen by the chill of the word “curse,” I stiffened, forgetting even to breathe. Danmokbi murmured with a dazed expression.
“I have to die for everyone to be happy. So you go away. Don’t get involved unnecessarily.”
“What kind of nonsense is that?”
The last day, the curse, the isolated child who grew up as an existence that had to die.
All the facts I had witnessed were mixed up messily.
I only had one thing to say.
“Don’t believe such words.”
“What?”
My face was reflected in Danmokbi’s black eyes. It was a very sincere and desperate expression.
“Don’t believe in the curse. You are not a cursed being. A world where everyone is happy when one child dies. Where is such a garbage world?”
The novel I wrote was not such a world. It was a novel where they competed fairly and loved fiercely.
Could it just be that my brother’s inferiority complex had led him down a dark path, and that there was such a backstory to my younger sibling?
“I can’t allow that as the author!”
I gripped Danmokbi tightly.
“You will not die today, Young Master!”
At my shout, Danmokbi’s eyes widened. From his dark pupils, his previously confused consciousness became clear. And warmth returned to his cold body.
Then, the dark evil energy that had been about to swallow him swirled around us, buzzing.
I hate you. I hate all of you.
The owner of the dark evil energy was none other than the divine beast, the White Tiger.
How dare you try to imprison me, a divine beast.
You will be cursed.
Upon hearing the rumbling, the situation became clear to me.
‘They wanted to use this child as a sacrificial lamb.’
Danmokbi and his twin, Danmokchang, were identical twins.
They sealed the divine beast to make Danmokchang a peak master, but the rebound and curse resulting from that would fall on Danmokbi.
I will kill you. I will kill you all!
The evil energy opened its massive mouth at us, howling with a spinechilling voice.
I reflexively hugged Danmokbi tightly and shouted at the evil energy.
“Don’t talk nonsense! Today is not the day he dies!”
I closed my eyes and shouted. Despite the bewildering moment, I could call out with an unshakable, powerful tone.
I had to. I knew the ending of this novel. Even if a miserable future awaited, today was not the day he died.
“So get lost!”
Then, the evil energy that seemed about to swallow Danmokbi was pushed back as if by some force.
I blinked my eyes.
‘Why was it pushed back?’
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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