Raising a Villain Went Wrong (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 3
“You mean the young master isn’t at the estate?”
Only after hearing those words did another detail from my own setting suddenly come back to me.
“Right. Dan Mok Chang lived on Mount Shin from childhood to gain that power. That’s where he first met the heroine during his training.”
It was such a fleeting childhood episode that I’d completely forgotten about it. Recalling the original story, I tilted my head in confusion.
“Then who is that child?”
The child who ate plums and apricots with me, and shared tanggwa.
My face turned deathly pale.
After all, weren’t there two people in this estate who should be addressed as “young master”?
One was the protagonist, Dan Mok Chang.
And the other was the protagonist’s twin brother—Dan Mok Bi—the frustratingly pitiful character consumed by inferiority in the original story.
He would later become the ultimate villain, an enemy of the martial world who would ignite the Great Martial War.
“So ‘the last one’ means…”
In the novel, only Dan Mok Chang bore the ritual markings meant to seal the divine beast.
But Dan Mok Bi had clearly said it himself—that those markings were also carved onto him.
Specifically, as a curse.
-He said I’m a meaningless existence destined to vanish soon, with neither parents nor brothers.
The moment I recalled those words, I couldn’t hold back any longer.
I shot up from my seat. Someone grabbed my arm.
“Hey! Where are you going!”
“To the privy!”
I poured all my strength into my legs and ran down the very path I’d strolled along so casually just moments before.
And just as I was gasping for breath, having scaled the wall of the detached quarters where Dan Mok Bi stayed—
Dan Mok Bi lay collapsed on the ground.
No matter how generously I looked at it, he was in terrible shape. His head was buried in the floor, his wildly disheveled hair covering his face so I couldn’t see his expression. Dark crimson blood spread across the ground like a shadow.
It was a chilling sight—as if a ghost had crawled out only to be caught somewhere along the way.
“Young master!”
Though the situation made it hard to approach him readily, to me—who knew Dan Mok Bi’s usual self—it was nothing more than a pitiful sight.
I rushed toward him to help him up, but froze in place.
“Wha…?”
On his back, where the cloth he usually kept tightly wrapped had come undone, a dense pattern of a black tiger was clearly engraved.
“Didn’t I tell you not to come here… Cough! Cough!”
Dan Mok Bi let out another harsh cough. I grabbed hold of him. My palms tingled from his ice-cold body temperature.
“What is this? What’s going on?”
With trembling eyes, I stared at the markings on Dan Mok Bi’s back and his bloodstained lips.
“I never imagined a situation like this. I only set up trials for Dan Mok Chang!”
Why was the tiger that should have been on Dan Mok Chang’s back here instead? Why was Dan Mok Bi suffering so terribly when Baek Ho was supposed to be sealed into Dan Mok Chang’s body? I couldn’t understand any of it.
Seeing my confusion, Dan Mok Bi answered firmly.
“I already told you. It’s a curse.”
Chilled by the dread that word carried, I froze, forgetting even to breathe. Dan Mok Bi murmured dazedly.
“They say everyone will be happy only if I die. So go away. Don’t get dragged into this for no reason.”
“What nonsense is that?”
A child raised in isolation, branded as cursed, as someone who must die on his final day.
All the facts I’d witnessed swirled together chaotically in my mind.
I had only one thing to say.
“Don’t believe words like that.”
“What?”
My face reflected clearly in Dan Mok Bi’s dark eyes—desperate and earnest.
“Don’t believe in this ‘curse.’ You’re not a cursed being. A world where everyone becomes happy just because one child dies? Where is such a worthless world?”
The novel I wrote wasn’t like that. It was a story about fair contests and passionate love.
Who would’ve guessed that the younger brother, whose only flaw was excessive inferiority toward his elder sibling leading him down a dark path, had such a backstory?
“As the original author, I absolutely won’t allow this!”
I gripped Dan Mok Bi tightly.
“Most of all, young master—you won’t die today!”
At my shout, Dan Mok Bi’s eyes widened. Clarity returned to his previously hazy consciousness, and warmth flowed back into his once-frigid body.
Immediately, the black aura that had been trying to swallow him began circling us wildly, humming menacingly.
-I hate you. I hate you all.
The master of the black aura was none other than the divine beast, Baek Ho.
-How dare you try to imprison me, a divine beast.
-Accept this curse.
Hearing that mutter, I instantly understood the situation clearly.
“They intended to use him as a scapegoat.”
Dan Mok Chang and Dan Mok Bi were identical twins.
Instead of sealing the divine beast into Dan Mok Chang to make him an unrivaled martial master, they’d arranged for all the backlash and curses to fall upon Dan Mok Bi.
-I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you all!
The black aura roared in a spine-chilling voice, opening a massive maw toward us.
Reflexively, I pulled Dan Mok Bi tightly against me and shouted at the aura.
“Stop spouting nonsense! Today isn’t the day he dies!”
I squeezed my eyes shut and shouted. Though startled, I managed to cry out with unwavering strength.
I had no choice—I knew how this novel ended. Even if a tragic future awaited him, today wasn’t the day he would die.
“So get lost!!”
At that, the aura—which had seemed ready to devour Dan Mok Bi any second—retreated as if pushed back by some unseen force.
I blinked.
“Why did it retreat?”
Whatever the reason, it was clear the aura couldn’t attack me. Unable to harm us, it circled us frantically, roaring.
-Who are you?! What are you to interfere with me?!
If the aura couldn’t attack me, there could only be one reason. I steeled my gaze.
“I’m not afraid of that thing at all.”
Whether it was a curse or sorcery, it clearly couldn’t harm someone who refused to believe in its power.
-Hand him over!
The aura let out a horrifying shriek. But just as I’d expected, it couldn’t swallow me. Its target was Dan Mok Bi alone.
Dan Mok Bi tugged at my sleeve and said,
“Go away, Yeon. You’ll get hurt too!”
“Trust me, young master!”
I locked eyes with Dan Mok Bi.
“Don’t believe those words—believe in me.”
“……!!”
Dan Mok Bi’s eyes widened in astonishment. I spoke with firm resolve.
“You’ll become the strongest man in this martial world.”
That was another story I’d never written before. I clenched my fists tightly.
“To think Dan Mok Bi ended up in such a miserable state because of a single line I wrote in my novel.”
Back then, I’d only written it because it seemed fun—“The villain is the twin brother! Everyone will be shocked!” I’d thought.
“I didn’t know then that someone would end up this heartbroken.”
Thus, at this very moment, I spoke each word with more desperation than anyone else could muster.
If this happened because I’m the author—if it happened because of the setting I created—
Then perhaps a new story could unfold just as I spoke.
“This is nothing at all. You won’t even remember it when you wake up tomorrow. Maybe someday, over a drink, you’ll recall it and laugh.”
“……Really?”
Tears welled in Dan Mok Bi’s eyes.
“Will it really turn out that way?”
My own eyes grew hot and red. I could feel all the sorrow and pain Dan Mok Bi must have endured over the years.
“I can’t just leave him like this.”
To claim I felt no hesitation would be a lie. Alongside my desire to craft this new story, I also harbored fear that the original might unravel. After all, who could guarantee this altered tale would end happier than the original?
But the moment I saw Dan Mok Bi crying so sadly before my eyes, my resolve clicked firmly into place.
I nodded.
“Believe my words.”
Even if it meant ruining the original, I couldn’t leave him in such a wretched state any longer.
“I must break this curse.”
There must be a reason they kept locking Dan Mok Bi away as a scapegoat and kept saying someone would die every time he met you.
“Perhaps it’s because the curse relies heavily on the victim’s own will.”
Therefore, Dan Mok Bi himself must believe he isn’t a cursed being.
Dan Mok Bi bit his lip. But the aura didn’t subside—the surroundings remained dark and eerie. Proof that he still believed himself cursed.
“Was it really too much to ask him to rely on me?”
Truthfully, it was only natural he couldn’t trust me. We’d only known each other for a few days, and even I thought I seemed awfully suspicious.
“I’m not even sure I have the right to say such things.”
After all, if I thought about it, eighty percent of his miserable life was my fault.
“So I won’t back down either.”
If it wants to devour me, let it try. I had no intention of leaving Dan Mok Bi alone in this situation.
It was at that exact moment.
“……I believe you.”
A tiny voice thundered in my ears.
“I believe your words, Yeon.”
Simultaneously, a crisp wind swept around us, dispelling the chilling aura.
I instinctively realized—the ritual had been broken.
The aura that had come to swallow Dan Mok Bi shrieked furiously.
-Kraaah! How infuriating!
The black smoke shaped like a tiger roared toward the sky.
Ugh, instead of attacking the ritual’s core, it came here to make a scene—what a pathetic sight.
Angrily, I called out to the aura.
“Hey, you useless tiger bastard.”
The aura—or rather, a fragment of the divine beast Baek Ho—stared at me.
“I’m not sure if I should even say this…”
But if Dan Mok Bi could break the scapegoat ritual through belief—
“Don’t you understand? There’s no human in this world who can hold you back.”
Wouldn’t that apply to the divine beast Baek Ho as well?
The moment those words left my mouth, the black aura turned white, shattering like breaking glass.
A confused voice called out to me.
-What are you, human?
Who knows.
“I’m just a storyteller.”
A fierce gust of wind and blinding white light surged toward me. Reflexively, I pulled Dan Mok Bi close and squeezed my eyes shut.
I must have passed out without even realizing it.
Mount Yanghwi, near Hangju.
The five clan elders and the clan head, who had gathered to seal Baek Ho into Dan Mok Chang’s body, faced each other with grim expressions.
Dan Mok Su, head of the Dan Mok Clan, glanced at his eldest son, who had collapsed on the ritual array coughing up blood, and spoke.
“The ritual has failed.”
“Then our hopes are…”
Before he could finish, the elders erupted into loud murmurs. But Dan Mok Su cut them off firmly before they could raise further objections.
“I never truly expected we could seal the divine beast from the start. We all knew it wouldn’t be easy, didn’t we?”
At the clan head’s words, the elders fell silent once more.
He was right. The clan had already invested many years toward fulfilling this secret ambition—it was never meant to be simple.
Dan Mok Su rubbed his chin. Regardless of anything else, Baek Ho’s final words as he departed felt deeply significant.
-This pitiful ritual cannot hold me.
“I was certain we’d almost captured him.”
What could have suddenly given Baek Ho such strength to escape?
“Still, what caused the ritual to break is troubling.”
I had a strange certainty—if we didn’t uncover the reason, we’d keep failing.
Dan Mok Su concluded the meeting with solemn resolve.
“There are many spiritual creatures in this world. Another opportunity will come.”
He would not give up.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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