Still unable to see well, the brother, who was fumbling around waving his hands, finally spotted Sugar standing alone in one corner of the room.
At that moment, there was only one thing dominating the brother’s mind.
Sacrifice. The price paid for a deal with a god.
As the brother’s parched lips, cracked and pale, stretched open, drops of crimson blood formed.
“You! Come here!”
Although the brother screamed as if gasping for breath, Sugar remained frozen in place, unable to move.
Unable to move.
Seeing Sugar immobile, veins swelled in the brother’s eyes, and with an unknown burst of strength, he abruptly rose.
He reached out towards Sugar with eyes filled with madness.
“Didn’t you hear me? Come here.”
Although his tone was affectionate as usual, it had a slightly irritable quality.
However, due to the eerie smile that appeared on the brother’s face, Sugar remained frozen.
[SFX] Thud.The eyes of the man who brutally grabbed Sugar’s thin arm, concealed by the skirt, sparkled.
“I got you.”
Although it wasn’t clear what it was, the bizarre and strong emotion in the brother’s mutterings was too loud for Sugar’s ears.
“After a long time, huh? Hm? Do you know what your brother went through because of you?”
Constantly talking, the man’s strange and rough strength dragged Sugar away relentlessly.
The direction the brother was taking Sugar was none other than the bed where he had just been lying down a moment ago.
In fact, he didn’t know how to offer a sacrifice to a god.
But the only thing vividly imprinted in his head, with only one purpose remaining, was to reveal the stamp.
“Wait… a moment!”
Sugar had realized that something was wrong from the moment the brother had spotted him, but only now, with a sense of alienation from the years spent together, did he manage to come to his senses.
“Brother? Brother, why are you suddenly doing this…?”
“You don’t need to call me brother now. There’s no need for that now.”
“Why are you doing this? Wait a moment. Brother!”
Ignoring Sugar’s scream, similar to a scream, the brother moved to see what he intended.
“Ha, here. I’m here. See? I’m right here. Ha, hahaha. Hahaha!”
Confirming the mark sharply engraved on his ribs, the man, with a distorted face, muttered, laughed, muttered again, and then repeated laughter.
“As long as I have this. I’ll make you regret treating me like that.”
He was furious and deeply enraged by the reality that his once prestigious family had fallen apart, and he now lived as a servant in another family.
After his parents passed away, while organizing the inheritance, he had thought about why the deal wasn’t properly fulfilled.
But it was just a ‘thought.’
Then, one day, an irresistible and sweet proposal came.
‘Just do a simple task.’
“Is it really true that helping with just that task can revive the family?”
“Pledging the name of Hainder.”
Could anyone really refuse that offer?
The venture Sugar had eagerly embraced with dreams of rebuilding the Levoir family did not unfold as expected and ultimately ended in failure.
And as a result…
[SFX] Squelch.A chilling sound flowed through the air, resonating with the intense glint in the brother’s eyes.
Sugar struggled desperately, but it was futile.
Already not possessing a robust physique and further impoverished after the passing of parents, Sugar, who was smaller than peers, couldn’t extend a helping hand to the brother working alone outside at night, despite the hunger gnawing at their stomach.
“Hyung! Hyeeong! Stop it! Stop it! Why are you doing this…?”
“Why? Why, you ask? Because if I offer you as compensation now, the god will surely take care of our family!”
Cutting off my words, my brother shouted with a reversed voice, and Sugar, locking eyes with the brother, realized.
The brother is sincere.
The child immediately recalled the words his brother had uttered and accurately grasped his situation.
Offering compensation. God. Our family.
“Is… the stamp meant for that?”
“Haha! Yes! Exactly that! Until now, foolish ancestors and parents have been hiding and avoiding it, but not me! I violated a proper deal with a god, and that’s why it turned out like this!”
“Even our parents…”
Sugar couldn’t continue speaking, but the brother, with bursting veins and eyes turning crimson, continued shouting incessantly.
“Yes! Our parents told me to protect you! That’s why I’ve been hiding you until now!”
“Ah… father. Mother…”
“You’re leaving behind a baggage like you, and they comfortably died! If you had known properly what you were, you wouldn’t have died like that!”
The brother relentlessly poured out malice and greed toward Sugar.
“You’re foolish! You’re a sacrifice, a sacrifice! That’s how you were born!”
While hearing those harsh words, Sugar’s eye sockets reddened, seeming on the verge of tears, yet not a single drop fell.
“If I was born as a sacrifice? If I hadn’t been born, you would have been the sacrifice with this stamp.”
“Oh, right. I did have that stamp once. But you were born, right?”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
