“Miss, didn’t you mention earlier that you were going to the slave market? Shall we schedule your visit for tomorrow?”
“No, cancel the slave market.”
They say if you’re mindful, you can survive even in a tiger’s den. I couldn’t just sit here and do nothing.
I had to think of a way, no matter what.
[This is the time separator]That night, I fell into the world within the book and had a dream for the first time.
It was a dream where I found Askan at the slave market.
I recognized the ancient language engraved on his neck at first glance. Not only that, but I also recognized the dozens of magic formulas engraved on Askan’s body.
Those were the traces of experiments forced upon him to turn him into a human weapon.
Anyone who didn’t know anything might have thought it was a rare tattoo, but I knew exactly what it meant.
The process of infusing a regular human body with special abilities.
In my dream, I shuddered at the discovery of this new fact.
“If I could have Naxia’s ability… The way people look at me would change.”
I had always been compared to others since birth.
If there was one thing that I could never surpass Tanashia in, it was the ability to control water, which had all but disappeared from our family.
If I could decode the ancient language and magical formulas engraved on Askan’s body, I might be able to replicate the ability to control Naxia’s water into my body.
I bought the slave Askan and secretly started my research inside the house without anyone knowing.
Whether it was a success or failure, because it was in no way a legal method, all the facts were thoroughly kept secret.
The first thing I did was to find out what his ability was.
“Stop resisting. Show me your hidden ability. When I look at the formulas engraved on your body, you’re already beyond an ordinary human.”
Askan didn’t open his mouth. It wasn’t like him, who risked his life to escape from the lab, to spill his past.
I tried every trick in the book to open his mouth.
It was true that I didn’t like his black hair, the same as mine, but there was a reason behind tormenting him.
Whack!
A long whip mark remained on Askan’s upper body, who was undressed.
Whip! Whip!
It was after I had repeated this dozens of times.
Unexpectedly, a moment came when no wounds were left on Askan’s body.
I approached him, writhing in pain, and touched his woundfree skin.
It was hard.
Like steel.
The moment I first realized Askan’s ability, I smiled a crazed smile and said,
“What’s this, it’s this?”
The ability to turn his entire body into steel.
Without holding a sword, his entire body was already a weapon, and he didn’t even get hurt by average attacks.
The power one person could possess with that was enormous. He could cut down dozens, or even hundreds, of people on his own.
That was exactly the reality of the human weapon that the Calrua Empire was creating.
I, who had read the novel “The Beloved Saint,” knew this already, but I didn’t expect the Tanashia in the story to know it as well.
The me in my dream was filled with joy, but the real me felt chills all over my body.
‘What is this? I want to wake up.’
Like I was held down by sleep paralysis, I struggled hard with my immobile body.
At first, my body didn’t budge, but it slowly started to move according to my will.
The moment I was barely able to move a finger, the rest was easy.
At some point, my eyes flew open, and the bright morning sunlight was visible.
“Huff, huff.”
My breath was rough, as if I had run a full sprint.
I could feel that the bed I was lying on was drenched in sweat.
‘What did I just see?’
It wasn’t a simple dream. I couldn’t call something so vivid a fantasy.
Up until now, I had imagined what I read in the novel . What I felt a moment ago felt like getting a glimpse into Tanashia’s past.
Yes, it was as if I experienced it firsthand, not just someone telling me about it.
It felt as if Tanashia from the novel and I were merging into one person.
‘What the hell happened?’
There were too many hidden stories in the novel that I didn’t know about. This is why you should never read an unfinished novel!
But it was too late to regret.
The reality I found myself in was too desperate to just sit and lament my fate.
‘If this is the truth, then I haven’t just been tormenting Askan, I’ve been experimenting on him like he’s the Kallua Empire!’
If I had tormented him to this extent, it would be hard to change his image.
In short, the likelihood of being beheaded by Askan in the future was very high.
‘What’s all this? There are landmines everywhere!’
At first, I thought it would be fine as long as I didn’t torment him, but not only was I treating Askan, the final villain, so badly, I was also secretly experimenting on him.
‘I’m really screwed.’
The death flags weren’t just standing there, they were so strong that it seemed impossible to avoid them easily.
Until now, I’ve been denying it, but it seemed certain that Askan had terrible thoughts about his past in the Arwen Empire because of me.
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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