Seolsung tilted her head towards Romi’s ear, which remained rigid.
Still caressing her chin, she warned in a hushed tone.
“It would be best if we somehow avoid becoming enemies, wouldn’t it?”
Simultaneously.
San too felt the energy that Mongma had explosively emitted.
Knowing they couldn’t battle without a cause, he wasn’t overly concerned. However, the provocative actions suggested that this wasn’t any ordinary individual.
As he gazed past the balcony, Kang approached him, querying,
“Why? Did someone come again?”
She hadn’t sensed anything, thus asking. He briefly explained the recent situation to her.
Upon hearing the story, Kang inquired.
“Is the celestial that just descended so remarkable? How powerful is he?”
She had heard quite a bit about Mongma but knew little about celestials, making her curious.
“Well, he might be a head celestial, but at the very least, he’s a deputy head celestial.”
Head celestial? Deputy head celestial? What are those?
With a puzzled look on her face, San patiently elucidated.
“There are five kingdoms in the celestial realm.”
The Flower Kingdom (화국), governing human positive emotions – a realm radiant with flowers.
The Snow Kingdom (설국), in charge of human dreams – an expanse of white snow.
The Rain Kingdom (우국), overseeing human negative emotions – a grayscale realm with perpetual rain.
The Sun Kingdom (일국), guiding human birth.
The Moon Kingdom (월국), governing human death.
“The Flower Kingdom is responsible for human positive emotions. It’s also where your mother served as a head celestial.”
The Flower Kingdom, known for its scenic beauty, especially during the warm spring with flowers and trees abound, was the most picturesque in the celestial realm. The celestials there mostly had warm and bright personalities, overseeing human emotions such as joy, pleasure, and happiness.
And they often gifted humans with experiences that allowed them to feel such emotions.
“Seolguk oversees human dreams. During wars, it is an organization formed as punitive forces, so it has many individuals skilled in combat.”
A land blanketed entirely with pristine snow and ice.
That place was also where Seolsung served as the vice-commander.
However, noticing a shadow crossing San’s face as he spoke about Seolguk, a puzzled Kang asked,
“Why has your complexion suddenly darkened?”
Seeing her concerned look, he briefly shook his head.
“No, just… a bad memory resurfaced.”
San’s encounter with the leader of Seolguk happened when he was sixteen.
“What happened there?”
“I’ve never been to Seolguk.”
“Then why?”
“I was captured by its leader and without resisting, was dragged alive to the celestial realm.”
Being subdued to that extent was an unpleasant memory as it was his first such experience.
After losing his parents, every day was like a war.
San, who was merely seven years old, descended to the human world every night to feast on nightmares. He wandered, avoiding the Mongma and celestials chasing him, returning to Uuguk in a repetitive cycle.
He was but young prey before predators until he matured.
Thus, at sixteen, he lost his sanity for the first time in front of a dying human.
A middle-aged man addicted to alcohol had daily nightmares and eventually sought to end his own life.
His frailty, hopelessness, and the scent of impending death deeply shook the young San.
Though killing a human was forbidden for Mongma, a human’s soul provided energy that couldn’t be satisfied by merely feasting on nightmares. It was a hard-to-resist temptation for the weaker-willed Mongma.
All that remained for San then was his sheer instinct to survive.
But the prohibition had been broken long ago, so it wasn’t odd that the celestials intervened.
“That day, had I not been caught by Seolguk’s leader, I might have committed murder and lived as a Mongma forever.”
Taking a life was never permitted in the celestial realm.
Back then, he felt he was simply unlucky.
And even now, he wasn’t sure if that incident was fortunate or unfortunate.
Life was still a series of choices.
San silently recalled that day.
Just as he was about to kill a human, a man dressed in pristine white appeared.
“Stop!”
Emerging with a golden flash, the man immediately restrained San and said,
“Don’t do something you’ll regret.”
“….Ugh! Let me go!”
“You fool! How dare you attempt to kill!”
“What’s it to you…”
“Thud! Your parents wouldn’t be pleased, boy.”
The humiliation of being punched in the head by an elder while he was retorting still lingered even after 10 years.
The man then chastised him at length.
Your mother was highly respected in the celestial realm. How could someone like her give birth to a being like you?
Clearly, you’ve taken after your mischievous father.
It’s a disgrace for a celestial to have Mongma blood. This disaster happened because that damned Mongma wooed your kind-hearted mother.
He couldn’t forget the man venting his anger, which seemed more like a punishment.
But what was most frustrating was that he couldn’t remember the man’s face.
Sneaking up from behind, like a coward.
San mumbled,
“I should’ve made sure to see his face.”
“…Why?”
As Kang cautiously inquired, flames danced in San’s eyes.
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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