“Damn it! Who are you again?”
She roared angrily, realizing that the Celestial who attacked her was the man she had seen on the bench.
“…What. Instead of a punk from Cheonghak-dong or a rocker, you’re a hybrid? No wonder. The atmosphere was off.”
“Don’t mock me with your vulgar mouth. Those who speak recklessly don’t end well.”
“What’s with your tone?”
Jane scoffed at his arrogant attitude and even complained about his tone.
The confused Romi, who had been standing by with her mouth open, finally regained her senses and asked, “Could it be… Are you the leader of the Celestials in the Woo Nation?”
To which he replied, lowering his skull-like gloomy face, “Yes. I am Hae-mi, the leader of the Woo Nation. Who are you?”
“But how do you know me?”
Even though he already looked frightening, it was more bizarre with a long neck.
She, shaking her hunched shoulders, barely managed to speak.
“Well… because your reputation is so well-established…”
Woo Nation was a land known as a forbidden place, overflowing with all sorts of monsters, and where time and space twisted unpredictably. Even Celestials feared being manipulated here.
The leader of Woo Nation, governing such a land, was Hae-mi.
Commonly known as the death god, he was merciless, violent, and the Monmas captured by him had little chance of surviving under any circumstances.
The notorious protagonist of such sinister rumors was right in front of her, this man, Hae-mi.
It was Romi’s first time meeting him in person.
According to the rumors, he had a ghostly height of eight feet, a grotesque body, and a face so grim that just locking eyes with him made one feel like wetting themselves. It turned out the rumors were accurate.
However, repeating these rumors could lead to Romi having her throat cut off by the huge scythe. So, she tactfully avoided saying exactly what the rumors mentioned.
Everyone knew about him because of his great reputation.
Hae-mi, who had been glaring at her, lengthened his thin lips after adjusting his unnaturally long neck.
“Reputation. Even without hearing the details, I can guess what kind of story you’ve heard.”
“Oh, uh, no, it’s not a strange rumor…!”
“Let’s discuss the trivial stories later.”
Having said that, Hae-mi, holding the scythe, looked at Jane.
Romi, who stood awkwardly, pulled a black stick-shaped smoke from her palm.
Then, with a mocking expression, Jane rolled her eyes, seeming to taunt Romi.
She quickly rushed toward Hae-mi to attack, but avoiding Jane’s attack effortlessly, he quickly occupied her back. It looked like he could behead her at any moment with the scythe.
The blade of the scythe, hovering dangerously close to Jane’s neck, glowed even more chillingly in the moonlight.
Hae-mi murmured threateningly.
“Hey, don’t you think you should provoke your opponent while watching?”
“……Ugh!”
“That way, I might show you some mercy and let you die a little less painfully.”
Under that veiled threat, Jane’s expression twisted.
Why can’t they all just eat me already!
Jane’s right hand, which had been floating in the air, exploded while still in contact with Hae-mi’s thigh.
Simultaneously, Jane, quickly rotating her body, escaped from his grasp and distanced herself on the road.
“You have a lot of tricks up your sleeve.”
“Go eat shit.”
While tossing both middle fingers, she extended her tongue with a piercing attached.
Hae-mi’s face twisted in displeasure.
“You arrogant bastard.”
“What did you say?”
“You’re in for a gruesome death.”
“If I don’t die gracefully, then what! What are you going to do?”
He replied, wielding the scythe.
“What can I do? Tear your limbs apart, throw them away as dog food.”
It wasn’t a statement inviting fear.
In reality, the weapon he uses has dispatched most Monmas in that way, and only Jane, who knows nothing about Hae-mi, is unaware of this fact.
However, Romi, who was already familiar with him, trembled her shoulders and thought to herself.
“He throws them away as dog food? Surely he won’t consider me as a dog?”
Even though they were monsters, they had taken on a somewhat human form and had some brief conversations.
Although earlier he mentioned making eyeballs into candy, Romi, who was actually quite innocent, couldn’t imagine Jane being eaten.
Especially not in a state where she had been torn to shreds by Hae-mi.
“It’s funny. For someone pretending to be strong, there isn’t a single genuinely strong one.”
Jane laughed, but in reality, from the moment Hae-mi revealed himself as a Celestial, she sensed that if she couldn’t win this fight, she wouldn’t survive.
Encountering an opponent vastly stronger than herself allowed her senses to intuitively gauge the outcome of the fight to some extent.
However, even if she awkwardly backed off, the judgment awaiting her was Isaao’s.
With no data on Hae-mi, the most ruthless person she knew was the king Isaao, and fleeing from him here was like escaping a foxhole only to enter a tiger’s den.
So, even if she couldn’t engrave the dream’s message on her body today, to survive, she had to make sacrifices, even if it meant offering herself to that Celestial.
Strength flowed into the hand firmly gripping the weapon.
“Yaaaah!”
Jane, who unleashed the accumulated energy, rushed forward rapidly.
Clang! Kiiing!
The sound of sharp metal clashing resonated continuously in the night sky.
Her attacks couldn’t easily reach Hae-mi, but due to the exchange of life-and-death blows, his attacks were all blocked in return.
However, the problem was Romi.
While Romi, preoccupied with facing Hae-mi, failed to pay attention, she seized the opportunity to kick.
Both Jane and Romi had nearly identical destructive power, making their clash resemble two tanks colliding.
After exchanging friendly kicks, both of them fell apart simultaneously.
And before Jane could get up, she received Hae-mi’s attack.
Kwakwung!
The shoulder blade hit by his weapon was crushed and plunged into the ground.
“Aaagh!”
In her agonizing scream, she saw Hae-mi, holding the torn shoulder blade.
With his back against the night sky, he silently looked down at her.
His appearance, holding the weapon aloft, seemed more like a grim reaper than a Celestial assisting the gods.
Without saying a word, Hae-mi lifted the torn piece of bone that once belonged to Jane.
Holding it up high, he perfectly embodied the appearance of an executioner.
At the tip of a well-forged blade, the cold moonlight descended.
“…So, this is how I die.”
Having given up everything, she closed her eyes tightly.
At that moment when the figure of Lady Park Mankum, who took me, swiftly brushed through my consciousness like a paper lantern.
Kiiing!
The sound of sharp metal colliding rang out, and when I opened my eyes, I saw a black, smoky sword-shaped figure blocking Hae-mi’s scythe.
And the one holding it was Sinhwi, who had flipped her robe.
Only partially revealed in the light, her eyes and the enlarged eyes of Hae-mi sharply faced each other.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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