“I’m pretty sure I mentioned it earlier.”
“What?”
“There’s another installment.”
His gentle voice, like the fluttering feathers of a bird, settled on her chest.
In a weakened state, adding to her fragility, there was no other fox like her in a millennium.
“We need to make sure of the calculations, right?”
Gang, who was staring at San as if enchanted, absentmindedly murmured as if talking to herself.
“…Did you use hypnotism on me too?”
“Hmm?”
“No, never mind.”
Whether it’s a fox or a wolf, it’s all mine anyway, so what’s the problem.
Thinking like that, she pressed her lips to his as if drawn by a magnet.
Soft and moist, it hung there like honey applied.
It felt like she would have given way even if he had asked for her liver instead of her lips.
‘…Why are you so sexy even when you’re in pain?’
If this doesn’t make your heart race, then you’re truly guilty.
She had been reluctant to let go for a while, but when she decided to distance herself, San gently pulled her back.
Thanks to that, her slightly separated lips touched again, and he spoke with their lips still touching.
“This one’s a bit expensive.”
Saying that, San swept his thumb over Gang’s smooth cheek that had been against his lips.
The lips that had gently sucked in were swallowed up.
Perhaps because her condition wasn’t good, her movements were smaller and slower than usual… and that somehow made it more stimulating.
‘You took off your clothes, saying you were sweating, but what if your fever goes up again?’
While worrying about such things, her body shrank at the tingling and tickling sensation.
As if a soft feather had passed through her spine and heart at once.
The slow and lingering kiss continued.
Matching her lips as if stealing her soul, he passed her chin and cheek, descending to her neck.
The red lips lingered below the collarbone before naturally moving towards the shoulder.
San silently gazed at the clearly engraved scars on her white shoulders that were revealed as her clothes slid down in a circle.
As Gang, feeling embarrassed, tried to pull her clothes back up, he held her hand and stood her up.
Then, he lowered his head and asked about the wound as if licking it.
Soft.
After a light peck, the slightly protruding tongue that came out between the receding lips licked the wound.
“San, there…”
“Disinfectant.”
“No. It’s not that… I showered and applied ointment earlier…”
It wasn’t a wound that would disappear by washing, and it was a scar that had been deliberately treated with ointment whenever San saw it, even though the dream door wasn’t engraved on it.
While watching him, Gang silently gripped only the edge of San’s clothes.
Finally, after deeply pressing their lips together, he raised his head and looked at Gang.
“Did it hurt a lot?”
“No, you applied ointment with your saliva, so I’m healed.”
Smirking while resting her chin, San said,
“I’ll put more on later.”
“…”
“After we finish talking.”
Soothing her disappointment, he distanced himself.
San soon began to tell the story of their final meeting in a low and gentle voice.
“The third one…”
The last meeting took place during the orphanage fire incident when they were nineteen.
It was an incident that caused even greater damage as it occurred during the hours when everyone was asleep.
The old building, where the emergency bell and sprinklers failed to function on time, quickly caught fire, turning the situation into chaos.
While trying to escape through the thick smoke, crouching as low as possible, there was a desperate cry for Hojeong from beyond the rapidly rising flames.
And at the moment when Gang called her name while looking around,
“Hojeong! Where are you…!”
Smoke filled the air, choking them.
Cough! Cough!
Amidst the pain as if her throat and lungs were burning, Gang, struggling, wandered through the billowing flames, eventually collapsing.
Thud! Thud!
The rapidly spreading fire, as if ready to engulf her, grew in size, and her vision, covered in black soot and smoke, became dim and hazy.
“Hojeong! Save me!”
Hojeong…
Because of the voice that no longer came out, she desperately called Hojeong’s name in her mind, and she lost consciousness somewhere in the corridor or stairs.
And San said that he rescued Gang from the flames and brought her out.
Hearing the story, she couldn’t hide her astonishment.
“You were the one who brought me out of the building…?”
“Yeah.”
“I…”
“You probably thought it was Samyoungie-hyung who saved you.”
“How do you know that?”
“Because I was the one who entrusted you to him.”
“…”
“And I kept watching you from when you were taken to the hospital, received treatment, until you were discharged.”
He casually shared this story, stating that Samyoungie-hyung was not wrong to save her.
Up until then, San had been hiding, so he couldn’t reveal himself.
He brought the unconscious Gang out and laid her down in a conspicuous place, and Samyoungie was the first to discover her.
He was a local resident who often volunteered at the orphanage.
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
