Unable to say anything more, Gang just hugged Lomi’s head, buried her face, and silently cried, repeatedly caressing her own soft fur to ensure she wouldn’t get hurt.
Lomi felt sorry for making Gang worry unintentionally, but she was glad that Gang’s concern for her was greater than she thought.
Soon, Seolseong also came to check on Lomi’s well-being.
“Chief!”
“Yeah, you’ve been through a lot.”
Seolseong, gently patting her chin and head, smiled while pressing his forehead against hers.
“It’s really good to see you again.”
Lomi, who received plenty of cuteness from the two welcoming women, soon heard the news that San had left safely with the leader of Uiguk.
“You went with the leader of Uiguk?”
“Yeah.”
“Oh…”
Gang didn’t ask any more questions, but there was a lot of meaning in her sigh-like answer.
I hope she returns without any trouble.
The night felt endlessly long, as the time of waiting seemed to stretch on.
Meanwhile.
Following Haemi’s guidance, the place San arrived at was not Ilguk but Wolguk.
This was because of Haemi’s unilateral guidance, instructing her to first meet the leader of Wolguk, Taechun, who was the supreme leader of the Heavenly Realm.
Wolguk (月國) was the place that governed human birth.
The full moon, symbolizing Wolguk, was hanging prominently in the celestial sky, casting its beautiful and serene light over everything in Wolguk.
Dressed in white robes with golden embroidery, the celestial beings who stood on either side were quite alien among the humans gathered there, dressed in black suits.
Although Wolguk’s celestials, who were Taechun’s subordinates, didn’t openly show hostility, they all glanced at him briefly.
It was the first time San had seen in person the unprecedented mixed blood of a celestial and a mongma, which had only been heard in rumors.
At that moment.
Supreme Leader Taechun revealed his appearance.
He was an old man with pure white hair and beard, but his unyielding posture and charismatic presence emanating from his firm physique were overwhelming.
Haemi bowed with her left arm bent forward and her waist bowed in greeting.
“Have you come?”
“Yes. You’ve been through a lot.”
Taechun lightly patted his shoulder and stood in front of San.
“Do you remember my face?”
He asked, and San replied.
“How could I dare forget?”
Although he seemed to smile at first glance, it was not a joyful smile.
From his perspective, the celestials not only denied the blood flowing in his body but also tried to kill him. Moreover, those who sought to use him were nothing more than those who aimed for the fragments of his parents’ souls.
“At sixteen, I sent you back to the human world and watched over you all along.”
“Did you think about killing me?”
“That was one reason for watching over you. Because such a thing shouldn’t have happened.”
“…”
“Don’t speak ill of your mother. Before being your mother, she was a celestial.”
As Taechun spoke, half of the blood flowing through his body was undoubtedly celestial blood. However, instead of immediately accepting this fact, the celestials chose to observe, citing it as a pretext for surveillance.
Taechun, placing a firm hand on San’s shoulder, warned as if admonishing.
“It’s better not to relax until the Fusion Soul is completely guided to the Heavenly Realm. Because the celestials are always watching you, don’t harbor any other thoughts.”
“…”
“Do you understand what I’m saying?”
To Taechun’s words, San responded with a soulless smile.
Throughout, Haemi, who had been watching uncomfortably by his side, spoke with a bitter tone.
“Why bother with such a troublesome thing? If you had just cleanly killed him back then, none of this would have happened.”
San showed no reaction to his words.
Haemi had expressed regret at not being able to kill me more than once.
“Take him to Sunwoo now.”
With a slight bow, Haemi, who had muttered a brief prayer, passed by San and spat out her words as if chewing cud.
“Follow me.”
Without saying a word, San nodded to Taechun once and turned around, following Haemi.
As he was about to move away, Taechun spoke behind him.
“Did you say your name is San?”
When San slowly turned his head, he closed his eyes and spoke slowly.
“Think about what your mother wished for you until the moment she named you.”
“Well, I don’t know.”
“…”
“Perhaps your mother didn’t wish for my happiness the most?”
He muttered to himself with a quiet smile.
“So, whatever choice I make, you’ll respect it.”
“…”
“If that brings me happiness.”
At San’s incomprehensible words, Taechun laughed out loud for the first time.
“Blood truly can’t be deceived. You resemble your mother a lot.”
Without responding further, San turned away without any lingering emotions.
The Ilguk (日國) they arrived with Haemi was the place that governed human death.
Since the place where they met Sunwoo last time was the entrance to the Heavenly Realm, San had never come here directly before.
The celestials of Ilguk were busy working under Sunwoo’s command.
The atmosphere in Ilguk was quite different from the rigid and majestic atmosphere of Wolguk, as if watching an army.
Despite thinking that it would be heavier and darker atmosphere, considering it was a place managing human death, the building where the leader of Ilguk resided felt like observing a laboratory in the human world.
It made sense because Ilguk was responsible for managing all deaths in the human world and guiding the souls of the deceased to the Heavenly Realm. However, it was also a place where technology and scholarship were advanced, researching various matters in both the Heavenly Realm and the human world.
Therefore, Sunwoo’s subordinates, dressed in the same white robes, gave off a scent more of researchers than mercenaries.
When Sunwoo revealed himself, Haemi spoke.
“You’re always busy, aren’t you?”
“Yes. Well, haha.”
Smiling with a friendly face, he greeted San as he pushed up his glasses.
“We meet again like this.”
The greetings were clearer compared to the first time since they had seen each other recently.
“I heard you took the sleeping potion. First, have the antidote.”
One of Sunwoo’s subordinates brought a small glass bottle.
“Since this medicine cannot be exported outside the Heavenly Realm, it became troublesome. Right?”
“No, thank you.”
Compared to other celestial leaders, Sunwoo was relatively courteous and friendly, so San did not feel a strong aversion toward him.
“Anyway, even after taking the sleeping potion and risking your life, you won’t be poisoned by the same venom twice now that you’ve gained immunity.”
He said so and mentioned that the antidote he had just taken would help him distinguish the unique scent of the sleeping potion in the future.
Sunwoo picked up a small bottle from the red cushion his subordinate had brought.
A mysterious-colored liquid swirled inside the bottle.
He opened the entrance and extended it straight to San.
“Well then.”
“…….”
“Please take it.”
Beyond the glasses, his eyes, which were full of gentleness, smiled warmly.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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