“Kang.”
“……”
“Have you finished crying?”
Kang slowly closed her wet eyelids and stared at the red lips before her.
She felt dazed.
As if listening to a voice above the water while submerged in it.
The warmth collecting the moisture at the corner of her eyes was so vivid, yet her mind still seemed to wander somewhere on the edge.
Is he in front of her an illusion brought about by her own desperation?
Or is she seeing a reality that’s like a dream.
“Is this… a dream?”
In response to her murmuring question, he gave a faint smile.
“Yes, it’s a dream.”
“……”
“It will disappear when you wake up.”
When he snapped his thumb and middle finger, all the mess started to find its place.
Half dazed, Kang watched the scene of time flowing backwards.
The shattered windows and broken dishes, the fragments bouncing here and there, they returned to their original form as if lying.
The area that seemed like a battlefield was soon replaced by a familiar landscape.
Looking at him, the alien element in that place, she realized that everything was soon to be reality.
“You have to do this from now on.”
“……”
“Since you’ve started to be aware of me in your dreams, you should be able to call me without any trouble now.”
He reached out and gently stroked Kang’s head.
She accepted his touch obediently.
Then, when he straightened his upper body as if he had finished his job, she quietly asked.
“Can’t you come before I call you?”
“……”
“You could just be with me before I fall asleep.”
He said nothing.
It must be difficult.
She wanted to separate the him in reality and in dreams, but to grant her request, he would have to reveal his identity first.
But now, none of that really mattered.
The words you said in my dream,
‘I want to eat your dreams.’
I remember them clearly.
“You’re coming to eat my dreams, aren’t you?”
If only I could get what I want.
“Then don’t leave anything from start to finish and eat it all.”
“……”
“So I won’t have any awkward nightmares.”
Whether he is human or not, she didn’t care.
At least knowing that he could get rid of her nightmares, their interests would be established as a ‘trade’ where each needed to give what the other needed.
Between the lips of him who had been silent, a wind blew.
“Eat it all?”
It seemed like a sigh, and it also seemed like a laugh.
He looked like he was contemplating something, and after a while, he carefully said.
“It’s not as easy as you think.”
“Why? I’m just asking you to show up a little earlier….”
“What if I start craving for you too?”
“……”
“Will you beg me to save you, crying and wailing, then?”
Slow but sure, the voice echoed, Kang remembered the accident a few months ago.
And what he had said about the accident.
He had clearly said this.
He said it was ‘a lowerclass ghost who found it harder to resist his appetite than to break the taboo targeted your life’.
With this, it became clear.
“You asked what I am.”
His identity was,
“Humans call entities like me ‘Mong Ma’.”
“……”
“I am also just one of the many who want your nightmare.”
Exactly, it was an entity that lived eating human fear.
He slowly narrowed the distance and lifted her chin slightly with his fingertips.
“Mong Ma is a creature faithful to instincts, so it doesn’t really develop selfcontrol.”
So, breaking the rules of the universe in front of something it wanted to eat was not harder than breathing in daily life.
“Why do you think I am saving your dream to eat?”
His lips slowly descended and brushed past her cheek.
Then he whispered into her ear.
“To keep you alive.”
“……”
“If I eat it all and go blind, that’s really the end.”
So, it’s just to live as you have been living.
After all, the you in your dream is protected by the me in the dream, and the you in reality is protected by the me in reality.
Kang looked at him saying this without flinching.
Then she calmly said,
“It didn’t require selfcontrol.”
“……”
“Because you were not desperate enough.”
Having said that, she got out of bed and headed for the balcony.
He stood still and quietly watched Kang’s actions.
She turned her head and clearly said,
“Let me live without having nightmares anymore.”
What she wanted was clear, and since she had found the one who could solve it, she was determined to get it somehow.
Of course, she couldn’t physically beat him, but at least she knew his weakness.
“If you refuse, it will be inconvenient.”
What he fears the most.
At least the only way to stop him from entering the dream at will.
“From now on, you won’t be able to step into my dream.”
Precisely, the act of staking her own life.
Without a moment’s hesitation, she stepped onto the stool placed on the balcony and climbed up. Then she stood leaning against the wall after climbing over the railing.
The fierce wind blew as if it would drag her down to the abyss immediately.
Her hips were numb and her hands and feet were shaking, but she resolutely turned her head to watch his reaction.
His impassive face was seen through the swaying of her hair in the wind.
He must be angry.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
