His hair stood on end.
An instinctive thought, wanting to drink without leaving a single drop, began to shake his rationality.
“……”
Kang stared at the white neck of the river, exerting strength until his jaw was tight.
If a dream tastes this much, how delicious would the soul be?
He seemed to understand a hundred times the feeling of a lowly spirit who claimed its eyes rolled back and strangled the throat.
He felt his heart beating faster and faster, and the breath he was holding began to get rough.
Then, he ended up backing away as if he had been pushed out.
“Damn.”
He, who had fallen to the floor, pounded the floor with his fist.
Even though they said they would let him eat as much as he wanted, he never thought it would be such a painful thing.
He never even dreamed that the moment he monopolized what he had desperately wanted, eating would be so hard that he would push it away.
Kang, for the first time in his life, brought up selfcontrol and closed his eyes.
Suppressing the rampaging instinct was more difficult than he thought.
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.
Kang slowly opened her closed eyes.
The familiar ceiling came into view, and after blinking a few times, she suddenly sat up.
“Whew!”
Is this still a dream?
Did I really wake up?
She felt her own cheeks in a dazed mind, but every sensation touching her skin told her this was reality.
She narrowed her eyes and rifled through her memory.
It seems like she had a dream.
It doesn’t seem like it.
It seemed like she was about to remember, but nothing came up, as if somewhere had been erased with an eraser.
“Really…… didn’t I have a nightmare?”
It was unbelievable, even though she had experienced it herself.
Upon realizing the situation, she felt much more refreshed than when she had fallen asleep during the day.
The satisfaction of a good sleep gave a feeling of quality of life soaring from the ground through the universe in an instant.
She felt like crying.
The fact that she could finally move away from the nightmares that had been tormenting her for a long time was extremely moving.
“My goodness.”
Kang shook her shoulders, her face covered with both hands.
What words in the world could express her heart now.
Countless sleepless nights passed by like a carousel lantern.
“Ah!”
Then, belatedly, the existence of the mountain came to mind.
She quickly looked around, but he had already disappeared.
Only the messed up blanket and the tingling sensation in her palm, as if she had been holding it tightly, told her that the mountain had been there.
‘What if you start to want to eat it too?’
Just like his words that it wouldn’t be easy because he was born without selfcontrol, the act of eating the nightmare generously seemed to have been quite humiliating in many ways.
Seeing that he had run away from her like this.
The girl, who had no way of knowing his struggle, merely indulged in the first happiness she had ever experienced, laughing like a giddy fool.
She turned her head and saw the dawn slowly brightening the sky.
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.
“Good morning!”
The girl who opened the van door greeted brightly first.
San, sitting in the back seat, slowly turned his gaze, and Sam Young, who was startled by Kang’s powerful spirit, soon followed with a bright laugh.
“Kang looks very happy today, doesn’t she?”
“I slept really well.”
“Really well, you say?”
“Yes.”
“Didn’t dream anything?”
“Yes. Not a single one.”
In response to his disbelief, she repeatedly nodded her head, laughing.
“If I feel like today, I think I can digest any number of schedules in a day.”
Sam Young, who had been watching Kang, who was too different than usual, for a long time, eventually smiled and started the car.
But what was surprising was not that.
“Hello, San.”
At the sight of her kindly greeting San, who was sitting next to her, Sam Young unknowingly slammed on the brake.
…Hello, San?
Turning his head entirely and looking at Sam Young, Kang shrugged her shoulders.
“Why? Didn’t you tell us to get along well since we’re the same age?”
“Oh… right. It would be nice to get along.”
Even though she was on guard until yesterday, it was strange what had happened in just a day.
What’s this strange feeling?
Did Kang also get some beef to eat?
With such ridiculous thoughts, he was just scratching his throat.
As the car started moving at the signal, she asked San again.
“Did you sleep well yesterday?”
Then he turned his head with his chin propped and answered.
“No.”
“….”
“I overate and couldn’t sleep.”
At San’s answer, Sam Young burst into laughter and cut in.
“No matter how delicious it is, you will get sick if you overeat, San.”
“That’s true.”
“He went alone to eat something delicious.”
He laughed and turned the wheel towards the usual café direction.
It was like a habit that had completely become a part of him.
But instead of the coffee she usually punched with a shot, she asked for a smoothie.
“A strawberry yogurt smoothie?”
“Yes. With a lot of cream, syrup, and cookies.”
It was interesting to see her showing passion for food for the first time.
Sam Young nodded for now.
And San said that he felt like the food he ate yesterday was stuck in his throat and that he couldn’t swallow anything, so he declined.
After a while.
Kang started to eat the smoothie he bought for her.
Even though the topping was piled up to an uncomfortable extent, making it impossible to close the lid properly, she ate it deliciously without scraping anything off.
Sam Young, who had been watching her through the rearview mirror, smiled happily.
The mere sight of my child eating makes me feel full.
I found myself constantly chuckling, wondering if this was how mothers feel.
“Kang. Is it tasty?”
“Yes. I think I like sweet stuff.”
“But you didn’t like it before.”
“That was then.”
“…….”
“Because I didn’t know how tasty sweet things were.”
As she sucked the cream off the corner of her mouth, she smiled brightly.
“Maybe it’s because you slept well. Your taste buds have certainly come alive.”
It was a pleasure she hadn’t fully appreciated before.
Such small happiness was indeed small, but it began to touch Kang’s heart in a definite way.
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
