“Where are you running to?”
「……!」
“We still have things to talk about, right?”
The faint smile that crept onto San’s face took the creature by surprise.
「Wait, just a moment…!」
Whoosh!
Before he could beg, his body was hurled into a wooden wardrobe.
Bang!
Through the pain, the creature saw San.
And in San’s hand, he saw a foot that had been torn from his own body.
In a panic, he looked down to see his leg, mangled as if a beast had torn into it, with dark red blood spurting out.
「You, you…!」
He realized this heartless individual never had any intention of sparing him.
‘I can’t stay like this! I must find Lord I Sa Oh!’
With determination, the creature lunged at San.
Roar!
As a beastly scream echoed, San discarded the foot he was holding and immediately drew his sword.
However, the creature swiftly moved behind San, holding him tightly.
‘This is it!’
He intended to crush every bone and organ in San’s body.
「You may see me as a mere human, but I have lived for hundreds of years. A mere morsel like you… is laughable.」
Crack!
…What?
Unbelievably, his outstretched arm was seized.
An excruciating pain overwhelmed him, as if his spine might be yanked out. Without a scream, he was once more slammed to the ground.
Crash!
「Haa…!」
A swift kick crashed into his face.
By the time he realized his defeat, a blade was already thrust into the ground before him.
“You don’t even answer a simple question.”
「……!」
“It seems you won’t be answering in the future either.”
A cold voice pierced through, chilling to the bone.
Struggling for breath, the creature shuddered.
He had lost all will.
Sensing his imminent death, he managed to open his mouth, oozing thick blood.
「…You wanted to feed off the misfortune of the unfortunate, but then an unknown being like you ruins everything.」
“……”
「Such a foolish being. You couldn’t even consume everything alone… if you had just taken your share and lived quietly… everyone… would have been at peace.」
“Where can a monster find peace?”
「……」
“It’s either be killed or kill from the start.”
Thud!
With no hesitation, he drove the knife into the half-remaining heart of the creature.
「Kieeeeek…!」
A beastly death cry resonated.
Drawing out the bloodied blade, a fountain of red blood erupted.
The creature’s form, turning to black ash, soon became a human-like phantom, and it crumpled lifelessly.
Blood, pouring like rain, scattered like red petals in all directions.
As the creature drew his last breath, a previously unseen curtain lifted, and the scattered blood transformed into smoke and vanished.
All signs of destruction were seamlessly restored.
San, silently observing the human-like corpse, quietly exited the scene.
The colorless, lifeless building faded in the distance.
The moonlit forest was silent.
As if nothing had ever happened.
The next day,
Kang received a call from Suk Hee.
“Yes, Aunt.”
[On the phone] “Kang…”From her heavy tone, Kang had an immediate intuition.
Something terrible had transpired.
And what Suk Hee conveyed was,
“……”
The news of Director Gam’s death.
Suk Hee’s voice, stating a heart attack was the cause, began to sound distant.
Kang, without blinking, stood with a blank expression and then simply let the phone fall to the ground.
Yeong Hee’s funeral took place over three days.
At the burial site, Kang, Sam Young, and San, all dressed in black, made their appearance.
People from the orphanage where she grew up, current residents, staff, and a few individuals from various foundations and centers came to bid their last farewell to Yeong Hee.
The rain poured heavily.
Kang, in her black floppy hat, looked ahead, her red lips parting.
“She was fine just the day before…”
“Kang.”
“She never had any heart condition, did she…….”
The voice sounded as if none of this had truly sunk in.
Sam Young, who was solemnly by her side, could not continue speaking and gently patted her shoulder.
A little distance away, under a black umbrella, San looked at the framed photo of Yeong Hee, who smiled warmly amid the pouring rain.
The miserable end of such a worthless creature could, beyond the obscured truth, result in such a sacred demise.
Many monsters had been born as such and ended their lives in human form, but seeing a monster’s funeral firsthand was quite strange.
The words left behind by the creature kept echoing in his head.
「You’re so agitated right now… I wonder if you’ve forgotten, but once you discover my true form, Seo Kang will be the one to fall into the deepest despair.」
「Already, the poor child’s life was painful. Do you really wish to make it even more unbearable?」
Those words still remained a mystery.
Wasn’t the intrinsic nature of a monster best known to the monster itself?
What did he expect from me, a non-human, to make such an emotional appeal?
If he was fearful of death, he would have been better off begging for his life outright.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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