Your Sweet Breath (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 11
“Gang.”
“……”
“Are you done crying?”
Gang slowly closed and opened her damp eyelids, gazing at the red lips before her.
It felt hazy,
as if listening to a voice from above while submerged underwater.
The warmth wiping away the tears clinging to the corners of her eyes felt so vivid, yet her mind still seemed to wander somewhere along the boundary.
Was the figure before her merely an illusion conjured by her longing?
Or was she perhaps witnessing a reality that felt like a dream?
“Is this… a dream?”
At her question, murmured like a dazed monologue, San offered a faint smile.
“Yes, it’s a dream.”
“……”
“It’ll vanish once you wake up.”
As he snapped his thumb and middle finger together, everything that had been in disarray immediately began to return to its proper place.
Gang, half in a daze, watched as time itself seemed to flow backward—
the shattered windowpanes and broken household items, the scattered fragments flying back together as if undoing a lie, restoring themselves to their original forms.
The space that had resembled a battlefield transformed seamlessly back into a familiar scene.
Staring at San, who now stood incongruously within that restored setting, she realized it was all real.
“Just keep doing it this way from now on.”
“……”
“Since you’ve started recognizing me in your dreams, you should be able to summon me without trouble now.”
He reached out and gently stroked Gang’s head.
She quietly accepted his touch.
Then, just as he straightened his posture—signaling he’d done what needed doing—she asked softly,
“Can’t you come before I even call for you?”
“……”
“Why not just stay with me from the moment I fall asleep?”
San said nothing.
He must be troubled.
She clearly wanted him to distinguish between his dream self and his real self—but to grant that, he’d first have to reveal his true nature.
But now, none of that mattered anymore.
Because she remembered clearly what he’d once said in her dream:
“I want to eat your dream.”
“So you’re coming to eat my dream, right?”
If it meant getting what she wanted,
“Then eat it all—from start to finish—without leaving a single bit behind.”
“……”
“So I never have to clumsily suffer through nightmares again.”
She didn’t care whether he was human or not.
Now that she knew he could erase her nightmares, their relationship would simply be a transaction—each giving the other what they needed.
A breath slipped between San’s silent lips.
“You really want me to eat it all without leaving anything?”
It sounded like a sigh, yet also like a chuckle.
He seemed lost in thought for a moment, then continued carefully,
“It’s not that simple.”
“Why not? I’m just asking you to show up a little earlier—”
“What if I end up wanting to devour you too?”
“……”
“Will you cry and beg for your life then?”
His slow, deliberate words brought back memories of the accident from months ago—
and what San had said about it.
He’d clearly stated:
“A lowly demon, who found restraining its hunger harder than breaking taboos, targeted your life.”
Now it was certain.
“You asked what I truly am.”
Han San’s true nature was this:
“Humans call beings like me ‘succubi.'”
“……”
“Meaning I’m just one among many who desire your nightmares.”
He was, in other words, a creature that fed on human fear.
Slowly closing the distance, he lifted her chin gently with his fingertips.
“Succubi follow instinct—we’re not exactly known for self-control.”
Thus, breaking the laws of heaven and earth before something they crave felt no harder than drawing breath in daily life.
“Why would you think I’d hold back and eat your dream sparingly?”
San’s lips brushed lightly past her cheek,
then whispered into her ear,
“To keep you alive.”
“……”
“If I devoured it all at once and lost my senses, that really would be the end.”
So it was best to simply carry on as they had.
After all, the dream-you would be protected by the dream-me, and the real-you by the real-me.
Gang looked at him unwaveringly as he spoke,
then calmly replied,
“The reason you never needed self-control before…”
“……”
“Was simply because you didn’t truly crave me.”
With that, she got off the bed and headed toward the balcony.
San stood still, silently watching her movements.
Turning her head, she declared clearly,
“Let me live without nightmares anymore.”
Her desire was unwavering—and now that she’d found the one who could fulfill it, she was determined to get it by any means.
Of course, she couldn’t overpower him physically, but at least she knew his weakness.
“If you refuse, we’ll both be in trouble.”
The one thing Han San feared most—
the only way to stop him from freely entering her dreams—
“I’ll make sure you can never set foot in my dreams again.”
That was to stake her own life.
Without a hint of hesitation, she stepped onto the stool on the balcony, climbed onto the railing, and stood with her hand braced against the wall.
The biting wind blew as if ready to drag her down into the dizzying abyss below.
Her legs trembled, her hands shook—but she firmly turned to watch Han San’s reaction.
Through her wind-tossed hair, she saw his expressionless face.
He must be furious.
But if this was her only option, she’d do it again and again.
“I kept holding on all this time because I believed I’d be happy someday. But if I’ll never again have control over my own life, then there’s no reason left to stay alive.”
“Get down. Don’t play games.”
“Does it look like I’m playing?”
“Then do you really think I’d just stand by and watch?”
“I know someone like you wouldn’t think twice about doing whatever you want to someone like me. After all, you’re not human.”
“……”
“But this is me asserting my will. It’s me claiming sovereignty over my own dreams.”
Countless days of barely clinging to life replayed before her eyes like a montage.
“If I survive this by sheer luck, I’ll try to kill myself again every single moment.”
Even if it meant plunging a knife into my own heart.
No matter how many times I have to throw myself down.
If nothing else works, I’ll starve myself.
“So you’d better not make a choice you’ll regret.”
Gang smiled with quiet certainty.
Then, gazing at his emotionless face, she let herself fall.
WHOOSH—
As the menacing wind roared and the world flipped upside down, everything rapidly receded.
She saw San, already standing atop the railing, looking down at her with an unreadable expression.
What are you thinking right now?
Do you think it doesn’t have to be me?
Her accelerating body already felt as if it were shattering.
The ground rushed up toward her—
and just as death’s shadow reached her very nose—
a faint smile appeared on San’s lips.
At that very moment, his feet—until then rooted in place—left the railing without hesitation.
His plunging hand reached Gang before the ground did.
THUD!
His strong arms securely caught her fragile body, and in that gravity-defying instant, time seemed to stretch infinitely slow.
“…The scent of wind.”
At once, the faint wind-scent she always sensed when he held her in dreams spread through her entire being.
Gang slowly opened her eyes and lifted her gaze—to meet eyes as dark and still as the night itself.
Staring into them, dazed, she heard a terse whisper by her ear:
“Fearless, aren’t you?”
“……”
“Must have quite a few lives, huh?”
Feeling her heartbeat return violently after its near-collapse, she exhaled a threadlike breath.
“Are you a little more willing to grant my request now?”
Sensing the tremor that flowed into her through his hands gripping her shoulders, San gave a brief laugh.
“Yes. If this is your resolve, I understand it well enough.”
Perhaps he’d even been hoping for this—
for your time spent enduring without me to be wiped clean, so you’d never manage without me again.
Even if I’m not human.
“That no matter what I am, you truly won’t care at all.”
That’s what I was waiting for.
“Now that I know, this will be the last time you assert your will or try to blackmail me like this.”
His gentle smile carried a tender pressure.
“Because if you die…”
“……”
“Everything I’ve long hoped and prayed for will vanish like mist.”
To me, losing my purpose is as final as a human’s physical death.
“So stay alive.”
San made his request plainly.
After all, the greatest threat to Seo Kang’s life was none other than herself.
***
Back in the bedroom,
San helped the unsteady Gang onto the bed so she could lie down comfortably.
It was hard to believe this trembling, barely-there body belonged to the same person who’d leaped without a backward glance.
The terror lingering on her ice-cold fingertips flowed straight into him.
Staring at her thin, bony fingers, he heard her ask,
“Why haven’t you appeared lately?”
Still gazing at Gang’s tear-damp eyes, San answered flatly,
“I’ve been busy. There were too many things lurking around you—I had to track them down one by one.”
He’d missed feasting on her dreams just as much.
Her nightmares and the desperate breaths she gasped while suffering through them were far too precious to waste.
Even now, hunger and thirst gnawed at him.
He wanted nothing more than to devour the woman before him whole—or savor her slowly, piece by piece.
He slowly moved closer.
Startled, Gang squeezed her eyes shut, and the tears pooling at the corners soaked through her dense lashes.
Suppressing his surging desire, he lowered his head.
His feverish lips met her trembling eyelids.
Thus, San eased his longing by drinking the single tear left on her cheek.
Pure as morning dew, that noble drop held a terror so sweet it nearly drove him mad.
Just one tear—
yet it sent a shiver through him. Of course it would. You’re—
“Driving me insane.”
You taste too good.
His grip tightened on her hand, and Seo Kang’s face paled.
The connoisseur savoring her fear held back with visible restraint before pulling away.
To grant her request, he’d probably need to do this every night from now on.
What used to be as simple as popping a post-meal candy would become entirely different.
It’d be like handing a whole handful of candy to a child with zero patience and telling them to wait half a day for just one piece.
“Hah.”
I’m going to lose my mind, honestly.
The mere thought was so dreadful it drew a hollow chuckle from him.
Yet she, completely unaware, stepped forward eagerly, eyes sparkling.
“Han San.”
“What.”
“Wanna try it now?”
“Try what.”
“You said you wanted to eat my dream. Go ahead—eat it now.”
Seo Kang smiled in a way he’d never seen before—
like an excited child.
Blissfully ignorant,
“……”
of the way her insides were burning pitch-black.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
*
At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
***
Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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