“Are you saying a demon is coming towards the Nam Gung family’s estate? And to where grandfather is?”
“It would be safe inside the estate, but you know. Grandfather can’t be everywhere at once.”
“But that person to grandfather…”
“Yes, he’s the one who fled after taking a hit from father’s sword. The Murim Alliance is searching for him, but who knows when he’ll be caught.”
Nam Gung Hwa Su could immediately understand what Mo Yong Hee meant.
There was only one grandfather, and Anhui Province was vast. It meant there were places beyond grandfather’s sight.
Moreover, Hyungmyeonsura was a demon who held a great grudge against the Nam Gung family.
‘He’s strong enough to be considered one of the world’s top hundred masters.’
That wasn’t all.
He had a vicious hobby of enjoying ruining children with exceptional martial arts talent.
At that moment, Nam Gung Hwa Su’s gaze turned to Nam Gung Yu Cheong. Nam Gung Lin was beside him, receiving food.
Nam Gung Hwa Su smiled coldly as he looked at them.
He felt a tingling sensation on the cheek where Nam Gung Lin had hit him.
[This is the timeline separator]Huff, huff.
Ji Cheon Wu woke up from his sleep, exhaling rough breaths.
It was still early dawn. A time when everyone in the estate would be deep in sleep. He stared at the ceiling, lost in thought.
‘Why did I wake up?’
He remembered having a terrible nightmare. It was truly an unlucky dream.
Ji Cheon Wu touched his cheek.
In the dream, blood had splattered on his cheek.
Remembering whose blood it was, Ji Cheon Wu shook his head.
‘It must be just a bad dream.’
It was better to forget strange dreams quickly. Especially such an ominous one.
Ji Cheon Wu felt like he had been living in a dream every day lately.
After meeting Nam Gung Lin, his life had changed 180 degrees.
No one hit him anymore, and he didn’t have to worry about meals every day.
‘I haven’t seen Nam Gung Hwa Su recently either.’
It was all thanks to Nam Gung Lin’s consideration.
Nam Gung Lin had apparently gone to the scary Nam Gung Jin Cheon to ask for him. To make him her personal servant.
Ji Cheon Wu couldn’t understand Nam Gung Lin.
Nam Gung Yu Cheong, whom he had met recently, was also someone he couldn’t understand.
They showed kindness to Ji Cheon Wu for no reason.
Even though it was kindness they would never get back…
They touched his head with warm hands and spoke to him gently. Whenever they did such things, Ji Cheon Wu felt a tingling in his heart.
But now he knew.
The pain in his heart wasn’t due to the aftereffects of his severed meridians.
It was because his frozen heart was starting to melt from their warmth. Ji Cheon Wu got up.
He didn’t think he could fall asleep again.
He grabbed the wooden sword he had carefully placed beside him.
He planned to go to the training grounds to practice. He had recently started learning martial arts.
It was thanks to Nam Gung So So’s kindness.
Nam Gung So So had expressed admiration for him.
Even if they were empty words, they warmed his heart. Ji Cheon Wu had never thought about learning martial arts.
After all, he would die before turning twenty, and any martial arts he learned would be for nothing.
However, Nam Gung So So never mentioned such a future while teaching him martial arts.
Ji Cheon Wu learned what it meant for time to be precious.
Each day became precious to him.
To the point where he feared the death that would eventually come. Ji Cheon Wu stopped as he arrived at the training grounds.
There was already someone there.
“Ji Cheon Wu?”
Nam Gung Lin, who had been swinging her sword, looked surprised to see him.
“What are you doing at this hour?”
Nam Gung Lin approached him with a bright smile. Just her smile was enough to make Ji Cheon Wu feel better.
Looking at Nam Gung Lin, Ji Cheon Wu thought.
‘It really was just a dream.’
The nightmare he had today was just a dream. Nam Gung Lin was by his side, and peaceful days would continue.
Ji Cheon Wu was content with his current daily life.
‘I hope it doesn’t change.’
He liked this life of moderate training and being with Nam Gung Lin. He wanted to live like this forever and meet a peaceful end.
Until his severed meridians finally consumed him, that is.
[This is the timeline separator]After aunt arrived, my daily life changed a lot. First, I started learning swordsmanship from her.
[I am your master!]There was one dagger that strongly opposed the fact that I was learning swordsmanship from aunt, but it couldn’t be helped.
‘Please bear with it, we still train in the evening, don’t we?’
[Kup, if only I had a physical body, this wouldn’t have happened.]I opened my mouth to appease Uncle Dagger.
‘If you grant one of my wishes, I’ll go out to train at dawn too.’
[Why should I grant your wish when you’re the one training?]
‘So, are you not going to grant it?’
[You really are a naughty dumpling.]In the evenings, I learned swordsmanship from Uncle Dagger, and in the mornings from aunt. Sometimes I would go out to train at dawn because of my promise with Uncle Dagger.
Aunt marveled at how quickly my skills improved.
“I thought Yu Cheong was a genius, but…”
Nam Gung Yu Cheong was indeed a genius.
One that could be compared to Ji Cheon Wu, at that.
‘It’s just that I’m cheating in an absurd way.’
The swordsmanship Uncle Dagger taught was special.
‘Uncle Dagger must have been a member of the Nam Gung family, right?’
The fact that he knew how to use the Changgung swordsmanship. And it was easy to tell from the Nam Gung family’s swordsmanship techniques he taught me.
I don’t know how he ended up trapped in the dagger.
Uncle Dagger was very reluctant to talk about his past.
‘Aunt is strong too, but…’
She was no match for Uncle Dagger. Uncle Dagger would sometimes borrow my body to demonstrate directly.
When he demonstrated, I felt chills even as I wielded the sword myself.
I couldn’t use any special techniques because I lacked inner energy.
But I could feel it.
That Uncle Dagger’s swordsmanship was special. It was a feeling I couldn’t describe.
Uncle Dagger would sometimes say things I couldn’t understand.
I couldn’t understand his words.
I only thought I might understand a little in the distant future. Anyway, I had been spending peaceful days recently. Since aunt arrived, the family servants couldn’t openly look down on me, and my relationship with Ji Cheon Wu was smooth.
“Lin, what are you thinking so deeply about?”
I came to my senses.
Nam Gung Yu Cheong was already in front of me. I looked at Nam Gung Yu Cheong with a puzzled face.
Aunt, who should have been beside him, was nowhere to be seen.
“Why did only brother come?”
“Mother urgently went to provide support at the Murim Alliance’s request this evening.”
“What?”
“I heard Hyungmyeonsura was discovered in Anhui Province. The Murim Alliance is said to be pursuing him with an extensive network.”
My complexion turned pale upon hearing Nam Gung Yu Cheong’s words.
Hyungmyeonsura.
If my memory was correct, it was Hyungmyeonsura who had taken Nam Gung Yu Cheong’s eyes.
Nam Gung Yu Cheong patted my shoulder as if to say not to worry.
“Don’t worry. Grandfather and mother are strong.”
The fingertips of Nam Gung Yu Cheong, who spoke thus, were trembling slightly. He was afraid right now. But even so, he was encouraging me, fearing that I might be afraid.
While pretending to be composed.
“I’m planning to stay within the family estate as much as possible today.”
I agreed with his words.
‘It’s okay, it’s safe if we stay within the family estate.’
Although grandfather and aunt were gone, there was no safer place in Anhui Province than the Nam Gung family estate.
But still, I couldn’t shake off the ominous feeling. The Nam Gung Yu Cheong in the original work must have had similar thoughts.
‘But Nam Gung Yu Cheong was eventually kidnapped by Hyungmyeonsura.’
Then what was the reason?
Why wasn’t he protected in the Nam Gung family estate?
It was then.
“Young miss!”
Yak Ran was running towards me.
She opened her mouth to me with a pale face.
“Ji Cheon Wu has disappeared. Others say Young Master Hwa Su forcibly took him away.”
After grandfather and aunt came, I had forgotten. How ruthless the Nam Gung family estate could be to me without grandfather and aunt.
For over 8 years, my uncle Nam Gung Hyun Jong had made the Nam Gung family estate his own world.
‘Grandfather and aunt are gone.’
It meant I had no allies in the Nam Gung family estate right now. I also knew how vicious a demon Hyungmyeonsura was.
He was a demonic person who ruined talented youths.
He never killed them.
Instead, he just left them in a state no different from death.
In Cheonma Jijeon, the target was Nam Gung Yu Cheong. And this time it became Ji Cheon Wu.
The original work had changed.
Ji Cheon Wu, who should have injured his leg, didn’t get hurt. Uncle Dagger, who should have been just an antique sword, was no longer just an antique sword.
It meant that the Cheonma Jijeon I knew could be completely different from now on.
I put Uncle Dagger into my bosom with an expressionless face.
“Lin, this isn’t something you can do alone.”
Nam Gung Yu Cheong blocked me, perhaps sensing my unusual determination.
Nam Gung Yu Cheong’s words were right.
Nothing would change here if I searched for Ji Cheon Wu.
For now, Nam Gung Hwa Su had just forcibly taken him away.
“I’ll go find Hwa Su, he’s probably just playing another mean prank.”
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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