“Before that.”
“……. ”
“There’s something I must confirm with you.”
She hoped it wasn’t true, but it was an issue that had to be confirmed.
“What is it?”
“The door of dreams.”
It might be the door of dreams that Yang Shin-hwi had engraved on Kang’s body.
“The door of dreams?”
With widened eyes, her memory, which had been questioning, recalled a past memory like a film cut off at some point.
‘Where is the best place to engrave the door of dreams? Should it be discreetly, so my boyfriend won’t get annoyed?’
‘Here?’
‘Or lower?’
When her vision was distorted and chaotic.
‘No.’
‘Here is probably the best.’
Shin-hwi’s voice, flowing like poison, stuck deep in her mind.
Suddenly, the sensation of the shoulder being bitten made the rigid body tremble involuntarily.
At that faint movement, San revisited a vague memory like a fog.
Everyone in the shooting location collapsed as if a signal had been fired.
Like a machine that had lost power.
He probably was the only one who didn’t completely lose consciousness.
But barely waking up was everything.
A feeling that all the organs and senses of the body were rapidly losing function and breaking down, as if in a dream.
The scene was like a hallucination that could only be seen in a dream, where even a single fingertip couldn’t move as desired.
He didn’t know with what state of mind he reached where Kang was.
He just moved there as if the message in his head was telling him to go to her.
However, looking at Kang, whose complexion had turned pale, anger and worry surged simultaneously.
“Did that bastard…?”
“……. ”
“Is there any place he bit you?”
There shouldn’t be.
It must be that way.
But at his question, she lowered her gaze and covered her shoulders.
Seeing that, San’s frown deepened.
Mongma carves the door of dreams directly onto the human body through direct physical contact.
It was a method of carving each person’s signature-like pattern with their hands, applying invisible fire to the human eye, inflicting wounds, and then applying their saliva or blood to perform a spell.
“…He bit my shoulder.”
Kang answered belatedly.
The strange and chilling sensation, as if something sharp and hot had pierced through the flesh, was unforgettable.
Because of her answer, he extended the hand that had been frozen in the air again. Then, carefully, he lowered her clothes to expose Kang’s shoulder.
Due to tension, his heart pounded, but she made an effort to maintain a calm expression.
If it wasn’t carved, it would be good, but even if it was, she shouldn’t show a frightened or fearful look.
Just by looking at his trembling fingertips, he could keenly feel how tense San was right now, so even she had to remain composed.
“It’s okay. Even if the door is carved, we just have to find a way.”
Of course, she didn’t know about things like a method.
There was no guarantee that there was such a thing.
However, if she didn’t console herself like that, it felt like fear would consume her.
And then.
The movement of the fingertips wandering near the shoulder abruptly stopped at a certain point.
In an instant, it felt as if Kang’s heart had dropped to the floor. With a voice unable to erase the trembling, she asked, “…Are you there?” Simultaneously, a long sigh escaped through his lips, which had paused due to tension.
San, still with his forehead against Kang’s shoulder, mumbled as if tension had eased, “Fortunately.”
“Nothing happened?”
“Yeah.”
There were traces of an attempt to carve the door of dreams, but it was in an unfinished state. Perhaps if they had been a little late, it might have been engraved. The only thing left on her white skin was rough and distinct bite marks.
Realizing that this was a provocation towards him, San sighed deeply, thinking of Shin-hwi’s face. He didn’t know he would regret not killing him so much at the Han River. In unison with the relaxed tension, Kang hugged him. Then, her voice, still filled with trembling, said, “Fortunately, really.” She added with a late sob, “I was afraid I might accidentally take away all the nightmares from you… and I thought you might die.”
“…”
“It was so… I was so scared.” It was an event that made them see the current reality, where the most precious thing in their lives might disappear completely.
San, cautiously stealing glances at Kang’s eyes, hugged her again, with the intention of never letting go. However, Kang in his arms, filled with tremors, uttered a voice that still carried the shivers, “Fortunately, really.”
She sobbed belatedly, “Because I was afraid that I might take away all the nightmares from you by mistake… and I thought you might die.”
“…”
“It was too… I was too scared.” The fingertips holding onto her shoulders were trembling powerfully. “It was too scary.”
It was an experience that engraved the fear of possibly losing the most precious thing deep into her bones, an event that made them face the reality they were in.
An Indifferent Woman is the One Men Desire the Most
One-line summary: The female lead is actually cold-hearted and extremely rational. She has stage-by-stage relationships and won’t two-time, but there will always be someone who secretly likes her.
This novel has the following triggers, so if you’re sensitive to these, please don’t read:
1. The female lead has had many relationships, but she treated each one seriously and broke up properly.
It’s just that the men unilaterally pestered her incessantly. For the female lead, when she doesn’t like someone anymore, she simply doesn’t like them.
(This applies to her relationships with Male Lead 1, 2, 3, and 4 as well, but she’s loyal in each 1-on-1 relationship!)
2. In this novel, Male Lead 2 and the female lead kiss in a car, and Male Lead 1 sees it and beats up Male Lead 2.
The female lead calls the police and sends both Male Lead 1 and 2 to the police station! Male Lead 1 begs the female lead not to break up with him.
3. Male Lead 1 has a gentle appearance but an obsessive personality.
Male Lead 2 has a delicate and soft appearance, slightly green tea-like (two-faced).
Male Lead 3 is a youthful college student and a smart person who has secretly liked the female lead for a long time.
Male Lead 4 is the female lead’s father’s special assistant, a business elite with deep, hidden thoughts.
4. At the beginning of this novel, the female lead has already broken up with Male Lead 1 (Chapter 4) and gotten back together with Male Lead 2 (ex-boyfriend).
5. Enter with caution if you have triggers!!!
