“Ugh.”
Chung Myung lay exhausted on the bed.
When Baek Chun and Yoon Jong saw it, they shook their heads.
“Are you all right?”
“Ugh… that leech.”
Chung Myung’s face was tired and dark.
It was like a paradise to him, but it quickly turned into hell when one condition changed.
Tang So-so made every effort not to be separated from Chung Myung for even a single second after that.
She sat next to him when he ate in Daejeon and served him a meal; when he drank, she wouldn’t let go of the bottle. She was on the verge of leaving his side at this point.
Chung Myung, who was sick and tired of it all, eventually made his way to Baek Chun’s quarters.
“You can go to your room.”
“……Sasuk.”
“Huh?”
“I’m doing this because I’m really scared.”
“…….”
Yoon Jong, who was listening to Chung Myung’s husky voice, smirks.
“It was pretty good, why?”
However, Baek Chun appeared to have completely different ideas.
“Even if your mouth is crooked, you have to say it right away. If it’s too much.”
“Yes, she’s even the sole daughter of the head of the Tang Family.”
Chung Myung screamed.
“It’s not only daughter, but poison woman!” (Word play. Only daughter (獨女) and poison woman (毒女) has the same pronunciation but very different meanings.)
“…… that’s true, too.”
“Marriage my ass! What kind of marriage is it when I am a Taoist?”
“Mount Hua Taoist are allowed to marry. I’m not against it.”
Yoon Jong shook his head.
“Yes, there are some married adults.”
“Ugh.”
Chung Myung shook his head.
‘How crazy you are to marry the daughter of the head of the Tang Family?’
Hey, you guys. It’s not poisonous. That’s poison. Poison. The poison that you can’t spit out once you’ve swallowed it.
No, because that yangban is said to be the Poison King, he lets loose this poison!
‘Rather, if it was a real poison that was sprayed, I would blow it away with an internal strength or sweep it away with a sword wind, but this poison cannot be stopped by force.’
What is most troubling for Chung Myung in the world is something that cannot be solved by force. Tang Gaju nim’s dagger accurately penetrated Chung Myung’s weakness.
“If you look so fine, why don’t you take her Yoon Jong Sahyung?”
“I don’t think they want me over there.”
“I know though.”
“What?”
Yoon Jong gave a strange look as Chung Myung lay down and looked away. Then, with a slightly evil face, he said to Baek Chun.
“Sasuk. Come to think of it, maybe it’s not a bad thing after all.”
“Huh?”
“Since ancient times, you have to get married to grow up. Wouldn’t that guy also come to his senses when he got married? Besides, it’s even better that Mount Hua and the Tang family are closely related by blood.”
“Yoon Jong ah.”
“Yes?”
“I’ve never been as disappointed in you as I am today. This Sasuk is heartbroken.”
“What’s wrong with you?”
“Don’t you think about the position of a woman who has to marry that guy and live with him?”
“……I was thoughtless. Please kill me, Sasuk.”
“No, these bastards?”
Yoon Jong and Baek Chun coughed and turned away from Chung Myung’s stare.
‘That’s not even wrong.’
‘You should have a conscience.’
Then Jo Gol smiled and said.
“I heard that Tang Gaju nim cherishes his daughter as if she were the best treasure in the world, but she seems to like you quite enough to let her go away.”
“Tell him it’s okay.”
“Still, it must have been that they had a good view on us.”
“Do you poison someone you like? Poison? That’s their way of welcome in the Tang Family?”
Chung Myung sighed deeply at his situation.
“Well, he’s a smart guy.”
Or perhaps he is being reckless in the absence of any countermeasures.
In any case, Chung Myung was confined to the hall and could not even imagine going outside.
“…Why isn’t he coming out?”
Tang So-so bites the sleeve.
Tang Zhan sighed as he watched it.
“Sister, why don’t you take it easy?”
“You stay still.”
Tang So-so muzzled his lips as if she wasn’t happy.
“It’s strange. There’s no way he would avoid me like this.”
“……why?”
“I’m pretty.”
“…….”
Tang Zhan’s face is distorted.
‘I can’t say anything because it’s true.’
People who say the right things die young, it has been said since ancient times, but Tang Zhan seemed to know why.
“Is it because he is a Taoist? Or does he has no eyes to recognize beauty because they live in the mountains? Why is he running away from me?”
“……maybe he is not interested in women?”
“Is there such a man in the world?”
“…….”
Tang Zhan sighed quietly.
‘But it’s weird.’
Tang So-so is not the type of person who goes into marriage blindfolded. She is more akin to someone who avoided her marriage. What caused such a person to change her mind so abruptly?
“Did you like Mount Hua Divine Dragon?”
“Zhan ah.”
“Yes, sister.”
“I saw him for the first time yesterday.”
“…….”
“I don’t know what I need to know to like someone or not. It’s not that I have supernatural powers, so I don’t have the ability to know what’s inside.”
“No, but why are you so aggressive?”
Tang So-so looked at Tang Zhan with a slightly heated face and sighed deeply.
“Where do you think I will get married if I miss this opportunity?”
“…….”
Tang Zhan couldn’t say a word and shut up.
“Father loves me so much. But he’s the head of the Tang Family. Father is the one who thinks first about the Tang Family’s position between mine and Tang Family’s position. When the time comes when he can’t put it off any longer, he will have no choice but to marry me in the right place. Then I’ll have to marry into a powerful house in Sichuan.”
“I suppose so.”
“I die of suffocation in such a place. But what can I do? I will accept it, thinking it was my destiny. Since I was born as the daughter of the Tang Family, it is inevitable. But…”
“Mount Hua is different?”
“I don’t like living in the mountains, but father admits it. I heard he is the best in the world of future generations?”
“So if you’re going to marry, you want to be honored as the wife of the world’s best man?”
Tang So-so glared at Tang Zhan with a straight face.
“Are you crazy?”
“Yes?”
“What’s the use of that? It’s not like I’m the best in the world.”
“Why……?”
“If you are the best person in the world, you won’t be able to come home because you’re too busy to practice! Then I’ll wither like a flower by myself!”
“Oh….”
Such a sad…
“What a great place to be in!”
Tang Zhan looked at Tang So-so with bewildered eyes.
‘No. You like it?’
‘That’s?’
“Is that a good thing?”
“It’s a hundred times better than being meddled in everything. If you are married to a powerful family, you will have to be formal with just one drink. Can you live like that?”
‘I can’t.’
‘I can’t live like that.’
“I don’t care about anyone else, but I don’t want a marriage where they caged me! Never! I have to catch that man even if I die!”
There were a spark in Tang So so’s eyes.
“Father is against it, but he’s not going to live for me, is he? Don’t you think so?”
Tang Zhan looked at her blankly.
‘You have a plan.’
It’s not even a plan for the Tangs. The only goal is to be content! The enthusiasm for that goal was almost overwhelming.
“But I don’t think Mount Hua Divine Dragon is that easy. It won’t go your way.”
“What else is he mistaken for?”
“Yes?”
“I have no intention to wield him. No, I can’t. How am I supposed to wield someone my father admitted? We have to respect and be considerate of him.”
“The affection…”
“What’s the point of affection? If you live together and endure it, affection would naturally come.”
“…….”
It was frighteningly realistic.
“I have no better marriage than this. In any case, looking at him, he’s pretty handsome. I don’t like how he sees me as a roadside rock, but he’ll change his mind over time.”
Tang Zhan sighed lowly as he looked at his sister, who was brimming with energy.
But he refuses to blame his sister. It’s because he knows what her future holds.
The Tang family’s women are not recognized as family members. They cannot learn the Tang Family’s secret art or their martial art. They’ve only inherited a few assassination techniques passed down from generation to generation to women.
It includes Tang Family’s direct descendants.
Tang So-so spent her entire life in the Tang Family, never venturing out into the world because she was Gaju’s daughter.
Flowers, like plants, grow. And when the time comes, she is in a position to marry me as if I were being sold. How can those who marry in such a way be happy?
Tang Gun ak, as much as he is the family’s head, cannot change the law that has been with the Tang Family for a long time.
“Zhan ah!”
“Yes, sister!”
“You help me too!”
“…….”
“I will somehow be happy. And the first key to that happiness is right there! I’ll marry that Taoist by all means, so you help me. Then I’ll help you too.”
“Huh? What do you mean by helping?”
“Do you think you’re going to insult someone like that? Then you’ll be the brother-in-law of the world, right?”
“…….”
“Trust me.”
Tang Zhan nodded slowly.
“I believe you.”
The two held hands lightly and gazed furiously at someone in the hall.
Chung Myung had to shiver with unknown chills as a result of this.
* * *
Two eyes peep up on the roof.
‘No?’
Chung Myung climbs the roof with a sigh after looking around.
‘Aigoo, such a fate that I had.’
Yoo Iseol pursued him on Mount Hua, and he must avoid Tang So-so in Tang Family.
Plum Blossom Sword Saint, who had nothing to fear, fled from little girls who hadn’t even lived half their lives.
– It’s savory, you punk.
“Oh, you didn’t even get married!”
Chung Myung pointed to the sky and lay down on the roof. His hand reflexively grabs the bandaged stomach.
“Ugh…”
Chung Myung’s face is distorted.
A throbbing pain is coming in.
‘It hurts.’.
He should not be weak in front of Tang Gaju. He will gain more if he appreciates Chung Myung more.
Even in front of his Sahyung, he must not act weak. That is why they will be upset and sorry.
Perhaps he is frustrated by his helplessness.
“It’s strange, Cheon Mun Sahyung.”
He didn’t bluff like this before.
There are more and more cases of bluffing as the days go by day.
He used to think bluffing guys were horrible.
With a smirk, Chung Myung poured alcohol into his mouth.
“Kuh.”
He rubs his mouth and looks at the moon in the sky with blank eyes.
‘Weak.’
He feels weak.
He can’t believe he gets wounded in a battle against the head of the Tang Family.
If it were he in the past, he would have split the opponent’s head with a single swing.
Secret attack of Tang Pae?
There is no excuse for such a thing. On a terrible battlefield, cowardice is routine, secret attack is a skill. If he had been stronger, any secret attack would be meaningless.
“I’m really fucking weak.”
Thinking about it, it’s natural.
Chung Myung had only been dead for three years when he awoke. The period was less than three years, but it was three years. It’s great to have grown so strong in such a short time.
You can never catch up to what it took your entire life to achieve in three years, no matter how much you go through it once.
He knows it… but…
“That can’t be an excuse!”
Chung Myung’s eyes become firm.
Chung Myung knows best how heartless and dangerous Murim is. It would be a good thing if things were just peaceful while he took his time to be strong, but what are the odds?
“I must be stronger.”
Beyond the old Plum Blossom Sword Saint and advance to a new realm.
Enough to protect any danger in the world that comes upon Mount Hua!
Chung Myung put his hand into his arms.
Then he took out the cheondokdan he had extorted from the Tang family and Chaos Origin Pill he had brought with both hands.
‘Will this work?’
Chung Myung’s eyes sank slightly.
It’s very risky. But if things work out as Chung Myung thinks…….
‘The internal strength problem can be solved at once.’
Even if it’s not as much as in the past, there will be no more cases where he can’t show his skills because of internal strength like this time.
“Once I’ve fully recovered…….”
At that moment, Chung Myung held his breath and fell flat on the roof.
“Chung Myung Sohyup?” Chung Myung Sohyuuuup? It’s weird. I checked that he wasn’t in the room. Where’d he go?”
Chung Myung held his breath in a cold sweat.
Chung Myung, who had been holding his breath even by using breathing methods, smiled broadly after confirming that Tang So-so had completely moved away.
‘I can’t beat that.’
Certain things in the world cannot be overcome no matter how strong you are.
It was Chung Myung who desperately realized that fact.