……It was the very person I had been thinking of just a few minutes ago.
As I stared at him wideeyed, he spoke first.
“It’s been a few days since we met again. Do you remember me?”
I thought we had parted in a way that somehow closed things last time, but surprisingly, our presumed protagonist seemed to still have the will to continue our conversation.
Perhaps he thinks he can finally extract some information, as I’m not in training now.
Well, no matter what I think, it’s not that important.
I was also thinking of trying to make up for what seemed like a failed first impression last time. Besides, strictly speaking, this walk was caused by unnecessarily complicating thoughts about the protagonist.
I nodded my head and slowly opened my mouth.
“I remember. I saw you last time at the training ground. But I don’t think I’ve heard your name. My name is Ha Hyun.”
As I seemed more actively engaged in the conversation this time, a faint gleam of interest passed through his eyes. He replied with a faint smile.
“You were Ha Hyun. You can call me Wol Young.”
“……Ah, yes. Scholar Wol Young.”
Setting aside the fact that he deliberately didn’t mention his family name, what felt stranger to me was the name Wol Young (Moon Shadow).
‘A moon shadow… Not a name you’d typically give a boy.’
More importantly than the genderappropriate name, something flashed in my mind the moment I heard the name Wol Young.
It felt like recalling something I’d forgotten for a long time.
That something was someone else’s name…
‘……Ha Hyun.’
Yes.
I only remember now, in our second meeting.
Just as I changed from ‘Baek Yeo Heun’ to ‘Ha Hyun,’ if he were to receive the Tao, it would probably be ‘Ha Hyun.’
‘But only if he’s sure to become my disciple.’
When I briefly closed my mouth, Wol Young immediately threw a question, not allowing the atmosphere to become awkward.
“Master, why are you out here where it’s dark?”
“I was taking a walk for a while. And you?”
“I’m the same. But being a guest, I was not going too far, and I just lost my way.”
He didn’t look particularly anxious about being lost.
‘Did he really get lost?’
I tilted my head for a moment but decided to move on casually. At the same time, I slyly asked to try to erase the subtle impression of our first meeting.
“Shall I take you to where you’re staying, then?”
“If it’s no trouble, I would like to ask that of you.”
As if not to miss the opportunity, he nodded immediately.
It takes about a walk from here to where the guests staying at the volcano are. I started walking side by side with Wol Young.
The surroundings gradually darkened, and the flames burning from the braziers became more vivid. Since we start the day early in the Taoist temple, it was a bit late for someone to be wandering around, so no one was visible outside, except Wol Young and me.
That made the silence shortlived.
A few steps into her quiet walk, Wolyeong confirmed that there was no one but herself and me, and spoke first in a slightly subdued voice.
“……Dojang.”
“Yes.”
“I’ve come to the volcano on my own request to Master Mahwageomwang of Dojang, as you’ve known since the last time.”
“Yes, I heard from my brother.”
Wondering what she would say, I responded appropriately and glanced at her side. Wolyeong was looking straight ahead, unlike me, with her eyes halflowered.
“Yes…… I’m embarrassed to talk about this with Dojang, whom I’m meeting only for the second time today, but I wanted to learn the sword by becoming a disciple of some clan without any other reason. I thought it would be nice if the path was isolated from the secular world. Then I happened to meet Mahwageomwang while being chased due to circumstances, and I thought this might be fate.”
It would not be common for a boy of that age to openly confess his innermost thoughts, but Wolyeong’s expression was even quite impassive. She said it was embarrassing, but it didn’t seem embarrassing at all.
Rather, it was just…….
‘She speaks like an adult.’
It seems like she’s using her story as a means to achieve her goal, like peeling a fortress. No, even before that, I have to doubt whether that’s really her complete innermost feelings.
“So that’s how it was.”
“But once I came to the volcano, timing is the issue. I admit that it’s my fault for not looking into this part properly.”
Listening to this, I had a little idea of what Wolyeong had been curious about. However, it didn’t seem like a good direction to pretend to know right away, so I just went along with her.
“The timing and age are a bit off.”
“……Do you know how old I am? I never mentioned my age.”
“That’s true, but the induction of the thirdgeneration disciple is the year after next, and they only take children under fifteen. You already seem to be fifteen.”
Wolyeong smiled faintly at my answer.
“……Correct. You have a good eye.”
I guessed between seventeen and fifteen, and it seems that fifteen was the correct answer.
When yandere male lead believes she loves him — but she never did
“How dare you!”
“How dare you make me love you, only to cast me aside as nothing more than a friend?!?
“I will never accept that.”
“I will never let you return to him.”
“Even if I have to burn myself to ashes.”
“Even if I must shatter my purity, my dignity, my very soul.”
“I will never let you escape me!”
This was the first novel that introduced me to the matriarchal genre. I’ve read it three times already!
At first, the male lead despised the female lead. Later, he misunderstood that she liked him, so he condescendingly and reluctantly reciprocated her feelings.
Then, he suddenly discovered that she was kind to everyone in the same way, and there was already someone she cherished in her heart, and that person was not him.
The male lead couldn’t believe it, he became angry and crazy. He was determined to capture her body and heart by any means necessary.
Synopsis:
Want to see how a green tea bitch male lead falls in love with the female lead?
Want to see how he flirtatiously pursues the female lead?
Want to see how he gets slapped in the face repeatedly?
The male lead is a green tea bitch, a poisonous lotus, jealous, ruthless, unscrupulous, with a venomous heart, and he’s also a delusional maniac.
The female lead is righteous, positive energy-filled, kind, a holy mother.
Let’s see how two people with extreme personalities come together~
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