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    Shen Qingqiu had always intended to keep his demonic cultivator of a brother away from his righteous sect. Of course, the universe had other ideas.


    “Unfortunately, there isn’t yet a cure known for a demonic infection such as this. Any interference by outside spiritual energy will destabilize your meridians, at best triggering a qi deviation and at worst, killing you.”

    Shen Qingqiu sighed wearily.

    “I have an acquaintance who may be able to provide a solution in such a situation.”

    “Oh?” Mu Qingfang said, his tone interested and curious, though somewhat unbelieving.

    “My brother.”

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    13 May 2025

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    ch 4

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    The disgraced and exiled former heir of House Haeyeon—before their contract, Sung Hyunjae had expected a pawn, a desperate weakling who could be manipulated and toyed with at will. Han Yoojin was anything but.

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    31 Jul 2025

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    ch 23

  3. Public Bookmark 49

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    “You wish to exchange Yoohyun for this?” Yoojin picked up the cursed bloom, feeling its unnaturally firm, glossy stem and hefty weight of blood-bright petals atop it. “Your child for a rose? Would you trade me for something like this? Yerim?”

    All of this was impossible to believe, but the most grounding part of this all was the prick in his heart that came with his mother’s final will stating, “We must bring Yoohyun to him immediately.”

    “No.” Yoojin clenched the stem in his fist. “Let me see for myself whether you’ve lost your minds completely before you go taking Yoohyun wherever you please.”

    “Yoojin.” His father was finally looking at him. “This is not something to take lightly. We must take Yoohyun to him now. You’re the eldest, and you still need to—”

    “I still need to look after my siblings,” Yoojin intoned, voice full of spite. “I will go myself as I am the one who asked for the rose.”

    Han Yoojin, for the sin of a plucked rose, enters a debt to a terrible Beast of a faraway land.

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    30 Jul 2025

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    Ch 3

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    Han Yoojin harbored but one simple desire for this evening: to glimpse at his brother one last time, then quietly make his exit before the stroke of midnight.

    Alas, fate, or perhaps sheer ill fortune, conspired against him in the form of an obnoxious noble. A gentleman whose attire was so opulent it might as well have rivaled His Majesty the King’s, simply would not leave him be. Yoojin found himself contemplating, with a surge of violence, whether to simply liberate his wine glass onto the insufferable blonde's pristine silks. The man then had the unmitigated gall to remark upon Yoojin's beauty in white, boldly stating he might as well be his bride.

    *Whose fucking bride?*

     

    Han Yoojin was fully prepared to embark upon his journey to find a happily ever after, but he had simply not accounted for *this* to happen when he stepped into that enchanted carriage, with glass slippers and all.

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    30 Jul 2025

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    ch 2

  5. Public Bookmark 66

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    Under the moonlight, in a narrow alley of Gangseo District, a silver blade was piercing through Han Yoohun's abdomen. Cast away years ago, Yoojin could only watch as the bloody, stumbling body of his brother was carried by someone else.

    It's all to protect Yoohyun, Han Yoojin reasoned, staring into golden eyes as he stood uninvited in the office of the richest man in Korea.

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    30 Jul 2025

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    ch 6