The novel will be different from the manhwa regarding names, places and terms. Please be advised before reading that this is 19+ and also I have my korean dictionary ready so if you want to clarify some terms that was used please just comment on the comment section and check the next day I will be answering them or you can google them yourself.
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The bridegroom was a beast of darkness. The hand gripping the knife trembled violently, and cold breath escaped his lips.
Jihan was hiding behind the unused kitchen shelf, where no one ever went. The sound of his footsteps echoed steadily in the distance.
The man was blind with lust, his reason drowned by raw desire, searching for any hole to ram his raging need into. If caught, it was over.
Jihan was terrified. So terrified he felt tears welling up. But there was no one else to blame—he was the one who had turned the man into this ravening beast.
Where did it all go wrong?
Was it a mistake to ever listen to that lowly shaman’s advice? Or had the potion simply failed to work as intended? No—maybe it was that stupid servant who ruined everything at the last moment, sticking his nose where it didn’t belong.
The problem was the goblin’s water. I should’ve measured the dose more carefully. How could I have left such a crucial task to that brute of a guard?
Jihan had touched what he never should have. The old shaman had warned him: Jihan was a tender spring sapling, and the man was a razor-edged axe. If he provoked him wrong, the backlash would be brutal.
Regret was useless now. The drug he had fed him had driven the man mad. There was nowhere left to run, and in this vast house, not even a passing ant would come to his aid.
Then—
The faint footsteps, which had stopped, began again. Jihan nearly dropped the knife in shock.
Please.
Thud. Thud.
Don’t come.
―Creeeak.
The rusted hinge of the old pantry door, long unused, groaned open. The wind howled louder.
The man entered.
In the frozen predawn of February, the game of hide-and-seek with the beast resumed.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
