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Chapter 130

"Un-hyang and I grew up together in Shinryeong Castle." The story started calmly. It seemed that thinking about the old days brought some joy. 

A slight smile appeared on Cheong-ryang's lips. "I entered Shinryeong Castle when I was young. Back then, it was taking orphans from Murim and teaching them martial arts."

"Isn't that a good thing?"

"It's a good thing. Well, if you think about it, it was part of a welfare project."

Taking in orphans and teaching them martial arts? There was no better way to cleanse the image of an organization. Many guilds were already implementing such projects, and at the forefront of it was Murim.

Un-hyang and Cheong-ryang had grown up in none other than…

'Shinryeong Castle…'

In the huge world of Murim, it was the second biggest faction after the Murim Alliance and was a place that symbolized the power of Murim.

'A bigger place than I thought was involved.'

He’d thought there was no way the faction Un-hyang was fighting was small, but to think it was Shinryeong Castle…

'I guess I should be grateful it isn't the Murim Alliance.'

"Un-hyang is Un CheonGuk's daughter."

"What…?" Su-hyeok's eyes widened in shock at the sudden bombshell.

‘Whose daughter?’

"Un CheonGuk? Do you know him?"

"There's no way I wouldn't know." It was a name that everyone probably knew. Even a three-year-old child from Murim probably knew his name.

CheonGuk. He was the master of Shinryeong Castle, and a long time prior…

'He's that madman's daughter?'

He was also one of the countless players that Su-hyeok had defeated.

The explanation made most of what had happened so far suddenly make sense. If it were true, then Un-hyang shouldn’t be working as a mere manager for a company.

"But why?" At the same time, many questions arose. Why was someone from such a noble birth there like that? Why were they so desperate to take her back?

"For Un-hyang, that place was hell.” The smile on Cheong-ryang's lips disappeared. "No. At some point, it became hell."

"Hell?"

"Yes. It was like that for everyone, but especially for Un-hyang."

Grab—

Cheong-ryang clenched his fists. "Training, more training… She, after the age of 10, couldn't live like a normal person anymore. Her face was swollen, and her body was covered in bruises and knife wounds, smeared with medicine. She couldn't even sleep properly."

He tried suppressing his decades-old anger as he thought about his childhood self and Un-hyang.

"Why haven't I seen you around lately, Ryang?"

"Don't worry me." Even back then, Un-hyang was always bright and lively. Even though she probably hurt from being covered in bruises and cuts.

"Although she was a child, she behaved like an adult."

Un-hyang was strong. While the young Cheong-ryang was scared of even seeing wounds, she hadn't even shown a hint of pain or hardship.

"That kid endured it all. Her body grew as fast as her heart, and she became an adult. She endured such a hellish place."

Time passed; both of them grew into adults, and one day he realized she was struggling.

"I thought she was fine… until I saw her crying. I couldn't believe it. How hard must it have been for her that she didn't even realize I was there?"

Watching Un-hyang cry for a long time, Cheong-ryang quietly left.

A few days later, covered in bruises and bloodstains again, she faced him.

"She acted as if nothing were wrong again. I wasn't sure if she hadn't seen me that day or was pretending not to."

"I got some money. Let's go eat something sweet!"

Remembering her smile, Cheong-ryang covered his face with both hands and cursed at himself for being so helpless. "Damn it… I couldn't do anything. I had no power; no background. I was just a liability."

Su-hyeok chewed over and processed each world carefully. The two had a heavy past.

"Why did she ultimately choose to run away?" Un-hyang had endured the training at Shinryeong Castle for a long time, but in the end, she chose to give up on everything and run away. It might have been because she couldn't endure it anymore, but it didn't seem that simple.

"If she'd endured a bit more, she might have become the next master of Shinryeong Castle," Su-hyeok concluded.

Un-hyang's harsh training was most likely preparing her to become the next master of the castle. It might have been one thing if she'd given up from the start, but she had endured the training brilliantly.

Why had she given it all up?

"I don't think it was because of the harsh training." After the fight, Un-hyang tried to take care of Su-hyeok's injuries before her own. "She isn't the type of person who would be defeated by something like that."

There must have been something else.

"I don't know." Unfortunately, it seemed that Cheong-ryang didn't know either.

"You don't know?"

"Yes, one day, she suddenly told me…" The day before leaving Shinryeong Castle, she broke down in tears before Cheong-ryang for the first time.

"She said it wasn’t right…"

"…"

"That day, I left Shinryeong Castle with her. Since we had to make a living, we were forced to find jobs, and that's how we ended up here."

Clap—

At the end of the story, Cheong-ryang clapped his hands loudly. "That's it. That's all I know."

"Thank you…" Su-hyeok bowed his head briefly in gratitude. Although it was a short story, for the two of them, it was a long one; it probably wasn't easy for him to talk about it.

He still had questions, though. Why did Shinryeong castle push Un-hyang so hard in her training, and why did Un-hyang ultimately give up everything?

Only Un-hyang could answer those questions, not Cheong-ryang.

'Shinryeong Castle, Un CheonGuk…' More question marks arose in Su-hyeok's mind. 'Is it normal to be this obsessed with a successor?'

He was well aware of Un-hyang's skills. With a bit more training, she could have become the next master of Shinryeong Castle, succeeding Un CheonGuk, but even so, it was strange that he was so obsessed with a successor who had run away.

Why would anyone want the next master of the castle to be someone who hated the position?

Su-hyeok's tired eyelids drooped. 

It had been a long night.

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Un-hyang dreamed that she stood in the middle of Shinryeong Castle, seeing the red silk that connected the castle and the vast garden, hearing swords clashing from all directions. 

Along with the suffocating air, everything was just like she remembered.

"I don't want to go back…" She knew it was a dream. After all, she'd dreamed about returning there over a hundred times. The dreams had fooled her at first, but not anymore.

"Do you think you can escape?"

Even though she knew that, Un-hyang faced the man before her again.

Swoosh—

The handsome man suddenly appeared before her like a mirage—the great star of Murim, someone who all martial artists revered—her father, Un CheonGuk.

"I won't be fooled."

"A dream?"

"Yes. This is a dream." The first few dozen times were enough.

However, despite her denial, Un CheonGuk remained calm. "Yes, that's right. This is a dream, but you also know that you will eventually return here."

Step—

He took a step closer. "Isn't that why you keep having the same dream?"

"Don't come any closer…"

"You can't escape your fate. You were the one who accepted it."

"I never did."

"My daughter…"

"No-!" She shouted and emitted Magic Power. The floor of Shinryeong Castle split, and an earthquake shook the surroundings.

She also knew that, if it were really the same dream she always had…

GUOO—

He would soon appear.

The bright sky of Shinryeong Castle turned black, something obscured the sun, and a black moon rose as darkness descended.

The man who was about to appear felt several times bigger than Un CheonGuk in presence.

"So you've returned."

It was different from when they'd encountered Un CheonGuk. She couldn't resist, there was no way. She couldn't muster the courage to face him.

"It doesn't matter how many times you run away. It's useless. You will eventually return here."

'No.'

Tremble—

Her body trembled, and she remembered how the dream always ended the same way. 

Whether she knew it was a dream or not didn't matter, once that certain man appeared, the end of the dream was set.

'Once again, it's the same.'

Even though she'd barely managed to escape, she always returned in her dreams, and every time, she faced the same ending of that horrible hell: living according to the fate the two spoke of.

'I'd rather…' Un-hyang's gaze turned to her wrist. Would that make things more comfortable?

Just as she thought what she'd thought countless times already before, lightning flashed across the dark night sky.

WHOOM—!

That was new. The darkness engulfing Un-hyang lifted; the massive presence behind her faded, and Un CheonGuk showed a panicked expression for the first time.

"Who…?"

"It seems there's an uninvited guest."

Swoosh—

The figures of the two invading Un-hyang's dream began to fade.

WHOOM—!

Lightning brightened up the sky. CheonGuk and the man with the overwhelmingly oppressive presence vanished without a trace, driven away by another man.

Step—

The stranger entering Shinryeong Castle had familiar black hair and a mask covering his face.

Although Un-hyang didn't know his face, she knew who he was… Lee Su-hyeok, the great legend of Blue Eyes and her hero.

"Why are you here…?" she asked. It was strange. She had the same dream hundreds of times, but he'd never appeared in it before.

That question was soon answered.

"Ms. Manager."

Un-hyang's eyes widened.

"Why did you come here?"

"M… Mr…" The man who’d entered the castle in a flash of lightning wasn’t the Su-hyeok of Blue Eyes but the Su-hyeok of Balhae Entertainment. "Lee Su-hyeok?"

Was it because it was a dream? For a moment, she’d forgotten why she'd been so obsessed with Lee Su-hyeok—he was the person who had saved her.

"Let's go back."

Even though they weren't the same person, being with him made him feel like she would receive the same salvation.

"Huh…?" The eyes of the Su-hyeok in her dream wavered.

Un-hyang burst into tears. After collapsing onto the floor of the Shinryeong Castle she hated so much, she cried her heart out.

When she woke up, she realized she hadn’t slept so well in a long time.

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