I Thought the Youngest Daughter of the Sichuan Tang Family Was Hated - Chapter 46

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I was the spark that ignited her rage.
From the moment she laid eyes on me, the Nanny lost all reason.
“Answer me! Dang Seon-hwa…!”
The Nanny glared at me as if she wanted to tear me apart, her breathing ragged and violent.
Father stepped forward and shielded me behind him, opening his mouth to speak.
“Dang Seon-hwa. Yes. You and my wife were close. She followed you like an older sister.”
Father deliberately mentioned Mother, it seemed.
To shake the Nanny’s mind even further.
The strategy worked.
“But how could you kidnap the daughter of a dear friend?”
“A dear friend?”
The Nanny’s eyes bulged as she screamed at Father.
“Ha! Dang Seon-hwa, that woman was acting on her own….”
Her voice became far more emotional. Finally, the poison was seeping through.
“Perhaps she felt some kinship with me, a branch family daughter who couldn’t use martial arts like she couldn’t.”
The Nanny’s eyes narrowed with displeasure as she thought of Mother.
“But that woman couldn’t manage it because her body was weaker than paper, while I couldn’t use it even if I wanted to.”
The Nanny’s rapid speech suddenly halted.
Her eyes reddened abruptly, and tears streamed down her face.
“That’s why I couldn’t protect her. My daughter.”
The Nanny’s lips trembled as she spoke.
Her eyes had already drifted toward empty space.
“Why only my daughter….”
Her expression was heavy with resentment, as if she were staring at something unseen.
“Why did my daughter die in the war while that girl survived unscathed and bore a child! Why only mine. Only mine…!”
As she thrashed about, her entire chair rocked back and forth.
I had never seen the Nanny consumed by such malice before.
She felt like a completely different person.
Of course, this must be her true self.
“I really hate them. That’s right. What that person said was right…. This family should disappear.”
The Nanny laughed and wept in turns, gasping for breath.
Finally, I found the clue in her muttering.
The Nanny harbored hatred for the Dang Family.
That was the ultimate reason she had kidnapped me.
“Hic, ugh! Hic….”
The Nanny, trembling as she wept, let her head drop suddenly.
“…So I killed her. My obedient, beautiful Dang Seon-hwa.”
After a moment to steady her breathing, the words that spilled from the Nanny’s mouth were unbelievable.
“She was careless enough to let her guard down, and the timing was perfect. The Dang Family was under attack, so it was easy to make it look like she got caught up in it.”
“…What?”
Father’s mouth fell open. As if struck on the head, his expression went blank.
Then the veins along Father’s temples bulged prominently.
His eyes snapped wide open, a fury bordering on madness surging forth.
“I’ll kill you—”
The moment he took a step toward Nanny.
Dang Mu-seon stopped him lightly.
“Not yet.”
Right. He wanted to kill her immediately, but there was still much to hear.
Father barely composed his rage and stepped back.
“Hahaha!”
Nanny found Father’s reaction amusing and began to giggle.
“Yes! How does it feel to lose someone you love! You’re sad too, aren’t you!”
Then suddenly she stopped.
Her laughter ceased, and she tilted her head.
“But why won’t they crumble? These cursed Dang wretches.”
Nanny’s head creaked as she turned toward me.
My entire body trembled at the chill. Nanny’s laughter didn’t sound human.
I was terrified.
“So I thought… maybe it’s because of that pretty child. Perhaps they find strength thinking of that child, and that’s why they unite.”
“…Then why didn’t you kill me?”
My mouth moved of its own accord.
I asked without thinking.
Nanny’s eyes changed as if she’d only just realized I wasn’t Dang Seon-hwa.
She answered with a meaningful expression.
“Killing you alone wouldn’t be as satisfying as watching all of them die.”
All of them. She was referring to my family.
“You’re their reverse scale. If I remove only you, they won’t be able to move an inch. That’s the kind of people they are.”
Nanny swept her gaze across Father and my brothers, her eyes wide and piercing as she spoke.
My hands trembled uncontrollably, and I quickly hid them behind me. I wanted to escape from here immediately.
Suddenly Nanny’s face flushed crimson.
She clenched her teeth and screamed with bitter resentment.
“What a waste. What a waste!”
Under the influence of the poison, her emotions had reached their limit.
“If only that one were separated from you wretches…! Ah, then I could have wrapped a noose around your necks!”
Nanny’s words struck my head like stones, one after another.
I barely drew in the breath I’d been holding and gathered my thoughts.
‘…She killed Mother. Nanny did.’
I’d heard that Mother had perished in an attack by the Demon Cult Remnants.
‘She went out with Nanny…’
My blood ran cold.
Finally, all my memories unfolded like pages turning in a book.
“Young lady… sob! Our young lady, what should we do…. Please, you must escape. You have to survive…!”
The person who told me that Father had ordered my execution.
The person who guided me outside without being discovered.
It was all Nanny.
Which meant…
“…Was the heart condition intentional too? To keep me alone.”
I asked carefully.
It would have been entirely possible with the use of a koan. If Nanny had been watching over me, I wouldn’t have been neglected for a year.
‘Then I wouldn’t have run away from home….’
The excitement that had filled Nanny’s expression vanished completely.
Then, as if it were yesterday, she smiled with tenderness.
“You are truly clever, as expected.”
My chest felt like it was being torn apart at those words.
Nanny had tried to separate me from my family.
She believed I was the Dang Family’s only weakness.
If she kept me far enough away that she couldn’t protect me and used me as leverage…
‘Father and my family would be helpless against her.’
It didn’t matter where I was. As long as my family didn’t know.
‘Then could it be that even before the regression….’
Out of betrayal toward my family, whenever I had the chance to face members of the Dang Household, I would avoid them.
I had actively kept my distance from my family.
I squeezed my eyes shut and stopped myself from spiraling deeper into thought.
The imagination was too horrifying to pursue further.
Tears threatened to spill, but I held them back and smiled bitterly.
Then I answered the one who had once been my Nanny.
“…Of course I’m clever. I take after Mother.”
Someone suddenly embraced me from behind.
It was Dang Lim.
My throat tightened. I turned around and pulled him into my arms.
His shoulders, my shoulders—both soaked with tears.
“So then, what kind of person is she.”
At that moment, Dang Mu-seon, who had been watching quietly, spoke.
“She couldn’t have deceived us alone. There must be accomplices.”
With his hands clasped behind his back, Dang Mu-seon stepped closer to her.
Here, his hands were fully visible. He held something long and rusted like a pair of tongs.
It was clearly a torture instrument.
“Who is behind you?”
At his question, the woman’s eyes blazing red burst into laughter.
“Who? Hahahaha! How arrogant. It’s not just one! Countless people in the Murim are targeting the Dang Family’s neck.”
Blood sprayed from her mouth in a violent crimson torrent as she laughed like a woman possessed by spirits.
I swallowed hard, and her bloodshot eyes turned toward me.
“You’re afraid! Of course you are. Yes! You must all tremble and die in fear, just as my daughter did!”
“And you dare do this before my very eyes!”
Dang Mu-seon seized her collar in a grip of pure fury.
“Kekeke, hehehehe!”
Between the folds of her garment, dark crimson flesh was visible as she giggled.
“I’ll… see you… in the Prison, Young Master.”
Her head, veins bulging grotesquely, turned toward us.
“Miss… hi, hic…”
Her eyes rolled back with a faint convulsion.
She stopped breathing.
Dang Lim and I had clasped hands without realizing it, sharing the tremor that ran through us both.
We’d gripped so tightly that our fingertips had turned deathly pale.
Silence fell.
I was breathing, yet my body felt impossibly heavy, as though I were drowning.
“Elder, this is…”
Father trailed off, staring at Dang Mu-seon.
Dang Mu-seon, who had been regarding the limp woman with disgust, opened his mouth.
“Extreme toxin reaction.”
“But, but that’s impossible! We’ve been watching her constantly…!”
Dang Lim, who had been listening, shook his head vigorously in protest.
Dang Mu-seon silently touched the woman’s face with his fingertips.
Then, as if realizing something, he furrowed his brow.
“The cold poison accumulated in this woman’s body mixed with the confession poison, creating the extreme toxin.”
“Which means…”
“She’d been ingesting it all along. Knowing it would come to this eventually.”
Dang Lim’s expression crumbled.
Then when did that woman betray us?
“Is it true, then? That her daughter… died that way?”
Gui-heon, who had been blinking blankly, asked quietly.
His expression was desperate, as though he absolutely needed to know.
“…Yes. Every time the Demonic Cult descended upon us, they hunted down our descendants and tried to slaughter them all. They sought to sever our bloodline.”
Father answered calmly, yet his eyes never left the dead woman.
“Countless children died. I could barely manage to protect Dang Seon-hwa and my wife…”
“That’s not the issue.”
Dang Mu-seon struck the table lightly but spoke with force.
“There’s a collaborator who worked with that woman. The ones trying to cut off our lifeline have planted rats within the Family Clan.”
Heat flared in his eyes.
“We must capture those presumptuous wretches and crush them.”

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