I Thought the Youngest Daughter of the Sichuan Tang Family Was Hated - Chapter 65

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Mountain Valley Near Outer City.
Laughter rang out along the secluded mountain path.
“Hehe, Grandfather’s been away, so I’ve been so bored!”
Hee-yeon spoke brightly and dashed forward with quick steps.
Seong-ya, Gong Myo, and Dang Dam chased after her.
“Ah, Miss! You’ll fall!”
“I know. Like this, right?”
At Gong Myo’s worried cry, Hee-yeon quickly turned around.
Then she ran to Gong Myo’s side and grasped both her hand and Seong-ya’s hand together.
Seong-ya suppressed his twitching lips with effort.
“But where are we going?”
Hee-yeon looked up at Seong-ya and asked.
He opened and closed his mouth before finally answering after a long pause.
“Uh, well… we’re going to a nice place.”
“Wow, I love nice places the best!”
Hee-yeon clapped her hands together and responded with a bright smile.
There were those watching from afar.
“Hehehehe. She’s being lured in nicely.”
The Jinbeop Commander chuckled sinisterly as he muttered.
“Hehehehe….”
The members sitting on nearby branches echoed his laughter.
The plan to lure Hee-yeon to her death and manipulate the scene was being executed.
Right now, Seong-ya was luring Hee-yeon in.
“Go to a darker place. Yes. More…!”
Each time Hee-yeon ran, they followed, shifting their positions bit by bit.
This time, they were being especially careful.
Since the Nanny had failed once, another failure would be extremely dangerous.
But would they make the same mistakes as someone who knew nothing, like the Nanny?
They were people raised from birth for this very purpose!
“Ehehehe….”
They had already scouted a location to carry out the deed.
Shaded Cliff Base. A place where anyone could see it was perfect for a person to die.
Seong-ya was smoothly luring Hee-yeon toward that spot.
“We’re almost there. Almost…!”
Hee-yeon stepped forward without any suspicion toward where Seong-ya was pointing.
They exhaled sharply, consumed with excitement.
It was the moment Hee-yeon took her next step.
“Now…!”
At the Commander’s signal, they quickly leaped down from the trees.
“Everyone, draw your weaaaaaahhh!”
The moment they landed on the smooth, deliberately cleared ground, the floor gave way beneath them.
They tried to leap back up, but there was nothing to push off from.
They plummeted.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
Every last one of them. All of them.
“Uuughhhh….”
Those scattered across the bog let out agonized groans.
Ssshhh. Sssssssss….
A sinister sound echoed through the surroundings.
A swarm of snakes and scorpions.
“Wh… what is this….”
Someone appeared briefly through the gaping hole in the sky above.
Seong-ya and Hee-yeon.
And Dok-jon.
“Hyeeeeek!”
The trapped members recoiled as if they’d seen a ghost.
They tried to move, but their limbs were caught by something and wouldn’t come free.
Sssaahhh….
Their clothes melted away bit by bit. Black smoke engulfed them.
“Aaaahhh! You deceived us so completely!”
“We never saw it coming!”
“Unforgivable! Unforgivable!”
Crack. Crunch!
As increasingly disturbing sounds reached them, Dang Mu-seon covered Hee-yeon’s ears.
Hee-yeon carefully opened her tightly shut eyes and asked Dang Mu-seon.
“Grandfather, are all those people hurt?”
Dang Mu-seon replied in an indifferent tone.
“They had to suffer a little.”
“Suffer….”
Hee-yeon repeated Dang Mu-seon’s words as she peered down into the dark pit.
There was only darkness below.
Seong-ya watched Hee-yeon’s downturned eyes and her small clenched fists.
A girl who didn’t fully understand the situation, yet worried about those who had tried to kill her.
She was truly just a child.
When Seong-ya first heard Dok-jon’s proposal to turn the assassination plot against Hee-yeon to their advantage, he couldn’t accept it.
Hee-yeon would have to follow the plan perfectly.
How could such a little girl follow instructions as told?
But defying Seong-ya’s doubts, Hee-yeon executed it flawlessly.
In fact, it was Seong-ya who stumbled over his words once in the middle.
‘Now that I think about it, she did know about poison.’
What on earth could she be?
While Seong-ya fell into thought, Dang Mu-seon leaped into the hole.
“Grandfather…!”
Hee-yeon clapped her hand over her mouth in surprise.
He returned quickly, his hands laden with something.
They were the face masks of the Commander and Vice-Commander.
“Were these the ones who communicated directly with headquarters?”
“Yes, sir.”
Seong-ya answered Dang Mu-seon’s question while examining the leather intently.
“Can you impersonate these men?”
“Yes, sir. I can replicate their handwriting and even their voices.”
At Seong-ya’s response, Dang Mu-seon gave him a look of disgust.
Then he peered down into the hole and clicked his tongue.
“I simply cannot bear to be in the same place as these wretches for even an hour.”
True to Dang Mu-seon’s words, the moment he heard what scheme Gan-ja was plotting, he had devised a counter-plan and acted upon it immediately.
“How dare they show their fangs to my grandson…”
He ground his teeth while muttering, then let out a low chuckle and clasped his hands behind his back.
“They won’t be able to do that anymore. I’ve melted them all away.”
That smile made Dok-jon seem even more terrifying.
Seong-ya quietly took a step back from him.
“So it’s certain that Gan-ja has no one left but you?”
“Yes? Ah, yes!”
Seong-ya answered in a stiffened posture, and Dang Mu-seon nodded.
Stroking his chin, Dang Mu-seon murmured.
“Hmm. Fewer than I expected.”
At his words, Seong-ya’s jaw dropped.
Fewer? It was absurd.
‘It’s not fewer… they comprise an entire unit.’
The Jinbeop Order—the group best suited to shake the Dang Household from within.
It had taken years of effort to transform that place entirely into a den of Gan-ja’s agents.
The very fact that all that suffering had come to naught in a single day was astounding.
Leaving Seong-ya seized by an odd feeling, Dang Mu-seon approached Hee-yeon.
He gently grasped her shoulder and asked.
“Child, were you not frightened?”
Hee-yeon lifted her head with composure and answered.
“Not scared at all!”
“My, how admirable. You’ve grown well, my child.”
Dang Mu-seon smiled broadly and patted Hee-yeon’s back.
“All grown up now. Truly grown up.”
That foolish grin sent shivers down Seong-ya’s spine.
‘So you all thought that was just a passing fancy, did you!’
He muttered inwardly, recalling the members of the Jeom Mun Sect in the pit below.
“You’ve got more nerve than those so-called older brothers. I’d love to buy you ten bowls of noodles if I could….”
Dang Mu-seon clicked his tongue dismissively, gazing down into the dark cave.
“Tsk. I have to deal with them myself, unfortunately.”
“Hmph. Can’t you leave it to someone else?”
Hee-yeon pouted her lips as she asked.
But Dang Mu-seon shook his head with unexpected firmness.
“Anyone else who enters that place will have their eyes melted away. Ah, that’s right!”
With those words, Dang Mu-seon urgently pushed Hee-yeon’s back.
“It’s not good for you either, so hurry down the mountain. Go!”
“Grandfather….”
Hee-yeon turned her head with a look of disappointment, but Dang Mu-seon merely waved her away dismissively.
Dang Dam and Gong Myo coaxed Hee-yeon along, and they finally began their descent.
Seong-ya stood at the very back, silently watching Hee-yeon’s small head.
Particularly her round cheeks and those adorable wisps of hair.
‘Really, just a child after all.’
The sense of discord he’d felt earlier seemed to have been mere anxiety.
As he thought this, they arrived before the Outer Wall.
“…Miss, I shall take my leave now.”
Seong-ya stopped and bowed his head deeply.
He deliberately fixed his gaze downward, suppressing the foolish longing in his eyes for Gong Myo.
“Huh?”
A cute voice reached his ears.
“I never said you could leave yet.”
At the unsettling content beneath that sweet tone, Seong-ya’s head snapped up.
Her smiling face was still lovely.
But….
“I have something to tell you. Stay with me for a moment?”
What was this unfathomable chill?
***
Jeon-eung glided down the Grand Rocky Mountain like a descending eagle.
The eagle that had flown through the window spread its wings and landed upon someone’s arm.
He unraveled the letter caught around Jeon-eung’s ankle and read it.
Namgoong Sae-ryun folded the letter methodically before speaking.
“It seems Yak-seon is not there.”
“Ah, this is troublesome….”
Sighs echoed from various corners—prominent figures sent by each of the Three Great Families.
“I was certain it would be there….”
“We must find Yak-seon quickly. Our plan depends on it….”
“Moreover, where Yak-seon is, he will surely be as well.”
At the mention of “him,” everyone’s eyes gleamed and they nodded in agreement.
Amid the murmuring, someone opened the door and entered.
The Masked Woman bowed her head and extended a letter toward Sae-ryun.
Another letter. This one came from Gan-ja of the Dang Household.
“Our eyes in that place report that Dok-jon has returned.”
At Sae-ryun’s words, the murmuring around him grew louder.
“Surely he wasn’t discovered? The journey was supposed to be to Yunnan.”
“If he had been, we would have received word.”
The Masked Woman smiled coquettishly as she spoke to Sae-ryun.
“Perhaps it would be wise to proceed more cautiously going forward. They are not easy adversaries, are they?”
Namgoong Sae-ryun nodded expressionlessly.
“I know. That’s why it would have been better to seize control of them first… tsk.”
As he trailed off and clicked his tongue, Do-hwi, seated beside him, lowered his head.
The young boy, his eyes swollen from the flower sickness, sniffled quietly.

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