Surviving as the Villainess’s Servant in a Martial Arts Novel - Chapter 1

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Episode 1

There’s one novel I read that was utterly boring.

The title was 【King of the Heavenly Pillar】.

It was a martial arts novel.

How did I, someone who avoided even historical dramas let alone martial arts novels, end up reading one?

[Watch free episodes and get 200 Cash instantly!]

Because I got hooked by a Cash event.

At the time, I was reading a 19+ romance fantasy webtoon. Just when the steamy first night between the Male Lead and Female Lead was about to happen, I was exactly 200 Cash short.

‘Damn, what should I do?’

I had Cash to rent it. But this was their first night together. That meant it was an episode I needed to own and reread over and over.

However, I’d recently cut back on part-time work and had to tighten my living expenses. Should I just rent it and buy it later? While I was pondering this dilemma, I discovered this event.

‘I can’t resist this.’

With the single-minded determination to quickly get the Cash and thoroughly savor that first night, I opened episode 1.

“Huh.”

When I came to my senses.

“Is this the end?”

I had stayed up all night reading it…

“What kind of novel is this?!”

The story’s content was simple.

A Main Character living in the Countryside with his Widowed Mother gets caught up in Jianghu affairs one day, gains various fortuitous encounters, and becomes the greatest person Under Heaven.

It was a typical plot, but it was entertaining.

Though the Main Character had a simple personality that didn’t match current trends, he couldn’t stand injustice, and it was even exhilarating to watch such a righteous person gradually grow stronger and stick to his beliefs.

If the Main Character had safely become the greatest Under Heaven, 【King of the Heavenly Pillar】 would have become my life’s novel.

“No.”

But the reason it couldn’t was none other than this.

“No way, another Heroine appears?”

Because there were too many Heroines!

“How many is this now?”

Actually, having many Heroines wouldn’t be a problem by itself. It’s not like I’d never seen male-oriented harem stories before, and sure, there could be more than twenty Heroines, not just ten.

But the problem was that every time a Heroine appeared, the Main Character would fall for her without fail.

[He gazed at the woman before him as if enchanted. Her fair skin glowing white in the moonlight, her slender waist that seemed like it could fit in one hand, the sweet scent of a maiden carried on the gentle breeze made his body feel hot.

‘Ah, if only I could spend my whole life with that woman…’]

Was it because he’d never seen any woman other than his mother in the Countryside? Somehow, the Main Character lost his mind whenever he saw a pretty woman. And if he even made eye contact with her, he’d immediately fall in love.

Watching the Main Character’s heart flutter for the twenty… no, twenty-fifth time, I was left speechless.

‘You want to spend your whole life together again? Again?’

Hey, hey you bastard. Weren’t you completely smitten with that daughter from another Noble Family just until yesterday?

You said her pure and devoted nature made her the perfect wife material. That’s why you confessed wanting to spend your whole life with her and even received a Token of Love, but what? Now you want to spend your whole life with yet another woman?

Is love just a game to you?!

‘It must be a game.’

After all, there were exactly ten people he had promised his whole life to as such a game.

Who could possibly handle such a crazy bastard?

[“Yes, I did that.”]

If you’re going to go the harem route, at least make all the heroines idiots so they can live happily ever after, laughing and giggling!

Unfortunately, all the heroines were perfectly sane, so they couldn’t stand the Male Lead who changed his mind every time. However, unable to let go of the Main Character completely, they became so consumed with jealousy that they eventually started causing incidents.

[“H-how could you…!”

“Why? Didn’t I tell you before? If you so much as look at another woman’s face one more time, I’d ruin that bitch’s face. You agreed to it, didn’t you?”]

All sorts of incidents occurred.

Slashing opponents with a Sword, feeding them Poison and throwing them into the Sea, burying them alive in the ground, framing them for crimes and massacring their Entire Family before their eyes, and so on…

‘Is this a Martial Arts novel or an Imperial Court intrigue story?’

Eventually, even the Heroine’s parents got involved in this chaos. Unable to bear watching their daughter suffer from lovesickness after loving the Main Character too much, the parents ended up kidnapping the Main Character.

[“Decide within the count of three. Will you marry my daughter, or will you be castrated and become neither man nor woman!”]

I naturally cheered for the parents.

‘Yes, let’s cut it off. Let’s get rid of that useless thing!’

But he was, after all, the protagonist of the novel.

No matter what crisis he faced, he would escape through miraculous coincidences, and the Main Character who barely escaped would tear the Heroine’s parents’ limbs to shreds. The Heroine later finding out and committing suicide from guilt was just a bonus.

I couldn’t help but sigh at that carnage.

‘Ah, the one who should die doesn’t die…’

Whether fortunately or unfortunately, the Main Character seemed to have learned something from this incident.

The Main Character, who had been crying in front of the dead Heroine’s grave saying things he didn’t mean like ‘I truly loved you. I want to follow you…’, suddenly reflected and made a resolution.

[‘How can a true man blame others! It’s all my responsibility. My indecisiveness caused this disaster. If I continue like this, I’ll only hurt more people… I must make up my mind now!’]

‘Really?’

I was secretly surprised. I wondered how this guy who couldn’t think straight whenever he saw a woman was suddenly having normal thoughts, and I was hopeful that he might return to his righteous early appearance.

And indeed, the Main Character disappeared for a while after that day. He went into a secluded Mountain Valley to quietly practice Seated Meditation and reflect on his heart.

After long contemplation, he thinks.

[‘I’ve met so many connections. Among them were women who briefly passed by, and there were quite a few women with whom I shared deep affection.’]

‘Yes, even you think you met quite a lot, don’t you?’

[‘But among them, there isn’t a single one who lacks charm. Some have a coy appeal, others have a cunning allure. Though each looks different, they are all utterly lovable….’]

‘Hey, look at this bastard?’

[‘How could I possibly choose just one among such lovely people? Moreover, there isn’t one among them who hasn’t been kind to me, not one who hasn’t treated me with sincerity. How could I abandon even one of those deep hearts? If they were to become disappointed in me and leave… If I could never see them again…!’]

And then he suddenly cried out.

[“Yes, I truly love them all-!”]

I cried out along with him.

“Hey you ×××-!”

I nearly collapsed from high blood pressure when I saw the Main Character thinking ‘Let me honestly express these true feelings of mine. And I’ll love everyone equally. Then they’ll all get along without fighting, right?’

With the feeling that I’d get sick from anger if I didn’t immediately see the Main Character get torn apart by a villain, I instinctively clicked the next episode.

But there was no next episode.

Looking again, this novel had been on hiatus for three whole years!

“This damn × novel!”

I angrily opened my notepad.

Half out of my mind, I wrote over twenty lines cursing the novel and the Main Character… then suddenly came to my senses and threw my phone away.

Then thinking about how such a filthy novel would occupy a corner of my bookshelf made me furious again, so I picked up my phone and deleted everything from download history to purchase records.

Looking at my finally clean bookshelf, I smiled with relief.

‘Right! What kind of Martial Arts novel is that anyway? I should just watch something steamy and forget about it.’

So I cheerfully spent my remaining Cash on ownership rights to an adult webtoon and had an amazing first night, erasing 【Lord of Heaven and Earth】 from my mind….

“Huh.”

I had possessed into that damn 【Lord of Heaven and Earth】.

As the empty-headed × host Main Character? No.

As one of the many Heroines manipulated by the Main Character? No.

As some unheard-of extra.

What the ×.

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