The Beloved Baby Deer of the Hwangryong Family - Chapter 115
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Gi Tae-ha, who had been unconsciously examining each of the soft, curved features in detail, soon came to a realization.
‘Does she resemble Tae-eon?’
She didn’t resemble his son who had grown considerably now, but she had a similar impression to his dim childhood memories.
And young Tae-eon had been a son who resembled his wife more than him.
The exceptionally large and round eyes, the clear pupils that transparently revealed one’s inner thoughts, and the delicate facial lines that gave a slender and refined impression.
This small child before his eyes resembled his wife.
‘If we ever have a child someday, I hope our child will resemble you.’
So much so that Gi Tae-ha casually recalled his wife from long ago, who had smiled shyly.
Just then, watching the two people gazing at each other without saying a word, Su-jeong frowned with a displeased expression.
‘Why are they suddenly acting like this?’
What was this waste of time when there wasn’t even enough time to scold them immediately?
Su-jeong, who had quietly clicked her tongue, stepped forward and opened her mouth.
“I’m sorry, Seo-yu. I told the Family Head everything.”
Thud!
She didn’t forget to deliberately make noise as she placed the pouch on the table.
“The fact that you’re a criminal who stole the Snow Scale Flower and ran away.”
What was bound to come had come.
Seo-yu bit her lower lip tightly. Her mouth went completely dry and her fingertips trembled. It felt exactly like having a nightmare.
Gi Tae-ha asked.
“Is it true that you were an adopted daughter in the Great Antlered Deer Family?”
“Yes, Family Head. I… grew up in the Great Antlered Deer Family.”
Su-jeong looked at Gi Tae-ha with an expression that said ‘I’m right, aren’t I?’ Seo-yu urgently shook her head.
“But I absolutely never stole the Snow Scale Flower.”
Gi Tae-ha, who had been quietly looking down at the desperate-looking child, said casually.
“So you knew of the Snow Scale Flower’s existence and have seen it directly.”
It wasn’t a reproachful or probing tone. It was an extremely calm tone confirming the facts, so Seo-yu felt somewhat more at ease.
“…Yes, that’s right. Because I found the Snow Scale Flower.”
“That’s a lie!”
However, as soon as the answer ended, Su-jeong shouted.
“No one in our household gave this child any information about the Snow Scale Flower. So how could she have known what kind of medicinal herb the Snow Scale Flower was and found it?”
“Y-Young Master Su-gyu told me. He said to dig up a flower that glows alone in the snow field. It’s really true.”
“Now you’re dragging our Elder Brother into this too? You’re really beyond help!”
A sharp voice rang clearly throughout the room.
“Family Head, as you can see, this child lies without any sense of guilt. You absolutely must not believe her.”
“It’s not a lie! The Snow Scale Flower was a medicinal herb I found from the beginning. I dug up one flower for you, but I failed to tell you that it needed to be stored with snow, so it ended up withering.”
Seo-yu pleaded earnestly. Gi Tae-ha’s eyebrow raised slightly.
“How do you know the storage method for Snow Scale Flower?”
Su-jeong, who didn’t like that interest, quickly interjected.
“Family Head! There’s no need to listen to that girl’s story any longer!”
“Did I ask you?”
Gi Tae-ha would no longer tolerate Su-jeong’s rudeness.
“If your hearing isn’t good, then go visit the Medicine Hall. But if that’s not the case, then you need to relearn basic etiquette from the beginning.”
“That’s not what I… I’m sorry.”
Su-jeong gritted her teeth and stepped back. She had a feeling that if she pushed any further here, she would be thrown out of this room.
She had heard before that the Qilin was fair to everyone, but precisely because of that, he became colder than anyone once you fell out of his favor.
“Tell me. I want to hear the details.”
Gi Tae-ha’s gaze turned to Seo-yu once again. Seo-yu swallowed dryly and opened her mouth.
“The Snow Scale Flower had strong life force when it was in the snow. So from the moment I picked it, I put it in my pouch together with snow and gave it to Miss Su-jeong. But the young miss asked why I put such a thing in, saying it was cold, and threw it away, so it withered the next day.”
Su-jeong glared at Seo-yu with wide eyes, but Seo-yu finished speaking to the end.
“Life force… Do you feel such things every time you pick medicinal herbs?”
“It’s different for each herb. Some herbs make the surrounding soil very soft, as if asking to be picked quickly, and in those cases, you have to brush off the soil carefully so the roots don’t get damaged.”
“That’s right. You know well.”
“But the Snow Scale Flower had its roots extending deeper into the snow rather than the earth. So I thought it needed snow.”
Gi Tae-ha was becoming interested in Seo-yu.
The child’s answer was not only logically sound but also discussed detailed aspects that only those who directly grow and pick medicinal herbs would know.
Most of all, her eyes sparkled when talking about medicinal herbs.
In stark contrast to just moments ago when she had been frightened and afraid of the unfamiliar situation, her face brightened as she looked at him, making him unconsciously keep staring at Seo-yu.
Feeling Gi Tae-ha’s gaze, Su-jeong spoke earnestly.
“Family Head, instead of doing this, please ask our household members. If you ask them, you’ll be able to tell whose words are true.”
“Those people don’t know anything. I didn’t even know that the Qilin Family Head needed the Snow Scale Flower. I simply looked for the Snow Scale Flower because you ordered me to pick it.”
Seo-yu recounted the events of that day in detail.
Hearing the stories that passing herb gatherers were chattering about, realizing she had been deceived and deciding she had to leave the household, climbing the mountain with the Snow Scale Flower before it could be taken away.
All of this was possible because Gi Tae-ha listened calmly.
“But then Miss Su-jeong, who chased after me, took away the Snow Scale Flower, and at the cliff… at the cliff, she… me…”
As the story reached its end, Seo-yu’s voice trembled finely. The memory of that day carved into her heart was that painful.
“Lies, lies!”
Su-jeong could no longer hold back and shouted loudly.
“From one to ten, it’s all lies. I told you earlier, didn’t I? She tried to run away with a perfectly fine Snow Scale Flower but mistakenly took the withered Snow Scale Flower instead.”
“That’s not true. I just kept the Snow Scale Flower that you threw away because I felt sorry for it.”
“Then where is it now?”
At the sudden question, Seo-yu flinched.
“That is…”
“Do you see? She can’t answer. Why can’t you answer?”
Su-jeong regained her composure. No matter how much Seo-yu babbled, in the end, she was the one who had both the evidence and witnesses.
‘There’s no way she could have held onto the Snow Scale Flower while falling from that cliff.’
Even if she had kept it, there was no way she would still be carrying around a Snow Scale Flower that had already dried up and shriveled. Perhaps she really had offered it all to the Golden Dragon Family.
Either way, Nok Seo-yu had nothing.
Unlike her, who had everything.
“I already told you. She already gave that to the Golden Dragon Family….”
Slam!
At that moment, the door opened without warning.
The person who urgently entered had a face very familiar to Seo-yu.
“Seo-yu!”
Li-han, who had barely entered the reception room before hastily scanning the room, shouted behind him.
“Mother, she’s here!”
Bi-yeon, who followed behind, rushed straight to Seo-yu.
“Seo-yu, are you alright?”
“Lady Bi-yeon, Young Master Li-han….”
As Seo-yu muttered their names in a daze, surprised by the unexpected visit, Bi-yeon quickly embraced Seo-yu.
“Yes, my dear. Mother is here.”
At those words, tears welled up in Seo-yu’s eyes.
‘I thought I was doing well on my own….’
In truth, Seo-yu had been scared too. Just being in the same room as Su-jeong made her feel suffocated and anxious.
However, she didn’t want to burden the family she had for the first time in her life.
So even though she felt wronged and wronged again, she held back her tears and tried her best to explain her situation with determination.
Trying somehow to resolve things on her own, trying not to cause harm to her precious family.
“I didn’t realize the Qilin Family Head was such a discourteous person.”
Hwang Hyeon-rang approached with heavy steps and stood blocking Gi Tae-ha, as if hiding Seo-yu behind him, glaring at him with cold eyes.
“To take someone else’s precious daughter without a word and intimidate her like this. Are you confident you can handle the consequences?”
Gi Tae-ha noticed the extraordinary aura surrounding Hwang Hyeon-rang. He was ready to undergo Beast Transformation at any moment.
It was the first time seeing such an enraged appearance from a Golden Dragon, a race unmatched in terms of force.
If he could emit such an aura even in human form, there would be no one who could stop him once he transformed.
The Golden Dragon’s aura that had been surging as if about to explode subsided in an instant right after that.
“What about Master, Sister Yi-ryeong, and Brother Li-gon?”
Seo-yu’s small voice asking in a whisper.
With just that one sentence, Hwang Hyeon-rang calmed his anger. His reason returned, knowing he shouldn’t harm others in a space where the child was present.
“They’re all waiting outside. I barely managed to stop them from coming together, so they might be sulking. You’ll have to take Mother’s side later.”
“I will! Sister Yi-ryeong and Brother Li-gon are kind, so they’ll understand.”
Gi Tae-ha watched this scene with somewhat curious eyes.
Both the fact that one person’s emotions could swing to such extremes, and that it was because of something called family, were all unfamiliar experiences for Gi Tae-ha.
Perhaps it was because these were things he had never experienced in his own life.
Gi Tae-ha found himself unable to look away from the Golden Dragon Family members who had gathered around Seo-yu.
Especially from the child who was surrounded by family and smiling with a relaxed expression he had never seen before.
‘How did they find her so quickly?’
Su-jeong, who had been pushed to a corner by Hwang Hyeon-rang’s fierce momentum, finally came to her senses.
It wasn’t that she hadn’t expected the Golden Dragon Family to come looking for Seo-yu, but she had thought it would be at least after everything was finished.
Su-jeong, who had been biting her nails anxiously, became impatient and stepped forward.
“Y-you’re all being deceived!”
In an instant, all eyes turned to Su-jeong.
Su-jeong, who noticed the momentary anxiety that flickered in Seo-yu’s eyes, regained her confidence and shouted triumphantly.
“That child is a criminal who stole the Seollin Flower from me and ran away! If the Family Head received it, it was originally mine.”
“She stole the Seollin Flower and ran away?”
Hyeon-rang quietly asked back.
‘He really didn’t know?’
If I handle this well, I can settle everything at once.
Su-jeong felt hope at Hyeon-rang’s face, which looked calm unlike before.
“Yes, that’s right. She ignored my words to return it and ran away, then at the cliff she… Kyaak!”
Su-jeong, who had been chattering confidently, suddenly screamed at the sensation of her body freezing up.
“So it was you.”
Li-han approached Su-jeong without giving anyone time to stop him, glaring at her with blazing blue eyes.
The intimidating aura unique to dragon beast-people exerted tremendous pressure that felt like it would completely cut off her breath, even without any physical contact.
“Because of you, Seo-yu was afraid of even flying while carried on someone’s back. She had to practice things she didn’t need to because she found it difficult to even climb high rocks, let alone cliffs.”
Thud.
Su-jeong’s back hit the wall as she hesitated and stepped backward. Bi-yeon quietly admonished Li-han.
“Li-han, stop.”
“But Mother!”
Li-han resisted, but Bi-yeon was firm. Li-han was about to say another word, but seeing Seo-yu’s worried face, he clenched his fists and stepped back.
That very sight irritated Su-jeong’s nerves.
“D-do you think anything will change by threatening me like this? I’ll go straight to the Imperial Palace!”
At first, she had wanted to punish Seo-yu. She had planned to frame her as a criminal and get her expelled from the Medical Academy and the Golden Dragon House.
But seeing the Golden Dragon Family collectively protecting Seo-yu, she couldn’t forgive them.
She felt like she would only be satisfied after seeing all these pathetic people fall together.
“Not only did she steal the precious Seollin Flower, but she even used it without permission, so you know how heavy that crime is, right? You’ll all regret treating me so harshly…”
“I didn’t use it.”
At Seo-yu’s quiet voice, Su-jeong’s face contorted with anger.
“What?”
“I’m telling you that the Seollin Flower is with me.”
Su-jeong, who had been momentarily flustered, quickly regained her momentum.
‘She’s finally showing her tail.’
It was the moment when her wavering smile became confident again.
“Family Head, this is the Seollin Flower I found.”
Seo-yu brought out the true form of Spirit Seollin, the Seollin Flower, that she had been treasuring in her belongings.
The complete Seollin Flower that emitted a brilliant rainbow light, breathing with life and displaying vitality.
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Mara55
Omg, I’m so excited right now. We’ve been waiting so long for justice. I love this novel so much.