The Evil Martial God Chronicles - Chapter 174
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Legend of the Evil Martial God
Chapter 174
Seeing Baek Ryeongso’s flustered appearance, Ye Yahyeon smiled with an expression that said ‘Got you! You rascal!’
“That’s right! Exactly.”
“N-no, I’m telling you it’s not!”
Seeing Baek Ryeongso getting angry and flustered, Jin Muryang spoke quietly.
“Really? So it doesn’t matter to you at all?”
Jin Muryang’s low voice contained killing intent.
In response, Baek Ryeongso also warned with a serious expression.
“Don’t touch her…”
At that sight, Jin Muryang chuckled and said.
“Bingo.”
At Jin Muryang’s reaction, Baek Ryeongso thought ‘Oh no.’
He slowly turned his head to gauge Jeok Wigang’s reaction.
“Why? From what I saw, that Cheonhyanghwa seemed to have taken a liking to you too?”
“Huh? Wh-what do you mean by that?”
“You didn’t know?”
“H-how would Dae-hyeong know that?”
“How would I know? I was there with you, so of course I know.”
“Huh? Y-you were there t-together?”
“We were together in the same room.”
“Th-the same room?”
“Keep this up and I might punch you once?”
Without realizing it, he had clenched his fist.
“N-no, that’s…”
“It seems you’ve misunderstood something. She came to the room where we were staying and sang. Got it?”
“Ah…”
“Look at this guy pretending it’s nothing while being completely smitten.”
Everything was exposed.
Baek Ryeongso hung his head low.
“Do well. It seems to suit you.”
At Jeok Wigang’s words, Baek Ryeongso’s head shot up.
His expression was full of disbelief.
“What? Why?”
“Dae-hyeong, you know how to say such things?”
“I’ve done some socializing and this is how I turned out. Why is it strange?”
“No, it’s not. You seem somewhat gentler, so it’s nice to see.”
“You say that too. I seem gentler? But why were you so rude to the customers?”
“I was afraid of becoming famous.”
“Crazy bastard. You became even more famous because of that.”
“Yes… But now that I’ve met Dae-hyeong like this, I feel somewhat at peace. I don’t need to run away anymore and I can continue doing what I love, so I feel at ease.”
“Is that so? Then all you need to do now is get married?”
Baek Ryeongso’s face turned red at the mention of marriage.
“But shouldn’t you show your true appearance?”
“If she sees my true appearance, won’t she run away?”
“Still, hiding it doesn’t seem right.”
“Hmm.”
It was while he was contemplating.
Someone opened the door and entered.
“We’re not open for business today.”
Baek Ryeongso shouted without even looking to see who had entered.
“Excuse me…”
A woman’s voice.
As soon as he heard that voice, Baek Ryeongso’s eyes widened.
At the door stood Cheonhyanghua with a worried expression.
“I was wondering if something had happened… Were you in the middle of a conversation?”
At Cheonhyanghua’s words, Baek Ryeongso stammered and couldn’t speak properly.
“Ah, th-that is….”
Frustrated by this, Jeok Wigang spoke up.
“This guy likes you.”
At Jeok Wigang’s words, Cheonhyanghwa’s eyes widened.
“What?”
“Didn’t you hear? This guy likes you.”
Cheonhyanghwa’s gaze fixed on Baek Ryeongso.
“Is, is that true?”
At Cheonhyanghwa’s question, Baek Ryeongso couldn’t answer and turned his head away.
Then Cheonhyanghwa approached Baek Ryeongso and brought her face close to his.
“I’m asking you. Is what he said true?”
“D-don’t do this. You’re too close.”
“You need to answer my question.”
“Th-that is….”
“Please answer quickly.”
The closer Cheonhyanghwa got, the more Baek Ryeongso’s body was pushed backward.
Seeing this, Ye Yahyeon and Jin Muryang’s eyes widened.
Jin Myeol Shin Ma, who once made others tremble in fear, was now backing away helplessly before a single woman.
Then Jeok Wigang’s voice was heard.
“How frustrating. Just say you like her if you like her.”
“Dae-hyeong….”
At Baek Ryeongso’s form of address, Cheonhyanghwa’s eyes widened.
Dae-hyeong?
Just by appearance, Baek Ryeongso seemed much older.
Soon her gaze toward Jeok Wigang softened.
Wasn’t he helping her right now?
“You said you liked her earlier. Say it confidently.”
“Th-that is….”
Baek Ryeongso was so flustered he couldn’t even speak properly.
To Cheonhyanghwa’s eyes, even that looked adorable.
“Pfft! How cute.”
At those words, Ye Yahyeon and Jin Muryang simultaneously gasped in shock and dry heaved.
“Ugh!”
“She’s definitely insane. To call that face cute…”
Not caring about their reactions, Cheonhyanghwa only waited for Baek Ryeongso’s answer.
Perhaps feeling he had nowhere left to retreat, Baek Ryeongso finally nodded his head very slightly.
“You need to say it with words. That’s the only way I’ll know.”
“I… I like you.”
“Really?”
Baek Ryeongso nodded his head once more.
“I told you to say it with words.”
“Yes…”
“Me too. I like you too.”
At those words, Baek Ryeongso’s face turned so red it looked like blood might flow down from it.
Jeok Wigang gestured with his eyes to Ye Yahyeon and Jin Muryang.
The three of them tactfully slipped out of the shop quietly.
Once the people left, Baek Ryeongso seemed to calm down a bit and spoke carefully.
“Miss… I have something to confess to you.”
“What is it?”
“Actually, this appearance isn’t my true form.”
“What?”
“Due to circumstances, I’m living with a different face. I’ll show you my true appearance. If you’re still okay with it then… it won’t be too late to think about it again.”
“Show me.”
Baek Ryeongso nodded and went to one side, sitting cross-legged.
Crack- Pop-.
Along with the sound of joints grinding, his skeleton writhed wildly.
Soon, his original rugged face was revealed.
Baek Ryeongso looked at Cheonhyanghwa with an extremely tense expression.
“Th-this is my true appearance.”
Cheonhyanghua covered her mouth slightly and said nothing.
Seeing this, Baek Ryeongso’s shoulders trembled.
“As expected… she must be disappointed…”
“You’re… handsome…”
“Huh?”
“How can someone be this handsome?”
Cheonhyanghua’s eyes sparkled.
“This is the perfect face I’ve been looking for.”
“Re-really?”
“Yes! My goodness, to think such a perfect face exists…”
There was no falsehood in Cheonhyanghua’s gaze.
As her sincerity reached him, an awkward smile appeared on Baek Ryeongso’s lips.
How much had he worried?
What if she ran away after seeing his true appearance, what if she frowned in disgust?
All those worries crumbled in an instant.
As he was smiling happily, he felt a warm sensation in his hand.
Looking down at his hand, he saw that Cheonhyanghua had firmly grasped it.
“What kind of relationship are we from today?”
“Wh-what kind of relationship?”
“We’re lovers.”
“Lo-lovers? Isn’t that too fast?”
“Oh come on. Once we’ve confirmed each other’s feelings, isn’t that the end of it? What’s the point of dragging it out?”
“Well…”
“Don’t you want to?”
When she pouted with a sulky expression, Baek Ryeongso spoke urgently.
“I-I like it!”
“Then from today, we’re lovers.”
Baek Ryeongso nodded his head.
And spoke with a serious expression.
“Now… you can’t work at the pleasure house anymore, right?”
At Baek Ryeongso’s words, Cheonhyanghua’s eyes sparkled.
“If I come out? Where would I go?”
“Huh?”
“Just come out? Sleep on that street?”
Seeing Cheonhyanghwa’s gaze, Baek Ryeongso stammered in confusion.
“Don’t tell me… yo, you’re coming here?”
“No? Then where am I supposed to go?”
“The, the house is very messy…”
“I’ll clean it all up.”
“Th, that’s impossible! How could I make you do rough work with those delicate hands! Absolutely not!”
When Baek Ryeongso spoke with a serious expression, Cheonhyanghwa smiled with narrowed eyes as if even that was adorable.
Then she looked at Baek Ryeongso with the sharp eyes of a predator eyeing its prey and pounced on him.
“Argh! I can’t hold back anymore!”
That day, Baek Ryeongso had his lips stolen by a woman for the first time.
**”*
Chwihwaru was in chaos.
Cheonhyanghwa.
Because she had declared she would leave Chwihwaru.
The leadership of Chwihwaru, including the Chief Steward, looked at Cheonhyanghwa with serious expressions.
“Miss. You know what it means to leave this place, don’t you?”
“I know.”
“How about thinking it over once more?”
“My decision hasn’t changed.”
“The Gate Master will be greatly disappointed, won’t he?”
“I’ll tell the Gate Master myself.”
“Hmm… That’s also a bit…”
“Or should I just leave without saying anything?”
The Chief Steward hurriedly waved his hands.
“What kind of terrible thing are you saying? Just stay in the pleasure house. I’ll take care of the rest. I won’t interfere with whoever you meet. Miss, please listen to me.”
“He dislikes being in this place.”
“By him… do you mean the fabric shop owner?”
At the Chief Steward’s question, Cheonhyanghwa was startled.
“Ah, you knew?”
“When you stare at that place every single day, how could I not know?”
The Chief Steward shook his head.
A sigh escaped him.
The fabric shop owner was of mediocre age and his face was… honestly, there was nothing remarkable about him.
The problem was that Cheonhyanghwa preferred such plain faces.
‘Haah… The taste of Gangxi’s greatest beauty…’
If he told people this story, no one would believe it.
Really?
Did he approach her knowing the young lady’s preferences?
He couldn’t help but think that way.
“For now, please postpone going out. I’ll go talk with the Gate Master and return.”
“No. As the person involved, I should go myself. What if you go and get scolded instead?”
“Young lady.”
Such a kind person who thinks of others.
‘That fabric shop bastard!’
The problem was the Gate Master.
The person who took in and raised Cheonhyanghwa after she lost her parents at a young age.
The Gate Master cherished Cheonhyanghwa like his own daughter.
That’s why, even though she was a courtesan in a pleasure house, no one treated her as such and everyone called her young lady, acting carefully around her.
“Please reconsider once more. Don’t you know the Gate Master’s personality well? And aren’t you the youngest disciple he cherishes most?”
“I’m sorry to Master, but… that person is more important to me.”
“Haah… Don’t you know the rules of the Thousand Flower Gate? Even as the Gate Master’s disciple, there are no exceptions to the rules. He might even cripple your martial arts.”
The Thousand Flower Gate was a sect founded by someone with the ambition to bring all pleasure houses in the Central Plains under their control.
In fact, thirty percent of the pleasure houses in the Central Plains were owned by the Thousand Flower Gate.
The Thousand Flower Gate’s main strength was information.
Though they hadn’t yet reached the level of the Beggar’s Sect and Hao Gate, they were a sect striving to one day surpass those two forces.
But no one knew of the Thousand Flower Gate’s existence.
Because secrecy was more important than anything when it came to gathering information.
Come to think of it.
‘That fabric shop bastard… There’s no information about that guy.’
An information organization that can’t find information?
Could there be anything more suspicious than this?
Since Cheonhyangwha seemed to have feelings for the cloth shop Owner, he had already investigated.
But there was no trace of his activities before opening the cloth shop.
As if he had suddenly dropped from the Sky.
Setting up a cloth shop in front of a pleasure house could make sense.
After all, courtesans were the ones who bought Clothes more than anyone else.
But the location was right by the window of the Room where Cheonhyangwha stayed.
Was it intentional?
The Chief Steward felt something fishy.
‘What if That Guy approached the young lady with some purpose?’
What purpose could he have had for approaching her?
The most likely reason would be.
‘To investigate our Cheonhwamun.’
What place would have reason to be wary of Cheonhwamun?
The Beggar Sect?
No.
The Beggar Sect wouldn’t make such clean Clothes.
A place where clothing craftsmen gather.
‘Hao Gate.’
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