Chapter 210
Chapter 210
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 210
Chapter Title: Don't Make Me Betray Her (1)
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Thud!
Late at night, Zhuge Ryong slammed his fist down on the table in his private quarters alone. Wine spilled over from the glass on the shaking table, but he had no mind to care about such trifles.
'That lowly scum...!'
In Zhuge Ryong's mind, the memory of his humiliation kept replaying over and over.
The moment he fumbled and dropped the wine glass, he keenly sensed the shift in everyone's gazes around him. His eyes nearly bulged with mortification.
He frantically wiped away the wine that had soaked his pants like he'd pissed himself and stumbled out of there in a panic.
'Damn it all!'
He was the direct heir of the Zhuge family. He possessed both literary and martial talents in abundance.
Sure, his temper ran a bit hot, but he believed no true man would fault him for that.
There was no reason for someone like him to even be compared to a nobody who had nothing but his fists.
Yet he'd thrown a fit with his father to attend the Three Peaks' wedding ceremony, only for those two from the Three Peaks to show zero interest in him.
'Even that spineless Huangbo Jun is marrying Namgung Hye...! Why not me...!'
He could forgive Neung Hui-yeon, who seemed so introverted, but even Gyeon Ye-jin—with her gentle smiles and love of conversation—treated him with cold indifference.
Thud!
Zhuge Ryong slammed the table again and downed the nearly empty glass of wine in one gulp.
At that moment, a voice called to him from beyond the door.
Grumbling inwardly, Zhuge Ryong opened the door—and an unexpected figure stood there.
"W-What brings you here at this hour...?"
His startled question went unanswered as the visitor brought up something else entirely.
Zhuge Ryong furrowed his brow at the sudden change of topic, but it slowly smoothed out.
"H-Here, have some first."
As he ushered the midnight guest into his room, Zhuge Ryong shivered with a dark anticipation swelling in his chest.
"So-hyang, you look happier than usual today?"
"D-Do I?"
At Dan Yu-ran's words, Mae So-hyang unconsciously touched her own face.
"Something good happen?"
"N-No, not really... Nothing at all..."
Mae So-hyang brushed it off casually and took a refreshing sip of her freshly brewed tea.
Hearing that her expression had changed so noticeably, she pondered secretly to herself.
'Is it because Pung-yeon's problem got resolved... or maybe...'
Could it be because of the late-blooming affair?
Mae So-hyang's nights had been indescribably sweet ever since she'd accepted intimacy with a man young enough to be her son.
His manhood rose again and again, ravaging her depths and pouring endless, honey-sweet pleasure into her.
Mae So-hyang had grown so enamored of that relentless, rigid shaft probing her innermost folds that she'd received yet another gift last night.
The scoundrel had already prepared an antidote for Neung Pung-yeon.
<It was because I like you too much...>
When she exploded in fury at his confession, he clung to her slickly, thrusting his iron-hard cock into her pussy nonstop while whispering that it was because she was so beautiful.
Dazed by the pleasure surging from below, Mae So-hyang had no choice but to accept his saccharine excuses.
How could she resist when he claimed to love her that much? She was already a married woman, after all. To claim her, such underhanded tricks must have been unavoidable.
She'd never felt such obsessive affection from her husband, and the nights were more than satisfying—plus, her worries about her son were resolved. It would have been stranger if her face hadn't brightened.
"I see. I was wondering if it was because of Hui-yeon..."
"Hui-yeon?"
While being toyed with by that man, Mae So-hyang had all but abandoned actively chaperoning her once-energetic daughter Neung Hui-yeon.
She did have plans for Gyeon Ye-jin, so she wasn't blabbing everywhere, but it wasn't surprising that Mae So-hyang was only now hearing what everyone else already knew.
"Is something up with Hui-yeon?"
"...You haven't heard?"
The moment Dan Yu-ran patiently explained, Mae So-hyang felt her mind go blank white.
She'd had no idea. Her daughter, who despised men, had fallen for the very same cad she was entangled with.
Despair like the floor dropping out beneath her washed over her, but Mae So-hyang's waxen face barely held a smile-like expression.
"I hear he doesn't even have a proper sect of his own. If things go well, maybe she can bring him into Huashan Sect as a son-in-law? Sounds great for her."
"Th-That... well, that's something to think about after it actually happens."
She hardly knew what she was saying.
But one thing Mae So-hyang was certain of: this relationship had to end.
The issue binding her to the man was gone now.
If the antidote he'd given her was genuine, feeding it to Neung Pung-yeon would restore him fully, without a blemish.
'I have no choice... I'm Hui-yeon's mother...'
She hadn't decided yet how to handle her daughter's feelings for that lecher.
Should she encourage it, block it, or ignore it?
Whichever it was, as a mother, she couldn't continue this affair.
None of those options were fit for a mother who lay with the man her daughter loved.
The deed was done, but for her daughter's sake, she had to sever ties with him now, no matter how sweet the pleasures he'd taught her.
"We're done seeing each other?"
"...I'm sorry."
I'd been brimming with plans to drag Mae So-hyang to bed again tonight and marinate her in my seed, but she showed up before sunset to declare it over.
"Why? Did I do something to disappoint you?"
"...I'm sorry. I can't say."
Our affair had been going so swimmingly—this was like a bolt from the blue.
I'd told her she didn't have to love me more than her husband, but eventually I'd nudge my way up the ranks until she secretly bore my child behind his back!
'Was I too hasty?'
The biggest reason she'd pull this now was surely because I'd handed over the antidote.
No matter what happened to Mae So-hyang, as long as I held that antidote, she could never cast me aside.
Unless she was willing to abandon her son's future.
"That's why I came today. From the start... it was never meant to last."
Sorry, but as she stood and tried to brush it off as a fleeting dream for both of us, I had zero intention of letting it end like that.
"No helping it, then. It was fun while it lasted."
"...I'm sorry."
From her tone, it didn't seem like her view of me had soured.
I could guess. Some new trigger had reminded her of her roles in life.
As Neung Yu-hwan's wife, the twins' mother, or a heroine of Huashan Sect—she must have decided an affair like this needed to end quickly.
'But she shouldn't delude herself.'
Mae So-hyang left my quarters playing the tragic heroine, but I was certain.
No matter what she did now, she could never forget me. And I planned to prove that starting tonight.
Mae So-hyang lay in bed but couldn't fall asleep easily.
Until last night, her nights had been a blaze of thick pleasure, burning hotter than the day.
She restrained herself from the shameful act of reaching between her legs, but insomnia was unavoidable.
In the end, she only drifted off past midnight. But even that didn't last.
"Gasp...!"
She awoke from shallow sleep to find her nightclothes half-undone, the man's hands groping her body everywhere.
Even in her drowsy haze, she knew exactly who was responsible.
"Y-You... what... ngh...! What do you think you're doing?!"
His rough hands toyed with her body like a plaything, methodically stoking her arousal without pause.
With him clinging to her back, Mae So-hyang couldn't shake him off easily and opened her mouth again.
"I said we have to stop now! Why are you doing this...?"
The man said nothing, just groped her frenziedly. Just as he'd conditioned her, her body heated up rapidly, readying itself for pleasure.
"Stop, stop it...! Ahh♥"
"On your whim?"
Mae So-hyang got chills at his first words. While his fingers delved into her slit, heating her loins, her nape felt ice-cold.
"Wh-What...!"
"I told you. This belongs to me now."
Her scorching pussy twitched hungrily for something to fill its depths under his touch.
"You really thought you could just walk away without my permission?"
"Ahh...♥"
Only then did Mae So-hyang realize: even as he'd seemed to accept her breakup, he'd already planned this.
"Pl-Please, no. I beg you... hnnng♥"
"I decide that."
His hands roamed her fully heated flesh like he owned it, then gripped her waist hard.
"Stop, please...!"
Again. This man meant to ravage her until her mind broke once more.
'Hui-yeon...!'
As she gasped in rising lust and pictured her daughter's face, Mae So-hyang felt his rigid cock slide between her cheeks, its head aimed at her pussy.
"No..."
Squelch...
"Khhhuuut...!"
She felt the brutal shaft—fully hardened, the one that had reawakened her womanly pleasures—thrusting deep into her belly.
Mae So-hyang's delicate walls wept fresh sticky nectar with every grind of his cock, singing out in ecstasy.
"Pull out... pull out...! Ahh...!"
She couldn't keep it inside her that long. Mae So-hyang twisted her hips desperately to expel it, but the man wouldn't allow it.
"Please, I'm begging you, don't do this, okay? Please...!"
Mae So-hyang pleaded earnestly. In this moment, she'd cast aside every title and beg pathetically if needed.
"Don't make me... betray my daughter..."
She didn't want to betray her daughter—the one who'd inherited half her blood, whom she'd cherished from infancy through every moment.
Turning to meet his eyes as he paused his hips, Mae So-hyang prayed he wouldn't snuff out that faint hope.