The Chaste Sister-in-Law's Rice Bowl Tryst (1)
After finishing my fifth tryst with Dang Juju and her mother, I completed Dang Ducheon's treatment.
"Hoo… I've purged every last trace of the poison. Once his strength returns, he should wake sometime tomorrow."
"Mom, Father's color is completely back. His breathing is steady, and I can't sense a scrap of poison left in him."
"Ahh, truly heaven-sent fortune. That Juju met Young Hero Hyeon is the greatest luck of our lives. Ahh, thanks to Young Hero Hyeon we found my husband and even cured his poisoning. Ahh, Young Hero Hyeon, thank you so much."
Mother and daughter gazed at the cured Dang Ducheon with faces overflowing with emotion, pouring gratitude on me without end.
The next day, another shocking piece of news swept through the Dang Family.
The Head and Deputy Head of the Medicine and Poison Hall had been found poisoned to death.
One poisoning after another sent the entire clan into an uproar of stunned disbelief.
The news that the Head and Deputy Head of the Medicine and Poison Hall had been poisoned hit Jong Yak-hui like a blow.
"Ahhh, what is this… Dang Dupae and Dang Dupyeong were poisoned? Th-then what about the antidote for my husband? Ahh, I threw my body away to those two bastards just to keep treating him, and now they die like this, for nothing? Ahh, so my husband will only last a few more days before he dies?"
Every three days she had fetched the antidote and submitted to those two men. Now that both were dead, the time her husband could cling to life was barely three days more.
Watching every sacrifice she had made to save him dissolve into foam, Jong Yak-hui sank into despair.
With even the Head and Deputy Head of the Medicine and Poison Hall murdered by poison, the Dang Family leadership went into emergency mode.
The Fourth Elder, the Fifth Elder, the Third Master, and more than twenty other hall masters, pavilion masters, and branch heads gathered for an urgent council.
"Right, the situation is critical, so let us elect a new Family Chief first."
"Agreed. Let us name the Third Master as Family Chief and have him restore order."
The Fourth and Fifth Elders meant to elevate Third Master Dang Dusan to Family Chief.
— Clack—
"I am still alive, and you mean to elect a new Family Chief? What nonsense is that?"
The door opened and a man strode in.
In an instant every person in the room went wide-eyed and froze solid.
"F-Family Chief? I-is it truly you, my lord?"
"If I am not Dang Ducheon, then who is?"
The man who had walked through the door was none other than Dang Family Chief Dang Ducheon. The sight of a man who had been poisoned and waiting only to die now standing healthy and attending the council left every face stamped with pure shock.
No one was more stunned than Third Master Dang Dusan.
E-Elder Brother is alive? He was poisoned with something that could never be cured—he was only waiting for the day he died…
The entire Dang Family reeled in astonishment at Dang Ducheon's recovery.
Yet once he returned to his duties as Family Chief, the restless clan swiftly settled back into order.
Word of Dang Ducheon's recovery and return shook the whole family in a heartbeat.
"The Family Chief broke free of the poison and resumed his duties?"
Hearing the news, Jong Yak-hui went blank for a moment, unable to believe it.
The Family Chief went to the Poison King Valley with my husband and was poisoned the same way. They said both of them were struck by the Crimson-Eyed Unicorn Serpent's venom. The same poison. Yet Family Chief Dang Ducheon has shaken it off and returned to work? That means my husband's poisoning can be cured as well.
Despair released its grip; Jong Yak-hui felt as though she had found light in the dark.
"Sister, how did you cure the Family Chief's poison? Please, tell me."
"Th-that is… haah…! It's awkward to explain."
"What? Why? The Family Chief and my husband both went to the Poison King Valley and were poisoned by the Crimson-Eyed Unicorn Serpent. Elder Brother-in-law survived, so my husband can survive too. Tell me how he lived through the poison. Please."
Jong Yak-hui went straight to Jeon Yeo-jin and clung to her, begging to know the method of the cure.
Faced with that plea, Jeon Yeo-jin's expression turned troubled.
Haah… if I tell her… she'll learn that I slept with Young Hero Hyeon.
To save Second Master Dang Duyeong, Hyeon Jitae's treatment was essential—and for that treatment, Jong Yak-hui would also have to couple with Hyeon Jitae.
She could not bring herself to say that, just as she herself had shared a bed with him, Jong Yak-hui would have to do the same for the cure to work.
The moment she revealed the method, Jong Yak-hui would inevitably learn that she had already lain with Hyeon Jitae.
Does it even matter? Even if she finds out I slept with Young Hero Hyeon, she'll have to keep her own nights with him secret too. So it would stay a secret between the two of us… probably.
If she refused to speak, Second Master Dang Duyeong's death was a certainty.
If she spoke, Jong Yak-hui would learn she had shared a bed with Hyeon Jitae.
Those were the two choices tearing at Jeon Yeo-jin.
Then a thought struck her.
Wait… my sister-in-law alone can't manage the treatment against Young Hero Hyeon. Juju and I both had to supply yin energy. So even if I introduce her to him, one woman coupling with Young Hero Hyeon won't be enough. She'll need another woman. Then…?
With her husband Dang Ducheon alive, her trysts with Hyeon Jitae had ended.
Jeon Yeo-jin had felt a faint regret over that fact.
"Sister, I'll tell you the cure for your sake. But first I have one question."
"What is it?"
"For your husband's treatment, could you throw away your chastity? In other words, if the price of curing him is your body, would you agree?"
"My body?"
She had already given that body to Dang Dupae and Dang Dupyeong. She had even yielded it to Old Man Dong.
Chastity was already long gone.
For Jong Yak-hui, the answer was not difficult.
"If it will save my husband, what does one body matter?"
"Yes, of course. I felt the same."
"Pardon? What do you mean by that?"
"If the physician demands your body, you're willing to offer it gladly—is that right?"
"Of course."
I already gave myself to those two bastards just for a delaying agent that bought three days. If my husband can actually be cured, I can do far more than that.
Jong Yak-hui's resolve was iron.
"Then I'll tell you the method. Listen without panicking."
"Yes. I won't panic—please, just tell me."
Jeon Yeo-jin calmly explained how her own husband had been cured.
When the explanation ended, Jong Yak-hui's eyes trembled violently.
"S-so… Young Hero Hyeon Jitae, the one who brought the Family Chief back, cured the poison, and the method was to take the yin energy of two women and dissolve the toxin that way?"
"Mm, that's right. So to cure your husband, you and Young Hero Hyeon will have to couple. Can you do it?"
"Can I? Of course I must."
I did it with those dog bastards Dang Dupae and Dang Dupyeong—there's no reason I can't do it with Young Hero Hyeon.
She answered at once that it was possible, then tilted her head a moment later.
"Wait. Sister! You said two women's yin energy is needed? So I alone won't be enough?"
"Exactly. One more woman is required. But don't worry. I'll fill that place myself."
"You, Sister?"
"You understand by now, don't you? That I had no choice but to couple with Young Hero Hyeon."
"Ahh, of course. Wait—then who was the other woman besides you?"
"Someone I found separately. That's a secret. No reason to tell you that much."
"Ahh, right."
Using the Second Master's treatment as an excuse, I can couple with Young Hero Hyeon at least five more times before he leaves the Dang Family. Ahh, sex with Young Hero Hyeon is on a completely different level from sex with my husband—it's overwhelming. And I can have that five more times. This isn't for my own pleasure; it's to save the Second Master. So I even have a proper justification.
The thought that she could share five more nights with Hyeon Jitae under the pretext of treating Dang Duyeong set Jeon Yeo-jin's heart fluttering.
"Well? If you face Young Hero Hyeon with me, your husband can be cured. You'll do it, won't you?"
"Of course. Naturally I will."
"Good. Then let's go meet Young Hero Hyeon."
"Yes, let's hurry."
When Jeon Yeo-jin rose from her seat, Jong Yak-hui followed with a chest full of swelling hope.
"What? You want me to help treat the Second Master?"
"The Second Master was poisoned with the same toxin as my husband. So Young Hero Hyeon can cure him as well, can't you?"
"Well, that's true enough."
"Then please. Cure the Second Master."
"Young Hero Hyeon! I beg you. Please treat my husband."
Two women had come looking for me while I was resting, pleading for treatment.
"Ah, no… it isn't that simple."
"Young Hero Hyeon! I told my sister-in-law everything honestly."
"Told her everything honestly?"
"That two women's yin energy is required, and that coupling with two women is necessary."
"So…?"
"If my sister-in-law and I couple with Young Hero Hyeon, the treatment becomes possible."
"Th-that's true, yes."
"She's already prepared to share a bed with you. So please."
"I beg you. If you will only cure my husband, you may use my body however you wish. Please, save my husband. I beg you."
Jong Yak-hui bowed again and again before me, pressing her forehead to the floor in deep, desperate kowtows.
She was pleading with raw, wretched urgency for me to spare the life of her husband, Dang Duyeong.