Chapter 341: The Seven Deadly Sins (8)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 341: The Seven Deadly Sins (8)
Han Ju-yeon.
With a gaze simmering with lust, she looked lovingly at the man sleeping before her.
He was her brother-in-law.
No, he was her brother-in-law.
Somehow, he had gained the body of a young man.
That meant the social ties bound to his former flesh had also vanished.
So she made her move.
She knew her face and figure were exceptionally attractive.
And she knew she was even more attractive to Kim Do-jin than to anyone else.
‘Because I look like my sister.’
Her brother-in-law’s first love was her older sister, Han Ju-hee.
And she resembled her.
So much so that if she matched her hair color and makeup, and put on the right expression, she could fool him for a moment.
And there was one more thing.
A weapon she possessed that her sister did not.
‘My personality is much better.’
Unlike her strong-willed sister, she was gentle and kind.
When looks are similar, it’s only natural that the one with the better personality has the advantage.
That’s why she had always felt it was a shame.
If only she had been the older sister, if only she had been born earlier and met him first.
‘Things would have been different.’
She truly believed that.
The only reason her sister had been able to marry him was simply that she had met him first.
The moment she began to harbor such thoughts, she left for the United States.
The heart that had once been content just to be near him now desperately yearned to be by his side.
She left because she felt that if she stayed, she would truly betray her sister.
She believed she could forget him in that distant land, an ocean away.
‘What a foolish thought.’
Many men approached her.
Men who each possessed qualities that women would find undeniably attractive.
But not a single one caught her eye.
‘Compared to my brother-in-law…’
She found herself saying that every time she met a man.
Compared to her brother-in-law, they all seemed lacking.
The more it happened, the more the moments she had spent with him came back to her, vivid and clear, defying the passage of time.
And with those memories came temptation.
She couldn’t have the romantic relationship she wanted, but perhaps she could go back to how things were, as a brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
‘No, not that.’
She barely managed to hold back.
Her heart was long past the purity of those days.
If she saw him again, she would surely try to steal her sister’s place with all her might.
She resented her sister for snatching him away, but at the same time, her sister had been wonderful to her.
Mulling over that thought, she booked and canceled flights to Korea time and time again.
And so the days passed.
Then one day, when life in America had become utterly familiar…
That day came.
She didn't know it then, but looking back, it was the fateful day that completely changed her future.
At the time, she was deep in thought, facing the renewal of her guild contract.
The terms weren’t bad.
No, they were the best.
The highest signing bonus and salary a healer could receive, along with all sorts of support.
The conditions were so exceptional that she felt anyone would point their finger at her and call her a fool for passing them up.
She knew.
She knew the offer was mixed with the guild leader’s personal desire to keep her in the United States.
Because the guild leader was in love with her.
‘He was such a good person.’
He lacked nothing.
He was an excellent man in terms of character, ability, and even looks.
On top of that, he was utterly devoted to her and her alone. It would be no exaggeration to call him the perfect boyfriend or husband.
But it was strange.
‘I feel bad for him, but… I wasn’t attracted to him at all.’
Her heart didn’t flutter when she looked at him.
Was it because he was too perfect?
Her feelings were limited to a sense of admiration, as if she were appreciating a masterpiece sculpted by God.
She felt that if she renewed the contract, she would only end up hurting him.
But the thought of returning to Korea was daunting; her brother-in-law still weighed on her mind.
To be precise, she was afraid that upon seeing him, she would lose her senses and make a mistake.
Torn, unable to move forward or back, she found herself calling her sister.
It wasn’t as if they hadn’t spoken in a long time.
They would check in on each other at least once a month, however briefly.
However, she never brought up her brother-in-law.
She was worried that hearing news of him would only make her miss him more.
But why did she do it that day?
Without thinking, she had asked.
“Unnie… how is brother-in-law doing?”
The response she received was strange.
—Well… same as always.
From that vague answer, she sensed it.
A strange current was flowing between her sister and her brother-in-law.
At the same time, their past phone calls came to mind.
In her early days in America, her sister would pass on news of him even when she didn’t want to hear it, with phrases like, “Your brother-in-law says hi,” or “Can you believe what your brother-in-law did!” But at some point, she had stopped mentioning him altogether.
‘Did they have a falling out?’
Why was her heart pounding so hard at the thought that they might have grown distant?
Only then did she look up the photos of her brother-in-law and sister together, photos she had been trying so hard to ignore.
And she was certain.
Their relationship was vastly different from before.
By the time she was sure, she had already booked a flight to Korea.
When she returned, she found that many things in Korea had changed.
Her sister, her niece Seo-yeon, and her brother-in-law.
Of them all, the most shocking was her brother-in-law.
During their emotional reunion, her sensitive nose had detected it.
The brother-in-law standing before her was a fake, a mere convincing shell.
Then where had the real one gone?
Was he dead?
Or, just as this fake had entered his body, had her brother-in-law also come to inhabit another’s?
When she learned the answer was the latter…
She cackled in her room.
Worried her laughter might escape, she pressed a blanket so tightly over her face that she could barely breathe, and she laughed loud enough to shake the entire house.
‘I don’t have to hold back anymore.’
She didn’t have to hide it.
Her feelings for her brother-in-law—no, for him—which time had failed to wear down or chip away.
Finding him wasn’t very difficult.
In the fake brother-in-law’s room, which she had secretly entered, she found a file containing a background check on one person.
Kim Do-jin.
A fresh-faced twenty-year-old.
A severely obese hikikomori who had undergone a complete transformation in less than half a year and entered Korea University through special admission.
‘Found him…!’
After that, everything was smooth sailing.
She volunteered at the perpetually understaffed Korea University infirmary and hovered around him.
And after a series of events, they had arrived at this moment.
Meeting him now, free from the familial tie of brother-in-law and sister-in-law, he was even more charming.
The way he got flustered whenever she made a move was cute, and it was so endearing when he would occasionally act as if he knew her well, only to panic a moment later.
‘I think I’m getting addicted…♥’
No, she was already addicted.
That was why when he offered her a spot in his guild, she didn’t accept right away and played a little hard to get.
She just wanted to see it.
To see that always-confident man clinging to her, fumbling for words.
She had planned to enjoy it for just a moment, just a little while, and then gladly accept his offer.
She had.
“If possible, you should go to the US.”
But then he suddenly said something that sounded as if he were giving up on her.
His words came as a tremendous shock.
100 billion won.
It was an unimaginably huge sum, but to think he would give up on her, crushed by that amount!
‘No way.’
She bit her lip without realizing it.
How could he do this to her?
Just as she was becoming uncontrollably furious with a sudden sense of disappointment…
She had an epiphany.
‘Ah, I was mistaken.’
It was a realization about a mistake she had been unconsciously making all this time.
What she realized was the nature of their relationship.
While she acted as if she had forgotten he was once her brother-in-law, he still perceived her as his sister-in-law and behaved accordingly.
The fact that he didn’t completely block her advances suggested that perception had weakened, but it hadn’t disappeared.
That must have been the reason for his answer—one that was both absurd and genuinely concerned for her future.
If he had seen her as a female to be claimed, he would never have said such a thing.
In that moment, her heart sank as if it had struck a giant reef.
To truly become a man and a woman with him, she had to change the perception lodged in his mind.
‘But how?’
She had no desire to try something like brainwashing; that would make him someone else. But even if she did, she couldn’t dream of succeeding.
Why?
The answer came quickly when she remembered who was inside that young man’s body.
Son Si-woo.
A superhuman who had overcome countless national disasters, any one of which could have destroyed the entire country.
A famous American journalist had once said of him:
There are many Hunters in America stronger than him, but none are greater.
The American public, proud of being the world’s strongest, had protested fiercely, but the journalist never retracted his statement.
That was how great and noble Son Si-woo’s achievements and legacy were.
Mind control on a man like that?
Not a chance.
‘What do I do?’
She bit her lip.
How on earth could she make that man see the person named Han Ju-yeon not as a sister-in-law, but as a woman, a female?
Then, a thought occurred to her.
‘Do I really need to change his perception?’
What if, instead of changing it, she just inserted something new alongside it?
The fact that Han Ju-yeon, his sister-in-law, was also an incredibly attractive female.
What kind of expression would he make, faced with a sister-in-law who was also a desirable woman?
‘Just imagining it is thrilling…♥’
She wanted to inflict upon him the same agony she had endured.
Just as she had agonized over her feelings for her brother-in-law, she wanted to make him agonize over his feelings for his sister-in-law.
She wanted to see him finally give in, unable to resist, panting in pleasure as he took her.
With a furious expression, she walked into the master bedroom, grabbed a piece of paper and a pen, and lit a stick of incense.
The sleeping incense she used whenever her boiling lust for her brother-in-law kept her from sleeping.
Then, she set the table for dinner, which had just arrived, and casually brought out some wine.
Wines she had taken when she left her sister’s house, each hiding a potent alcohol content behind an exquisite taste.
She was well aware that they were from the collection her brother-in-law had painstakingly gathered, but she took them all anyway.
What did it matter?
The current brother-in-law was a fake. This wine would be going into the mouth of the real one, the one who had collected it and deserved to drink it.
“Here, cheers!”
She livened up the mood and relentlessly plied him with wine.
Although he had to pay 200 billion won in five years, it was still a happy day for him, having successfully recruited a new talent for his guild.
In high spirits, he drank the wine she poured as if it were water, growing more and more intoxicated.
And just as he showed a sign of trying to shake off some of the drunkenness…
She quickly slipped under the table, grabbed his leg, and stopped him.
Then, she settled onto his lap, wrapping her legs around his thighs, and whispered endlessly into his ear.
“Do-jin, are you sleepy…?”
Brother-in-law, are you sleepy?
“It’s okay, you can sleep a little. Nuna will wake you up.”
Sleep for a while, brother-in-law. I’ll wake you.
“What’s the big deal? This is Nuna’s house…”
It’s your sister-in-law’s house, so it’s fine.
Sleeping incense, strong liquor, and a soft whisper tickling his ear.
At the triple combo that could put even an insomniac to sleep, Kim Do-jin’s—her brother-in-law’s—eyelids began to droop.
Finally, his eyes closed completely.
The steady rhythm of his breathing, in and out, told her he had fallen into a deep sleep.
“Are you sleeping…?”
Kim Do-jin didn’t respond, not even to her low voice.
She immediately buried her nose in the nape of his neck and inhaled deeply.
Snnnfff.
“Haaaah… you smell like my brother-in-law…”
Filling her lungs with his scent, she looked down at the sleeping man with a seductive gaze and spoke.
“Brother-in-law… if you can’t cross the line, I’ll make you cross it.”
Even if it meant forcibly carving the pleasure of her body onto his.
“You can’t blame me for this later, okay? Because…”
Bringing her lips, from which hot breaths escaped uncontrollably, to his ear, she continued.
“It’s all your fault for making me this way♥”
Her dark lust, hidden away for so many years, began to pour out all at once, slowly drenching the body of the drunk and sleeping Kim Do-jin.