episode_0019

“Madam, it is regrettable to meet like this, but time has already been delayed significantly.”

Yang Sowol looked pale.

Acheong felt that she had never seen someone so pale in her life.

Her hands covering her mouth trembled as if in a spasm.

The struggling breath seemed to be used just to stand there with all her might.

“We won’t ask about the unsightly matter, so please hand over the child now.”

Yang Chaemu was polite yet firm.

That’s why he was also decisive.

The enraged Acheong stepped forward, pointing her finger.

“No, it’s funny to hear you say that so confidently. What, are you going to feed the child and return them quietly if we take them? What nonsense,”

“Madam. Hoo.”

Yang Chaemu wiped his face.

Exhaustion seeped out of him as if he hadn’t slept in a week.

“It seems you are misunderstanding something.”

“Misunderstanding? Misunderstanding is good. Damn perverts,”

Just as Acheong’s specialty, indiscriminate personal attacks, was about to continue, Yang Chaemu’s words silenced her.

“We have already paid a sufficient price.”

“…What?”

Acheong turned to Yang Sowol.

She hadn’t heard about this?

“A thousand guan of gold was involved. It was the amount obtained by selling the family’s entire estate.”

“And recently, we received a message from the trading market. All the gold has been transferred to the full market.”

A large amount of gold is managed by issuing receipts.

If a thousand guan of gold is involved, it could fill ten carts.

So they sent the gold to the market first and issued the receipts in that name.

In fact, the issuer had the advantage in receipt transactions.

If the other party didn’t keep their promise, they could contact the market and stop the payment, that’s it.

But all the gold was transferred to the full market.

The Yang family had now completely handed over all ownership of the gold.

“But you concealed your whereabouts. Therefore, we had no choice but to offer a reward. The reward is five hundred guan of gold. It was obtained by pledging the family’s business and estate. We have now put all three futures at stake.”

The gold was fifteen hundred guan.

It was the amount obtained by the Shin Changyang family, a family with the power of Han Sung.

“If you were short of a thousand guan of gold, I would give you another five hundred guan. Isn’t this the value of another life to save one life?”

The last words were directed at Acheong.

Acheong finally looked at Yang Chaemu.

She saw his high moral standards.

He wasn’t the kind of person who would take a child and do evil things for fun.

He was a son trying to save his dying father.

“Buying a life with money may not be honorable, but we have given all the sincerity we can.”

The words from the mission scroll came to mind.

[Good deed) Transfer the elixir to the rightful owner]

Yang Sowol sold his daughter.

Acheong felt a dizzying sensation.

She had interfered for nothing and only witnessed a dirty scene.

“Then.”

When Yang Chaemu took a step forward, Acheong instinctively grabbed his hand and pulled him back.

“Wait! Just a moment! Stop! Stop!”

If it was a matter of one person dying and another living like a heart transplant, Acheong could have left with a heavy heart.

But she already knew the fact that Yang Chaemu was deliberately not mentioning.

She remembered the horrific story Yang Sowol had told her.

Jinjangmyeong was not just dying.

He would be tortured until all his senses were taken away.

Even after the unspeakable torture, he would be forced to recover and be tortured repeatedly, enduring a miserable and harsh life until his senses were completely taken away, slowly dying.

Yang So-wol understood the reason why Ah Cheong told her that story.

It was because Ah Cheong wanted to protect the child.

The situation was so dire that there was no other choice but to endure it, even though they knew it was coming.

Ah Cheong looked at Yang So-wol.

“Um… even if it’s just a gold coin, how can I repay you?”

“The child… the child was in pain.”

“Ah.”

It was only now that Ah Cheong fully understood the situation.

Initially, Yang So-wol had no intention of giving up her daughter.

It was a deception.

For her desperate son who was trying to save their father.

To secure the amount needed to save her daughter.

Parents don’t just casually choose a name for their child.

They carefully select the best words and meanings, as the first gift parents give to their child.

Jin Myung.

May you live long.

What kind of emotions must the parents have had, wishing only for their child to live a long life?

“Eun-in, I will not deny it. But even if it is a cowardly excuse, if we did not accept the deal, and then what would happen? We had no other choice.”

“Well…”

At first, it was a deal, and if they refused, the sword would come next.

It wasn’t that the martial world was ruthless, but that the intention to save a loved one was ruthless.

Ah Cheong didn’t know what to do.

Then Yang Chaemu’s words were directed at someone else.

“Master Seungsoo, my father dedicated his life to the peace and safety of the martial world.”

“That friend came that way.”

“Please help us. I know it is a difficult request to make.”

“You…”

“If this goes against the will of heaven!”

Yang Chaemu shouted loudly.

“I will speak for justice! The cannibal army has the flame magic! The wicked Blood La Sect has already seized half of the East Sea! By sacrificing one child’s life, we can save thousands and tens of thousands of people from suffering! Am I wrong!”

“May the heavens be witness.”

Master Seungsoo closed his eyes tightly.

“Seonja, hand over the child.”

“Master?”

“You have not seen it yet. The blood of a single ginger root costs a hundred lives. Where did those lives come from, we could not know. But now we know. Since the enemy is causing havoc and the officials are turning a blind eye, even if the villains disguise themselves, they will only open their eyes and suffer.”

Master Seungsoo tried to persuade Ah Cheong.

“Seonja, in recent times, the martial world has been in chaos, and there is no place in the world without disasters. The news from the martial world is all urgent matters, and everyone is in a situation where they have no one to help them find their salvation.”

“Even if you say that to me in that way…”

“The Yang family is the leader of the martial world that blocks the East Sea. When the Gufa and Segaga cannot help someone, someone must stop the evil deeds of the Blood La Sect, and I know who is the most willing to shed blood and take the lead in that matter.”

Then Yang So-wol knelt down and prostrated herself on the ground.

Pressing her knees, chest, and forehead to the ground, she begged with the most humble posture in the world.

“Yang Daehyeop, please. I will do whatever it takes to repay the gold coin, even if it means facing any disaster, even if it takes a lifetime. Please consider the child. Please…”

Master Seungsoo and the martial arts masters, as well as the warriors of the Shinchang Yang family, looked at Ah Cheong.

What’s with this atmosphere? Why are they looking at me?

Just make your decision among yourselves and inform me.

Why do I have to make the decision?

Do I have to decide?

If I decide, do I just say okay and move on?

Ah Cheong tightly grasped Jin Myung’s hand.

At that moment, there was a tingling sensation in her palm.

“I will go.”

For a moment, all the breathing in the room ceased.

“I will go, it’s all because of me. Dad passed away because of me. I, Mom, I already knew everything. Mom, stop taking care of someone like me and live comfortably. If I had done this earlier, then Dad would still be alive. It’s all because of me. It’s all because of me.”

Jin Myung choked up.

“Where is good, Hik, go to Jae. Instead of this damn daughter, look at healthy children and live happily.”

“Myung-ah!”

Yang Sowol crawled on the ground towards her daughter.

Her trembling hand reached out, but the child defiantly pushed it away.

“I hate it! I hate it too! I really hate it! I’m sick of living like a burden! I didn’t want to be born like this! Ugh, waaah…”

In the end, Jinjangmyeong burst into tears.

All tears in the world are a pitiful sight.

The idea of a single tear falling with a pretty expression is a lie.

The child cried with a rough sound of anger and scratching.

Yang Sowol lost her mind, and the monks and warriors couldn’t even raise their heads and hung them in shame.

And Achung made up her mind.

Once her mind was made up, she didn’t hesitate in her actions.

“Damn, seriously! So ridiculous!”

All eyes turned towards her.

“She’s sitting here making a melodrama! The martial arts world is shocked and the emperor is showing respect for this Chinese melodrama! That’s why damn chinks are no good. The thing I hate the most in the world is racial discrimination, and the second thing I hate is these damn chinks.”

Achung picked up the child and held her against her side.

“No need for anything else! I’ll take care of her. I’ll take care of her and make a blockbuster, so if you have any complaints, don’t say it now, just think about it silently.”

Achung looked around at the audience.

They all had stupid expressions.

It was so funny that Achung laughed like a madwoman.

But in an instant, she straightened her expression.

Achung slammed the ground.

The amazing anti-gravity leap of the great martial artist Moon Ye Sanbo unfolded.

And only the gradually fading voice could be heard, gradually lowering in volume.

“This child is mine now! I can do whatever I want with her! I’m leaving! Goodbye, everyone! I’m leaving to find my happiness away from constraints and restrictions! Be happy, everyone!”