Chapter 7

Her delicate scent still lingered with him. He deeply took a breath and was reluctant to part with it. Afterwards, he however, tightened his eyebrows. I shouldn't be liking this dangerous scent!

When he went out of the underground palace, it was already past 11:00. Now it was 12:00 midnight. The full moon in the sky, and with a trace of overcast happening to drift by, it looked like it gave that full moon a mouth that was laughing. That's right. Look, Lee Soohyuk, it's laughing at you. Where is your hundreds of years of persistence? Where is your hundreds of years of revenge? Closing his eyes, those lingering pasts invaded again. 

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At that time, he was still a training and rather low vampire, who cultivated his moral character with Teacher Hae Seo every day. In one of the cultivating sessions, he recklessly fell asleep, and for the purposse of punishing him, Teacher threw him in the woods to accept the sun's roasting heat. He seriously could not persist, and fell unconscious. When he awoke, a youthful yet sophisticated smiling face was warming up his heart.

"You're finally awoke! You're lucky that I was gathering herbs for my father and along the way, noticed you. Otherwise, you would have been eaten by beasts sooner or later!"Her smile created two dimples on her face, arousing others to want to love her tenderly.

"Beasts? Beasts can't eat me!" He was teasing her, but he was also speaking of the truth.

"Haha. Only ghosts would believe you! I'm Han Seong Yeon. What's your name?" 

"Lee Soo Hyuk." He smiled at her shyly. This human girl is really interesting. 

From then forward, him and her became good friends. Whenever he was free, he would go help her.

He once thought that, his life forward would be like this; accompany her as she ages, watch her get married, and have her own children. Then become friends with her children.

However, he was wrong.

In the midst of not knowing and not feeling wh