14 Results in the "The Cruel Fate" category
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CF Chapter 3
Thud. The dull sound came to an abrupt stop. She froze without realizing it. Judging by the sudden silence, she wasn’t the only one. Just moments ago, there’d been murmurs and scattered voices, but now, an icy hush blanketed the room. And then.. Clang! At the sharp sound of something hitting the floor, Yudam’s shoulders jolted. For a second, she feared she’d dropped a plate, but thankfully, that wasn’t the…-
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CF Chapter 2
Her gaze slowly traveled upward, starting from the tips of his polished shoes. It climbed, higher and higher, until finally, something came into view. Yudam blinked, startled. She hadn’t meant to look. She was crouched down, watering the flowerbed, and her head had only tilted up as far as her position allowed. Just above the loosely unbuttoned collar of his shirt, a sharply defined collarbone jutted out. Though mostly obscured by the black fabric, the…-
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CF Chapter 1
Boom…. The sound of the ship’s horn made Yudam lift her head. Her heart began to contract with tension, echoing the heavy noise that filled her ears. A colossal ship loomed before her, too immense to take in with just her eyes. The sheer scale of it, and the deep, booming sound that spread like a wave, was already overwhelming. Yudam raised a hand to smooth her hair, tousled by the sea breeze. Once she boarded that ship, even the luxury of feeling the…-
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Chapter
CF Prologue
“You, if you ever leave the land, you’ll meet a swift death.” That was what the shaman said upon seeing her. The grand ritual held in the village every year was like a festival. At six years old, she was too young to grasp the gravity of such cruel, absurd words. While she stood there blinking in confusion, her parents beside her turned pale. It wasn’t their frail son, but their daughter who had been struck by this bolt of misfortune, their reaction was only…-
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