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Stigma
Author: MaNyong A woman’s pale shoulder and back appeared in the dark. Soon, a scalding iron brand approached her skin. The iron branded her skin with ‘娼’ to indicate her stigma as a prostitute. With this stamped on her body, she was now branded as a prostitute and could no longer escape this status for the rest of her life.…- 2.2 K • Feb 27, '25
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Stigma Prologue
"It won't hurt, milady." Despite her words, the woman's palm was shaking. EunSeo looked down at the small pills in her hand. Deep sorrow filled EunSeo's eyes as she gazed at the pills that would bring her death. "It will only take a moment. I heard that it will be painless, like falling asleep. There's no more time, milady. You must take it now." "When did you find the time to prepare something like this?" EunSeo slowly took the pills from the handmaiden's trembling…-
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Stigma Ch 1 part 1
"Powder and rouge are given to you by credit. Their costs will be taken from your commission, so keep that in mind." The madame of the brothel curtly spoke to a kneeling EunSeo as she handed her some powder and rouge. This woman had been the madame of the brothel for 30 years. She was a little over sixty years old. Still, her back was straight and her eyes were sharp. It took a special kind of personality to successfully manage a business, especially one that only dealt with…-
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Stigma Ch 1 part 2
"I bought you tonight. I'm a customer, and you are a prostitute." EunSeo froze. "So you're mine." With those words, SeoYoon grabbed EunSeo's shoulder. "Let go...!" She tried to shake his hand off, but SeoYoon was stronger. "Aaagh!" EunSeo fell back. SeoYoon had pushed her shoulders down. "I..." Getting on top of her, SeoYoon looked down at her as he spoke. "I bought you. Do you know what that means?" EunSeo grit her teeth…-
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Stigma Ch 2 part 1
"Haa, haa..." More than her panting breaths, her red cheeks seemed to express how alarmed and confused this maiden was. She had been following her brother up the mountain to visit their maternal family. Maybe the trouble began when she left her handmaiden behind at their home. Her handmaiden usually followed her wherever she went, but since she was accompanying her older brother this time, the handmaiden stayed behind. They had to climb over this mountain in order to get to…-
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Stigma Ch 2 part 2
When the door opened, SeoYoon, who had been leaning on a pillar, turned his head. The old man was opening the door. A young man followed behind. SeoYoon had never seen that young man before. "Is that him?" After the young man had left, SeoYoon stared in the direction he had disappeared off to as he asked. "Yes." "He looks quite young." "Age doesn't matter. His blood is what's important." "When do we start?" "When everything is ready. If we…-
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Stigma Ch 3 part 1
Yoo EunLib was considered to be the 'best of his time'. That was how great of a warrior he was. He showed remarkable skill at a young age. People said that he had managed to defeat his master less than a year after he began to learn the ways of the sword. The rumors were true. Because he came from a good family, his parents had wanted him to become a government official, but because of his outstanding skills as a swordsman, they had no choice but to watch as their son walked the path of a warrior. It was…-
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Stigma Ch 3 part 2
"Unnie, can you take a look at this?" EunSeo had been embroidering a pouch and asked the woman next to her, who had been in the middle of sewing a man's jacket. The woman was her brother EunLib's wife. Even though she had come from a noble family, her sewing skills were so good that she made all of EunLib's clothes herself. Even though their home had many servants and seamstresses, she told everyone that she would be the one to make her husband's clothing. Therefore she was…-
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Stigma Ch 3 part 3
It was the last day of June, and it was incredibly hot. As the days became humid and damp, the weather was alerting everyone that the rainy season was coming. EunLib was walking through the palace for a different reason today. He was carrying his resignation letter inside his chest pocket. In his letter, he had written that he would be retiring to the countryside with his family after resigning from his post in the palace as well as his post as an instructor of the training…-
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Stigma Ch 4 part 1
SeoYoon was pacing in front of the brothel in the middle of the day. He looked up. EunSeo's room was on the second floor. Her window was closed. The other prostitutes' windows were open, but hers was closed. Nothing good would come out of lingering in a brothel in the middle of the day. People would begin to talk. "Why aren't you taking up a position in the government?" General Oh asked when SeoYoon refused a coveted position. SeoYoon was the most prominent…-
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