Normally, one would accept it with gratitude and cower away.
Yet he was spouting nonsense, comparing the twenty taels to the price of his own life.
“Haha.
Were you a martial artist?
Since you had no weapon, I thought you were just a drifting street thug.
I apologize.”
Go Dam-seo did not lose his nerve and shot back to his reply.
“Come to think of it, twenty taels of silver seems like too much.
For someone from an escort agency to have such a poor eye for people, I will only take nineteen taels as the price of your life.”
Sa Cheon placed one tael of silver on the table and stood up from his seat.
At the unexpected and continuous insults, Go Dam-seo could not say a word and only turned bright red.
Sa Cheon walked past Go Dam-seo, approached the inn owner, and pressed a piece of silver into his hand.
“This is money I got today as the price of some trivial fellow’s life, so keep the change…”
“Hey!
Stop right there!
What is your name?!”
Go Dam-seo called out and stopped Sa Cheon as he was about to leave the inn.
“…”
But no answer came.
But what was this?
After walking all the way to the inn entrance, Sa Cheon looked back at Go Dam-seo with an expression as if he had forgotten something.
“Hey!”
“H-hey??”
“If later on you ever think your life is worth more than nineteen taels of silver, come find me anytime.
I will welcome you.”
“What?!”
Go Dam-seo flared up in anger, but Sa Cheon had already left the inn.
Meanwhile, Dam Ye-rin, who was standing next to Go Dam-seo, was having a hard time holding back her laughter as she looked at Go Dam-seo, whose face was bright red.
A moment later, Dam Ye-rin, having barely calmed down, walked past Go Dam-seo and spoke.
“I guess you aren’t a tiger after all.
Seeing as you’re only worth nineteen taels of silver.”
* * *
Late evening.
Trudge, trudge.
Sa Cheon, who had stormed out of the Martial Arts Hall, was returning to the Black Dragon Sect with heavy steps.
Dam Ye-rin had stopped by the meeting place and returned first.
“Huu, do I really have to go back in the end?”
Right before he came back to life, the sweetness that had flowed into his mouth in the darkness was still there.
And the ecstasy, joy, and pleasure.
The day he first met Dam Ye-rin was the day he awoke in the darkness.
Sa Cheon was certain that the sweetness that had saved him that day was her blood.
Because of that, Sa Cheon could not leave her behind.
The strange reaction his body had to her meant she could be a woman tied to his very life.
If he had his way, he would have kidnapped her, escaped this place, and found someone to teach him proper Martial Arts, but considering the Blood Thunder accompanying Dam Ye-rin, he couldn’t do that either.