...Flower of Evil...

Supreme ghost Kings,anyone who hears the title shivers in fear. It wasn't just a title. They were the alphas of netherworld. They are not gods but no god will ever try to provoke a ghost King. The consequences of provoking ghost Kings would be not be good.

To become a ghost King, one has to go through an extream torturous life. A ghost has to pass four stages to become a ghost King. First phase could be considered as harmless little ghosts,the second phase is the ghosts who haunts the living, the third phase is called savage type which is basically a very dangerous type. A lot of ghosts can only complete these three stages and could only dream to pass the last stage. No ghosts would be able to survive the extream torture which is essential to pass the fourth stage. Inside a kline, you'll suffocated to death. Only the strongest can survive. Normally, the ghosts who pass the supreme level have a strong desire. It could be hatred,love,greed or anything. But the emotion should be strong to withstand any torture you are going to face. (A/ inspired from TGCF)

The kline of life and death peak mountain is the birth place of the seven ghost Kings. For the very first time,seven ghosts Kings were born at the same time. What made them go through this extream torturous hell to become like this? For years,they have been burning inside this kline. For what? Why go through such a torture?

No one knows.

Iseul looked at Jimin who was watering the plants. She was upstairs, looking very bored. But when she saw him,she focused on him. She didn't know what to feel anymore. It has been more than 800 years since everything happened.

In her memories, Jimin was a gentle person until he broke her trust. She remembered the day she killed him. It was still a mystery to her about why he didn't resist her. He let her kill him without a struggle. And his last words,

"I'm sorry"

Did he think she would forgive him?

She sighed. Then what about now? Why did they approach her? She flinched when Jimin looked up. He smiled and waved his hand. She looked away. She had always been like this. She just wanted to flee away from the house but Mr.Cheon was stopping her. And the missing Beomgyu. She didn't want to admit but she was worried about the grim reaper.

Iseul sighed and turned back. She saw Mrs.Kim putting some fresh flowers to a vas. Iseul mentally scoffed. She didn't know if she remembered her past or not. If she does,then it's no doubt that she will kill that woman. She will not let such a woman stay near Mr.Cheon.

Her hatred for that woman ran upto her bones. The death she was given was horrible. Iseul would do that again and again. The pain was still there. And it hurt her every single day. The burning fire inside her never died.

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[Past time]

That was a night of the demon. The forest was dense with demonic aura. The wild demonic wolves were howling and growling.  These hungry wolves came out to search for a hunt that night. As they were passing by the river,their sharp eyes caught a body of a human.

The blood lust in their eyes increased in ten folds. With drooling mouths,the bunch of ten wolves started to moving towards the human body. The body belonged to a woman but her whole face was covered by her hair.

The hunger of the wolves increased with every step they took. As they got closer to her,another loud growl stopped them instantly. The growl had them tremble instantly. They immediately backed away and a large black wolf appeared from the forest. It was bigger than a normal wolf. And the power it holds among the wolves was obvious.

He slowly approached the body and sniffled it. The wolf closed its eyes and slowly it started reshaping.

In a second,a young handsome man appeared next to the body. His body was naked.

He removed the woman's hair from her face.

"Such an ill fate. We meet again", he mumbled before lifting her up in his arms.

......

Iseul opened her feeling someone caressing her hair. She widened her eyes and sat up immediately. Her eyes wandered everywhere. She couldn't figure out where she is. It looks like a small cottage room. It wasn't an extravagant room she used to stay. A poor house. The bed was not even comfortable, it was just a small broken bed.

"Sister"

She jumped in shock and looked at her side. A boy! A little boy! He looked awfully familiar to her. But right now,she couldn't pin point her thoughts.

The only thing she could think right now,what happened. Wasn't she supposed to die that night. She immediately looked at her body. She was fully clothed. It was a blue gown of a woman. When she touched her hair,there was  a bandage around her forehead.

"Sister is awake! She is awake!", The boy screamed and ran away excitedly.

"Wait!",she coughed loudly feeling a sore throat. She tried to stand up but her body was hurting so much. With so much effort, she stood up and but stumbled towards the door. As she was walking, she passed by a mirror and paused.

With a little hesitation,she stumbled towards the mirror and looked.

No

Her own wide eyes stared back at her. But her face,it was  badly bruised. She touched her face and hissed in pain. Flash backs of that night flooded to her mind like a tornado.

She was raped.

She tightly grabbed her hair while shaking her head in disbelief. Tears gathered into her eyes and they rolled down representing her agonising pain. What was worse is she had no one to cry out. She was going crazy in her head.

She let out a loud scream and cried her lungs out. She couldn't hold on anymore. The pain was too much. What did she do wrong to deserve all of this? What did she do wrong? She wailed in pain.

She clenched her hand and punched the mirror,breaking it into pieces. Fresh blood rolled down from her fist. She grabbed a piece of mirror and stared at it.

What's the meaning of this life? I can't do this anymore!!

Her lips trembled as she cried,looking at the sharp object in her hands. Never in her life time she'd thought she would take her own life. She always thought the suicide people are stupid but now she had come to that point,she couldn't defend herself.

If it had been easy,no one would take their own lives. They are helpless. They had no one to tell it was okay.

She placed the sharp object near her neck and was about to slit her own neck but a hand caught her wrist.

She snapped her eyes at the owner of the hand. She instantly recognised him but she wasn't in a state to get shocked over his sudden appearance. Her eyes were still releasing fresh tears nonstop.

The man looked her at sternly. His handsome features were looking intimidating and ethereal.

"Let go", she whispered.

"I didn't save you just so you can take your own life again", he said.

"I didn't ask you to save me"

He stared at her for a while before snatching away the mirror piece. After throwing it away,he lifted her up in bridal way and placed her on the bed again. "Since I already saved you,just live"

She looked away.

"When you got well,you can go back home. When you see your family, you'll want to live —"

He stopped seeing her silent tears rolling down. He didn't know what happened so he didn't know how he hurt her feelings. Suddenly, he felt awkward. He didn't know how to comfort her.

"You are welcome to stay here until you get well" ,he mumbled and left.

Iseul closed her eyes and curled into a ball crying her heart out. She didn't know the time so she just laid there. Once she is done crying, she felt lost. Her mind was blank.

She stayed inside for two days. There was a woman who took care of her for these two days and she was really kind and caring for Iseul. The little boy came every day to check on her and stayed by her side telling her stories.

Iseul finally remembered who was this cute little boy. Wasn't he in the group of demonic cultivators she saved long ago.
And she found out his name.  Bingwen. She remembered that long ago,the King had given an order to find some Chinese escapees who were demonic cultivators. These people must be that group.

She didn't go to think further and just stayed silent without saying anything.

But that day,Bingwen tried to take her out from the cottage. He whined all day and pestered her to come out. Having no choice, she went along with him. She didn't even care to tie up her hair and just let it flow down on her back.

Bingwen was holding her hand from his little cute hands. He pulled her out. And that's when Iseul saw what was it like the outside. There were few more houses here and there. From young to old,there were people doing their own works. They all turned to look at her.

Bingwen didn't stop and dragged her to another side of this small village. He took her inside the forest and stopped. Iseul was confused.

"Brother Ming! I took her out! Look!", The little guy chimed excitedly.

Iseul looked ahead and saw the handsome youth who was holding a bow and an arrow with so many little kids surrounding him. He was aiming at a tree infront of him while the kids behind him were staring at him with wide excited eyes.

Hearing little Bingwen's voice,he stopped and looked back.

Iseul and the man stared at each other for a while.

Suddenly, he raised his bow and aimed at her.

Her heart stopped.

Is he going to kill her?

Her wide eyes stared at him in horror.

When he released his arrow, she shut her eyes tight.

Her heart skip a beat when she heard the sound of wind.

But to her surprise, the arrow passed her by the ear.

She opened her eyes and looked back. The arrow was on the tree behind her and what was under the attack of the arrow was a snake! She looked at the poisonous snake with an opened mouth.

Suddenly, her neck hair raised up and tingled feeling someone's breath on her neck. "Thought you are not scared of death"

The voice was full of sarcasm. Her hear snapped back and saw his cocky smirk.

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