Yeon’s Ring

⚠️⚠️ ⚠️ Warning: This work contains mature themes, including coercive relationships, graphic violence, and other sensitive content that may not be suitable for all readers. Reader discretion is advised.⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️

Every ten years, a young woman is chosen for sacrifice to the god.
This time, the chosen offering is Sa Hayeon.
While her father and older brother risk everything to help her escape, they both lose their lives.
Determined not to become the god’s sacrifice, Hayeon throws herself into the hidden lake within the sacrificial cave.
No one expects her to survive.
After all, every previous sacrifice has met the same fate.
By morning, everyone believes that nothing of Hayeon will remain except a pile of bleached bones at the cave’s entrance.
But when dawn breaks…
It isn’t bones that greet them.
Instead, they find Sa Hayeon’s ring finger, cleanly severed.
And still resting on that tiny finger is…
…the jade ring that had once been given to her by her fiancé.

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As Hayeon awaits her death, she stumbles upon a mysterious village hidden away from the outside world.
There, she meets a breathtakingly beautiful man who rules like an emperor.
But beneath that flawless face lies a truly evil being.

“See?”

Muhyeon asked, his voice full of satisfaction.

“Ah… ah…”

He was cruel enough to inspire terror, yet he wore the carefree smile of an innocent man. He strode towards Hayeon, slowly lowering himself to one knee before her.
Meeting her gaze, he smiled brilliantly.

“Tell me… Do you still hate only me?”