Chapter 100 (2/2)

“Oh, my cursed blood!”

The shadow of the woman disappeared, and the shadow of a young man appeared.

‘Is that the guy who sends her letters?’ I focused on the shadow with excitement.

There was a young man living in the village right next to her village. He was loved by young women because he was handsome and smart. Although he was a man of excellent talent from a prestigious family, he could not succeed the family because he was a concubine’s son.

“If it wasn’t for my blood… ”

The young man had a brother. He was not handsome or smart as his brother. He was physically weak, to say the least. Nevertheless, it was this elder brother who would succeed the family because he was the son of his father’s official wife. The young man was frustrated and angry, but he was helpless.

One day, the young man’s elder brother who stopped by the next village began to get sick.

When his parents asked the doctor, they heard he had mental sickness, and there was no medicine to cure it. In the end, his father urged him to find out the reason.

The cause of his brother’s sickness was lovesickness. He fell in love with the woman at first sight, but he didn’t have the nerve to confess to her, and he became lovesick.

So, his father promised him that he would certainly help his son marry the woman.

But his younger brother, who was strongly opposed to his elder brother’s marriage to the woman, decided to find fault with her in order to nullify his father’s promise. So, he went to the neighboring village and began to keep an eye on her. However, rather than finding fault with her, the young man suddenly fell in love with the woman.

As his father chose her as his elder son’s bride, the young man could not show up in front of the woman, so he tried to give up, but couldn’t. The day after he wrote her a letter after hesitating again and again. The young man who could not sleep at all from anxiety was pacing up and down the next morning.

However, even though he waited all day long, the woman did not appear until dusk. As the disappointed young man drooped his shoulders and tried to return home, he saw the woman trudging across the town. She had her hair tied together.

All throughout the season, the young man kept writing to the woman. The more letters he sent to her, the more he came to love her. The more he imagined the woman expecting to receive his letter, and the more he imagined her blushing whenever she received his letter, the more he agonized.

In the end, the young man burned with hatred of his brother, who stood in the way of his relationship with the woman, and he was in agony.

‘Shall I kill him? Without my brother, I can take everything. My family, wealth and honor, and the woman.’

‘No, no. Am I crazy? How can I kill my brother because of her? He has cherished me since I was young!’

As the shadow of the agonizing young man stumbled away, the first act of the play was over. It was bright a bit inside during the intermission because they reopened the entrance.

‘It’s interesting in that it is a play making use of the shadows, and the scenario of the play is very solid. How will it unfold in the second act?’ I was very excited.

“Allen.”

“… ”

“Allen?”

“Oh, yes. Tia, did you call me?”

Even though the first act was over, Allendis, who was staring at the front, looked back at me only after I called him several times. What was he thinking about so hard?

I asked, “What are you thinking?”