Chapter 273 – Lynn Champei

When she was young, a big party was held at Taishan Dojang, the home of Lin Xiangpei.
Was it someone’s birthday? Or was it a feast to celebrate victory? I can’t remember why.

‘Bored. Not funny.’

However, for young Lin Champei, it was a terribly boring party.

There were no people who came purely to celebrate. There are only adults who have come to look good for the Lin family, who inherited the title of the strongest warrior who protects the Republic of Korea for two generations in a row.

Young children are no different. The boys are busy fighting childishly, and the girls are busy figuring out which of those guys will be their fiancé.

‘I’d rather go to the dojo and secretly practice martial arts…’

Young Lin Xiangpei had no interest in the childish behavior of her children her age her.

Her family her treated her as an immature troublemaker, focusing only on her martial arts her, not like a girl, but in fact, her her Lin Xiangpei’s intelligence her had long since surpassed her family ‘ s adults.

Acting like a normal child is because it’s more comfortable that way. The grown-ups of the family are in trouble for the charming and stubborn Lin Champei, because the intelligent Lin Champei won’t be in trouble.

“Oh, Champey! Come and say hello to Yosuke! My aunt heard that Yosuke likes you!”
“Be friendly with a boy named Yooseong. She is the child who will be the heir to the Grand General’s family. Maybe she’ll be your fiancé. You are a mature child, so you will like it.”

Shang Pei didn’t bother to tell her that the heir to the general family was the kid who had dug her snot and rubbed her hand on her clothes her.

“No! I have no taste for men who are weaker than me! A weak man is not attractive!”

She instead stomped out of her seat after squeezing her voice as she normally did.

No adult is serious about the hysteria of an adolescent girl. Even that day, Shang Pei, who escaped her banquet with such a simple performance, went to the mountain behind her without anyone knowing.

‘What shall we practice today? Mabo? How to keep an open mind?’

Women of the Lin family cannot formally learn martial arts. All that can be learned is simple movements close to self-defense.

However, Shang Pei was so good at her martial arts her. She secretly peeks at the dojang, and with only her memorized moves her, she is able to practice her martial arts on her own.

All she needed was a place where she could practice her martial arts on her own, and Xiang Pei built a secret training ground in her hallway on the hillside behind her to practice her martial arts her.

My own little space hidden near the cliff covered by trees. Shangpei liked the secret training ground. Probably no adult will find this place…

‘What?! Who is it? How did you find this place?’

Sensing her presence in her secret training ground where no one should be, Shang Pei hurriedly concealed her presence in her and hid in a tree.

When she poked her head out and looked at her training ground, there was a boy she had never seen before, sitting on a training equipment she had made and looking down the mountain.

She doesn’t seem to have much of an age gap with him. However, judging from her slender body of her, it doesn’t seem like she came here looking for a place to practice.

‘Certainly, is it the ganja of the demon king’s army who came after her grandfather her?! I heard that the Demon King’s army has been targeting the federation frequently lately!’

As her suspicions reached a peak, Shang Pei hurled herself at the intruder in an effort to uncover his identity.
No, she was going to blow it up. If she hadn’t made eye contact with a boy right before she was attacked, she would have been hit in the stomach by the regime containing her inner strength her.

“Hi. Are you the owner of this secret base?”
“Uh? Eh, huh?”
“I must have made it all myself, it’s great. I don’t have this dexterity.”

Even when he saw Shangpei trying to attack him, the boy was not frightened. Rather, she smiled calmly and said hello.

Pretty. Her face her is so beautiful that other grown-ups would click their tongues saying she looks like a parasitic brother. To the extent that Shangpei’s taste in men, who had thought that strong muscles were the basics of men, was shaken.

But what bothered me more than her face was the boy’s eyes her.

‘Is he the same age as me? Just by looking at his eyes his, he looks like an old man who has mastered life.’

The beautifully sparkling eyes were empty. Shang Pei could see that she was not feeling any emotions even now as she looked at him and smiled.

“Rin Champei, right? I’ve never met her in person, but I’ve heard rumors quite often. I am Shen of the Zhiwei family.”
“Uh, uh… Ah, no… Nuh… “
“Sorry, I think I tried to practice secretly, but I got in the way, right? I liked the scenery here, so I sat there without even realizing it. I’ll leave your seat, so practice to your heart’s content.”

Shen stood up from her seat with an embarrassed expression, seeing Shang Fei who just mumbled at her without saying anything.

As if she was accustomed to being an uninvited guest, she left with her apology without the slightest regret.

“…What’s the matter? What’s going on?”
“Uh? What?”

Taking her spirit her, La Champei was clutching the sleeves of her child’s clothes her, named Shen.

Even Shangpei himself was taken aback. No matter how much she looks like she can live on a full stomach, she has a look of her own taste, but she did not yearn for her romance or love her to the extent that she clung to a man by force.

Even so, Shang Pei didn’t let go of her sleeve. The moment she let go of this sleeve, she had the feeling that she would never meet this child. In a lonely place where no one knew her, she seemed like she would disappear forever like a mirage.

“I can’t just let someone who has seen my secret training ground go. Did you say Shen? From now on, you are my number one subordinate.”
“…Subordinate number 1?”
“Okay! So today you have to stay with me until the adults go! Okay?”

Instead of explaining her complicated mind her, Shang Pei acted as she always did. Right after her, she became headstrong Shang Pei, and she forced her willpower her.

She said that not many people in the Republic would dare to refuse the Lady of the Lin family. So was this Shen kid.

Shen smiled awkwardly as if she was embarrassed, but she did not reject Shang Pei’s insistence on her. Throughout the day, she was plagued by Shang Pei’s barrage of questions of her, and he helped her practice her.

“If you have nothing to do tomorrow, come to our home! It’s a promise. Understand?”

From that day on, Lin Xiangpei began to take Shen Zwei, the heir of her lesser nobility her, at all times.

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“Shen! Let’s go to the debut party with me! A deal that all nobles of the empire do!”
“Shen! Let’s go to the sea with me! You’re going to be studying writing in your family all summer anyway! Follow!”
“Shen, after the coming-of-age ceremony, would you like to enter the academy with me? Shen has no friends besides me…”

In the eyes of the people around her, they thought that Shang Pei was obsessed with her Shen’s appearance her and expressed her love her to the point of being burdensome.

She thought that the reason Shen always refused to reject Shang Pei’s proposal was simply because the power and prestige of the Lin family was a burden. Even the adults of the Lin family.

However, the relationship between the two in reality was very different from what was shown on the outside.

“Shen, didn’t you forget the promise that the two of you would go out to play in three months?”
“Yes.”
“…I can’t help it because that naive old man is stubborn. They say you shouldn’t come down from the mountain until you’ve reached the pinnacle of martial arts once you’ve decided to learn it. I’ll finish it as soon as possible in three months. So, should I be quiet?”
“Of course, I believe in Champei. I believe that Champey will keep his promise.”

8 years. It was the time when, as a child, Shang Pei was allowed to develop his talent and enter the martial arts despite his family’s opposition.

Others misunderstood that Shang Pei must have worked hard to get his talent his recognized, but Shang Pei’s biggest concern was his was always Shen, not recognized from his family his.

“…In the meantime, where did you disappear to? Is Shen training hard and studying as he promised?”
Haha, Shangpei is also true. How long are you going to worry like that? Am I also an adult who is going to have a coming-of-age ceremony soon?”

Ever since she noticed Shen’s incomprehensible, sourceless emptiness of her in her childhood, Lin Shangpei has spent a lot of time carrying Shen around.

In the meantime, what I felt while observing her Shen was that the Shen she appeared on the outside and the Shen she actually were were very different.

She said, ‘On the outside, she’s very smart, dignified, well-study, caring, and a complete adult…’

Shen, who broke through the outer shell of her personality and looked inside her, was the exact opposite. She was one of the most unstable people Shen Xiang Pei had ever seen.

First of all, I don’t know why, but she couldn’t deeply care for the people around her. The inside of her polite appearance is nothing more than a habit she has developed in order not to reveal herself.

Even her own parents and her kin kept her habit her. Because she couldn’t give her heart to those around her, Shen was always a lonely and deficient person.

“Don’t you remember the last time I didn’t see you for three weeks because of pirates? That Shen held my hand all day.”
“Ahaha, was it? I don’t remember very well.”

To Shen, she was her only human relationship with her, a friend, a family member, and a lover.

The reason Shen never turned down Shang Pei’s offer during the 8 years was because she herself became increasingly attached to and dependent on her time with Shang Pei.

‘Is this the sick love that I only saw in that book…? I won’t get stabbed later, right?’

Rumor has it that she was a girl from several families and she confessed to Shen. Of course, she has spit on her beautiful face since childhood, but the relationship between the two is not her own unrequited love her, but more like Shen’s heavy love her.

When I think about it, it’s even more embarrassing. Some say that there is only one male, but someone keeps interrogating themselves with bright, clear eyes while scattering two or three incestuous affairs with women every month…

“…Next year, we’ll be able to enter the academy together. You’ll be able to make a lot of friends if you go, and you’ll learn more than you learned from the Zhiwei family.”
“Well, do you really need a friend? One champey is enough for me in my life.”

Heavy. Shen’s interest and love her were so heavy that for a moment, Xiangpei put on an expression of disgust. What the hell happened before you met yourself, so you’re passive in human relationships?

“If you’re going to say something like that, don’t talk about helping others and stay calm. Do you remember the last time you had a fight with the second son of the Yu family, and you’re waiting there? You can’t protect me while I’m gone.”

Although Shen is more clumsy and heavy-handed than anyone else in human relationships, he is strangely outgoing and has a high sense of justice.

What an accident he caused because of his natural tendency to be kind and helpful to someone he had never seen before, even though he was busy pushing away people who approached him with goodwill.

About 30% of Lin Xiangpei’s incidents known to the public were infamous because Xiangpei deliberately staged a mess to cover up Shen’s accident.

“Remember Shen, without me, you really think accidents are going to cause problems with women while getting hurt. Not gaslighting, for real. You must never go out and buy things alone in a place where I am not. Understand?”

When Shang Pei asked her to trust her, raising her hand between her pods, Shen wrapped her arms around Shang Pei’s shoulders and smiled kindly.

“Shangpei too, there’s no way I’d go anywhere without you. You are my only friend.”
“…Yeah, thank you for promising at least words.”

Shang Fei let out a deep sigh and leaned her head on Shen’s shoulder.

Yes, she is the one who wants to be by her side her all the time.

As long as she protects her, nothing big will happen to Shen.

‘You must become stronger. I think I’ll feel relieved when I become strong enough to protect Shen at any time. How many accidents will I have to live with for the rest of my life…’

In fact, it was a kind of heavy love to live with and take care of Shen, who had been by her side of her simply because she was anxious, but Shang Pei, who had already heard Shen as a daughter, could not notice it .