New Vengeful Life - Taekook - Condition worse than a sw!ne

Cold winds suddenly rose in the inky darkness of the night, making the decay on the half broken and rotting residence door more noticeably appalling as it rattled in the wind...

A few elder maids passed through the courtyard hurriedly. A servant with a wider figure than the rest, who wore a green robe with her sleeves rolled up halfway, headed towards the innermost room with a food basket in hand.

A strange odour permeated throughout the residence. A younger maid, trailed behind her and whispered in the ears of the elder maid...

Maid Wang

( scrunching her nose in disgust and whispers )

Maid Wang

The smell is really unpleasant. I don’t know why Master arranged for that thing to be there. It is quite scary.

Maid Wang

He should have just thrown that thing away instead of keeping it like this.

Maid Wang

I feel so disgusted just by being present here. ( yucks and cried in disgust )

Chief maid

Maid Wang, speak less... ( in a annoyed yet cold tone )

Chief maid

I feel you forgot what you are and how you need to speak these days. ( giving her a side eyed look )

Chief maid

If anyone around us overhears, you won’t be spared.. ( shrugged arm to slide her hands away )

Arriving at the entrance, they slightly knocked on the dilapidated door. A middle aged, round-faced maid emerged from within and accepted the food basket with a sad and worried look before entering the house again. After a moment, she carried an empty food basket out. The chief maid looked at her and spoke in a little highly manner...

Chief maid

Master ordered us to bring the person into the room.

Maid Liang

Is this for..... ( in an alarmed expression yet humble tone )

Chief maid

We do not need to know.. ( cutting her from speaking )

Chief maid

Its none of our business what the royals do. We just need to follow orders.. ( speaking little rudely )

Maid Liang

I seek your forgiveness, elder maid. ( bows)

Chief maid

( beckoned maid Wang ) You.. come here..

Chief maid

Come here and bring the person over there... ( turns and faces back to maid Liang )

A lamp lit the house, brightening the hall slightly. Maid Wang pinched her nose as she entered the hall. She gasped noticing the thing that sat in the wooden tub type structure after several moments had passed. Seeing it for the first time, she almost threw up. She could not feel more disgust at anything elsw just at first sight. Over the course of the past few days, even if she had delivered food daily with the elder maid, she had never seen the person inside clearly. And now when she sees, she felt like puking. The thing in the wooden tub could no longer be referred to as “human”. All four of his limbs had been wounded as hell. Every inch had a deep and dirty cut or scratch. His rod-like body propped up, as it swayed in the wooden tub. His hair was bunched together, with small bits of debris scattered throughout. Yet he somehow looked as if he had some feminine essences......

As maid Wang dragged the tub out slowly, the elder maid stared at that crippled person sympathy flashing through her eyes. Although she did not have an inkling of this person's identity, this person had already been crippled to this extent, which will really make anyone feel pity for him. Furthermore, since Master had suddenly ordered them to bring this person out today, things did not bode well for her. What could she do infront of imperial orders... Though maid Wang felt afraid and disgusted, she did not dare to disobey her orders. Composing herself by closing her own nose with a cloth , she heaved and dragged the wooden tub out of the house. The person inside was lifelessly lying and did not struggle or cause a scene, as if he was already asleep.

As per the after Setting the wooden tub in the Master’s sleeping quarters maid Wang thought to herself as she stood near the wooden tub in that icey cold night...

Maid Wang

**why did Master place this terrifying thing in the house? **

Maid Wang

** something so horrible doesnt even suits the graveyard, and yet master wished you bring it to his sleeping quarters...**

As maid Wang was busy in her thoughts giving that person in the tub a disdain look, all of sudden she shivered. The person in the wooden tub suddenly opened his eyes, locking eyes with Wang. Oddly, this extremely frightening body had a pair of strikingly beautiful eyes, alluring and untainted, cold, yet moving, their clarity akin to water from a creek flowing through the green mountains as cold as serene as a stream in which anyone could wish to drown... Briefly stunned, maid Wang turned her head and bolted out of the house as she was confused with her thoughts about that wrecked till death being in the tub...

Jeon jungkook opened his eyes slowly. After languishing in the dark for a long time, he was unaccustomed to the light. When he considered the situation clearly, he could not help but laugh sorrowfully....

He was the eldest child of the Defense Minister and once, he had been the Beautiful prince Kwang. But now, he was treated as swine, unable to hold his head high ever again!!!!

Jungkook lay there reminiscing his dreadful life.... he then recalled his sixteen-year-old self, and the words of his father before he entered the palace...

Jeon Junghoon

Jungkook, since you are entering the palace as a concubine, the entire Jeon family supports you. You do not need to worry.You kept our pride. You saved my little child. i wish u luck ( with a grin )

Jeon Sui

( teary eyes and shakey voice ) Jungkook hyung , you are my savior. Even if I die, I won’t be able to repay your kindness.”

And he ( his husband) , clasping jungkook's hand in his....

Kwang Bogum

Wait a little while longer. After some time has passed, I will marry you properly as my legitimate wife. ( caressed Jungkook's cheeks ) i will not let you down my beautiful. i promise this empire as a gift...

But now, his father had already risen to the rank of Prime Minister, a respected official, while his stepmother had become the Prime Minister’s wife. His younger sister had become the Empress, while that person( his husband ) ascended to the throne! They had already thrown him to the back of their minds, to the point of abandoning him and eventually killing him off.

Jungkook's pov

At the age of five, my biological mother passed away early and my elder brother too soon perished in war. My father’s concubine was promoted as the second wife. One day out of no where, a passing priest divined my birthdate and mentioned that i bore bad luck for my parents....I was then sent to a residence in a rural village. At nearly fifteen-years-old, i finally was recognized and brought back into the manor. Not long after, there was news from the palace that a child of the Jeon family had been chosen as the Emperor’s next concubine....Even though i kept trying to accept my situation, i could not endure pleasing the Emperor sexually. At my ripe, blooming age, i began to wilt in the inner palace. If it was not because of the constant comfort from Eighth Prince, i would have hung myself in the inner palace with a white cloth long ago.....Since childhood, apart from my deceased brother and mother, there wasn’t anyone else who treated me this considerately. I entrusted my heart to him, stopped causing a fuss and willingly settled in the palace to pass messages along, acting as a chess piece for him and the Jeon family.But as my destiny's dilema, Who could have guessed, after the Emperor was forced to abdicate and die tragically... what my life can be??they then imprisoned me, accusing me for murdering the Emperor, and laid the title of a ‘country-wrecking temptress‘ on me‼️

Jungkook's pov end...

When Jungkook stood on the platform, meeting the cold look of his father, he finally understood that he had been abandoned. As soon as he was of no use to them anymore, they deserted him. Trapped in the dark prison, he thought he had regained hope when someone saved him. But it was only the beginning of her nightmare. His innocent, fairy-like sister smiled faintly as she watched people cutting, bitting, scratching and molesting his limbs, reducing Jungkook to human swine. Jungkook felt despair, betrayed and anger, unwilling to be resigned to his fate. However when he heard his fairy-like sister continue....

Jeon Sui

Does Jungkook hyung know, I usually love cleanliness? I cannot even tolerate even a grain of sand, you are a grain of sand that I have already endured for many years. Now, it is time to clear you away.. ( sweet smile yet evil ) Eighth Prince is soon going to crown me as the Empress. Let me help Jungkook hyung enjoy the glory that you could not obtain.

Pain seeped into jungkook bones. He finally understood what true numbness was. However, Jungkook could not understand why Jeon Sui hated him to this extent....At that moment, Jeon Sui as if almost read his mind as she smirked and spoke..

Jeon Sui

Isn’t jungkook oppa's mother the beloved daughter of the General’s manor? Didn’t you rely on this presitigious identity to look down on me? What a pity! Yesterday, the General’s manor was executed in the afternoon bearing the crime of rebellion.. ( chuckled while saying )

Shock coursed through Jungkook like thunder. His mind was in complete chaos. The General’s manor was his maternal home. Although his mother had angered the General with her determination to marry Master Jeon in the past, and they had not communicated since, blood was still thicker than water. How could she escape the knife slicing through her heart?!

Jeon Sui

Is jungkook oppa angered by a mere provocation? Don’t be anxious. I still have a big gift for you. You shall receive it very soon....

Jungkook was sent to a dimly-lit house. After struggling for a few days to survive, he saw the light again today. The door opened with a sound. A fat man who reeked of alcohol, grabbed and threw a young boy onto the ground in front of him with a hideous expression. The young boy appeared to be struggling with all his might. When Jungkook looked at the boy’s face, red color drained from her face. It was as if he would die any moment... That was- Seo gguk‼️

The luck of palace ladies ran thin. There were many who could not bear the Emperor’s son, and many who passed away after they did. Seo gguk's biological mother was merely a lowly palace maid, meeting her death shortly after giving birth to Seo gguk. The Emperor did not value his low-born son. With a twist of fate, Jungkook became his foster mother. Seo Gguk howled as he struggled. Yet, he could not break free from the pair of hands on his privates. Jungkook only felt a chill encase his entire body. He had learned of the despicable acts that Grand Councillor Li Dong was capable of even before he entered the palace. But now, he could only stare at his own son being humiliated by this monster....He wanted to scream loudly. Yet, he could only produce hoarse and unclear sounds...General Li Dong eyed Jungkook with disgust and hatred as if he was someone lowly.. He was willing to take Seo Gguk to somewhere else and do what he was ordered to. But in end he bend to imperial power. He dared not take any other action, so he focused solely on harassing the semi-conscious child.

Jungkook sat inside the wooden tub. Only then did he realize why Jeon Sui had only left him a pair of eyes at this time. Jeon Sui wanted him to see his final relative die in front of him. Like a mannequin, he sat blankly in the wooden tub every scene from the past replaying in front of his eyes: the defeated look on his mother’s face before she passed, his father’s thin, cold smile, Eighth Prince’s vow, Jeon Sui thanking him as she held his hand, the Emperor’s cold detached eyes and his sufferings in the inner palace. In the end, everything morphed into the struggling, tearful Seo Gguk in front of his very eyes. Li Dong carelessly turned around, unexpectedly catching sight of the person in the tub. He finished his job and stood fixing his clothes. He shouted as he kicked lightly the unconscious body of Seo gguk on ground...A gaurd nearby came down running... The sight he saw froze him on his place. Sweat droplets forming on his forhead. He gulped on looking at Jungkook's condition and then at Seo Gguk who lay on the ground with some torn clothes attached to his body.... The gaurd shivered in his place but he dared not to disobey the imperial orders. Even he had sympathy in his eyes a little ago, now he needed to carry out the orders. So he kept his sword aside and took the old thick stick beside and striking both of the tortured souls... No one could hear the most profound curse that came from that person’s heart who was inside the tub...

Jeon Jungkook

Even if I can never reincarnate, even if my ashes are scattered and I am dispersed, I am willing to become a vengeful spirit for eternity. Let those who harmed me pay their debt in blood! (he whispered before taking his final breath )

At the same time, inside Kwang palace.The newly-crowned Emperor lifted his eyes to gaze at the lady at the opposite of him. Her majestic phoenix crown and red cape coupled with her refined face made her seem unlike a mortal more like a fairy... The newly-crowned Emperor thought about Jeon Jungkook. Yet he realized that no matter how hard he tried to recall Jungkook , he remained a blurry shadow in his memory. With his tarnished reputation, he could only be at best, a boy with immense good looks and witt whom he was marrying for the immense power backing the Jeon family, so there was no difference between Jeon Jungkook and Jeon Sui. Since Jungkook had been the previous wife, he definitely would not marry him. Although Jungkook was now an abandoned chess piece, he still hesitated slightly. Many times, he had overcome many critical circumstances with the help of Jungkook in the past few years. Indeed, he had helped him quite a bit. But, why had he escaped from prison first without waiting for him to come to a decision????

Kwang Bogum

There is still no news from Jeon Jungkook?? ( asked suddenly with a low voice )

Jeon Sui

No.... I believe that Jungkoo has taken Seo Gguk with him and escaped. Indeed, he has exhausted himself these past few years. However, regardless of the situation, he should not have doubted Your Highness…( making a innocent face )

He did not like the feeling of losing control. He wants everyone according to his wishes. His wish if he wants to torture or keep you with care.. He hated that Jungkook showed some bravery. The new Emperor tutted coldly... And then he extended his palm to his newly wed wife, Kwang Sui. They both stepped ahead to rule the world.

Definitely it's true that the survival of the fittest is must and the one with the power and wit rules. But when the wheel of destiny turns it makes all the impossible possible. All the things then automatically put into place as the game restarts and things have thier own places. And this time, justice plays.

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to be continued