Yoon Seoho sat completely still, his eyes locked onto the broken pieces of the plate scattered across the dark wooden dining table.
The luxury plate had shattered into pieces the exact second his hand touched it to set it down. It hadn’t just cracked from normal pressure; it broke so violently that a sharp piece flew up and cut the smooth skin of his cheek. A tiny drop of blood quickly rose to the surface of the small cut.
“What a piece of shit this turned out to be.”
An angry, bitter look twisted the corners of his mouth. He didn’t know why, but a heavy, dark feeling in his gut warned him that a huge problem was heading his way—something that would completely ruin his plans.
It was a normal weekday morning. The moment Seo Yuan had opened his eyes, he had mumbled a weak complaint about having no appetite. Wanting to take good care of his prize, Yoon Seoho had gone to the kitchen himself to get some fresh fruit—only to have his mood ruined before he even crossed the room.
Without a second thought, he pulled a sleek electronic pager from his pocket and pressed the emergency button hard.
A split second later, one of the top servants assigned to the inner area appeared in the kitchen, bowing deeply.
“You called for me, Young Mas—— ‘Gahk!'”
CRACK!
Yoon Seoho violently smashed a heavy ceramic plate right into the servant’s face, sending the man flying backward.
“Who the hell said you could handle things this badly, huh? Speak.”
With his face wrecked from the hit, the servant quickly bowed deep again, keeping his head down as blood began to drip onto the clean floor tiles.
“Do you really think I spend millions from our company accounts on useless trash like you just to look at a broken plate?”
“I am so sorry, Young Master. Please forgive—”
“You shouldn’t do things that make you have to apologize later. Is that too hard for your simple brain to understand?”
Yoon Seoho’s dark eyes flashed with a bright, dangerous look.
Ever since he had locked Seo Yuan away inside the heavily guarded estate, his cruel side had gone to sleep for a bit. But normally, the hidden Vice-Leader of the Exalted Church was a brutal tyrant who smashed his workers the second anything annoyed him. Anyone who made him mad met a terrible end.
Leaning forward, Yoon Seoho brought his face right up to the shaking servant’s face, forcing him to look him in the eyes. Facing that wild, angry stare, the worker completely broke down, shaking all over.
“P-Please…… spare me, Young Master! I’m begging you…… don’t kill me!”
“Ah. Why do all low-level pests scream the exact same annoying way when they’re about to die?”
Yoon Seoho’s face instantly changed to look bored and tired.
At the same time, the focus in the servant’s eyes vanished, leaving them completely blank. Caught in a deep, total mind control trick, the man lost all control of his own body. His hands rose up like claws, wrapping tightly around his own throat as he began to choke himself.
“Gahk…… h-heugh…….”
Wet, choking sounds filled the silent kitchen—a horrible contrast to the blank, doll-like look on the servant’s face as his body fought to crush his own windpipe.
“This is gross. It sounds like a pig being slaughtered. How annoying.”
With a flick of his mind, Yoon Seoho changed the mental command. The servant’s hands let go of his throat, and his arm reached across the counter to grab a heavy, sharp chef’s knife. The cold metal blade lifted into the air, pointing right at the pulsing blood vessel in his neck.
Just as the knife was about to plunge down—
“Brother? Is something…… is something wrong out here?”
Hearing the loud noises from the kitchen, Seo Yuan stepped out of the bedroom, freezing the second he saw the bloody slaughterhouse scene.
Looking at the boy’s wide, terrified eyes, Yoon Seoho’s lips curved up into a sharp, creepy smile.
“Ah. It seems the noise this pest made was loud enough to wake our precious Yuan.”
“……What?”
“Yes, darling. Don’t worry. Brother will stop the noise right now.”
“Brother, wait! Stop—!”
Obeying the absolute mental command screaming in his head, the servant squeezed his grip tighter, driving the point of the knife toward his own neck.
But before the blade could pierce the skin, Seo Yuan lunged forward, grabbing the servant’s wrist with both hands to stop the knife.
The exact second the boy touched the worker, Yoon Seoho’s eyebrows twitched into a hard, angry line.
Not realizing he had just set off his captor’s temper, Seo Yuan started begging frantically, his voice shaking badly.
“I…… I don’t know what made you snap like this, Brother, but please…… can you just let him go? Just this once? Please, do it for me…… look at me and stop…….”
“Yuan.”
The voice that slipped past Yoon Seoho’s teeth was deeply strange. It sounded soft and smooth as usual, but underneath, it carried a freezing coldness that sent a shiver straight down the boy’s spine.
“Do you care about this worthless piece of trash?”
“What? No, that’s not—”
“Then why did you run up and touch a common pest, huh? You literally rubbed your body against his right in front of my face. It’s super annoying.”
“……Brother?”
“Yes, darling. Brother is right here.”
On the outside, Yoon Seoho looked calm, his lips curving into a sweet smile—yet his eyes were completely dead, with not a single bit of warmth.
“Tell me, Yuan. Did you secretly let this house cockroach touch your body while my back was turned? Did you let him stick his filthy dick straight into your pathetic whore’s pussy? Is that what’s going on? Speak.”
“What…… what are you even saying…….”
“Right here. Brother is teaching you that it shouldn’t just be called a hole anymore. It is your whore’s pussy, Yuan.”
Moving in a flash, Yoon Seoho’s large hand shot down, grabbing the boy’s soft, pale backside in an iron grip. Without any gentleness, his fingers aggressively pressed against his private spot through the thin fabric of his clothes.
“Brother, wait! Ah…… n-no……!”
“Yes. It seems I’ve been spoiling you too much lately. My kindness has made you think you can disobey my orders.”
“That’s not true! I didn’t mean to—ah!”
What happened? Why is everything worded so complicatedly? It reads so differently 😅