Chapter 79: Sword and Whip 3
Blood mingled with the river water.
The ice spear sent by Baek Moo-jin curved in a arc. It pierced through Yi Ja-ryeong’s abdomen and exited through her back. Even as this happened, Dorang held onto Yi Ja-ryeong and changed direction, only to be pierced through the shoulder blade.
In that sense, the man Dorang himself was a merciless blade.
Even as Lee Ja-ryeong lost consciousness, clutching him with one hand, Dorang pushed her away with his foot and pulled the ice spear from both their bodies.
Without hesitation, holding his silver-lined cloak, Dorang abandoned Lee Jaryeong as she fell toward the riverbed and moved toward the opposite bank. He had to survive somehow. Clenching Park Do’s blade between his teeth, he pushed through the current with both hands and swam onward.
Dorang hadn’t gone far when he heard a sound from the water.
Startled, Dorang turned back. The silver chain had already stretched out long, wrapping itself around his ankle multiple times.
Exhausted, Lee Ja-ryeong pulled the silver chain with his left hand, wrapping it around his own wrist. Even so, he kept sinking deeper underwater. The chain’s weight was heavy, inevitably dragging both of them down. Moreover, Lee Ja-ryeong was straining every last ounce of strength to pull Dorang toward him.
There was no particular reason.
It was because Dorang had tried to abandon her.
Lee Ja-ryeong had abandoned and discarded countless men herself, but underlying that behavior lay the shame of the moment she had been abandoned for the first time.
