
English Version
Chapter 2: Life in Ashes, Desire in Silence
Days blurred into nights, and Seol Unmyeong wandered through the outskirts of ruined villages, a phantom no one dared to look at.
With blood matted into his clothes and soot darkening his skin, he was just another piece of debris left behind by war.
Kindness was a currency long extinguished.
When he begged for scraps, he was beaten.
When he stole, he was chased like a dog.
Survival was no longer a battleโit was humiliation stitched into every breath.
Cheongun Sword Sect โ The Sky That Was Never His
Cheongun Sword Sectโ
a name that once soared above the mountains like a banner of pure sky.
The beacon of righteousness.
The shield against chaos.
Its warriors were said to stride like thunder across battlefields.
Its elders were revered as sages of both sword and soul.
But to Seol Unmyeong, the sect was neither legend nor salvation.
It was a cold citadel where worth was measured by strength alone,
and those without a name were treated as less than human.
Yeon Cheong-ha โ The Untouchable Star

To the disciples of Cheongun, Yeon Cheong-ha was not merely talentedโ
she was inevitable.
Born of noble blood, wielding a blade from the age of six,
her swordsmanship was said to flow like water and strike like lightning.
She moved through the sect like a falling star,
too bright to approach, too distant to challenge.
For Seol Unmyeong, she was the embodiment of everything he could never reachโ
purity, respect, power.
A single glance from her could have lifted him from the mud.
Yet he knew:
such a gaze would never find him.
Eventually, rumors reached him of a place where even the worthless could find refugeโthe outer halls of Cheongun Sword Sect.
Not as a disciple.
As a servant.
He entered their gates on bleeding feet, head bowed low.
And they accepted him without a glance, tossing him into kitchens and stables,
where bruises and mockery rained down heavier than winter snow.
Years passed.
Seol Unmyeong scrubbed floors until his hands cracked.
He carried swords he was forbidden to touch.
He memorized the forms practiced in the courtyards he was forbidden to step onto.
They laughed when he stumbled.
They struck him when he stood too tall.
They spat when he dared to look up.
But deep inside, a flame refused to die.
It did not burn with rage, but with patience.
One winter evening, when the snow blanketed the sectโs courtyards,
Yeon Cheong-ha, a rising star among the disciples, noticed him kneeling at the well.
Without a word, she placed a small rice ball on the stones beside him,
then vanished before he could lift his eyes.
It was the first act of kindness he had received since the fall of his family.
And it almost broke him.
Yet kindness, he realized, was a blade sharper than hatred.
Whispers spread faster than truth:
The dog had eaten from a master’s hand.
He was dragged before the elders, lashed in the courtyard for all to see,
blood freezing to his skin beneath the falling snow.
Through it all, he made no sound.
Not when the whip tore his flesh.
Not when their jeers rang in his ears.
In that silent suffering, something within him crystallized.
A vow, more sacred than any oath:
“I will not rise with their permission.”
“I will rise beyond their reach.”
From the ashes of humiliation, he would forge himself anew.
And one day,
he would make them kneel.
ํ๊ธ ๋ฒ์
์ 2์ฅ: ์ฟ๋๋ฏธ ์์ ์ถ, ์นจ๋ฌต ์์ ๊ฐ๋ง

๋ ๊ณผ ๋ฐค์ด ๋ค์์๋ค.
์ค์ด๋ช
์ ํํ๊ฐ ๋ ๋ง์ ์ธ๊ณฝ์ ๋ ๋๋ ์ ๋ น๊ณผ ๊ฐ์๋ค.
ํผ์ ์ ์ ์ท, ๊ทธ์์์ผ๋ก ์ผ๋ฃฉ์ง ์ผ๊ตด.
์๋ฌด๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ณ๋ค๋ณด์ง ์์๋ค.
์๋น๋ ์ค๋์ ์ ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ํํ์๋ค.
๋จน์ ๊ฒ์ ๊ตฌ๊ฑธํ๋ฉด ์ป์ด๋ง์๊ณ ,
ํ์น๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฒ๋ผ ์ซ๊ฒผ๋ค.
์์กด์ ์ธ์์ด ์๋๋ผ,
๊ตด์์ด ์จ๊ฒฐ๋ง๋ค ์๊ฒจ์ง๋ ์ผ์์ด์๋ค.
์ฒญ์ด๊ฒ๋ฌธ โ ๊ทธ์๊ฒ ํ๋ฝ๋์ง ์์ ํ๋
์ฒญ์ด๊ฒ๋ฌธ(้้ฒๅ้)โ
ํ๋์ฒ๋ผ ์์ํ ์ด๋ฆ์ ์ง๋ ๊ฒ๋ฌธ.
๊ฐํธ์ ๋ฑ๋ถ์ด์,
ํผ๋์ ๋ง๋ ๋ฐฉํจ์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ฌด์ฌ๋ ์ ์ฅ์ ์ฒ๋ฅ์ฒ๋ผ ๊ฑธ์๊ณ ,
์ฅ๋ก๋ค์ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๋์๋ฅผ ํจ๊ป ์ํธํ๋ ์ฑ์ธ์ฒ๋ผ ์ญ๋ฐฐ๋ฐ์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ค์ด๋ช
์๊ฒ ์ฒญ์ด๊ฒ๋ฌธ์ ์ ์ค๋, ๊ตฌ์๋ ์๋์๋ค.
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ผ๋ก ์กด์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ ์ฐจ๊ฐ์ด ์ฑ์ฑ์๊ณ ,
์ด๋ฆ ์๋ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ ์ทจ๊ธ์กฐ์ฐจ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ๊ณณ์ด์๋ค.
์ฐ์ฒญํ โ ๋ฟ์ ์ ์๋ ๋ณ

์ฒญ์ด๊ฒ๋ฌธ์ ์ ์๋ค์๊ฒ ์์ด, ์ฐ์ฒญํ๋ ๋จ์ํ ์ฌ๋ฅ์ด ์๋์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋
๋ ‘๋น์ฐํ ์กด์ฌ’์๋ค.
๋ช
๋ฌธ๊ฐ ์ถ์ .
์ฌ์ฏ ์ด์ ๊ฒ์ ์ฅ์๊ณ ,
๊ทธ๋
์ ๊ฒ์ ์ ํ๋ฅด๋ ๋ฌผ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ณ , ๋ฒ๊ฐ์ฒ๋ผ ๋น ๋ฅด๋ค ํ๋ค.
์ฒญ์ด๊ฒ๋ฌธ ์์์ ์ฐ์ฒญํ๋ ๋จ์ด์ง๋ ๋ณ์ฒ๋ผ ๋น๋ฌ๋ค.
๋๋ฌด ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ ์์๊ณ ,
๋๋ฌด ๋์ ๊ฐํ ๋์ ํ ์๋ ์์๋ค.
์ค์ด๋ช
์๊ฒ ์์ด, ์ฐ์ฒญํ๋
๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ ๋๋ก ์ ๋ป์ ์ ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์์ง์ด์๋ค.
์์.
์กด๊ฒฝ.
ํ.
๊ทธ๋
์ ๋๊ธธ ํ๋๋ก๋ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ํ ์ ์์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง,
์ด๋ช
์ ์์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋๊ธธ์ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ์์ ์ ํฅํ์ง ์์ ๊ฒ์์.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ด๋ ๋ , ์๋ฌธ์ด ๋ค๋ ค์๋ค.
ํ์ฐฎ์ ์๋ผ๋ ๋ฐ์์ฃผ๋ ๊ณณ์ด ์๋ค๋ ์๋ฌธ.
์ฒญ์ด๊ฒ๋ฌธ ์ธ๊ฐ๋น.
์ ์๊ฐ ์๋, ํ์ธ์ผ๋ก.
์ด๋ช
์ ํผํฌ์ฑ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋์ด์ฐ๊ณ ,
๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ด๋ฆ๋ ๋ฌป์ง ์์ ์ฑ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์๊ณผ ๋ง๊ตฌ๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋์ก๋ค.
์์ฒ์ ์กฐ๋กฑ์ ๊ฒจ์ธ ๋๋ณด๋ค ๋ฌด๊ฒ๊ฒ ์์์ก๋ค.
์ธ์์ด ํ๋ ๋ค.
์ด๋ช
์ ์์ด ๊ฐ๋ผ์ง ๋๊น์ง ๋ง๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ฆ์๋ค.
๋ง์ง ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ง๊ณ ,
๋ฐ์ ์ ์๋ ์ฐ๋ฌด์ฅ์ ๋์ผ๋ก ์ธ์ ๋ค.
๋์ด์ง๋ฉด ์์๊ณ ,
๊ณง๊ฒ ์๋ฉด ๋๋ ธ๋ค.
๋์ ๋ค๋ฉด ์นจ์ ๋ฑ์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๊ฐ์ด ๊น์ ๊ณณ์ ๋ถ๊ฝ ํ๋๊ฐ ๊บผ์ง์ง ์์๋ค.
๋ถ๋
ธ๊ฐ ์๋,
์ธ๋ด์๋ค.
๋๋ณด๋ผ๊ฐ ๋ชฐ์์น๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฒจ์ธ ์ ๋
,
์ฐ๋ฌผ๊ฐ์ ๋ฌด๋ฆ ๊ฟ์ ์ด๋ช
๊ณ์ ์ง๋์น ์ด๋,
์ฒญ์ด๊ฒ๋ฌธ์ ๋ณ, ์ฐ์ฒญํ์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๋ง์์ด ์์ ์ฃผ๋จน๋ฐฅ์ ๋ ์์ ๋ด๋ ค๋๊ณ ์ฌ๋ผ์ก๋ค.
๊ฐ๋ฌธ์ด ๋ฉธ๋งํ ํ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ ์จ๊ธฐ.
๊ทธ ์จ๊ธฐ๋, ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋๋จ๋ฆด ๋ปํ๋ค.
ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๋ค.
์จ๊ธฐ๋ ์นผ๋ณด๋ค ์๋ฆฌํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์.
์๋ฌธ์ ์ง์ค๋ณด๋ค ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ํผ์ก๋ค.
‘ํ์ธ์ด ์ฃผ์ธ์ ์์์ ๊ฑด๋๋ ธ๋ค’๋ ์กฐ๋กฑ.
์ด๋ช
์ ๋ง๋น ํ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ ๋๋ ค ๋์ ๋งค์ง๋นํ๋ค.
ํ๋น ๋ ์์์.
๊ทธ๋ ๋๋ด ๋น๋ช ์ ์ง๋ฅด์ง ์์๋ค.
ํผ๊ฐ ํฐ์ ธ๋,
์กฐ๋กฑ์ด ์์์ ธ๋.
๊ทธ ์นจ๋ฌต ์์์ ํ ๊ฐ์ง ๋งน์ธ๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค.
“๊ทธ๋ค์ ํ๋ฝ์ผ๋ก ์ค๋ฅด์ง ์๋๋ค.”
“๊ทธ๋ค์ ์์ด ๋ฟ์ง ์๋ ๊ณณ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์๊ฒ ๋ค.”
๊ตด์์ ์ฌ ์์์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค์ ํ์ด๋ฌ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ธ์ ๊ฐ,
๊ทธ๋ค ์์ ์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.

Leave a comment