The Eunuch Regains His Manhood in the Second Round - Chapter 40



40. The Man Always Prepared

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Thump, thump.

Yujinhwi felt her heart pounding inside the pressure bandage.

Her face flushed slightly.

From now on, she would clean her master’s body.

‘With my own hands…’

As she recalled that fact, Yujinhwi’s cheeks turned even redder.

It was fortunate that she was holding her master from behind, so he couldn’t see her flushed face.

That’s what Yujinhwi thought.

Thump, thump.

As she felt her master’s body heat, Yujinhwi’s heart beat even more fiercely.

Her emotions surged violently like a sea hit by a storm.

Yujinhwi bit her lip.

‘What am I doing, thinking like this while my master is in pain…!’

As the pain from her lips rose, her burning cheeks and head cooled down somewhat.

Her master had suffered internal injuries while fighting a fierce beast sent by the Sayeonghoe to protect the sect.

But here she was, having indecent thoughts about her master.

In reality, her master seemed to be in pain, his face pale and cold sweat pouring down his back like rain.

This was not right.

Yujinhwi shook her head to clear her thoughts.

Yes, this was a proper act of nursing.

As his senior brother and as a fellow man, she was the only one who could take care of her master, who had difficulty moving.

Thinking that way, Yujinhwi’s heart started pounding again.

Indeed, it was a good decision to live as a man.

If she had revealed to her master that she was a woman, she wouldn’t be able to nurse him like this.

‘I will become a more reliable senior brother.’

She would become the ideal senior brother for her master.

Biting her lip, she ignored her uncontrollable heart and laid her master down.

“Now, master. Lie down comfortably. I’ll clean you.”

“Ugh…”

Yujinhwi heard her master’s groan in her ear.

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‘Master, it must hurt a lot…’

Worry filled Yujin Hwi’s eyes.

‘From now on, I’ll protect you. I’m sorry.’

Yujin Hwi silently apologized to her master as she wrung out a wet towel and looked at his back.

The muscles on his back, gathered tightly like a sculpture, were solid and beautiful, something that could captivate any woman’s heart just by looking at them.

Especially the muscles around his waist, which were thick and firm, likely due to the training through martial arts.

This was thanks to the deepening achievement of the martial path that Cheolsu Lee had pursued.

‘This is… the master’s body…’

Yujin Hwi’s face turned red again.

Her heart started to beat faster.

It wasn’t the first time she had seen her master’s body.

A year ago, when she had to remove the venom of a viper, she had also seen his body after taking off his top.

But that was an emergency, and she didn’t have the luxury to observe his body slowly and carefully like now.

So this was the first time Yujin Hwi was properly seeing Cheolsu Lee’s body.

The master’s body, seen properly for the first time, was beautiful and solid, with the basic physical strength built through external training clearly visible.

‘How hard must it have been…’

Yujin Hwi thought as she carefully wiped her master’s body with the cold wet towel, while gently touching his back muscles with her other hand.

She knew.

The master was a common talent. But he never showed any inferiority because of his talent, nor did he envy her.

Instead, he even yielded the supreme elixir to her. He helped her like a shadow. And that wasn’t enough, he took the lead in the decisive battle against the Black Dragon Gang to uphold the spirit of the sect and elevate its reputation.

But that was all.

The master still devoted himself to her, his senior, and the sect.

He insisted on the decisive battle against the Black Dragon Gang at the inn, and stepped forward to protect the inn, all to uphold the honor of the sect.

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Even after a year, the master still didn’t take care of himself.

‘You could think about yourself a little…’

Her racing heart calmed down, and her flushed cheeks cooled.

Yujin Hwi’s vision blurred.

How much effort must it have taken to build these beautiful back muscles? How much effort must it have taken to chase after her talent, which was like a gift from the heavens?

Without a word, silently, without a single complaint, the master must have made efforts beyond the limits of an ordinary person to stand by her side with his common body.

Thinking of that made her chest ache as if it were being squeezed.

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No one understood the disciple’s pain except for her.

No, this time, even she couldn’t protect the disciple.

Because the mere fact that her heart stirred when she was with him made her distance herself from the disciple.

‘I won’t do that again. Never again… I won’t leave you alone.’

Yujinhui bit her lip as she carefully wiped the disciple’s body.

“Ugh, sob, sob…”

She heard the disciple’s pain-filled groans and sobbing voice in her ears.

A look of embarrassment appeared on Yujinhui’s face.

“Disciple, it’s okay. I won’t hurt you. Don’t worry.”

Her soft, jade-like hands gently stroked the disciple’s back.

A stream of internal energy surged from Yujinhui’s dantian towards her fingers.

To relieve the disciple’s body and muscles, which had been lying down for a long time, she had to perform Chugung Gwahyeol.

Thinking this, Yujinhui pressed and stimulated the disciple’s back and acupoints with her internal energy-infused fingers.

It was Chugung Gwahyeol.

“Ah, ugh! Ugh…”

A suppressed scream burst from the disciple’s mouth as he received Chugung Gwahyeol.

“Just bear with it a little, disciple. I’ll make you feel better soon…”

The pain that accompanied the process of Chugung Gwahyeol, as the knotted muscles and blocked blood points were cleared, was natural.

The disciple’s screams must have come from that.

But she didn’t want to hear the disciple’s pain-filled groans any longer.

She didn’t want to hurt him anymore.

Yujinhui bit her lip with a determined expression.

‘I’m the only one who can take care of you… So we’ll always be together, forever. As a senior and junior.’

The disciple was so small and fragile.

So the disciple needed her.

Thinking this, Yujinhui continued Chugung Gwahyeol for a long time.

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“It’s over, disciple.”

The time of humiliation, which felt like an eternity, finally ended with the senior’s declaration.

The senior separated from my body.

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He meticulously cleaned every inch of my body, unnecessarily.

The feeling of that terrible man’s hands on my skin was horrifying just to think about.

I was filled with an indescribable fear.

Even worse, his touch had an oddly feminine quality that made it all the more unsettling.

“Damn it, was pretending to be a patient a mistake?”

To be honest, I felt a bit uneasy being pampered by a girl, so I had pushed Seo Harin away.

But I never expected that the repercussions would lead to this absurd situation where he was cleaning my body and performing the *chugung-gwa-hyeol*.

I still felt a chill run down my spine.

Tears welled up in my eyes.

It was so unfair.

Ever since the kiss mark incident that day, I had been extra cautious not to let him steal my heart again!

And yet, in a moment of carelessness, this damn thing happened.

Honestly, I wanted to shake him off midway, but I couldn’t.

Right now, I was officially a patient. And *chugung-gwa-hyeol* was a legitimate treatment.

It would look suspicious if a patient refused treatment. There was also the risk of being exposed as a malingerer. I could fend off Seo Harin because of gender differences, but with him being a man, that excuse wouldn’t work.

“I’ve fallen for my own trick.”

They say even monkeys fall from trees.

Damn it.

If I had known I would go through such a humiliating experience, I would have just stopped pretending to be a patient.

“How was the *chugung-gwa-hyeol*?”

His voice whispered in my ear.

*Chugung-gwa-hyeol*.

It was like a medieval martial arts version of acupressure massage.

What is a massage?

It’s a great way to share a connection with a beautiful woman. Wasn’t it a cliché in old martial arts novels where the protagonist would engage in *chugung-gwa-hyeol* with a beauty, leading to an exciting exchange of yin and yang?

In reality, I had been preparing to perform *chugung-gwa-hyeol* at any moment, just in case.

All to create a good atmosphere with a stunning beauty and naturally guide the interaction.

You never know when an opportunity for such an exchange might arise.

So, like the saying goes, “Be prepared to avoid misfortune,” I had to be a man who was always ready.

Just like how men carry a condom in their wallets.

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But to think that I would be subjected to interrogation and bloodletting by my senior.

I had never even imagined such a horrific situation.

Moreover, to think I would be asked if it felt good.

After the game of chance ended, hearing the question I was supposed to ask the beauty turned my mind to mush.

Rubbing my eyes with the back of my hand, I grasped my senses with Kegel exercises and said,

“It was fine. I didn’t expect you to care this much for my well-being. Thank you.”

In any case, since interrogation and bloodletting were acts of treatment, it was only natural to express gratitude here.

I skillfully acted out a thank you that I didn’t truly mean.

My senior smiled upon hearing my words.

“Really? I’m glad to hear it was okay since it was my first time!”

What? First time?

Who is being used as a test subject here?

Surely, after experimenting with me, they wouldn’t think of performing interrogation and bloodletting on beauties once they got the hang of it?

My mind snapped back to attention.

Honestly, my senior’s skill in interrogation and bloodletting was so impressive that I could hardly believe it was their first time.

Even a 30-year veteran of traditional Thai massage would be at a loss against my senior’s technique.

A senior who was handsome and perfect in every way except for his physique performing interrogation and bloodletting on a woman?

That was unthinkable.

“Senior. You know that according to Confucian law, there are distinctions between men and women, right? No matter how much interrogation and bloodletting is considered treatment, since it involves contact between flesh, it would be best to refrain from doing it on an outside woman.”

I quickly threw a line to my senior.

I had to guard against this before things got out of hand.

My senior must not be allowed to perform interrogation and bloodletting on just any woman.

My senior nodded at my words.

“Yeah. Understood, disciple. Since there are indeed distinctions between men and women, I won’t recklessly lay hands on a woman’s body as you advised.”

My senior said with a broad grin.

What is this? Why is he so happy?

I achieved my goal, yet I felt a strange unease.

Could it be that he’s really gay?

Just as I was having such doubts again,

the scent of burning meat reached my sensitive nose.

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Wait, did you say meat?

There’s no way there could be meat in the Gongdong sect, but could it be…

“Senior brother, what happened to the pork?”

“I left it with Miss Seo.”

The moment I heard my senior brother’s words, I staggered and stood up.

From what I know, Baekdo’s first flower, Seo Harin’s cooking skills were so terrible that it was hard to believe she was the daughter of an innkeeper.

And you left my precious tonic with such a person?

I can’t allow this.

I must go to the kitchen right now.

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At the same time.

Sichuan, Heukryongbang’s main base.

A giant faction occupying the first seat of the Eight Demons supporting the Sado Alliance.

As if boasting of its power, the Heukryongbang’s main base was filled with palace-like grand pavilions beyond its walls.

A woman in black martial attire with a face mask arrived in front of the gate engraved with a black dragon that seemed ready to soar at any moment.

‘Why did I… say such things…’

Hwamyeon Hogum, no, the Sado Alliance leader Yeomwang Jeoksawol using the identity of Hwamyeon Hogum.

She revealed herself at the Heukryongbang’s main base to keep her promise with Lee Cheolsu.

In the past, she regretted saying she would grant a wish if someone passed the test.

Among those who faced Hwamyeon Hogum’s test, there were some who made lewd comments.

Hwamyeon Hogum had an outstanding figure and posture, contrary to her burnt face.

But even they couldn’t genuinely say that her face, half-covered with hideous burns, was beautiful.

What Jeoksawol wanted was a man who would say her hideous face was beautiful, someone who looked at her inner self, not her appearance.

On the contrary, men who praised her figure while showing disgust towards her burns were directly opposing her intentions.

So she cut off their manhood.

But Lee Cheolsu was different.

He sincerely said that not only her figure but also her hideously burnt face was beautiful.

The problem was that it was accompanied by lewd comments.

And yet, he didn’t wish for union as his desire.

It would have been better if she had said she would accept the one who passed the test as her lover.

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A lover? With that perverted kid who still has milk on his lips? That’s absurd. It’s unimaginable.

Damn it. I must be crazy. Why did I say such a useless thing?

Juk Sa-wol grumbled inwardly as he moved towards the main gate of the Black Dragon Clan’s headquarters.