SYM 20

Around the time Cheonma was returning to the Namgung family compound after finishing a short night outing, Namgung Eun-hyeon was also wandering around his lodgings.

From the moment he heard that people from the Jegal family would be attending, he had anticipated meeting someone from the Jegal family at least once. However, he never expected the head of the Jegal family to come personally and suggest going to the Jegal family compound together.

Especially while saying the Namgung family compound was dangerous…

Eun-hyeon sighed. His mind was a mess.

Following Jegal Hyeon might be the better choice for his personal safety.

But should he do so as the eldest son of the Namgung family?

For some reason, he didn’t feel like it. Someone in the Namgung family had poisoned him, and Madam Hwang was hostile towards him. So going to the Jegal family compound would surely be a more comfortable path for his body.

He sighed again. He didn’t know why Namgung Juwon kept coming to mind when he thought about going to the Jegal family compound, even though he wasn’t his real father.

Eun-hyeon walked around the garden in his separate quarters and sat down in a small pavilion. It was still a cold winter day, but perhaps because his body had improved, it didn’t feel that cold today.

“…Huh?”

Eun-hyeon raised his head to look at the moon, only to notice a figure standing tall, gazing down from the roof of a nearby building. The person was silhouetted against the moon, so he couldn’t make out any details, but for a moment, their eyes seemed to meet.

As it happened, there was a large full moon out, making it look as if he had emerged from the moon and was standing proudly. For some reason, he was certain that this strange person was Ha Yeo-un.

“Great Hero…Ha?”

Eun-hyeon called out cautiously. He should warn him that he might encounter guards while wandering around the halls and roofs of the Namgung family compound at will, but somehow it seemed like that wouldn’t happen. It felt like if Ha Yeo-un, no, Cheonma wanted, no one would dare interfere.

“What are you doing?”

Eun-hyeon felt that Ha Yeo-un’s voice sounded unusually more subdued today. At the same time, he caught a faint smell of blood on the wind.

“Ah… I was feeling a bit stuffy, so I was taking a walk and sat down to rest for a moment. It looks like you’re on your way back from somewhere?”

“What if you catch a cold?”

Ha Yeo-un lightly jumped down in front of Eun-hyeon.

He came down so lightly that there wasn’t even a sound. The person who until just now had looked like he was standing on the moon, now looked mysterious like a fairy said to live on the moon as he came down like this.

Eun-hyeon burst out laughing, finding his own thoughts both funny and childish.

Ha Yeo-un plopped down in the seat next to Eun-hyeon.

Eun-hyeon glanced at Ha Yeo-un. Whatever had happened, Ha Yeo-un looked somehow depressed today.

“What was the young master looking at while sitting here?”

“The moonlight was bright, so I was looking at the full moon. I was surprised to see you standing proudly with your back to the moon, Great Hero Ha. And when you descended as lightly as a feather, I thought the Moon Goddess had come down.”

Ha Yeo-un also chuckled at Eun-hyeon’s silly words.

“If I were the Moon Goddess, I wouldn’t have gone to the moon without my husband. I’d have stayed with him, even if it meant giving up immortality.”

“I see.”

After that, Eun-hyeon and Ha Yeo-un silently gazed at the moon for a long time.

It would have been ridiculous if others saw it. Two men staring at the sky on a moonlit night for no reason.

The separate quarters in a corner of the outer court was so quiet that not even a small sound could be heard as if it was a place no one would come unless they were deliberately looking for it.

Eun-hyeon was the first to sense something was wrong.

The slight tightness he had felt in his chest while walking earlier began to feel increasingly constricted. At the same time, his head started to ache as if it was about to split open.

“Ugh…”

“What’s wrong?”

As Eun-hyeon bent over, clutching his chest, Ha Yeo-un caught him.

“I don’t know… My chest feels tight and my head hurts. Haah…”

A faint groan escaped his lips.

Ha Yeo-un touched Eun-hyeon’s forehead. It was hot enough to make his hand feel warm. He grabbed his wrist to check his pulse. He felt an irregular heartbeat. Something was wrong.

Ha Yeo-un sat Eun-hyeon up straight and placed his hand on Eun-hyeon’s head, infusing his inner energy. He could sense the chaotic flow of energy coursing through Eun-hyeon’s meridians.

Ha Yeo-un frowned as he looked at Eun-hyeon.

“Young master. Do you know if you’ve taken any tonic? Even just knowing what kind of effect it had would be good.”

Eun-hyeon struggled to catch his breath, trying to recall the tonic he had taken.

“It was… for nourishment… I was told it was a tonic for strengthening the body… but I don’t know what ingredients were used.”

“Oh dear. Was all the food changed to nourishing dishes as well?”

“Huff… I think so.”

Watching Eun-hyeon panting, Ha Yeo-un clicked his tongue.

He could roughly guess what had happened.

When the head of the Namgung family ordered nourishing food and tonics to be made for Eun-hyeon, it seemed they just threw in all sorts of good things.

Eun-hyeon’s body wasn’t in a state to handle such things right now. As a result, the undigested yang energy was boiling and circulating throughout his body.

This wouldn’t have happened if they had paid a little attention to Eun-hyeon’s condition when making the tonic.

“It seems the undigested energy is wreaking havoc in your system.”

Eun-hyeon understood his condition after hearing Ha Yeo-un’s explanation.

While Eun-hyeon had some knowledge of herbs and their properties, he had no real understanding of medicine itself.

He had eaten the food and medicine given to him because he didn’t particularly taste or smell any poisonous herbs, but it seemed his body couldn’t handle the energy of the medicine.

“Then, what should we do?”

Ha Yeo-un looked at Eun-hyeon with a slightly troubled expression.

“There’s a fast method and a slow method. Which would you prefer? The slow method is for me to call someone now to examine the young master…”

Eun-hyeon looked at Ha Yeo-un with a flushed face, panting.

“What’s the fast method?”

“The fast method is for me to help the young master directly.”

“Then, please help me, Great Hero Ha.”

Eun-hyeon called out to Ha Yeo-un without hesitation.

Eun-hyeon said this knowing that Ha Yeo-un was his disciple Un and Cheonma, but Ha Yeo-un was quite surprised by Eun-hyeon’s words.

He felt strange that Eun-hyeon readily trusted him even though they hadn’t known each other for long.

“…Alright. First, take off your outer clothes and come in front of me. I’ll surround you with my energy.”

Eun-hyeon took off his coat with trembling hands and went in front of Ha Yeo-un.

Ha Yeo-un lifted Eun-hyeon lightly like a child, sat him on his thigh, and embraced him from behind.

“G-Great Hero Ha!”

Eun-hyeon let out a startled cry.

In an instant, he had found himself in a vulnerable position, with his back turned to Ha Yeo-un.

A feeling of regret washed over him, thinking he might have made the wrong choice.

Ha Yeo-un loosened Eun-hyeon’s pants and put his hand inside. Eun-hyeon swallowed back a scream that didn’t even make it out of his mouth.

Ha Yeo-un grabbed Eun-hyeon’s d1ck. The cool temperature of his hand made Eun-hyeon’s skin crawl and his vision flash.

“W-What is this…?!”

“This is the fastest way. It’s to expel the medicinal components externally like this. I’ll help guide the flow of energy in that direction, so concentrate.”

“W-Wait…! How are you going to…!”

Eun-hyeon cried out urgently with a pale face, but it was useless. Ha Yeo-un started moving his hand gently. At the same time, the wildly raging energy rushed to the lower dantian, and then to the d1ck. Ha Yeo-un was guiding the energy to go that way.

Eun-hyeon’s d1ck swelled and hardened in Ha Yeo-un’s hand. Despite his muddled thoughts, a wave of pleasure he couldn’t suppress began to flow down his spine with each stroke of Ha Yeo-un’s hand.

“Haah…”

A heated moan escaped his lips.

Eun-hyeon closed his eyes. He couldn’t bear to keep them open.

But that didn’t mean he could block out the pleasure. The large hand gently pressed on his d1ck.

Every time the pressure alternated between strong and weak, the heat boiling inside rushed to the tip of his d1ck.

Splat.

The first release came unexpectedly fast. Seeing the urgency of Eun-hyeon’s condition, Ha Yeo-un had moved swiftly, and the result was immediate.

“Hnnngh!”

Tears streamed down Eun-hyeon’s flushed face.

“Shh, focus on the treatment.”

Eun-hyeon tried to gather his scattered thoughts and strained to tense his body.

Though the urgency had been alleviated after the first release, it wasn’t enough to expel all the chaotic energy rampaging through his body.

The heat rose again in his lower abdomen from Ha Yeo-un’s body temperature and breath felt behind his back.

Eun-hyeon bit his lower lip hard to suppress a moan.

With his eyes closed, his senses became more sensitive.

The body heat, the subtle scent from behind, and the breath tickling his ear.

Ha Yeo-un’s hand moved freely over the intimate area that had never been touched by another.

His whole body trembled and his head felt like it was burning up.

It wasn’t his first time mastvrbating since he hadn’t trained in any special celibacy arts. But this was completely different from doing it alone. The large hand stroked his d1ck and gripped it firmly.

It felt like fireworks were exploding in his head.

“Young master. Focus on your breathing and energy circulation.”

Ha Yeo-un’s voice was the same as usual. Hearing that voice made his d1ck tense up to the very tip.

The large hand stroked his d1ck once more. His d1ck swelled as if about to burst at any moment. Even his hair seemed to have become sensitive. The urge to ejaculate was building.

Just as he was about to release, Ha Yeo-un tightly blocked the tip of his d1ck with his hand.

“Hnngh.”

Startled, he involuntarily twisted his body and let out a moan. Pleasure, excitement, and the tension from unfulfilled desire all mixed together, jumbling his thoughts. His vision flickered white like falling snow.

“Let, let go! Pl-please.”

“We haven’t gathered all the energy yet, so you need to use breathing techniques to expel it completely.”

Though Eun-hyeon’s body trembled, Ha Yeo-un did not back down.

Breathing techniques, energy circulation? How was that possible in this state?

Eun-hyeon felt like crying. He wanted to remove Ha Yeo-un’s hand, but it wouldn’t leave his d1ck.

In the end, Eun-hyeon bit his lip hard as he whimpered.

As he focused his mind, he could feel Ha Yeo-un guiding the energy. Eun-hyeon tried to divert his attention from his swollen d1ck and slowly began to regulate his breathing and energy.

The energy circling through his body gradually moved downward.

Eun-hyeon’s face flushed red and his lips quivered, but no words came out.

He tried to focus on circulating his energy, but he could feel the warm breath and strong scent on his nape. Perhaps thinking Eun-hyeon’s rapidly beating heart was due to anxiety, Ha Yeo-un quickly infused some inner energy and lightly patted his back.

“The treatment is now complete.”

Ha Yeo-un’s appearance as he spoke while blinking slowly seemed very composed. In contrast to Eun-hyeon, whose face was red to the tips of his ears.