운명의 조각사

운명의 조각사

Seraphina Thornecliffe

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내 할아버지와 증조할아버지는 모두 석조 작업 중에 죽었기 때문에, 마을에는 석공이란 직업이 금기를 범하는 일이라 모두 좋은 죽음을 맞이하지 못한다는 말이 퍼졌다.
열여섯 살 되던 해, 마을의 왕 마쯔가 아내를 데려왔는데, 그로 인해 내 아버지가 비참하게 죽고 말았다. 아버지의 죽음의 원인을 찾기 위해, 나는 인과응보를 무릅쓰고 과감히 조상님의 조각칼을 들었다...
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Chapter 1

마을 사람들에 따르면, 제 할아버지와 증조할아버지는 모두 돌무더기에서 죽었다고 합니다. 그들이 죽을 때는 비슷한 일을 하고 있었는데, 바로 석각이었습니다. 그러나 무슨 이유인지 모르게, 석각이 그들의 몸 위로 떨어져 그들의 몸을 산산조각 냈습니다.

할아버지와 증조할아버지의 비참한 죽음에 맞춰, 마을에서는 석공이라는 직업은 운명적으로 재앙을 타고난 것이며, 모두 좋은 죽음을 맞이할 수 없다는 말이 퍼졌습니다.

그리고 이 말은 석공 기술을 이어받은 아버지에게서 더욱 뚜렷하게 나타났습니다.

제가 태어나자마자 어머니는 돌아가셨는데, 우연히도 그날 아버지는 석각을 하고 있었습니다. 아버지는 목이 말랐는지 어머니에게 물을 가져오라고 했고, 큰 배를 안고 있던 어머니는 걸음이 불안정해 우리 집 폐기물을 쌓아둔 돌무더기에 머리부터 빠졌습니다.

아버지는 석각을 하느라 시간을 잊고, 반나절이 지나 목이 너무 말라서야 어머니가 생각났습니다. 돌무더기에서 어머니를 찾았을 때, 어머니의 머리에는 큰 구멍이 나 있었고, 피가 돌무더기를 타고 흘러내려 버려진 석상을 적셔 붉게 물들였습니다.

아버지는 어머니를 보고 울음을 참지 못하고 울기 시작했습니다. 그러나 울고 있을 때, 갑자기 어머니의 치마 아래에서 동그란 작은 머리가 나오는 것을 보았습니다. 아버지가 손을 뻗어 잡아보니, 거의 숨이 끊어질 뻔한 저였습니다.

그 이후로 우리 집에는 사건이 끊이지 않았습니다.

어느 해, 친척이 방문했을 때, 함께 온 아이가 이유 없이 사라졌고, 2주 후에 큰 석상의 입 안에서 시체가 발견되었습니다.

시체를 꺼내기 위해 아버지는 석상을 잘라야 했는데, 이 과정에서 자신의 손가락 두 개를 깨끗하게 잘라버렸습니다.

제가 16살 되던 해, 강에 떠내려 온 시체가 있었고, 이번에는 아버지마저 희생되었습니다.

나중에 들은 바로는, 그 시체는 사실 우리 마을 사람이었습니다. 마을의 왕다마즈는 나이가 많아도 아내가 없어서, 외부에서 아내를 사오는 방법을 생각해냈습니다. 그러나 그 아내는 명백히 양가의 여인으로, 매우 강인하여 죽어도 따르지 않겠다고 맹세했습니다.

왕다마즈는 분노에 휩싸여 실수로 그 여자를 죽이고 말았습니다. 당황한 나머지, 왕다마즈는 시체를 강에 던졌습니다. 그러나 결과는 왕다마즈를 두렵게 했습니다. 그 시체는 물에 던져도 가라앉지 않았고, 심지어 왕다마즈가 시체에 돌을 묶어도 마찬가지였습니다.

가라앉지 않는 것은 작은 일이었습니다. 사람들 말로는 그 여자의 시체가 더 소름끼쳤는데, 물 속에서 꼿꼿이 서 있었기 때문입니다. 수면을 바라보면, 마치 여자의 시체가 자신을 향해 웃는 것 같은 느낌이 들었습니다.

왕다마즈는 겁에 질려, 아버지에게 석상을 사러 와서 여자의 시체를 누르기 위해 사용하려 했습니다.

당시 왕다마즈는 아무것도 신경 쓰지 않았고, 가산을 탕진하면서까지 아버지에게 백년 된 오래된 석상을 요청했습니다. 그는 5만 위안을 썼습니다.

그 당시 5만 위안이면 도시에서 집 한 채를 살 수 있을 만큼이었습니다. 돈의 유혹에 아버지도 마음이 움직였습니다. 그는 왕다마즈와 함께 크레인을 빌려, 우리 집에서 가장 큰 오래된 석상을 끌어냈습니다.

강에 넣자, 여자의 시체는 정말로 반응을 보였습니다. 원래 강 가운데 똑바로 서 있던 여자의 시체가 가로로 누워 가라앉기 시작했습니다. 왕다마즈는 기뻐하며 몸에 있던 몇백 위안을 꺼내 아버지에게 붉은 봉투에 담아 주었습니다.

그러나 바로 이 돈이 문제를 일으켰습니다.

그날 밤, 모든 것이 해결된 줄 알았는데, 왕다마즈가 미쳐버렸습니다. 그는 조용히 우리 집 석각점에 들어와, 줄로 우리 집 석각점의 들보에 목을 매달았습니다.

다음 날 아버지가 일찍 일어나 일을 시작하려고 석각점의 큰 문을 열었을 때, 바로 앞에서 왕다마즈의 얼굴을 보았습니다. 갑작스러운 일에 아버지는 잠시 멍했고, 왕다마즈가 석각점에 뭔가를 훔치러 들어온 줄 알았습니다.

눈을 비비고 다시 왕다마즈를 보니, 그는 두 눈을 크게 뜨고, 혀를 길게 내밀고, 목에는 줄을 감고 공중에 떠 있었습니다.

아버지는 그제서야 이상함을 느끼고 "아!" 하고 소리를 지르며 돌아서 달아났습니다.

왕다마즈의 일은 의심할 여지 없이 큰 영향을 미쳤고, 마을 사람들은 모두 수군거리기 시작했습니다. 아버지가 탐욕스러워 받지 말아야 할 돈을 받았고, 이것이 보복을 불러왔다고 말했습니다.

그날 이후, 저는 밤마다 이상한 느낌이 들기 시작했습니다. 그것은 추위, 뼛속까지 스며드는 추위였습니다. 그리고 '꽉꽉꽉'하는 이상한 소리도 들렸는데, 그 소리는 마치 누군가의 신발에 물이 가득 차서 한 걸음씩 앞으로 걸어가는 소리 같았습니다.

그가 한 걸음 걸을 때마다, '꽉' 소리가 나고 물이 조금씩 튀었습니다.

특히 그날 밤, 이 소동은 절정에 달했습니다. '꽉꽉꽉' 하는 소리와 함께 마치 한겨울 같은 한기가 우리 집을 불안하게 만들었습니다.

저는 이불 속에서 떨고 있었고, 아버지도 이상함을 느끼고 창문에 기대어 밖을 보았습니다. 보자마자 "이런 제기랄"이라고 크게 욕을 했습니다. 이미 물 밑으로 가라앉았던 여자의 시체가 우리 집 문 앞에 꼿꼿이 서 있었습니다.

그녀의 눈에서는 두 줄기의 피눈물이 흘렀습니다.

그 순간 아버지는 분명히 뭔가를 깨달았고, 얼굴이 돼지간처럼 변했으며, 눈가는 완전히 붉어졌습니다. 지금도 그가 떠날 때 한 말을 기억합니다.

"초이, 날이 밝자마자 도망쳐, 마을을 떠나서 다시는 돌아오지 마."

아버지는 큰 소리를 지르고, 돌아서서 우리 집 조상들이 남긴 상자를 들고 문을 열고 뛰쳐나갔습니다.

결국 그는 다시 돌아오지 않았습니다.

아버지가 집에서 뛰쳐나간 후, 밖에서 문을 잠갔습니다. 저는 필사적으로 문을 두드렸지만, 열 수 없었습니다.

그 후 밤새도록 우리 집 근처에서 무서운 소리가 들렸습니다. 두 그림자가 어둠 속에서 싸우고 있었습니다.

때때로 기괴한 외침 소리가 들렸습니다.

다음날 아침, 마을 사람들이 마침내 문을 부수고 들어왔고, 저는 화살처럼 뛰쳐나가 마을 전체를 뒤지기 시작했습니다.

마침내 마을 사람들이 우리 집 석각점이 열려 있는 것을 발견했고, 그들이 들어가서 석각점에서 아버지의 시체를 발견했습니다.

그 당시의 광경은 기괴하다는 말로는 표현할 수 없었습니다.

마을 사람들이 석각점에 들어갔을 때, 그들이 처음 본 것은 아버지의 머리였습니다.

사람들은 마음속으로 기뻤습니다. 결국 사람을 찾았으니까요. 하지만 더 가까이 다가가자, 그들은 체에 거르듯 떨기 시작했습니다. 아버지의 머리만 있고 몸은 보이지 않았으며, 바닥에는 살점들이 흩어져 있었습니다. 자세히 보니, 아버지의 머리가 석상의 머리 위에 씌워져 있었고, 마치 석상이 사람 머리를 가진 것처럼 보였습니다.

그 사람은 마침내 겁에 질려 "아!" 하고 크게 소리를 지르며 거의 기절할 뻔했고, 석각점에서 뛰쳐나왔습니다.

하지만 실제로 기괴한 점은 그것뿐만이 아니었습니다. 아버지의 살점들이 이상한 모양으로 배열되어 있었고, 멀리서 보면 그 살점들이 마치 웃고 있는 것처럼 보였습니다.

그리고 아버지의 몸 주위에는 석상들이 둘러싸여 있었는데, 모든 석상의 눈이 사라져 있었습니다.

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In the pitch-black room, drowned in a heady, spicy scent that made my head spin, I felt hands—urgent, scorching—searing my skin. His thick, pulsing cock pressed against my dripping cunt, and before I could gasp, he thrust hard, tearing through my innocence with ruthless force. Pain burned, my walls clenching as I clawed at his iron shoulders, stifling sobs. Wet, slick sounds echoed with every brutal stroke, his body unrelenting until he shuddered, spilling hot and deep inside me.

"That was amazing, Jason," I managed to say.

"Who the fuck is Jason?"

My blood turned to ice. Light slashed across his face—Brad Rayne, Alpha of Moonshade Pack, a werewolf, not my boyfriend. Horror choked me as I realized what I’d done.

I ran away for my life!

But weeks later, I woke up pregnant with his heir!

They say my heterochromatic eyes mark me as a rare true mate. But I’m no wolf. I’m just Elle, a nobody from the human district, now trapped in Brad's world.

Brad’s cold gaze pins me: “You carry my blood. You’re mine.”

There is no other choice for me but to chose this cage. My body also betrays me, craving the beast who ruined me.

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Invisible To Her Bully

Invisible To Her Bully

Ongoing · sunsationaldee
Unlike her twin brother, Jackson, Jessa struggled with her weight and very few friends. Jackson was an athlete and the epitome of popularity, while Jessa felt invisible. Noah was the quintessential “It” guy at school—charismatic, well-liked, and undeniably handsome. To make matters worse, he was Jackson’s best friend and Jessa’s biggest bully. During their senior year, Jessa decides it was time for her to gain some self-confidence, find her true beauty and not be the invisible twin. As Jessa transformed, she begins to catch the eye of everyone around her, especially Noah. Noah, initially blinded by his perception of Jessa as merely Jackson’s sister, started to see her in a new light. How did she become the captivating woman invading his thoughts? When did she become the object of his fantasies? Join Jessa on her journey from being the class joke to a confident, desirable young woman, surprising even Noah as she reveals the incredible person she has always been inside.
Goddess Of The Underworld.

Goddess Of The Underworld.

Completed · sheridan.hartin
Left at a pack border with a name and a stubborn heartbeat, Envy grows into the sharpest kind of survivor, an orphaned warrior who knows how to hold a line and keep moving. Love isn’t in the plan…until four alpha wolves with playboy reputations and inconveniently soft hands decide the girl who won’t bow is the only queen they’ll ever take. Their mate. The one they have waited for. Xavier, Haiden, Levi, and Noah are gorgeous, lethal, and anything but perfect and Envy isn’t either. She’s changing. First into hell hound, Layah at her heels and fire in her veins. Then into what the realm has been waiting for, a Goddess of the Underworld, dragging her mates down to hell with her. Then finally into lycan princess, stronger, faster, the moon finally answering back, giving her exactly what she needs to protect her family.

When the veil between the Divine, the Living, and the Dead begins to crack, Envy is thrust beneath with a job she can’t drop: keep the worlds from bleeding together, shepherd the lost, and make ordinary into armor, breakfasts, bedtime, battle plans. Peace lasts exactly one lullaby. This is the story of a border pup who became a goddess by choosing her family; of four imperfect alphas learning how to stay; of cake, iron, and daylight negotiations. Steamy, fierce, and full of heart, Goddess of the Underworld is a reverse harem, found-family paranormal romance where love writes the rules and keeps three realms from falling apart.
From Substitute To Queen

From Substitute To Queen

Completed · Hannah Moore
For three years, Sable loved Alpha Darrell with everything she had, spending her salary to support their household while being called an orphan and gold-digger. But just as Darrell was about to mark her as his Luna, his ex-girlfriend returned, texting: "I'm not wearing underwear. My plane lands soon—pick me up and fuck me immediately."

Heartbroken, Sable discovered Darrell having sex with his ex in their bed, while secretly transferring hundreds of thousands to support that woman.

Even worse was overhearing Darrell laugh to his friends: "She's useful—obedient, doesn't cause trouble, handles housework, and I can fuck her whenever I need relief. She's basically a live-in maid with benefits." He made crude thrusting gestures, sending his friends into laughter.

In despair, Sable left, reclaimed her true identity, and married her childhood neighbor—Lycan King Caelan, nine years her senior and her fated mate. Now Darrell desperately tries to win her back. How will her revenge unfold?

From substitute to queen—her revenge has just begun!
The Delta's Daughter

The Delta's Daughter

Completed · JwgStout
In a realm set in the future, where the human race has fallen and shifters now rule, comes the epic adventure and tale of The Delta’s Daughter.

Born on the same night as the Kings son, Prince Kellen; Lamia Langley, daughter to the Royal Delta of The New Moon pack (royal pack) bares the mark of a royal and is a seemingly ordinary wolf, until she shifts at the age of 14 and by 15 becomes one of the strongest wolfs in the kingdom.

All Lamia ever wanted was to serve her prince, become a warrior, find her mate at 18 and live happily ever after.

Growing up together and sharing a rare and special goddess given bond, everyone is sure Lamia and Prince Kellen will be fated mates. Being given the opportunity to go to the Alpha academy, Kellen and Lamia fall in love and they hope they are fated like everyone thinks.

But the fates have already mapped out her future.
What happens when a wolf from the Kings past has his eye on Lamia?

Follow this epic tale of Love, tragedy and betrayal as Lamia starts to discover her family heritage. Will her family’s forgotten heritage and secrets become more than she can handle?

Will her Prince become her mate or will she be fated to another?
Will Lamia rise to become the wolf the goddess’ fated her to be?

For a mature audience
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