[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-113":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","THE VILLAIN'S POV",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},336750,598,"Chapter 113 113: Secrets of Moonlight (4)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-113",113,"\u003Cp>Then, one day, a rift suddenly tore open in the frozen barrier that had trapped them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From it, a single man stepped through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he entered, the portal closed behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked through the bloodstained corridors, his eyes sweeping over the corpses littering the floor, the women who looked at him with desperate, shining eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They saw hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They ran to him. But he passed them all without a second glance, continuing forward until he reached the door that housed the beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, he pushed it open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baylor Moonlight entered his brother's study.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found the place utterly destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drogo sat in the corner, his body trembling, his sobs filling the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears had long dried, replaced by streaks of blood running down his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had clawed at himself so relentlessly that his features were now grotesquely disfigured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This… was the state of the once-mighty Lord of House Moonlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You look well, brother.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drogo lifted his bloodstained eyes to meet his brother's gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm sorry… I'm sorry… I'm sorry...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know, Drogo. I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baylor stepped further into the ruined room, reaching into the bag he carried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kill me… Please, kill me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bloody tears intensified as Drogo pleaded for death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can't do that… Not yet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baylor pulled out several black flowers, placing them in different corners of the room, a strange smile curving his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look… I brought you a gift.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, the moment Drogo laid eyes on those flowers, his face twisted in agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ada's expression darkened as she recognized them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are those?\" she asked instinctively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rem answered, \"Those flowers… They don't grow on this planet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment they were placed, they released an almost invisible dust into the air—dust that Drogo unknowingly inhaled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn't understand their nature at first… But those flowers are like a powerful intoxicant, capable of twisting the mind—if certain conditions are met.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conditions that Drogo had already fulfilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pieces finally started falling into place for Ada.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then… everything that happened until now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rem nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was because of him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baylor Moonlight—the current Lord of House Moonlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baylor left the study, leaving Drogo behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On his way out, he encountered Rose Moonlight and several other women.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please! Help us!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Lord has lost his mind—he slaughtered everyone!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a sympathetic expression, Baylor reassured them,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know. I'll do everything I can to help. Unfortunately, I can't defeat my brother… but I'll return with reinforcements, I promise.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Empty words. False promises.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he left. As if he had never been there to begin with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Help never came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the girls were left alone once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose continued to hide Seris away in their room. Seris didn't know what was happening beyond those walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was obedient—if her sister told her to stay put forever, she would.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, she had no choice but to trust Rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until, one day… that door opened again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drogo stepped out, and this time… he said nothing. Not a single word, not even a whisper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one knew what kind of twisted thoughts lurked inside his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he emerged, he seized one of the older girls and dragged her into his study.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her resistance was futile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All anyone could do was watch from afar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he shut the door behind him, only one thing could be heard—screams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For an entire hour… that was all that echoed through the halls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the door would open, and a girl—utterly broken—would stumble out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wouldn't say a word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wouldn't cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wouldn't scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn't difficult to guess what had happened to her inside that room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, he violated the women who were his wives. Then, the older girls—his daughters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he no longer cared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no distinction anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After it happened again and again, everyone knew what Drogo was doing behind those doors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ada and Rem, in particular, knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they saw everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raped them. He tortured them. In the most brutal, humiliating ways imaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They became nothing more than broken dolls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many couldn't endure it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And who could? Who could live with such unbearable humiliation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sight of young girls hanging from the branches of trees had become disturbingly familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One after another, many of them took their own lives, unable to endure it any longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially his daughters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For them, it was hell itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And within that hell, Rose remained hidden with Seris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She no longer dared to leave their room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could she, with what was happening outside?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing she could do was hide the younger children—those the same age as her sister, or even younger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They should never have to witness such horrors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would check on them from time to time… then return to Seris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Drogo indulged in his depravity daily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until, one day… he found no suitable victim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Too many bodies now hung from the trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he knew…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More were still in hiding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's enough. I don't want to see any more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ada had reached her limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mind was on the brink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what about those who had suffered it firsthand?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Rem only shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unfortunately… we have to see this through.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drogo stepped out of his room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One step after another…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless dark threads wrapped around him, guiding him toward a certain place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His footsteps were slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for those still alive, they were a nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And his target… became clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose, who had been holding her sister close, felt it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt him coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body trembled, but she forced herself to move—rushing to tuck Seris into the wardrobe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister… you're shaking…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose knew what awaited her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she swallowed the emotions threatening to spill over, forcing a smile for her sister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seris… No matter what happens, no matter what you hear… don't come out. Okay?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The footsteps were growing louder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears began to fall despite herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hide well. Close your eyes. Don't come out until I return, alright?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was barely holding it together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seris could feel it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I love you… More than anything in this world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose shut the wardrobe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the door creaked open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drogo stepped inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the narrow gaps in the wardrobe, Seris saw everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She saw how Rose fought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She saw how that monster pinned her down and ravaged her, her screams filling the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, she saw how he dragged her outside…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To continue his torment elsewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A child's mind wasn't meant to comprehend such horrors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, Seris couldn't grasp what she had seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her sister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her sister being hurt by her father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 'bad people' Rose had warned her about…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had been him all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had done something strange to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something Seris didn't understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she knew… she knew her sister had suffered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She curled up inside the wardrobe, trembling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She waited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And waited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Rose never came back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seris found the courage to break her sister's command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pushed the wardrobe open and stepped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She walked through a field of corpses, searching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her small voice barely carried through the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She entered a certain garden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A garden where women hung from the trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She walked between them, clutching her thin dress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sister?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, she passed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The faces of those she had seen every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People she had known.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People who had once smiled, laughed, and spoken to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People she had believed would always be there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She recognized them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And because of that—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her tears refused to stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Seris reached a tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Larger than the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And on one of its highest branches…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hung a single body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet that single body—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was the one that shattered her the most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn't even reach it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rope was tied too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she didn't need to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She already knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her sister had once told her—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I love you more than anything in this world.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll come back to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seris collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, beneath that cursed tree, she wept harder than ever before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The girl hanging from that tree was the one Seris cherished most in this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was Rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night ... Something inside Seris shattered beyond repair.\u003C\u002Fp>",1390,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.346Z","2026-06-01T04:30:13.202Z",1,"novelbin.me","4dbfc76f8124d8b030c89e97865cedef57b9f0f5bff2a441eac275535e25998b","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-114","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-112",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]