Synopsis

The chapter opens with Jungryong being forced to sign a contract making him an escort warrior for the Seventeenth Pavilion after believing he had won their earlier encounter. He is presented with numerous missions, mostly involving the protection of young women, which are implied to be veiled marriage proposals. He is then confronted by a past victim of his scams, who agrees to invest in the pavilion and creates a formal contract to protect himself from further deception. The chapter ends with the establishment of a real financial link between the two, setting up future developments.