The Dragon's Companion

Hwiyeon has spent countless years cultivating the Way and accumulating virtue with a single goal: to ascend as a dragon and become a god. But becoming a god requires recognition; only when a sentient being acknowledges Hwiyeon, an imugi, as a god can he truly become one.

Then...

“Wow, what a pretty snake.”

With a single remark from Gang-a, the young heir of the family that has served Hwiyeon for generations over hundreds of years, everything Hwiyeon has built up vanishes like smoke.

Enraged, Hwiyeon refrains from tearing everyone apart and killing them. Instead, he takes Gang-a away from his family, hoping for another chance to have him call Hwiyeon a god.

Yet as they spend time together, Hwiyeon’s initial hatred gradually begins to fade...

And as the years pass, Hwiyeon starts to feel a strange sense of déjà vu around Gang-a, now grown into adulthood.