Chapter 7 (1/2)

“Even if you’re the Crown Princess… ”

The Crown Prince’s cold eyes suddenly came to her mind. She also recalled his cold voice as he said she should not stand in his way. Her husband, the only person in the palace she could rely on as a young crown princess from another country, was just cold and scary.

“If I am destined to be the Crown Princess not favored by him…”

Kyosul was concerned about her life more than anything in the imperial Mok Kingdom, where the princes’ fight to succeed the throne was allegedly fierce.

Kyosul walked between the bookshelves of the spacious library. While smelling the musty odor of old books, she felt as if she went back to the library of her motherland. When she closed and opened her eyes, she felt as if she were already there in her motherland. It looked like Prince Mingung, her brother, was about to scold her with a smile for dozing off again.

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While she scratched the back of the book with the tip of her finger, she stopped and closed her eyes. And when she opened her eyes again, someone with round lips was face to face with her to her surprise. That man with the long and round lips whispered into her ear, “I didn’t know I’d meet you here.”

When she closed and opened her eyes again, she saw a man’s face before her eyes. She briefly stopped breathing in surprise. She delicately scanned his face with her large surprised eyes.

His white and clean face had a soft jawline. His loosely raised topknot was covered with a monotonous decorative hat and several baby hairs flowing around his face. The back half of his hair was untied and drooped down. His smiling eyes were bent like crescent moons. His thin lips were bent opposite to his eyes, so the more he smiled, the thinner his lips became.

As far as she knew, that was the softest smile she had ever seen on a man. His lips that seemed to be painted with a fine brush stroke began to move. His voice, which seemed like the sound of the leaves blowing in the breeze and falling on a tranquil lake, filled the air.

“I didn’t know I met you here.”

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When Ruhae spoke to her, she could barely breathe. She thought she had imagined him, but she was mistaken. Feeling relieved, she replied, “Oh, you’re Uljin Yu.”

“Princess, oh, you are…” Ruhae slurred while hesitating at the moment. Was she mistaken when she thought that his smile looked sad? “You’re now the Crown Princess.”

It was their second meeting. It was their reunion after only a few days, but their relationship in terms of royal title changed greatly. The rank of Prince Ruhae, the third in line to the throne of the great empire Mok Kingdom, and that of the princesses from the small and weak Hwa Kingdom were completely reversed. The princess of the small and weak kingdom had become the Crown Princess of the Mok Kingdom now, wife of the Crown Prince who had the strongest support among his royal family members and who was closer to the Emperor than anyone else. Namely, she had now become his brother, the Crown Prince’s, wife to whom he had to exercise due courtesy.

Ruhae felt bitter. Ruhae recalled the words that he repeated in his head.

When I see her, Woorum or Kyosul, let me say this to her.

He practiced and practiced saying it.

“Long live the Crown Princess! I’m honored to see you.”

Ruhae lowered his body. He initially leaned forward slightly but soon knelt down. While looking up at her, he turned his mouth up slightly.

“Ooops!”

Kyosul put both hands on her mouth, at a loss for words. She heard that kind of greeting before. On the day of the wedding, Bipaan, who appeared suddenly, received such greetings from the court ladies. After the wedding ceremony, she also received such greetings. In the imperial palace, the Emperor and the Empress received many more greetings like that. In the Mok Kingdom only the Crown Prince and Crown Princess could receive greetings starting with ‘Long Live!’. Even the Crown Prince’s second wife could not receive such greetings.

“Oh, please stand up.”

“Are you uncomfortable?”

“Well, I’m uncomfortable with you greeting me like that. ”

Kyosul spoke her mind frankly with a shy look. Though she hesitated at first, eventually she said what she wanted to. Though it seemed contradictory, that was exactly her way of speaking.

Ruhae burst into laughter before he knew. Clearing dirt on his knees, he stood up.

“You’re going to hear it from me often, so please get used to it.”

“In my home country, even my father didn’t hear such greetings, so I just feel embarrassed.”

That was true. In the Hwa Kingdom, they didn’t use any such greetings. She received such greetings numerously which even his parents King Chung and Queen Yo never did. Moreover, she didn’t like Ruhae’s greeting her like that, in particular. She felt strange about his greetings, unlike the court ladies’. The fact that Ruhae was treating her as his superior made her very uncomfortable.

“More than anything… I just feel it more uncomfortable to hear such greetings from Uljin Yu.”

“Well, what you’re saying is… ”

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