Chapter 7 (2/2)

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Ruhae’s soft tone stiffened. His heart sank. He felt she might misunderstand what he just said. Suddenly, the feelings that bothered him all night came to bother him again as they had on the wedding day of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess.

What am I doing now?

Ruhae smiled a humble smile to get rid of such rebellious feelings. Even a short silence seemed to make them feel uncomfortable with each other.

Ruhae quickly changed the topic.

“What were you doing in the library?”

“Ah.” She blushed at his question. “I was thinking of my brother. Though I didn’t like books that much, my brother loved books and learning. ”

“That’s why you cried a lot.”

“I really got along very well my brother. I still miss my elder brothers and younger brothers a lot.”

Her gaze was now fixed on a faraway place, her motherland. It was the first time that she left for a faraway place like this in her life. As she couldn’t go back, she tended to look back at her good old days while she adjusted to this new life in the Mok Kingdom. Above all, it was not easy for her to adapt to the difference in the cultures of the two kingdoms.

“I haven’t seen all the royal family members’ faces here yet. I hear the imperial palace is a busy place. ”

“That’s true. It’s hard for them to see each other’s face here.”

“I’m a bit bewildered.”

She couldn’t understand it easily because she got used to bumping into somebody once she exchanged greetings with royal family members every day.

“I have also heard about the royal story of the Hwa Kingdom. I was impressed because the atmosphere of your royal family was quite different from that of our royal family.”

“Well, everyone is friendly and caring for each other in my country.”

She smiled brightly as if she were in the royal court of the Hwa Kingdom.

Wow, she can smile brightly like that!

Ruhae looked at her smile delicately and remembered it. When he brought up the topic of the Hwa Kingdom, she began to babble on her episodes. She talked about her happy times with her brothers like they were a heroic story.

“So, I felt that each day was too short. One day, I felt it was so regrettable that it was getting dark already, so I hid behind a tree in the backyard with Yojin and insisted that this was our dwelling. Oh, Yojin is my younger brother, but we had the smallest age difference, so we always played together. Of course, I liked my elder brother, Prince Mingung, the most.”

Once she spoke, she didn’t stop. She was now about to reel off the stories about her four older brothers and four younger brothers. Obviously, she didn’t feel tired of talking about them with her small lips. He found her incessant talking interesting.

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“When I first saw you, you cried a lot. So, I never thought you’re such a cheerful woman.”

“You must be kidding me. ”

She became sullen instantly. She wasn’t just easily moved to tears or bright smiles. She was honest about all her feelings. Even now her feelings of high purity were immediately expressed in her face. It was the first time he looked into such honest face. He felt the reason he was comfortable seeing her was because of a sense of relief that what he saw in her was her true face.

“No, I’m not joking. I am praising you.”

“It’s not like praise at all.”

“What I mean is that you are cute.”

Was it because he was already contaminated by her candor?

Ruhae said something inadvertently, which he should not have.

“Thank you for that,” she said.

But it was not Ruhae alone who was embarrassed at that moment.