Chapter 19 (2/2)

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Yomin continued, “And there are two royal wives in the East Palace. So, you should call them ‘Ye Princess’ and ‘Su Princess.’ And there are three concubines here. You don’t have to add any title when you call them. You just call them by adding their last names such as Concubine Suh, Concubine Jeyong and Concubine Yu. By the way, didn’t you receive any briefing from the chief court lady?”

Yomin suddenly asked Kyosul after she was done explaining. In fact, when she arrived in the palace, Yomin herself learned about every detail of the palace life from the court lady in charge of teaching royal wives about court manners.

At Yomin’s question Kyosul answered, blushing her face, “Well, I was absent-minded with getting adjusted to the palace life since I got here…”

That was true. At first, they didn’t arrange any special training program for her so she could get adjusted to the palace life easily while checking its atmosphere. When they were about to give her the required training seriously, Kyosul put it off as she went to the back garden of the outer palace to meet Prince Ruhae.

As she was vacant at her residence every day, the court ladies in charge of her training often had to go back, but the reason she was not familiar with the royal family members was partly because of her negligence. In the meantime, the royal doctor recommended that she should take as much rest as possible for psychological stableness, so they didn’t plan any training for her at all.

“Recently I’ve been sick in bed, so I couldn’t receive the training on court manners.”

“Oh my goodness! Do you have any chronic illness?”

“Oh, not really…” Kyosul slurred. And she again felt dumbfounded. How can she reply to the official wife of Prince Ruhae? Could she confess her heart ached because of him? Could she say she was heartbroken because he embraced her warmly when she was trembling in fear of the cold-hearted Crown Prince?

While Kyosul was at a loss for words, Yomin’s face hardened. She recalled her purpose in visiting the East Palace.

“May I ask who made you sick like this?”

Her face was drained of color when she was faced with Yomin’s question. Yomin clearly noticed her face turned white immediately. Now, her smile disappeared, and she looked at her with a sharp look.

“Are you sick because of somebody? Is it a fever? Or I wonder if you have become lovesick.”

“Gee! Crown Princess!” When Kyosul trembled as Yomin pressed on her, her nanny, who was standing nearby, cut in.

“How come you are trying to cut in when you’re only a court lady? Don’t behave rudely while we’re talking now!”

Without even turning her head, Yomin gave the nanny a good scolding. The nanny, who stepped toward Kyosul, lowered her head and moved back reluctantly. With sweet talk, Yomin again tried to cajole her into confessing.

“Please tell me, Your Highness. Why have you been so sick these days?”

Yomin asked in a sweet tone this time. Kyosul’s heart began to pound loudly.

“I just…”

She was about to cry, but Yomin didn’t care and kept bugging her.

“Please tell me comfortably.”

“Well….I just…”

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When she closed her eyes welled up with tears, her tears dropped on her silk dress and soaked it.

“Prince ….”

Kyosul was about to mention the name, after all.

Yes, just say he was Prince Ruhae! Say Prince Ruhae!

Staring at her, Yomin clenched her fists. Yomin once again strongly coaxed her with a sweet voice.

Saying so, Kyosul slurred without any additional words, “The Crown Prince treated me too coldly, so I was just distressed…”

At that moment, Yomin knew that couldn’t force Kyosul to confess any more as she wished. And at the same time, she felt her face flushed because she realized she did something terrible to Kyosul.

Kyosul was sobbing before her eyes, and she scolded her nanny loudly, which was unprecedented.

How could Yomin behave so rudely? How could she, Prince Ruhae’s quiet and faithful wife, act so recklessly before the Crown Princess? Yomin couldn’t figure out how she could show such rude and crazy behavior to Kyosul.

“I’m so sorry. I don’t know why I showed such a discourteous behavior to you…” Startled at her own despicable behavior, the first of its kind in her life, Yomin was so embarrassed and lowered her head. “Please forgive my rude behavior generously.”