Chapter 38 (1/2)

Ruhae chuckled at his funny logic. As he had a baby even before he turned 20, Binsung, who used to visit the South Palace almost every day, asked Ruhae to visit the North Palace out of joy. As Ruhae wanted to share his joy, he was dragging himself to the North Palace though he was physically weak.

Though he arrived at the North Palace, he could not yet reach the entrance of the residence of Binsung’s wife, Pukchon Palace.

He was still pacing up and down the same place where Kyosul was standing. He couldn’t leave there.

“What should I do?”

He vowed that he would surely confess his genuine feelings to her this time, but Kyosul’s reaction stopped his advance. It was Kyosul who made him take the difficult decision, and it was again Kyosul who could solve his angst for the past several days.

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The only reply she gave him when he confessed to her with difficulty was “I’m the official wife of the Crown Prince.”

That’s all.

She didn’t express any personal opinion about his feelings toward her, let alone reveal her own feelings toward him, but he couldn’t recklessly judge what’s on her mind.

If all she wanted was to play the role of the ‘official wife’ of the Crown Prince, what else could Ruhae do to her, who already gave up the path given to him?

“What should I do now?”

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He recalled Kyosul’s back, who was trembling. He extended his hand to her in his imagination and clenched his fist before quickly withdrawing it.

“…..”

Murmuring to himself while looking down at his hand, he walked.

He turned back to the South Palace. As if he decided on something, his eyes were glittering.

“If what you want is only the role of the Crown Prince’s official wife, I’m going to let you follow that road.”

He didn’t have any intention to force her against her will. He just wanted to confirm if she was of the same mind as him or not. Though he didn’t get her reply, her choice at this point was the role of the Crown Prince’s official wife.

“What if the road you have chosen is far from happy?”

Ruhae knew well how the Crown Prince Bipaan treated his second wife as well as the rumors about him and his concubines. If Kyosul had to follow the same road that Bipaan’s wives took, Ruhae could not give her up.

“Sorry, but I can’t easily let you follow that path.”

The reason he respected Kyosul’s intention was just because he wished she was happy. No matter how different her intention was from his, he would make her his wife by all means if she had a hard time.

“This is the last chance.”

He ran into Kyosul and confirmed his intention in her presence.

He also confirmed her intention. If that’s the case, there was only one person that he had to meet.

Kyosul was sick in bed after she visited the North Palace. She was burning up with fever. Stuck with a high fever, she could not pull herself together at all.

She just collapsed on the bed, with no sign of raising herself. Her nanny didn’t leave her, and the court ladies brought cold water several times to cool down her fever.

The royal doctor came to check her condition dozens of times per day, and Kyoyoung and Concubine Sassi also came to see her several times.

Oran, who committed a disrespectful act, stopped by with her son Prince Moo three days after Kyosul was sick in bed, and left after shedding tears.

Prince Binsung also visited her every day when he heard that she was sick after her visit to the North Palace.

Now, many more people visited the Dongbi Palace to ask after her.

By now Bipaan could have stopped by to check his wife’s condition, but he didn’t appear at all.

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“What should I do now?”

Giving a big sigh, the nanny put a towel in the water basket. After soaking it in cold water, she squeezed the water out and then wiped her body sincerely. While stroking her body to wipe off her fever and touching her skinny body, she was welled with tears.

“Oh my god! How poor she is! She is spaced out and fast asleep.”

Only wearing on a thin silk skirt, she was on the bed. The nanny lifted the blanket and wiped off her body again and again. Thanks to her sincere efforts, Kyosul seemed to have come to her senses.