Chapter 52 (2/2)
After thinking hard about him unconsciously, she came to her senses, “What am I doing now?”
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Whenever she felt happy about him, she got nervous. She even felt a sense of guilt when she wondered if it was okay for her to stay complacent and carefree. She looked inside the drawer with complicated mind. She narrowed her eyes and pouted once more then she shut the drawer, closing her eyes.
Bang!
After she shut the drawer with a bang, she couldn’t let go of the knob.
Rather she held the knob so tightly that her fingertips turned white with strain.
When she opened her eyes, she felt her resolve not to lose heart to Ruhae began to collapse.
“Why should I…”
Her eyes narrowed. She took her hand off the drawer, pulling herself together, but when she opened her eyes, she noticed the thick letter from Ruhae.
Foolishly enough, she read it again and again. As if not content with reading about his sincere love of her, she put it on the desk and read it whenever she could. She couldn’t control the strong urge to grab it before she knew.
“Oh, I now understand…” As the wife of the Crown Prince, she was scared about her relationship with Ruhae. “I now understand he didn’t intend to deceive me.”
She felt ashamed of herself after recalling that she got upset about him first the moment she came to realize his real identity.
“But what should I do?”
She couldn’t do anything with him even if he handed that letter to her. Rather she felt a sense of distance from him all the more.
She held the letter and folded it while trying her best to hide her genuine longing to read it often. She folded it a couple of times then opened the drawer containing the flowers he placed at the windowsill ever day.
After she put Ruhae’s thick letter on the pile of flowers inside the drawer, her angst went on. She had to shut the drawer again. She was wrestling with herself over how to deal with him.
The nanny suddenly came into her room, screaming.
“Your Highness Kyosul!” Kyosul quickly closed the draw, when the nanny told her, “I hear Princess Heyjin collapsed!”
“What did you say? Heyjin collapsed? When I saw her at the North Palace the other day, she was in good condition.”
“Your Highness! What shall we do?”
Nervous and unable to calm down, the nanny touched her hand. She just licked her lips for a while without telling Kyosul what happened, and finally opened her mouth, “In fact, the thing is ….”
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Ruhae was staying in his office today. As he had lots of petitions to take care of, he could not leave the office. Deep inside he wanted to go to the North Palace right away, but he couldn’t.
“It was a good thing that I took my time out to go to the North Palace and hand my letter to Crown Princess Kyosul.”
He felt it so fortunate that he could often go there and see her. Right after he handed his letter to her, he happened to be busy.
While he was busy with work, the eunuch on standby suddenly came into his room, announcing in a loud voice, “Your Majesty!”
Ruhae looked at him with a curious look as the palace army stormed his room without showing any proper decorum.
They shouted, “Arrest him right away!”
They charged forward and stopped him.
“How rude you are! How could you come to this place like this?”
“Move back!”
They grabbed the eunuch who was trying his best to stop them by all means. With his face turning white, the eunuch turned back. Ruhae was standing in his place in a calm manner.
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“I’m alright. So, stand aside for them.”
“Eunuch Jang, we are the imperial army.”
The imperial army was responsible for protecting the Emperor as well as his own army. And the only person who could mobilize them was the Emperor himself. Accordingly, it was the Emperor who ordered them to come here to Ruhae’s residence.
Shivering with fear the eunuch lowered his head, but he couldn’t resist Ruhae’s pushing him aside lightly.
“Your Majesty…” the eunuch crumbled to the floor, shouting in a crying tone. He rammed hit his head on the floor in that process.
“Your Majesty, please excuse us for a minute.”
As the atmosphere became serious, they now began to use the honorific, but Ruhae didn’t show any nervousness and looked at them with composure.
“Did a serious incident take place in the palace now that the imperial army came to my place and tie me up like this?” he asked.
“I’m sorry I can’t tell you what happened while we are transporting you like this.”
“I’m following your order without any resistance. Why don’t you tell me about the reason for arresting me?”