Chapter 61 (1/2)

Bipaan slanted one of his brows as if he couldn’t understand her motive at all.

“You said you decided to confess because you wanted to see Prince Binsung?”

Instead of replying, she nodded. She committed another big discourtesy by nodding at the Crown Prince’s question instead of replying politely, but Bipaan didn’t care and asked, “Do you want to put forward this condition in return for your confession?”

She shook her head and replied, “No, I don’t want to incur his hatred, Your Majesty.”

Hosana was the very woman who put Heyjin, who Prince Binsung loved so much, and her pregnant baby at risk. So, while proceeding with the interrogation, Bipaan made sure Prince Binsung did not approach Hosana personally.

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Nobody would predict what would happen if the hot-blooded Prince Binsung were allowed to approach her.

“You just said you would confess because you wanted to see Prince Bisung, right?”

“Yes, I would love to see him.”

The interrogation didn’t move forward smoothly because Hosana, who offered to confess, suddenly said something nonsensical. Bipaan narrowed down his questions and asked pointedly, “Tell me how Prince Ruhae was involved in this conspiracy.”

“Prince Ruhae…”

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As if her offer to confess was serious, she now began to reply to Bipaan’s questions in detail. All the officials present turned their attention to her. It was the first time she mentioned Prince Ruhae’s name.

In the end, Hosana continued with difficulty, “Prince Ruhae has nothing to do with this plot.”

The tense string that bound the whole interrogation was pulled apart instantly.

“I alone was totally responsible.”

“How can an ordinary court lady like you commit such a despicable and wicked crime? Do you think I can believe you?”

Hosana cast down her focusless eyes and then said in a spiritless voice, “I just wanted to give birth to his baby as I missed him so much.”

She spoke each word clearly in a monotonous tone.

Her confession shocked the officials. Some of them clicked their tongues and looked down at her in contempt.

Her confession was more convincing than circumstantial evidence, and it seemed that the whole interrogation would end quickly.

But Bipaan didn’t easily believe her testimony, the only direct evidence. Though he gave lots of weight to her confession, he continued the investigation to completely clear away all the suspicions involved.

The Imperial Army soldiers searched not only Hosana’s room but also the North Palace and even Prince Heyjin’s residence. When they searched the South Palace, the faithful eunuch of Ruhae cried and followed them all along.

“We found an incense pouch in Hosana’s room.”

They lowered their heads and presented the pouch to Bipaan.

It was the pouch that Ruhae argued he picked up and gave to her, but they couldn’t find anything like a pouch or material evidence in the South Palace, which they could link with Ruhae.

“I would love to see him…”

Hosana kept repeating the same words after she confessed. She cast a glance somewhere in the sky as if she were missing somebody over the imperial palace.

“Free Prince Ruhae!”

In the end, it didn’t take long for Bipaan to free Ruhae.

It was a tense, breathless and harrowing moment from the moment of his arrest by the Imperial Army until his release.

“What did I tell you before? This time I was right.”

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Though Ruhae himself didn’t prove his innocence, he didn’t get impatient nor did he hurry up. He just accepted Bipaan’s interrogation process obediently. He didn’t refuse it while defending himself with the truth.

He trusted the power of the truth.

Ruhae’s smile was bright because he believed that he survived the dirty conspiracy against him honorably and proudly, but there was something that he didn’t notice yet. As he was so innocent, Ruhae never sensed the presence of the smokescreen that ridiculed him.

Though he was not physically harassed, he was in bad condition while he was in prison.

As soon as he was out of the Headquarters of the Imperial Army, he quickly headed somewhere.

‘I would love to see you right now.’

He wanted to see Kyosul more than anybody else, but there was somebody who was secretly watching him heading for his love Kyosul’s place.

In the meantime, Kyosul headed for the outer palace as soon as she heard that Ruhae was freed. She felt it a regret that she couldn’t move quickly because of her capacity as the official wife of the Crown Prince. Accordingly she wanted to keep her demeanor and dignity.

‘Don’t stand in my way!’

The only place she could forget about her annoying duty as the Crown Princess was the back garden of the outer palace. There was nobody who watched or looked for her in this place. In this place she could just let herself follow her heart, forgetting all about the rules and formality of the Mok Kingdom.

Kyosul went out to the outer palace a lot. She spent most of the day in the back garden of the palace. When she headed for the palace, she didn’t take her nanny. Her nanny was aware of the reason why Kyosul went to the back garden of the palace alone, and she could not help but feel worried about Kyosul’s frequent outings to the back garden.