Chapter 65 (2/2)

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It was obvious from the way Kyosul didn’t meet her eyes and beat around the bush. She thought of Bipaan leaving the East Palace alone and Kyosul’s empty room in the Dongbi Palace and got angry.

“By the way, I would like to share good news with you as a friend.”

Friend. That was how Kyosul used to call Kyoyoung. Mentioning that term Kyosul took seriously, she emphasized her friendship with the Crown Princess. As expected, Kyosul leaned forward and showed interest. “What is it?”

Looking at her sparkling eyes, Kyoyoung opened her mouth slowly. She was thrilled when she was about to say, and finally said with dry lips, “The Crown Prince and me slept together!”

“Slept together?”

“Yes. Last night the Crown Prince came to see me at my residence. You can ask any of my court ladies there to confirm this.”

She took pains to add a fifth wheel to prove what she just said was not a lie. She then looked at Kyosul’s face with a triumphant smile. Kyosul’s eyes were opened wide with big surprise. She seemed to be at a loss for words, opening and closing her round mouth several times.

For the first time since she met Kyosul, Kyoyoung had a triumphant smile on her lips.

However, she hardened her face before her smile made any impact on Kyosul.

“Congratulations!” Kyosul shouted with joy to her surprise. “Did the Crown Prince know your genuine heart? I know you still miss him, right?”

Then she grabbed Kyoyoung’s hands all of a sudden. She expressed her joy genuinely.

Looking at Kyosul congratulating her, Kyoyoung couldn’t hide her embarrassment.

‘Why?’

Another incomprehensible question came to her mind. Kyosul acted unexpectedly again. Kyoyoung was confused at her lack of jealousy and her joy.

Kyosul was not supposed to offer such innocent congratulations. Rather she was supposed to feel jealous and abandon herself to depression. She was not supposed to smile brightly at her in such a cheerful mood.

Though she was blessed with Kyosul’s genuine congratulations, Kyosul felt all the more miserable about herself. She felt so terrible and devastated. Nothing seemed to take her side.

Looking at her bright eyes, Kyoyoung turned her mouth up and said in a high tone, “Yes, it’s a good thing for me.”

Kyosul’s joy made Kyoyoung feel, for the first time, that something was wrong.

***

It had been a hot and humid summer. Soon, it started to rain hard and was not likely to stop anytime soon.

Nonetheless, Kyosul was haggling with her nanny, insisting that she should go out.

“Your Highness, why would you go out in heavy rain like this?”

“I have promised him I would come. So, don’t worry. I’ll be back quickly.”

“Wasn’t it pouring so heavily outside? It’s not just typical rain, but a torrential rain. Why do you want to go outside in this heavy rain? What if you catch a cold?”

When she put on a raincoat, her nanny stopped her.

But Kyosul cut off her words firmly, “Nanny, I’ve promised him.”

“Let me go out and convey your words to him that you won’t be able to come out because it’s raining so heavily.”

She pouted. Sticking out her face through the opening of the raincoat, she looked at her nanny then turned suddenly.

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“I’m going to go there. I should. I can’t stand staying at home because of the rain when I miss him so much.”

She was blushing when she spoke. Neither of them needed to mention why she blushed or who she was going to meet explicitly. Her nanny let go of her sleeves. With a gentle smile on her lips, she said, “If you insist like this, how can I hold you, Your Highness?”

Smiling at her quickly, Kyosul quickly went out the door. She knew that her nanny was following her, but she didn’t turn back. As her nanny already let her go out, Kyosul knew she could freely go out.

When Kyosul walked out in the heavy rain, the court ladies looked at her nanny with big surprise. Instead of following Kyosul, she stood the wooden porch and watched her running toward the top outer gate, with her raincoat fluttering. They approached her and asked, “Lady Yuon, what happened? How come the Crown Princess went out…”

“Well, when it rains like this, Crown Princess Kyosul is satisfied only when she gets soaked with rain.”

“Aren’t you supposed to follow her?”

At this legitimate question the nanny made an empty expression for a moment and shook her head, saying, “She likes to go out in the rain.”

Kyosul had already disappeared in a downpour. The nanny was relieved that Kyosul was happy, but at the same time, she felt empty.

The whole world was wet. Though she put on a raincoat, Kyosul couldn’t stop the rain from sputtering inside it. As she came running on the road with lots of water pool, her shoes were full of rainwater as well as muddy water, but she didn’t stop running with her heavily wet shoes. When did she run like this last time?

The manners and customs that should be observed at the palace were swept away with the torrential rain. She ran with a flushed face filled with a sense of freedom she hadn’t felt in a long time. Nobody could recognize Kyosul as the Crown Princess.