Chapter 71 (1/2)

Smiling brightly in a long time, Ohyulje nodded and said, “Isn’t it only right that as the father of the baby, you give a good name to her? So, what is the baby’s name?”

“Well, I combined one word from my name and another one from her name. So, it consists of ‘so’ meaning ‘bright’, and ‘ah’ meaning ‘elegant.’ I would like to give the name Soah to her.”

Binsung’s childhood name was Sotae Danmok, and Heyjin’s childhood name was Pyoah Hajin. So, Binsung took ‘so’ from his name and ‘ah’ from her name to make her name. Thanks to his frequent visits to Ruhae and his counsel, he created that name.

Ohyulje gave out a hearty laugh at Binsung’s words and approved the name.

With a bright expression, Binsung approached Heyjin and hugged her lovingly.

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Despite the presence of the Emperor and the Queen, he didn’t care, which made them think he was not yet mature enough.

Soah didn’t go to sleep and kept blinking her eyes until the long and tedious ceremony of naming her was over. Finally, the naming ceremony was over, and another final ceremony to give an official title to the baby was waiting for them. Unlike the baby’s name, the official title was decided by the emperor well in advance in consideration of the baby’s fate as well as the time and location of the baby’s birth.

The royal fortune teller presented a red paper roll wrapped in silk cloth to Ohyulje. He received it and opened the paper with the official title of the baby. He announced to Soah as follows.

“Let me give her the official title ‘Koryun,’ who was born as the first baby of Prince Binsung and Princess Heyjin on a certain day in a certain month of the year. I hope she can grow up as the woman who can renew the old and learn the new by harmonizing oldness with roundness, given her official title ‘Ko’ meaning ‘old,’ and ‘ryun’ meaning ’round.’ So let me give her such title.”

That was the last ceremony.

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As if she was not yet tired, Soah was looking in the air with sparkling eyes and moved her little lips without knowing that the emperor gave her the official title of ‘Koryun.’

Then the Emperor and the Queen wished the baby all their best once more. The emperor’s two concubines also said words of blessings to the baby. When they left the maternity center, the princes of the four palaces came up to her bed.

Bipaan looked at Koryun blankly, when she turned her head to him. When he felt she was looking at him, he thought she was too young to focus her eyes on him. But strange enough, her blue eyes didn’t move, fixed on him. He even felt her expression wasn’t like that of a baby because of her strange act.

“Your Majesty!”

Calling Bipaan, Heyjin offered Koryun to him.

“Would you want to hold Soah?”

She made an unexpected request.

With an embarrassed expression he stared at Heyjin. Instead of avoiding his eyes, she looked him in the eye. In fact, he couldn’t refuse her request on a day like this.

Nodding his head, he awkwardly received Koryun.

His gaze was directed toward at Koryun’s deep blue eyes.

“You are the third person who has held Koryun after my wife and me.”

Overcome with joy, Prince Binsung approached him and babbled.

It was not the first time Bipaan saw a baby. When Prince Dukwol’s baby was born, he attended and witnessed the naming ceremony on the tenth day of its birth, but it was the first time that he held a baby like this. The baby wasn’t heavy. He looked at her fist-sized face, round eyes, flat nose, thin eyebrows and her wiggling ten fingers.

After looking at Koryun for a while, he turned his eyes toward Kyosul.

“Would you want to hold her?”

“Pardon?”

Kyosul hesitatingly moved back at his sudden suggestion.

Then she shook her head hastily.

“No, not me, Your Majesty. I can’t come near to her because I have a cold.”

She was standing at a distance all along while the naming ceremony was taking place. Though she wanted to see Koryun up close, she couldn’t for fear Koryun might catch a cold from her.

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Bipaan looked at her in her arms again. Just born, she was small and feeble. Even a little disease was very dangerous to a baby. That’s why they had to go through all this cumbersome ceremony.