Chapter 77 (1/2)

Yomin headed for the East Palace, convinced that Kyosul was to blame for everything.

At least before Kyosul appeared before Ruhae, he always stayed with Yomin, even though he did so superficially.

But Ruhae didn’t come to Yomin anymore. She felt she couldn’t spend the days ahead alone like this. She wouldn’t have cared if she had been left alone from the beginning, but as she was left alone because of this little woman from the Hwa Kingdom, she couldn’t stand it anymore.

‘No, you shouldn’t do this to me!’

She quickened her pace. Accompanied by Bojin, she headed for the Dongbi Palace where Kyosul was residing.

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Arriving at the East Palace, Yomin was about to cross the front gate to head to Kyosul’s residence, when someone called her behind.

“I wondered if it was you going inside. Gosh, you’re Prince Yomin!”

Yomin turned her head at the woman who called her. That woman was approaching her, not accompanied by a court lady. She was the Emperor’s concubine Sassi.

“I’m glad to see you here, Sassi. I’m surprised to see you here at the East Palace.”

She greeted Sassi, trying to control her trembling voice.

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Approaching her, Sassi grabbed and pulled her arm to the side.

“I haven’t seen you in a long time. Why don’t you chat with me for a bit?”

Yomin could feel from her superficial smiles that she was not asking, but demanding. She felt Sassi tighten her grip on her arm. Come to think of it, Yomin once heard that Sassi and Kyosul were on close terms.

If that’s true, Sassi would know a lot about Kyosul’s relationship with Ruhae.

Yomin suddenly got the goosebumps.

She felt the imperial palace was contaminated with dirty stuff, thinking how Sassi could defend and even protect Kyosul when she clearly knew their relationship was immoral.

Yomin felt disgusted at Sassi’s kind face and frowned at her before she knew. Looking at her frowning, Sassi kept up a kind smile.

Sassi escorted her to the back garden of the East Palace not far from the Dongbi Palace where Kyosul was residing. They sat side by side in the pavilion there.

Though Sassi took her there, she didn’t open her mouth for a while. Yomin didn’t, either. In fact, Yomin was struggling hard to calm down and control the anger surging from deep inside.

Sassi spoke all of a sudden, “I know why you came to this place.”

What she guessed was right. Losing patience, after all, she got enraged and protested in a high pitch, “How can you just sit idle when the stern law of the imperial palace is being blatantly broken?”

Sassi flinched and looked at her. She didn’t expect Yomin would challenge her directly like this.

Given her bloodthirsty eyes, it was obvious that either Yomin or Kyosul would be fatally hurt if the former picked a bone with the latter.

As the mother of two smart daughters, Sassi regarded Kyosul as an adopted daughter. Though Kyosul didn’t have any blood relationship with her, Sassi thought the world of Kyosul. Sassi didn’t want to see her precious “daughter” hurt, and she could not sit idle when Yomin was fully prepared to fight with her.

Of course, Sassi knew that Kyosul was now walking on a tightrope. Though Kyosul never mentioned her relationship with Ruhae, Sassi already sensed it as she had decades of palace life experience.

Whenever she saw Kyosul’s happy face after she met Ruhae, Sassi couldn’t bring herself to tell Kyosul to stop meeting him anymore. She was well aware that without Ruhae Kyosul might have been stuck in the palace just like a bird in a cage. She didn’t want to see Kyousl hurt.

“How can we humans know the intentions of Providence?”

“This is not the intention of Providence. This is a strange thing that betrays human morality.”

“We humans are supposed to follow the intention of Providence.”