Chapter 78 (2/2)

At that moment, there was heard a sharp slapping.

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Yomin’s face was turned when he slapped her in the face.

It was the first time she was hit by somebody in her life.

And it was also the first time that he hit somebody.

But neither he nor she was embarrassed in this weird situation.

She was not foolish enough not to know why she got slapped in the face, and he didn’t regret having slapped her.

He, who beat her for the first time, blushed his face, but didn’t hide his anger. Feeling hot in his right palm, he was choked with tears and upset.

“Don’t curse her. She is precious to me. Go back to the South Palace now.”

Lowering her head, Yomin breathed out and said, “I just wish you went after women in the palace. Why did you choose the Crown Princess out of so many women in this palace? If you had been a womanizer, I wouldn’t have cared at all, thinking you still have affection for me.”

Her words were harsh and barbed words but he didn’t care.

“I’ve nothing more to say to you. I would rather think I didn’t hear your insulting language. Go back to the South Palace.”

“I really wish you took another concubine. Why did you choose the Crown Princess?”

She shouted at him, looking down on the ground. Her desperate shouting resonated throughout the quiet back garden of the East Palace, but Ruhae didn’t respond.

As she felt he was gone, leaving her alone miserably, she tried to raise her head when she heard his unique low voice in her ears.

“I’m in love with her because it’s her.”

She had never heard that kind of his voice before.

“I miss her and love her because she is really the one and only woman to me. The woman that I love is not the Crown Princess. The woman that I miss and love is Woorum Mokhwa.”

Ruhae was smiling now while speaking to her in a tone that he had never used with her before. Though she felt sad and terrible about his voice, she wasn’t hurt. She wished he had spoken to her with the same tone, but she didn’t expect it.

The moment she saw him face to face, she realized it.

When she raised her head, with her eyes closed, then opened her eyes, she regained composure. Even though she had been slapped in the face by the man she treated as her husband and she heard his confession of loving another woman, she had composed and calm expression. She looked like a totally different woman, given that she screamed and got upset about him a moment ago.

Even she was surprised to know that she was so composed and calm in this situation. She had to admit his relationship with Kyosul and recognize it. She knew that she didn’t genuinely love him, but she had been hiding it and disguising her feelings with feigned love.

“I’ve got a question.”

“What is that?”

Ruhae tilted his head when she asked suddenly. Even her voice was calm when she asked. She looked into his eyes. Her eyes were calm and peaceful.

“On that day when they had a banquet to celebrate Concubine Su’s birthday, why didn’t you attend?”

Though her question was totally out of context, given the nature of the topic that they brought up so far, he answered with a nod, “Well, I didn’t because I already felt something at the naming ceremony for Koryun.”

“Can I ask you what you felt?”

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“I felt I really couldn’t stand looking at Kyosul sitting next to Crown Prince Bipaan. That was excruciating to me. In fact, I felt I couldn’t control my strong urge to come close to her, so I decided not to go.”

“Please stop it.”

Yomin couldn’t hear his excuses anymore.

No matter what he said, she was legally his wife. So, she didn’t want to hear him talking about another woman compassionately.

“I’m going to see the Crown Princess. As your official wife, I’ve got something to tell her.”

He tried to stop her by all means until a few minutes ago, but her attitude was different now. So, he didn’t stop her anymore and let her go her way.

Yomin saw Kyosul in person in her room.

It was pretty rare that these two women were meeting like this. One of them had a disgruntled and sullen expression while the other was so calm and peaceful.

“Long live the Crown Princess! I’m honored to see you.”

Last spring she stepped back from the front gate of the East Palace even without raising her face back then. But she now entered the gate and offered greetings confidently. She told Kyosul at that time that she would no longer come here unless the Crown Princess called her first, but she couldn’t wait for her call anymore. She was determined to come and see her even without Kyosul’s call. She expected Kyosul would not call her anymore in the future.