Chapter 80 (2/2)

“What’s the name of this flower?”

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“Though I’m well versed in learning, I don’t know much about flowers.”

“But you noticed these flowers, right?”

“That’s because you found them first here.”

He broke the stalk of the flower and put it into her hair.

“It looks great on you. I felt it when I met you first. You must like flowers very much, Kyosul.”

“Yes, I do. In particular, I like the morning flowers the most.”

“Oh, I see.”

She implicitly referred to the flowers placed on the window every morning, but without showing any reaction he just nodded.

This time she looked straight at him because she was confused why he pretended not to recognize the flowers. But she just gave it a pass, confused but amused at his reaction.

They went out of their way to find places no one else ventured despite the dust that gathered on their clothes, but they were so happy simply because they were together.

They didn’t necessarily look for dark and remote places around the palace, but the back garden of the outer place was their favorite dating place. Anytime of the day when they missed each other, they would come to the back garden. They found themselves heading for the place even without making prior appointments.

Sometimes either of them went there alone and returned, missing the other one. If they bumped into each other there, they spent some time together happily, nothing more or less.

“It looks like your residence is the outer palace, not the Dongbi Palace.”

“Pardon?”

“Because I always find you here whenever I come here.”

“Well, I find myself heading for this place all the time when I miss you, Ruhae. Sassi sometimes blames me for trip here in vain when I don’t see you. Nonetheless, I just don’t know why I find myself coming to this place whenever I can find any free time.”

For some reason he had a serious expression and changed the topic cautiously.

“You remember when Prince Yomin came to see you the other day, right?”

She grew nervous.

Actually, Yomin visited her recently to make that bombshell announcement. Though Yomin was stopped by several palace people until she reached Kyosul’s room, they didn’t tell Kyosul about it.

Neither Ruhae nor Kyosul mentioned Yomin as they wanted to forget the fact of Ruhae’s unbreakable bond to Yomin.

“How did you know she came here to see me at that time?”

She was even more surprised to discover that Ruhae knew Yomin had come to see her. She hadn’t mentioned it to him on purpose.

“As a matter of fact , I met her in advance.”

“Really? So, did she come to see me?”

“Nope. I stopped her while she was on her way to the Dongbi Palace where you were residing.”

He paused for a moment.

Actually, he long agonized about whether to tell Kyosul about his talk with her or not, but he concluded that both of them needed to know as the matter concerned them.

“Concubine Sassi told me that the princess came to see you.”

“How come she told you about it?” she asked, embarrassed.

Her heart sank at the moment that Sassi told Ruhae.

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Kyosul barely opened her mouth in a trembling voice, “But Sassi has never told me she told you about Yomin’s visit.”

“Sassi said she wanted to stop Princess Yomin from visiting and hurling abusive words at you. Sassi told me she told Yomin resolutely that she had to give up on me.”

Kyosul didn’t respond at all.

She couldn’t think straight at the moment. Her meeting with Ruhae was secret and was supposed to be kept secret. Even if their secret dating were detected by Yomin, his official wife, nobody in the palace was supposed to know about it, but Sassi knew about it despite her efforts to hide it.

“Don’t you think everybody knows about our relationship by now?”

“Even if they know, we have to assume they don’t know,” he said.

She looked at him with a curious look.

“It’s because they are not supposed to expose our relationship easily.”

“Oh, yes, that’s right.”

She often forgot how dangerous of a tightrope she was walking at the moment. And whenever things like this happened, she was reminded of that fact sharply: the danger of their unauthorized dating.