Chapter 89 (1/2)

She grumbled in a sullen voice and turned back.

She even closed the window with a bang.

“Kyosul!”

He knocked on the window again, but she didn’t open it again.

He bit his lip, regretting that he teased her too much. Then he put his hand on the window gently and imagined her standing across the window in the room.

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“I’m sorry. I think I carried the joke too far because I really couldn’t tell you the truth right from the beginning.”

“Do you know how surprised I was?” she said in an angry voice.

Calming her troubled feelings gradually, he comforted her and said, “The fall is just around the corner. Perhaps you remember that I’ve been very busy preparing the state civil exams to be held during the fall, right?”

Though she didn’t reply, the window trembled as if she agreed. When he noticed that, he went on with a light heart, “The civil exams are held in the capital areas, but there are exams for applicants in the provinces. Recently, there were some corrupt practices with respect to the state exams, so I’ve made the decision to inspect those areas and check out the problems myself. That’s why I have to leave the palace temporarily. As it was decided so urgently at the cabinet meeting, I was ordered to leave immediately. And I came running here to let you know.”

“I’m happy you came here to bring me the news.”

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Her hardened heart began to melt when he said he came to see her.

“I came running here as I wanted to see your face so much. Won’t you show your face again?”

“Then, why did you confuse me by telling me the lie from the beginning?”

“Because I felt you were so cute when you were choked with tears after hearing about my sudden departure. I was so glad to know you were worried about me, so I carried the joke too far.”

She pouted and grumbled at his excuses.

Knock, knock.

He knocked on the windowsill slowly, “I miss you.”

“How long are you going to stay in the provincial areas?”

“I don’t think it won’t take more than 15 days.”

“15 days?”

“Well, I would like to use this occasion to check out the situation in the major provincial areas in the south, so I’m making my schedule very tight.”

He was still touching the closed window.

“I will come back as soon as possible.”

There was no reply, though, with her leaning against the windowsill.

Stroking the windowsill, he said, “I would like to see your face and contain your images in my eyes.”

Bang!

The window was thrust open louder than it was shut. She stuck her upper body out of the window. Her eyes were welled with tears.

The moment the window was opened, he held out his hand. She folded her fingers with his.

Standing on his toes, he straightened his body and kissed her lips.

When he was in the palace, he didn’t see her every day. Sometimes he didn’t see her for many days. But as she couldn’t see him because he would be in the provincial areas, she was faced with a different situation. Even if she could not see him when he was in the palace, she could imagine that her lover was in the South Palace.

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She realized deeply how much she would miss him when he left the palace for the provincial areas.

“If I had my way, I would climb into the window and hug you right now.”

Though he touched and kissed her, his urge to stay with her became all the stronger. At first, he simply thought he would bring her the news and leave quickly, but he realized he couldn’t.

With the window separating them, they regretted they couldn’t get closer to each other.

“Would you want to come in?”

“You’re tempting me too much now.”

“Why do you think I’m tempting you?”

Faced with her embarrassing question, he just laughed it away.

He climbed the low window dozens of times in his heart. He wanted to jump over it, sneak into her room and hug her endlessly, but he held back his lust by all means. He knew he should exercise restraint at this moment, but he found it really hard to calm down his lustful feelings once he saw her.

Though the window of her room was lower, it implied a lot. It was the window of the Crown Princess’s room in the Dongbi Palace of the East Palace in the imperial palace.

It meant nothing to him if this place was not the imperial palace, if she was not the wife of the Crown Prince and if he was not a prince.

He just kept thinking about such meaningless assumptions.