Chapter 93 (1/2)
He slowly released her wrist and pulled away his other arms from her waist.
She felt his hands were hotter than the spring water. She felt exceptionally cold where he pulled his hands away.
“Thank you.”
Her voice trembled. Touching her right wrist, she walked back carefully.
This time she took extreme care not to slip and distanced herself from him.
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‘Why?’
Her heart pounded. She kept thinking about his mysterious actions.
She didn’t feel it strange when he had caught her when she was slipping, but the fact that he didn’t leave quickly and held her for a while bothered her.
Why did he do so?
To the best of her knowledge, Bipaan was not interested in anything other than succeeding the throne. Why did he hold her in the water for a long time?
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She was confused. She even felt resentful towards her throbbing heart, which was not supposed to pound at all. How come her heart beat so wildly when she saw Bipaan?
She was overwhelmed by confusion for the moment.
‘Wasn’t he ashamed of himself?’
When she thought a little more, she came to understand the situation from her angle.
Her heart beat because she was ashamed, and Bipaan also might have gotten stiff because of the fact that he was naked before her.
‘He must have been ashamed, too.’
Looking back, she wasn’t ashamed in that situation.
She began to feel relaxed and even smile.
‘It’s amazing to discover that such a cold-hearted man can feel ashamed!’
Though it was a guess, she held back laughter, convinced that she was right about his feelings.
She bowed her head to him and said, “Let me head out first, Your Majesty.”
“You just came to this hot bath, right?” he asked suddenly.
She was stopped by his question when she was about to leave.
She turned around and answered awkwardly, covering her half-naked body with her arms,”Yes, you’re right.”
“How come you’re leaving so soon?”
“Because you are here.”
She blinked, wondering if he asked the question on purpose.
“Hummmm…”
Bipaan turned his head as if he couldn’t understand what she was talking about.
Then he said, “As this open-air bath is for everybody, never mind my presence and just enjoy it freely.”
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But she was not persuaded, and asked herself, ‘Well, that’s not my point.’
She protested deep inside in response to his nonchalant suggestion.
‘Doesn’t he feel awkward about the current situation at all?”
She was really frustrated as she couldn’t figure out his real intention.
“What I mean is I really didn’t know you were here, so I was dressed like this. ”
“Your dress?”
When she confessed about her half-nakedness, Bipaan examined her.
She was embarrassed when he was scanning her body. She flinched and quickly fastened the buttons, twisting away from him and covering her body with her arms as much as possible.
Only after checking her, he looked at his own outfit.
“Well, I was dressed like this because I thought I was alone here, but I think you might feel uncomfortable about my clothes.”
He then loosened the hem of the cloth tied to his waist.
“Ooops!”
She screamed in surprise and covered her eyes with her hands. My heart was pounding fast.
He stayed calm despite her screaming.
As she was so curious, she peeked between her fingers and saw him putting on a wet robe .
“Ah….”
She put down her hands with a short exclamation.
Apparently, he initially took off his robe and wrapped it around his waist.At first she thought it was a piece of cloth to cover his lower body because he tied it around his waist.
She was scared and nervous for fear he might remove it completely.
Not caring at all about her reaction, he said calmly, “You don’t have to feel strange about this as you and I are a couple, right? Please enjoy a hot bath freely.”
She felt very awkward about his use of the expression ‘couple.’
She was surprised to hear him saying that he thought they were a couple.
‘Well, we are a couple legally. Anyway, are all couples married?’
She smiled a bitter smile thinking to herself.
“Oh, I see,” she barely responded, nodding.
Though she replied, she was very uncomfortable about the fact that they were in the same bath. She felt uncomfortable from the moment she nodded.
The surface of the water rippled..