Chapter 94 (2/2)

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“Have a good time as much as you can.”

“Thank you.”

Soon he and his entourage left the villa. Standing in place, she watched him disappearing gradually. When his horse disappeared from sight, she quickly walked back to her room.

“It looks like the Crown Prince and Crown Princess are really enjoying a happy married life.”

Several court ladies who came out to see him off whispered among themselves when she was leaving.

“Wow, I envy them so much. I wish I could find a lover. ”

“Hey, forget about it!”

Of course, they didn’t know anything about the royal couple’s relationship after marriage.

Hearing their babbling and whispering, she quickened her pace biting her lip as she went.

***

Since Bipaan left the villa, she went to bed with a lamp burning outside the white paper window of her room.

She also placed a purple flower in the window sash nearest to her bed. Though she promised to put the flower there as the sign of their promise, she couldn’t blow out the lamp for fear that Ruhae might get lost during the night.

As the lamps were hung on all streets of the villa, it was bright everywhere, but unoccupied buildings were dark with no lamps. She made sure the lamp was on outside

her dwelling, so he could easily find her room among many dwellings in the villa.

Behind the white paper window of her room was lit a faint lamp..

She lay on the bed in the dim room. She went to bed a long time ago, but she had not fallen asleep yet. Though she didn’t see anything amind flickering light, she was just staring into the air without closing my eyes.

“He said he would wrap up his work within 15 days.”

She recalled what Ruhae had said before he went out for the inspection tour in the southern areas.

Somehow she felt nervous. As she felt so lonely and empty in her heart, she couldn’t relax and enjoy her free time at the villa.

‘Why do I feel so lonely now?’

Whenever she was in doubt, she only thought about Ruhae. She felt the reason why she felt so lonely was that Ruhae was not with her now.

“I wish he could come back to me soon. ”

She curled up her body beneath the silk blanket and wrapped her arms around her knees.

Although she slept alone every day since she came down here, she felt her room was unusually large these days.

‘What’s wrong with me?’

Lying in bed, she curled her fists and pressed on her chest.

‘If I hadn’t seen him on the last day, I would have stayed here without knowing he already left.’

Surprisingly enough, she was thinking of Bipaan, not Ruhae.

She felt the villa, famous for its quietness, became more quiet after Bipaan left. Though she hadn’t bumped into him, she felt strange after he left.

Initially she felt the quietness of the villa peaceful, but she now felt it was lifeless and frustrating. She thought her stay at the villa was boring. No matter what she did, she found herself repeating the same thing, so she stopped taking a hot bath and walks. She even closed the window closest to the bed and kept it closed. She did not go outside.

For the first couple of days, her nanny let her do whatever she wanted to do, but she began to worry on the third day. To the best of her knowledge, Kyosul remained in bed only when she was sick. Rather than staying put in any one place, Kyosul liked to go out and visit many places by nature.

“It looks like you’re back to your old habits,” her nanny said.

Was it because of her habits that she formed after coming to the Mok Kingdom?

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“You gave me lots of headache because you used to bum around in the Hwa Kingdom. And now you’re giving me another headache as you spend all day in your room without going out at all.”

Expressing her frustration, her nanny removed the hem of the cloth that covered her bed. Kyosul was lying there just like she did yesterday, as if she got frozen there.

“Why are you disgruntled this time? As you are throwing a tantrum here, I feel embarrassed when the court ladies here look at us with a curious expression.”

Her nanny was complaining with reason. As she watched Kyosul for many years, she lectured her instead of sharing her nervousness or worry.

“I’m just tired,” Kyosul said.

Not caring about her constant nagging, she tossed and turned in bed with a lazy voice.

“As you lie down on the bed like that, it’s natural that you get tired. Just get out of bed, take a walk and breathe in the fresh air. ”

“Well, I know every place here even with my eyes closed.”

“Would you like to go out to the market? As you came down here, I think you can enjoy going to the market for a change.”

“The market…”She briefly seemed to have interest but buried her face into the bedspread again. “I’m tired of going out.”