Chapter 112 (2/2)

It was the first time she met with the queen alone. She saw the queen briefly at a banquet at a distance. Kyosul was at a loss about what to do, even though the queen asked her to just sit down. Noticing her uncomfortable posture, Queen Taeryeong, holding her pet weasel on the shoulder, gently stroked its fur and smiled at her.

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“Are you going to make me feel pain in my neck? As you’re pregnant, just sit. ”

She was grateful to the queen for her kindness and sat back on the seat but kneeled, still feeling uncomfortable. When she was looking at the queen’s white hand decorated with pointed nail ornaments gently stroking the weasel’s fur, the nanny came in with her head down holding a refreshment tray and put it down before her politely.

As she was already eating some cookies before the queen came in, the nanny placed tea and other kinds of snacks on the plate and left. When Kyosul was about to reach out and pour the tea into the teacup, the queen quickly picked up the teapot.

“Just make yourself at ease.”

With a gentle smile, the queen poured tea into two small teacups, handed one to her and picked up another for herself. After sipping tea a bit, the queen put her hand on the weasel and asked, “Do you know my pet’s name?”

“Oh, I understand its name is Paekye.”

As she heard its name in passing in the past, she was not so sure.

“Yes, correct. Its name is Paekye. It means a white lion. I really value it as I got it in my later years. ”

The queen looked down at the weasel, Paekye, with a gentle gaze. Paekye, with its nose buried in her lapel, made a squeaking sound. As she put her hand on its face, the weasel licked her hand. As Kyosul looked at her cuddling Paekye blankly, the queen suddenly asked her.

“But it’s a bit surprising.”

“Pardon?”

The queen turned her eyes away from the weasel and looked at her.

Though she was an old woman, her eyes were intense.

‘Isn’t she the queen of a great empire?’ she thought to herself at that moment.

Although she met her eyes very briefly, Kyosul flinched and trembled.

She couldn’t avoid her sharp and penetrating eyes. Fixing her gaze on Kyosul, she said, “Although I am Bipaan’s biological mother, I thought he would never open his heart to anybody, and I was convinced that I was right in my judgement. That’s why I can’t understand how come he …”

“Oh, I see…”

Although she responded quietly, her heart was beating fast.

The queen correctly understood that part of Bipaan’s character: his cold-heartedness.

She continued, “He’s so cold-hearted. Though I’m his biological mother, he is so formal even to me. When he looks at me with a cold look, I feel like I’m being intimidated. Basically, he was born to be the crown prince and the emperor. I just wonder how he could kindly accept you…”

“The Crown Prince is a warm-hearted man.”

Although she had been offended by Bipaan’s cold attitude, she just listened to the queen when the latter began to complain about him.

Clearly, Bipaan seemed to be able to read everyone’s mind with that cool, sharp eye.

But she remembered that his hands were really warm.

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In fact, his hands were warmer than anybody’s that she touched so far.

After she shut her mouth when Kyosul responded, she looked at Kyosul for a moment and then grinned all of a sudden.

“I was worried about you because you came here to get married at the emperor’s order, but I think my concern was groundless. I’m glad to know that you really understand Bipaan rightly.”

The queen laughed. Kyosul also smiled like her, but could not smile comfortably.

‘Understand him right?’

In fact, she didn’t. The only fact that she knew about him was that his hands were warm.

Shortly after the queen left, the court day on standby called her again.

“Princess Heyjin wants to inquire about you.”

“Let her in.”