Chapter 121 (1/2)

In the end, she also confessed to the emperor about her love of Ruhae, something that he could never approve.

She felt she could not hide it anymore, nor did she want to hide it.

She just proudly wanted to shout to everybody that he was her lover.

”Pahahaha!”

Suddenly the emperor laughed a hearty laugh, while all the others in Daejon were very nervous, except for Bipaan.

At that moment, he stepped forward. Kneeling on one knee, he raised the other knee, with a hand on it and opened his mouth, his head slightly down.

”Your Majesty, I would like to make a request to you.”

”As you kneel down before me like that, it looks like you want to speak your mind about these wrongheaded lovers, right?”

Ohyuje was not an ordinary emperor. With as much composure as Bipaan's, he was sneering at Ruhae and Kyosul for their unforgivable sin.

”Please expel them the Crown Princess and the prince from the palace!”

Nobody expected that he would make such a request, not even Ruhae and Kyosul.

But the emperor responded with a calm voice.

”Why are you talking about expelling them all of a sudden?”

”As she is bound in fetters and unable to love me with all her heart in this palace, please expel her with Ruhae out of this imperial palace.”

He again said that Dohwan was clearly his blood, arguing that nobody would challenge it because he was the child's biological father. And he went on to say that he would let go of Kyosul. He asked the emperor to free her and Ruhae from this palace, which was magnificent and gorgeous but very cold.

When Dukwol, who was lying face down, pulled himself together and tried to open his mouth, he had to roll around the floor again. Bipaan, who was very courteous to the emperor, treated him more roughly than anybody else, but the emperor did not bat an eye.

It was not just Bipaan's violent behavior that shut his mouth. The mysterious energy coming from his body, as it had nothing to hide anymore, made it impossible for him to move.

Overwhelmed by Bipaan's overbearing attitude, Dukwol and Oran lay face down on the floor and clenched their teeth. They couldn't even challenge him.

As there was none who disturbed him, Bipaan made short work of having his say.

When he had his say, Ruhae, who was kneeling down, said, ”I have made an unforgivable sin. I know well that I can't stay here anymore. I'm going to leave. Your Majesty, please let me go. Never again will I return to the palace or the Mok Kingdom. ”

Ruhae bowed down to the emperor again and again. Next to him, Kyosul couldn't control tears coming down her cheeks.

”Yes, I'm going to leave. I made the unforgivable sin of loving my brother's wife, for which you can impose a capital punishment, but please have mercy on me and allow me to leave the palace,” Ruhae said loudly.

It was the first time that the emperor heard Ruhae speaking with such a loud voice.

Ruhae always kept his place quietly but surely. He was the next most smart prince after Bipaan, and more docile than anyone else. But he liked his brother's wife and now declared proudly before him that he would leave the palace.

Dumbfounded by Ruhae's bombshell announcement, the emperor burst into laughter.

What else could he do? He laughed suddenly and uncontrollably.

”Under the imperial law I'm going to have Crown Princess Kyosul and Prince Ruhae beheaded for trampling on our morality and their bodies thrown on the fields to give them a bad name.”

The emperor spit out cruel words on their punishment.

Ruhae and Kyosul's faces instantly turned white, but Ruhae did not stop and continued, ”From now on, I will give up my royal name. I will give up my last name Danmok. I will live as a low class man who is no more than a subject to the imperial law. Also, I'll give up all the glory and wealth of the royal family. Just allow me to leave. In this imperial palace where everything works in the world of power, I have met my true love with difficulty. I can't break up with her. Even if you can separate us by capital punishment, we will meet and love again after death. But, please let us live a little more happily in this life. Please allow us to leave.”

While listening to his pleading, the emperor made a mysterious smile.

He raised his right hand slowly. His old hands floating in the air could shut Ruhae's mouth. At that moment, one among those women who were quietly shocked came forward and said, ”Taeryong, your wife and the Queen, dare beg you. Please grant Prince Ruhae's request. ”

That was the start.

”Your second wife Ye, I dare beg you. Please grant his request, and let them leave the palace. ”