Chapter 24 - I can molest you every night (2/2)
I feel better. It was only a kiss. He could have done a lot more. Wait, why I am happy that it was only a kiss? It is still wrong.
”You are something.” I crack my knuckles. ”I don't care if you drive your sword across my neck. How dare you kiss me, you pervert? To molest a drunk woman? Is there any law in this country?”
He sighs and takes my hand. ”Don't worry. I will marry you.”
I am startled when I hear his voice. Li Jun can talk?
He touches my face with his palm and rubs my lower lip with his thumb. ”Then, I can molest you every night.”
Sorry, what? My brain can't catch up.
”The fifth prince must have informed General Yu by now.” He pushes me down on the bed. ”Sleep. We will be returning to the capital soon.”
”Hold up!” I push him away. ”What marriage? Who will marry you? I refuse.”
”You can't refuse.”
”It's useless to talk to a lunatic.” I had doubts, but I am sure now. He doesn't stop me when I run away to my aunt. I find her sitting across the prince with dark circles under her eyes. There is a scroll between them. Both are playing a staring game. I don't have time for this.
”General Yu, that lunatic is saying strange things.” I grab her legs. ”He told me that he is going to marry me. That is impossible, right?”
She stares at me and says, ”It's not impossible. It's the emperor's command.”
Shit!
”I can't marry someone else.” I can't even call her aunt now. The prince is here. ”Listen, General Yu. I love you a lot. We even spent nights together. How can I marry another man?”
Okay, it makes me sick to say those things. However, these are desperate times.
”I wish there was another way.” My aunt looks more dead than me. I look at the prince who is smiling.
”Fifth prince, I can't marry Li Jun. If I marry him, I will die. Nobody will even find my corpse.”
”Then, you can be executed for not following the emperor's command. After all, you are just a random woman found on the battleground. Isn't General Yu going to discard letting you warm his bed after this season?” He tells me with his soft voice. ”Usually, women like you are killed on sight. However, Li Jun fell for you at first sight. The emperor decided to make an exception for him. If Li Jun wants you, you must become his.”
”This is ridiculous. Why someone else is deciding my marriage?” I am a 21st-century woman. I don't belong to this country. I don't owe anyone.
”Kyuri, keep your mouth shut.” My aunt warns me. ”Do you want to die that much?”
”But...” Death's at every door for me.
She puts her finger on her lips. ”Silence.”