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SIDESTORY - CHAPTER 4.3
"I think you're scared a lot, so please officially introduce yourself to me later."
Yoon said as he passed by Eunseol. Haewoon only focused on Eunseol without even acknowledging him.
After that, the door shut quietly again.
"May I open my eyes, Haewoon?"
Her throat was healed. It was so parched earlier that she couldn’t even swallow her saliva. The conclusion of the story she heard with bated breath was that the emperor had no intention of bringing Haewoon down. Contrary to what was known, they even had a deep bond.
"You wouldn't have abandoned your husband and child, would you?"
"Oh ... "
“Shall I guess?”
Eunseol pressed her eyes tightly with her palm.
She was not confident to see Haewoon’s face now. She tried to do the same thing as her own mother. She remembered that she was going to leave the child with him and she gulped down.
"If His Majesty opposes ... "
Who can disobey his majesty’s order?
Eunseol grew up on the battlefield so she knew that a man of high ranking could commit anything. Hundred and thousands of people were killed by the wrong command of a dumb head. And the emperor acted as such a kind of leader. How high is he, how can she refuse when he is so high up away? The best way for her was to keep the emperor and the general away from each other.
She didn’t like the fact that there was a woman who was attached to Haewoon before her.
The emperor wasn’t what she wanted. Eunseol noticed that.
“My wife has a habit of worrying about unnecessary things. The only thing you need to worry about is you. Even the child in the womb cannot be your concern."
Haewoon said to leave everything else to him.
He still smelled of blood. Eunseol was afraid of how far this man could go for her and where it would end.
"General."
"That's what you call me again. You're not my subordinate. "
Eunseol still has a habit of calling him general. Haewoon bit the tip of her nose slightly as punishment.
“The Emperor has no brothers now. As he took a step to the throne, I had executed them all with my own hands.”
The weakest had to be put on the throne. If you put something strong there, it will only hit you. There was no need for an emperor to keep his every move in check.
“Though he no longer has brothers who can become emperors, he has many sons who could become emperors. If you are uncomfortable, I can do what I have already done once or twice.”
Eunseol reached out and closed Haewoon’s mouth shut, shivering and shaking her head. Now, this story was so blatant that even the most ignorant of people could recognize it as treason. Haewoon spoke of rebellion in the Imperial Palace.
His eyes were so calm as he brought up words that could not be brought up as a joke. He was a man whose expression didn't change even if he was covered in someone else’s blood.
"Please, don't say that."
"Are you afraid that my neck might fall off?"
Haewoon bit her finger that covered his lips and asked calmly. The emperor’s chambers have ears that listen. Even though he knew that all of his actions and conversations that were taking place there would be passed on to Yoon as it is, he remained silent.
As soon as he heard that Eunseol had entered the emperor’s bedchamber, his blood boiled down.
The emperor had provoked him too much. Yoon had laughed once and said that he wanted to see his teacher embarrassed.
The moment he heard of the news though, the soaring emotion he felt was more like anger than embarrassment.
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