Even If Flowers Bloom on a Broken Branch - Chapter 70

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70.
“But still.”
It was after they had finished eating dinner.
Since Lord Seo had not yet returned home, only Lee Yeon and Jinyul partook in the Seokban, and the servants of the Seo Family, after serving a dinner table meant just for the two of them, perceptively brought out a liquor table as well.
Setting Jinyul aside, Lee Yeon, who was unaccustomed to alcohol, already had a flushed face from just a single cup.
“I really dislike His Majesty so much.”
At the sight of her pouring out her true feelings while pretending to grumble, quite unlike her usual self, Jinyul, who was leaning his back against the wall, chuckled.
“Why is that?”
“Are we not newlyweds? He gives us absolutely no time to be together.”
Lee Yeon frowned as she held her cup with both hands.
“After the Queen’s Celebration Banquet was over, didn’t he make you inspect all the Government Offices across the country, and now he has ordered someone who has barely just returned to set off on a long journey once again?”
When Lee Yeon reached for the kettle to refill her completely empty cup, Jinyul poured her cold water instead of wine.
Lee Yeon frowned openly for him to see.
“Why?”
“Drink some water first. This kettle isn’t going anywhere. And I have absolutely no intention of leaving this room today, either.”
Where could I possibly go while leaving a drunken rabbit behind? Ignoring his additional remark, Lee Yeon emptied the bowl of cold water in one gulp.
And when she slithered her wine cup forward as if it were only natural, Jinyul filled it about halfway.
Lee Yeon pouted her lips in dissatisfaction, but then she sipped the sweet grain wine little by little, like a mountain rabbit drinking from a spring.
“Furthermore, rebuilding the fortress walls must be no ordinary task. Not only is the labor force that needs to be managed immense, but it will also take a long time. Just how much of it collapsed?”
“About half?”
“Then how long will it take?”
Jinyul tilted his head slightly and spoke without much certainty.
“About… I think it will easily take three months.”
“If it is three months, is that not over a hundred days?!”
Lee Yeon emptied her cup in a single draft with a thoroughly sullen expression. Jinyul looked at her with a troubled look before laughing as if he could not stop her.
“Does it make sense for a newlywed couple to spend less than a week together and be separated for months every single time? This is too much. He is definitely doing this on purpose.”
“Is that so?”
“It is narrow-minded jealousy. It is petty revenge. He is definitely throwing a tantrum because I chose you.”
Lee Yeon’s upper body swayed back and forth.
The fact that she was in the same room with Jinyul after a long time, her relief that he had returned safely, and the alcohol playing a heavy part on top of that caused her usual noble and elegant demeanor to vanish entirely, leaving her limp and loose.
When Jinyul pushed the liquor table away slightly, Lee Yeon quickly grabbed her cup, but upon realizing that what was sloshing inside was cold water, she openly wore a disappointed expression.
“It’s sweet, so it tastes delicious.”
“Even so, tomorrow’s Lee Yeon will wish that today’s Lee Yeon had stopped drinking. Grain wine leaves a dreadful aftermath.”
“How dreadful is it?”
“Your head here will feel like it’s splitting painfully.”
Having approached her before she knew it, Jinyul tapped Lee Yeon’s forehead lightly with his fingertip.
His finger traced down her forehead and gently caressed her flushed cheek. When Lee Yeon shrugged her shoulders as if it tickled, his finger, which had traced down her neckline, lost its destination for a moment.
“And there will be a tremendous rebellion here as well.”
Lee Yeon flinched.
The place where his finger settled once more was beneath Lee Yeon’s collarbone. His finger, drawing a path as if crossing between the two rounded mounds, paused for a moment.
“A storm might rage inside. If it flows backward, it will be incredibly painful, but do you still want to drink?”
At the subtle yet terrifying threat, Lee Yeon slumped her shoulders.
“……No.”
“Good girl.”
Jinyul gently stroked Lee Yeon’s hair. He cupped her flushed cheeks with his palms and made her look at him.
As their lightly touching lips parted slightly, a small mwah sound resonated.
Whether it was because of the alcohol or for some other reason, her lips were exceptionally sweet.
“A sweet scent is vibrating from here.”
Jinyul tilted his head and lightly licked Lee Yeon’s lips. The moment the tip of his tongue touched her lips, Lee Yeon shrugged her shoulders slightly as if tickled.
Jinyul quietly wrapped his hands around those shoulders and pulled his body even closer. The front of his robes was bulging slightly.
“Have you been lonely spending the nights by yourself all this time?”
Jinyul gently pressed down on both of Lee Yeon’s knees with his hands. Lee Yeon’s thighs parted to both sides without any resistance.
Jinyul slid his hand inside the peach-colored skirt. The hot hand that slipped in touched a thigh of a similar temperature.
“Did this place miss me too?”
As he rubbed the inner flesh, Lee Yeon flinched and leaned her body forward.
“You seem dizzy.”
Catching Lee Yeon with his right arm just as she was about to fall forward, Jinyul slowly shifted his position and sat right across from her. Jinyul let Lee Yeon rest her head against his chest.
Meanwhile, his hand, moving quietly, had already untied the thin ribbon securing her waist beneath the skirt. His fingers, which had been subtly fondling her bare waist, caressed the lower part of her rounded breasts.
Lee Yeon groaned softly and gripped Jinyul’s robes.
“Yul…….”
“You didn’t forget. That I told you to call me by my name when it’s just the two of us.”
At the whispering voice that seemed to lick her ear, Lee Yeon collapsed helplessly. The ribbon ties that had been fastening her jacket had long since been undone before she even noticed.
Flushed with heat, Lee Yeon took off her upper garment herself. Thanks to wearing comfortable clothes at home, Lee Yeon was left wearing only her jacket, skirt, underpants, and undergarments, excluding the numerous and bothersome layered robes.
Jinyul buried his face in Lee Yeon’s upper body. Jinyul’s nose, lips, and tongue touched her fair bare skin one after another. At the slow, rubbing movement, Lee Yeon gripped his shoulders tightly.
“This is trouble.”
Everywhere his lips and tongue passed, a red mark was left behind. Jinyul lightly nibbled beneath her pertly rising breasts with his teeth while parting Lee Yeon’s legs with both hands.
“Your entire body is so sweet.”
“……!”
Lee Yeon bit her lip and threw her head back. Along with a foreign sensation, flashes of light sparked before her eyes.
It was not their first time joining bodies, yet she felt as though she had already half-melted from the foreplay alone.
Lee Yeon, whose body was trembling finely as if a wave had just crashed over her, unconsciously moved her hand and grabbed the front of Jinyul’s robes.
When Lee Yeon mindlessly moved her hand, Jinyul groaned faintly and furrowed his brow.
“Ugh…….”
It was the first time he had made such an expression, so Lee Yeon’s eyes sparkled in an instant.
As Lee Yeon moved her hand, Jinyul gripped her shoulders with a dizzy look on his face.
“Lee, Yeon……!”
It was a hand far smaller compared to Jinyul’s, but it was enough to drive him into a corner.
Driven into a tight spot by the unexpected attack, Jinyul let out a sharp breath through his teeth and lifted Lee Yeon’s body into his arms. And then he laid her down upon the bedding.
As the coldness of the blanket touched her body, Lee Yeon trembled lightly. But that lasted only for a moment; hot breath brushed against her neckline.
“You started this first.”
Jinyul lowered his body, pressing firmly against Lee Yeon’s lower part with his knee. At that burning heat which made her instantly forget the cold sensation of the blanket, Lee Yeon closed her eyes tightly and wrapped her hands around Jinyul’s neck.
Jinyul buried his lips into her exposed white, long neckline while fitting his body between her two legs. At the tingling sensation felt right beneath her waist, Lee Yeon let out a small gasp of admiration and arched her neck back.
“Ah……!”
“And from now on, let’s make it so you only drink alcohol with me.”
I will be the only one to see this side of you.
The answer to that threat was not words. Since it was no longer a situation where words could be spoken.

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