The Five-Year-Old Baby Princess Rules the Palace - Chapter 15

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#15. Only Death Awaits Now?

“What did you say?”

The real story hadn’t even begun yet, but Kim Dae-hyeon came to an abrupt halt in the middle of the marketplace.

Jihoo looked up at his uncle with a tearful expression, clenching his fists tightly at his sides.

“Truly, the young girl who was being scolded by a woman who seemed to be His Majesty the King’s concubine, no, the person you spoke to was indeed Princess Eunhye?”

“Yes…”

Jihoo, who had been looking up at Kim Dae-hyeon, lowered his head and answered quietly.

“Good heavens…! Then you didn’t recognize Princess Eunhye and treated her carelessly?”

“Yes…”

“Good heavens!”

Kim Dae-hyeon sighed repeatedly and looked up at the sky before lowering his head.

“What were you thinking, wandering around the palace so fearlessly!”

“I have done wrong. However, Uncle, I will receive punishment for my wrongdoing when we return home later, but could you please help me enter the palace right now?”

Seeing Jihoo’s extremely urgent manner of speaking with a face ready to burst into tears, Kim Dae-hyeon opened his mouth with an incredulous expression.

“Then, what would change if you entered the palace? Do you think you could possibly meet Princess Eunhye again?”

It was complete nonsense.

He didn’t know why Princess Eunhye was wandering alone in the palace when she met his nephew, but she wasn’t someone just anyone could meet carelessly.

She was His Majesty the King’s one and only precious daughter, residing in Hyesin Palace, the Princess’s Quarters located in the innermost part of the palace.

To think he could meet such a Princess Eunhye by just entering the palace recklessly – what am I doing listening to a child’s words?

“I almost lost my mind. Let’s go back. Go and tell me the rest of the story.”

Kim Dae-hyeon turned his steps away from the palace.

“You cannot!”

“What did you say?”

Kim Dae-hyeon’s eyebrows twitched fiercely as he turned his head at the loud voice from behind.

“What did you just say?”

Jihoo looked up at Kim Dae-hyeon with a resolute expression and straight gaze.

“If we go to the palace right now, I can definitely meet Princess Eunhye. I will handle what happens after that myself, so please grant my wish just once, Uncle. The fate of our family depends on this.”

Now he was so dumbfounded he couldn’t even speak. Kim Dae-hyeon narrowed his eyes as he looked down at his nephew who seemed out of his mind.

“Do you know how absurd and nonsensical your words are? Meet whom if you go now? Do you even know where you want to go?”

“I know. Why else would they call it the nine-fold palace? However, Uncle.”

Kim Dae-hyeon felt an unknown sense of unease and even chilliness at Jihoo’s gaze as he stopped speaking and looked straight at him.

Was it his imagination that his young nephew’s eyes, looking at him with a fearless attitude, momentarily took on a golden hue?

To such Kim Dae-hyeon, Jihoo spoke again with a firm voice.

“We must go now. I don’t know the reason, but I’m certain we can meet her. Therefore, Uncle, please grant my request just once.”

“This is absolutely ridiculous…”

Kim Dae-hyeon was at a loss for words at Jihoo’s utterly absurd statement.

“Uncle, this nephew will enter the palace and absolutely not cause any disturbance. I will just go once to the place where I met Princess Eunhye this morning and return. Please permit me just that far.”

Kim Dae-hyeon inhaled and exhaled deeply, making a contemplative sound at the unknown energy emanating from young Jihoo.

Could that child possibly be like his mother…

Kim Dae-hyeon shook his head vigorously as if his thoughts made no sense and looked at Jihoo with stern eyes.

“Fine. Since you desire it so earnestly, I will enter the palace with you. However, as you said, we will only go to the place where you met Princess Eunhye this morning and return. Do you understand?”

“Yes, Uncle. Thank you.”

‘If my younger brother finds out about this, he’ll surely give me an earful.’

Kim Dae-hyeon squeezed his eyes shut and opened them, thinking of his stubborn younger brother Kim Gyo-hyeon.

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“Damn, it’s so bloody far.”

From the mouth of Lady Han, who was carefully walking while carrying the deeply sleeping Eunhye on her back, poured crude curses that didn’t match her gentle gait.

“How difficult it must have been for you to run this long distance alone… If only our Hyesin Palace had a library, there would be no need to go all the way to the Crown Prince’s Palace?”

The sun was already hanging at the top of the sky, and the quite stinging sunlight was beating down on her head.

Lady Han sniffled unnecessarily and muttered toward Hyesin Palace, which was finally visible in the distance.

“Our Princess must be hungry too…”

The usual time for the midday meal had long passed.

“I should hurry and lay her down in a comfortable place, then prepare the meat noodles she likes.”

Just as she was quickening her careful steps, thinking she should prepare them so they’d be ready as soon as the Princess woke up, Lady Han came to an abrupt halt.

In the distance, wasn’t there a boy in young lord’s clothing walking urgently toward her with an adult in official robes?

Who could it be? What young lord is doing in the palace?

Lady Han, who had been looking at the two approaching men with a puzzled face, opened her eyes wide with curiosity toward the young lord who stopped in front of her.

Wasn’t he truly beautifully formed?

The young lord’s beauty was truly exquisite.

With skin white as jade, a straight forehead, eyebrows black as if drawn, and above a high and sharp nose bridge, large eyes that seemed to draw one in with their mysterious light.

Moreover, why were his moderately full lips curled up so seductively?

A male nine-tailed fox? This is crazy.

Lady Han quickly closed and opened her eyes, shaking her head at her own absurd thoughts.

“I am truly sorry for blocking your path, my lady.”

“Yes… but what business… did you perhaps lose your way?”

Lady Han glanced at the man in official robes standing about a step behind the young lord.

“Ah, that is… that is not it.”

The young lord stopped speaking, moistened his lips with his tongue, and even swallowed his dry saliva.

What’s with you?

Lady Han, who had completely erased the expression of being enchanted by the young lord’s beauty from moments before, straightened her shoulders a bit more lest Princess Eunhye on her back be seen, and put strength in her eyes as she looked at the two men before her.

“Please go on your way. As you can see, I am in a hurry…”

As Lady Han moved aside to pass the two people who seemed to be blocking her path, the young lord’s desperate voice reached her ears.

“Wait, just a moment!”

“…?!”

Lady Han frowned and wrinkled one eyebrow, raising her voice sharply toward the young lord who seemed to be blocking her way.

“What is this? Do you know who I am serving that you dare block my path so carelessly?”

“I am sorry, my lady. I know that blocking Princess Eunhye’s path is an unforgivable act of disrespect…”

He knows that the person on my back is Princess Eunhye! Who are you really!

Just as Lady Han, whose expression had hardened unlike before, was about to speak harshly, she saw eyes filled with tears as clear as dew within gentle deer-like eyes!

Lady Han just blinked her round eyes as if enchanted by the young lord’s eyes looking up at her with a face ready to cry.

What kind of man has such strange eyes? Is he really a nine-tailed fox?

Then a thunderbolt-like sound reached Lady Han’s ears.

“Though I know it is truly a mortal sin, I have words I must convey to Princess Eunhye and something I must give her, so please let me see the Princess just once. The fate of our family depends on this.”

They say when you’re too dumbfounded, you even forget what to say. Lady Han was so shocked that she just stared blankly at the male nine-tailed fox shedding tears in front of her, her mouth half-open.

Why are you saying such ridiculous things so earnestly? When did you ever see our Princess that you have words to convey and something to give! Moreover, the fate of your family? Your fate? This is ridiculous, you damn fox bastard!

She should have shouted that, but watching the tears falling drop by drop from those gentle eyes, her mouth just wouldn’t open. Moreover, why is that lord standing behind the young lord just watching without saying anything?

Lady Han shook her head vigorously as if trying to regain her senses, opened her eyes properly, and glared at the young lord and the man in official robes before her. Just as she was about to speak,

“Lady Han, what’s the matter?”

Our precious Princess has awakened! You damn bastard!

“Have we arrived at Hyesin Palace?”

Lady Han felt the warm and precious stirring on her back and spoke in a gentle voice while feeling slightly dizzy.

“No, Princess. You may rest your eyes a little longer. We will arrive soon.”

“Mm. I’m hungry.”

Move aside, our Princess says she’s hungry!

Lady Han’s heart became urgent as she glared fiercely at the crying Jihoo and Kim Dae-hyeon, and just as she was about to take a step,

“Huh? Aren’t you… that guy called Jihoo from earlier?”

“Princess Eunhye! Please save me. I have committed a mortal sin!”

At the sight of the two men falling flat on the dry ground along with Princess Eunhye’s voice that seemed to know the young lord before her, Lady Han stood frozen in place, her surprised mouth stammering.

What, was he really a young lord that our Princess knows?

As Lady Han stared with wide, surprised eyes at the two men prostrated front and back before her, she heard Eunhye’s small laugh making a snickering sound.

“Lady Han, could you put me down?”

“Ah, yes yes, Princess. But would it be alright? Even if they are from the Ikwisa.”

“No, it’s fine. I know this guy.”

Though he was called a young lord, as Lady Han hesitated whether it was proper to let down a princess of the nation so carelessly, Eunhye wriggled on her back, gesturing to be put down quickly.

“Yes, Princess. Then you must stay close by my side.”

“I know.”

Eunhye jumped down from Lady Han’s back as she carefully sat down and removed the hands that had been supporting her bottom, then shook out her wrinkled skirt with a flap.

Then she lifted her arrogant chin upward and smiled a victorious smile toward Jihoo, who was lying flat before her.

Huh, but who is that guy? He’s not Master?

Eunhye glanced at the man in red official robes prostrated behind Jihoo, then stepped forward as if it didn’t matter.

“Your name was Jihoo, right?”

“Yes, Princess Eunhye. That you remember even my humble name is an honor to my family.”

“Hmm… Really? That’s a bit different from what you said earlier?”

Ah…!

Jihoo squeezed his eyes shut, recalling the reckless words he had spat toward Princess Eunhye about an hour and a half (3 hours) ago and his rude behavior that couldn’t be forgiven even with his life.

“Princess Eunhye! No matter what words I offer, I know well that the sin I committed against you will not disappear. I beg you, kill only me and please preserve our family!”

“…”

Step, step, step.

At Jihoo’s words confessing his mortal sin, Eunhye made no reply and took one step, two steps forward.

“Prin!”

“Shh!”

Eunhye shook her head at Lady Han, who tried to stop her with a startled face, then finally approached and stood before Jihoo, who was prostrated on the dirt ground.

“Now that you know who my father is, you really only have death left, don’t you?”

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