The Five-Year-Old Baby Princess Rules the Palace - Chapter 16

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#16. It Was Also Comforting

From Jihoo, who was prostrated with his forehead pressed against the dry ground, thick hot tears flowed down along with heavy breathing.

“Do you want to die!”

“If you knew who my father is, you could die!”

“How dare you touch my nose carelessly! And even touch my face carelessly, you really do want to die!”

Why did he dismiss Princess Eunhye’s words of warning as nonsense back then?

Jihoo shed hot tears with belated regret, his shoulders shaking.

Eunhye, who had been looking at Jihoo with unpleasant eyes, suddenly moved forward and crouched down.

“Princess!”

Lady Han, who was startled, stood close beside Eunhye, and the heads of Hong Moon and Gyori Kim Dae-hyeon, who were similarly prostrated behind Jihoo, lifted up.

Then Eunhye, who was crouched in front of Jihoo, glanced at Kim Dae-hyeon and tilted her head as if puzzled, asking.

“Who are you?”

Only then did Kim Dae-hyeon bow his head while maintaining his prostrated position and reveal his identity.

“I am Hongmungwan Gyori Kim Dae-hyeon, meeting Princess Eunhye for the first time.”

“Ah… Then what relationship do you have with this child called Jihoo?”

It was an inquiry from Princess Eunhye, who was still crouched in her cute manner.

“I am humbly the uncle of that foolish child.”

“Ah… I see.”

Eunhye nodded as if understanding and gently touched the shoulder of Jihoo, who was trembling while prostrated.

Startled.

Just the touch of the small hand he had carelessly grabbed made Jihoo even more startled and bow his head deeper.

“Are you afraid of me now?”

“Princess Eunhye, I repeatedly beg you, please kill only this humble one.”

At Jihoo’s words spoken in a sorrowful voice while crying, Eunhye frowned.

“Do you really want to die?”

“Pardon?”

Jihoo lifted his head in surprise, and tear tracks could be seen running down his dust-covered face.

“If you don’t really want to die, stop asking to be killed. If you die, you become a ghost.”

What is she saying?

Dust had settled like cotton on his long eyelashes that covered his blinking large eyes.

Eunhye wrinkled her nose in a smile at Jihoo, who was looking up at her while prostrated, then removed the hand that had been on his shoulder.

“How could I kill you, who is my teacher’s son? And you are somehow… different. Especially having that handkerchief…”

“Ah!”

At the mention of the handkerchief from Eunhye’s mouth, Jihoo let out a short exclamation as if remembering and quickly put his hand into his chest.

“What are you doing?”

At Jihoo’s behavior, Eunhye widened her round eyes while crouched.

“This thing. I dared to come again to give this to Princess Eunhye.”

Jihoo held up the handkerchief he took from his chest with both hands and bowed his head again.

The white handkerchief placed neatly on his two hands that had been pressed against the dirt ground.

Eunhye swallowed dry saliva at the elegant aura still emanating from the handkerchief Jihoo held up.

“You’re giving this to me?”

“Yes, Princess. Compared to the sin I committed against you, this is merely insignificant, but I am glad to have something I can offer you. Please accept it.”

Eunhye, who had been quietly looking at the handkerchief carefully held on his dirty palms, finally stretched her legs and stood up.

“Stop and get up. And you too, sir, please rise.”

At Eunhye’s command, the two men raised their bodies from the dry ground and knelt.

“Princess, but this handkerchief…”

Jihoo, who couldn’t do anything with the handkerchief that Eunhye hadn’t taken, held it up with both hands and asked in a voice full of fear.

“Surely you said this handkerchief was precious when you saw it. Therefore, I wish to offer this to Princess Eunhye.”

Eunhye quietly looked at Jihoo’s hands, which were trembling finely while holding up the handkerchief, then slowly shook her head.

“Strange. I thought I would want to have that handkerchief quickly when I saw it again. But looking at that handkerchief carefully, it seems the owner is not me. So from now on, just keep it with you.”

“Pardon? Then, how should I repay the sin I committed against you?”

Again, again he opens those bewitching eyes, that brat!

Lady Han glared at Jihoo, who was sending earnest looks toward Eunhye, with fierce eyes.

Though she didn’t quite understand what was going on, something had definitely happened when the Princess went to the Crown Prince’s Palace alone.

It seemed that bastard had committed an unforgivable sin against our Princess, and was now putting on this act to beg for his life and his family’s safety.

Even if our Princess forgives him, I can never forgive him!

Lady Han’s eyes glaring at Jihoo were fierce as if they would breathe fire.

Eunhye stood as if blocking Lady Han’s front and frowned at the tearful Jihoo.

“Hey, you ill-mannered fool. Can the rudeness you committed against me be settled with something like that handkerchief?”

“No!”

Startled, Jihoo prostrated himself flat on the ground again and answered as if shouting.

Ill-mannered… wasn’t that what he had said to Princess Eunhye earlier?

Seeing Jihoo close his eyes tightly and prostrate himself on the ground, Kim Dae-hyeon also looked confused and awkwardly tried to prostrate himself.

Then Eunhye, who shook her cute head at that sight, shouted sharply.

“Ah, it’s enough now so get up! I’m saying it’s done, it’s done!”

“Pardon?”

At Eunhye’s unexpected words, Jihoo, who was prostrated, lifted his head and blinked his large eyes.

“Now that handkerchief is no longer needed, and though you were terribly rude earlier, honestly it was also comforting and consoling, so it’s done. Don’t worry and just go back.”

Comfort? Was there something he had done that brought comfort to the Princess?

Eunhye smiled brightly at Jihoo, who had a surprised face as if he didn’t understand, and waved her small hand back and forth as if telling him to go.

“Really don’t worry and go. If you must repay your debt to me, just be loyal to my brother, no, to His Highness the Crown Prince, wouldn’t that be enough?”

“Ah… Princess!”

Jihoo and Hongmungwan Gyori Kim Dae-hyeon nodded with dazed eyes as if they had been hit hard by something.

Eunhye smiled brightly at them and turned her head to Lady Han, who was still glaring at the two men.

“Lady Han, let’s go quickly. I’m quite hungry.”

“Ah, yes, Princess! Quickly get on my…”

“No, I’ll walk.”

Eunhye stepped aside from Lady Han, who had quickly sat down with her back toward her, and began walking toward Hyesin Palace with dignified steps.

Strangely, she didn’t want to look like a child in front of that guy Kim Jihoo.

“Oh my, Princess! You must not go alone!”

“Come quickly!”

Jihoo, who stood up holding his dizzy head as if a storm had passed, bowed deeply toward Eunhye, who was walking away in the distance.

‘Thank you, Princess Eunhye.’

The sin he had committed against Princess Eunhye was clearly the crime of insulting royalty, so even receiving immediate death sentence would not be excessive.

He had scolded and insulted a princess of a nation and even carelessly laid hands on her royal person, so how could he hope to live?

But the generous Princess Eunhye had forgiven him.

And then she left the strict command that if he wanted to wash away that sin, he should be loyal to His Highness the Crown Prince.

Though young in age, Princess Eunhye was overflowingly brilliant and excellent in her wisdom.

Jihoo’s eyes looking at the departing Eunhye were changing to the tender affection of a dog looking at its master.

Kim Dae-hyeon, who gently placed his hand on Jihoo’s shoulder, also quietly nodded.

According to rumors, Princess Eunhye was said to be half-witted and lacking in many ways, but the person he saw today was truly a legitimate princess of a nation.

Despite being a young princess, she was indescribably intelligent, wise, magnanimous, and generous.

If she was already like this, how much more excellent would she become when she grew up?

Kim Dae-hyeon unknowingly imagined his nephew standing beside Princess Eunhye and smiled contentedly.

“Come, let’s go too. I have much to hear from you.”

At Kim Dae-hyeon’s words, Jihoo nodded and bowed once more toward Eunhye, who had already gone far in the distance.

“Princess Eunhye, I will never forget this kindness you have shown me today until the day I die. And as you have said, I will become a retainer who serves His Highness the Crown Prince with utmost loyalty.”

No one saw the golden light that momentarily flickered in Jihoo’s eyes as he raised his bowed head.

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“Princess, what on earth happened between you and that rascal?”

Lady Han, who was hurrying along beside Eunhye as they walked toward the distant Hyesin Palace, asked with a face dying of curiosity.

“Don’t know.”

“Oh come now, please tell me. Was that fellow the one you mentioned earlier, the one who didn’t recognize you?”

Lady Han asked Eunhye again while turning around sharply to look back.

“Don’t know either.”

“But you said you received comfort from that young lord? What did you mean by that?”

“Don’t know that too.”

“Are you really going to be like this?”

“Yes!”

As she nodded her head firmly, her plump cheeks bounced along with the motion.

Lady Han smiled while rolling her eyes playfully at that adorable sight, then spotted Lady Park rolling toward them from a distance and raised her hand high.

“Lady Park!”

As the boisterous Lady Han’s loud voice rang sharply in Eunhye’s ears, a gentle voice that had suddenly come to mind…

“Are you wandering around alone? Let’s go together. Still, two is better than one, isn’t it?”

Eunhye smiled softly as she recalled Jihoo’s warm comfort.

“Go ahead and blow your nose. That dirty snot is going to get in your mouth.”

As she heard that fellow Jihoo’s rather dignified voice again, Eunhye remembered the handkerchief that had held her nostrils and those hands, making her scrunch up her nose for no reason.

It seemed as if the fragrant scent that had wafted from the handkerchief was still sweetly lingering somewhere.

Though she felt slightly regretful about not accepting the handkerchief, its owner was definitely that fellow Jihoo.

When he tried to hand it to her, hadn’t a red and auspicious light emanated from the characters at the corner of the handkerchief? It seemed like a warning telling her not to touch it.

So she had refused with the lie that it was no longer needed, but Eunhye tilted her head in puzzlement at the fact that no one else but her could see that light.

Why couldn’t anyone else see that light?

Where did that fellow get such a strange and mysterious handkerchief?

Just as her small head was filled to bursting with these thoughts and her fair forehead was slightly furrowing,

“Haha, Princess, at this rate our Lady Park is going to fall over!”

At the laughing voice of Lady Han walking beside her, Eunhye looked up to see Lady Park running toward them frantically, clutching her skirt with both hands.

At that sight, Eunhye’s adorable face broke into a bright smile as she raised one hand high and shouted.

“Nanny! I’m hungry!”

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