The Five-Year-Old Baby Princess Rules the Palace - Chapter 27

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#27. I Will Never Forgive You

 

“Nanny… I’m sorry. I hit you, didn’t I? Does it hurt a lot?”

 

After the royal physician left and Eunhye had stabilized, she looked up at Lady Park, who was holding her hand tightly, and spoke softly.

 

“Hurt? That’s absolutely not the case, Princess. This servant didn’t hurt at all.”

 

Lady Park, with a tearful expression, shook her head vigorously as if it were absurd and continued speaking.

 

“I’m so sorry. We servants should never have left the room empty until the end, sob sob.”

 

Eunhye pouted her tear-dampened lower lip and shook her head.

 

“No. It’s not nanny’s or Lady Han’s fault. I saw something very scary earlier…”

 

With Lady Park’s help, Eunhye wiggled and sat up, extending her small hand.

 

“It’s red. It must have hurt. Hoooo.”

 

Like a gentle puppy, her round eyes with long, black eyelashes had tears that hadn’t dried yet hanging like dewdrops.

 

At the lovely sight of Eunhye pursing her small, red lips like wild strawberries into a circle and blowing gently on her cheek, Lady Park burst into tears again.

 

“Sob, our kind Princess… This servant doesn’t hurt at all. Are you alright now, Princess?”

 

Lady Park gently took Eunhye’s small hands like fern fronds and asked in a tearful voice.

 

“Yes. I’m okay now.”

 

Eunhye looked up with her tear-dampened clear eyes, glancing back and forth between Lady Park and Lady Han, then looked around the room.

 

Where did grandmother and that child go?

 

The death she saw through the ghost boy’s eyes was an enormous shock and terror for Eunhye.

 

She had seen many ghosts after recovering from smallpox, but it had never been as frightening as this time.

 

Could it be that looking directly into a dead person’s eyes shows you their death?

 

Eunhye shook her head vigorously to shake off the bone-chilling pain from the well that was trying to resurface.

 

Scary! Where are you, grandmother?

 

“Princess! Do you see something again?”

 

Lady Park and Lady Han simultaneously shouted toward Eunhye, who suddenly closed her eyes tightly and shook her head.

 

At their shouts, Eunhye stopped shaking her head and caught her breath.

 

It’s okay. I have King Gwangjo grandmother who is incredibly, incredibly strong!

 

Eunhye clenched her molars and opened her black eyes wide.

 

Come to think of it, grandmother was definitely talking to someone earlier, wasn’t she?

 

I don’t know who it was, but grandmother seemed unable to move.

 

Who could it be?

 

A ghost friend of grandmother’s?

 

“Princess? What’s wrong?”

 

The Princess, who seemed to fear something and even closed her eyes, was now silently thinking deeply about something without saying a word.

 

“Lady Park!”

 

“Yes, yes, Princess.”

 

At Eunhye’s words calling her “Lady Park” unusually formally, Lady Park hurriedly bowed and answered.

 

“No. Lady Han, go and call This Servant from the Confectionery Department.”

 

“Pardon?”

 

At such a sudden command, Lady Park and Lady Han’s eyes widened.

 

“This Servant from the Confectionery Department, right now?”

 

“Yes. I have something I absolutely must ask.”

 

What could she possibly want to ask that she’s calling This Servant who came to the Princess’s Quarters today? And right after waking up, no less.

 

At Lady Park’s bewildered expression, Eunhye bit and released her lower lip once more and said.

 

“I’m really okay. So quickly call This Servant. Okay?”

 

She had to ask.

 

Even if that terrifying water ghost was still clinging to This Servant’s back, she absolutely had to ask.

 

Why did you do that?

 

Why did you let your young sibling fall into the well and die?

 

The well cover that was coldly shut as if not hearing the desperate cries of “sister” until the breath was cut off.

 

Remembering This Servant’s face that the boy saw last as he was dying, Eunhye clenched her small fist.

 

I will never forgive you.

 

I will definitely resolve your unjust resentment, I promise.

 

It was the moment Eunhye’s promise to the ghost boy who cried bloody tears became a resolution.

 

Eunhye’s expression, which had been trembling with fear and crying just moments before, became firm.

 

Lady Park, who had been watching such Eunhye with confused eyes, quietly gestured to Lady Han.

 

Though young in age, once she set her mind on something, she was a little master who would never bend her will. Whatever the matter was, they had to first bring This Servant from the Confectionery Department as commanded.

 

Lady Park stood up with Lady Han. Then Eunhye, with pursed lips, gave another command.

 

“And tell This Servant to bring lots of rice cakes and yakgwa when she comes.”

 

Lady Park and Lady Han’s eyes widened at the instruction to bring refreshments again. Hadn’t she just stacked up the refreshments that came in earlier in a strange manner without eating them?

 

“You mean to bring refreshments again?”

 

At Lady Park’s careful question, Eunhye nodded and muttered with a sad face.

 

“He said he was hungry.”

 

“Pardon?”

 

At Lady Park’s confused response, Eunhye shook her head as if annoyed.

 

“Anyway, Lady Han, quickly go call This Servant, and Lady Park, go outside and take the palace servants far away. Understand?”

 

“Pardon? What are you saying? That won’t do, Princess. Didn’t you just faint while alone earlier!”

 

“I won’t be alone, This Servant will be with me too.”

 

Eunhye spoke in a firm voice to Lady Park and Lady Han, who stood bowing their heads saying it wouldn’t do.

 

“Princess, that is not possible. We cannot leave you alone with a servant who isn’t even a personal attendant. Please allow at least this servant to stay with you.”

 

Even though this was a separate palace within the royal palace, how could they dare leave the legitimate Princess of this country alone with just a nain? Especially a Princess who had just regained consciousness after fainting.

 

At Lady Park’s plea, Eunhye frowned her delicate brow and shook her head as if refusing.

 

“No! Then tell everyone to go away, and only nanny stay outside the door. That works, right?”

 

It was midday when Princess’s stubbornness, which even the Crown Prince couldn’t stop, came through with firm eyes.

 

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Carrying a refreshment table with rice cakes and yakgwa, This Servant’s expression was serious as she crossed the threshold of the busy Hye-shin Palace Kitchen preparing for dinner.

 

Why would Princess suddenly want to see me, and with a separate refreshment table prepared as well?

 

When I greeted her this morning, she didn’t say anything particular.

 

With an uneasy feeling, biting her lower lip nervously, This Servant came outside shaking her head, looking for someone.

 

Surely, the kitchen head lady said that since Princess was urgently looking for her, she should go outside and follow whoever came to fetch her.

 

But who was supposed to be here?

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“Over here!”

 

This Servant, standing with one leg bent in front of the kitchen door, raised one hand high.

 

Oh, really…

 

How could such rough gestures and voice come from such a beautiful appearance?

 

This Servant looked at Lady Han calling her with crude movements and blinked her wide eyes.

 

Lady Han was beautiful enough that everyone passing by would turn to look. But look at the way she spoke and moved. Wasn’t she more of a ruffian than a tomboy?

 

Just from this morning’s incident, the way she slapped Lady Kang who was badmouthing Princess and shouted at the nains…

 

This Servant felt an unknown fear toward such Lady Han and approached hesitantly.

 

“Ah, hurry up and come. The person waiting is getting impatient.”

 

“Um… why does Princess want to see me? And suddenly, what’s with the refreshments…”

 

It was strange speech, neither informal nor formal. Lady Han looked at such This Servant, chuckled, and shrugged her shoulders.

 

“Who knows. Should us lowly ones try to understand our master’s intentions one by one? Just shut up and follow. Got it?”

 

At Lady Han’s question that could only be called crude, This Servant just nodded repeatedly. Seeing that, Lady Han grinned and nodded, then turned around sharply.

 

“If you understand, let’s go quickly. Our Princess is waiting.”

 

Thinking of Princess Eunhye whom she first met this morning, This Servant began walking while tilting her head again.

 

Surely refreshments had gone in about an hour ago, so why was she looking for her again? And even giving a direct command specifying her to bring them personally?

 

With an anxious heart, the tea table held up in This Servant’s hands was trembling finely.

 

“Princess, This Servant from the Royal Kitchen has arrived.”

 

At the gentle voice of Lady Han standing before the door, This Servant turned her head with a startled expression.

 

Is that person standing beside me really the same Lady Han from before? How can a person change so much?

 

The rough voice and crude behavior from moments ago had now become as graceful as a fairy descended from heaven.

 

Regardless of This Servant’s surprised expression, Lady Han, who had been standing demurely, stepped back half a step while watching the door open from inside.

 

Then Lady Park emerged from the opened door and cast stern eyes toward This Servant.

 

“The Princess has urgent questions for you, so you must answer everything without a single lie. Do you understand?”

 

“Yes! Yes, my lady.”

 

This Servant, startled by Lady Park’s stern voice, shrank her neck and answered.

 

“Go inside quickly. I’ll be guarding outside the door, so don’t even dream of doing anything foolish!”

 

At the terrifying threat that could make one wet themselves, This Servant holding the tea table already felt tears welling up.

 

At twelve years old, she had caught the eye of a palace lady who came to purchase goods from the merchant group where she worked, and entered the palace as a kitchen maid in the Queen’s Palace.

 

Since she had only been in the kitchen ever since, wasn’t this morning the first time she had directly seen Princess Eunhye?

 

What could Princess Eunhye want to question her about?

 

This Servant tried to calm her inexplicably fearful heart and stepped into the open door. As both feet entered the room, she took a deep breath at the sound of the door closing behind her and carefully walked forward.

 

She could see Princess Eunhye sitting dignifiedly in the distance. This Servant swallowed her dry saliva, then slowly approached and set down the tea table with gentle movements.

 

“Hearing that you sought this humble one, I have prepared and brought refreshments as instructed.”

 

After finishing her greeting, This Servant raised both arms to bow to Eunhye.

 

Then suddenly a cold voice was heard.

 

“That’s enough. No need for bowing, just sit down.”

 

“Yes. Yes? Ah, yes… Princess.”

 

This Servant, startled, lowered her raised arms without even daring to lift her head.

 

Then she gasped in even greater surprise, realizing that in this room, there was no one but herself and Princess Eunhye.

 

What could this be about? Why had she summoned only her humble self into the room while even dismissing Lady Park, the Princess’s wet nurse?

 

Perhaps the refreshments she served earlier didn’t suit her taste? Or was there something wrong with them?

 

This Servant, rolling her downcast eyes left and right in unknown fear, slowly sat down while keeping her head bowed.

 

“This humble one is Seonmi, and I pay my respects to Princess Eunhye.”

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