Chapter 43: CH 22.1

Looking at the night sky in the silence of the night, Hwawoon suddenly felt the things that passed by him like a storm were so unrealistic. 

I will wake up after sleep, right? All these unbelievable things are just a dream, right? When he opened his eyes after falling asleep while having those kinds of thoughts, he always had to start the day again as Yeon Hwawoon. This thing—the life of Yeon Hwawoon—really had to be Hawoon’s. 

It was a lie to say he wasn’t afraid and anxious. Was it an easy thing for people to suddenly live the life of someone who lived in a world that was completely different from where they originally lived? Hwawoon sometimes felt uneasy because he was not confident in everything, and at every moment, he had to fight the guilt because he was deceiving everyone.

“… I wonder if His Majesty is also looking at this moon.” 

It was inevitable that the end of the thought that kept continuing reached that one person. The emperor was the one who made that unfamiliarity and anxiousness, fear and solitude have meaning for Hwawoon. 

The one who made Hawoon, who was making his life and content with it, have a bigger desire and entered the palace; the one who made him able to find solace just by his side despite being despised, ignored, and hated by everyone;

to Hawoon and to Hwawoon;

The emperor was always their reason and their goal.

“This moonlight is so beautiful… how good would it be if His Majesty also looked at this…”

“From what I hear, His Majesty stays in Anjeong Palace to do his work until late.”

When Hwawoon talked about the emperor, Ahjin quickly delivered the news she found out to her master. Since Ahjin’s master didn’t force her to find out about the emperor’s whereabouts anymore, this was something Ahjin found out on her own for her master.

Ahjin, who quietly examined that worry showed on Hwawoon’s face when he heard that the emperor was working until late, carefully parted her lips.

“Your Highness… how about we prepare some snacks and send them to Anjeong Palace?”

“Snacks?” 

Hwawoon opened his eyes wide and stared at Ahjin. Ahjin thought that her master looked adorable in that situation, but she quickly stopped her thought and continued,

“Yes, Your Highness. When His Majesty does his work until late, it is common for every palace to take care of the snacks for him. So, you too-”

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“… No. Don’t bother.”

However, before Ahjin could complete her words, Hwawoon erased his glittering eyes in an instant and shook his head. This time, his gaze fell on the tip of his feet.

“He is surely tired from doing his work, and if he sees the snacks sent by me, do you think he will feel better? He would rather get angry.”

“Your Highness…”

“The empress and the others will take care of it, so there is no need for me to do it.”

Hwawoon’s voice gradually turned gloomy despite knowing about it—despite thinking that it was natural.

When he was a guard of Jeongan Palace, Hwawoon had seen the emperor pass by him with a tired expression. Hwawoon couldn’t know how hard it was to take care of the people and lead the nation as the emperor, but when he secretly saw the fatigue in the emperor’s face and his sagged shoulders, he felt pity and hopelessness for him.

Back then, he unintentionally envied the positions which were able to hear the emperor’s worry next to him and take care of his health, so he blamed and pushed down his shameless heart. However, even though now he was in a concubine position where he could proudly take care of the emperor, he couldn’t do that, so he wondered if this was an irony of fate. 

“Yo-your Highness…”

Ahjin who was next to him called him once again, but Hwawoon continued to look at the ground and only shook his head.

“I’m not wrong. I’m being far from His Majesty’s gaze is the way for me to help him.”

“Tha-that’s not it… Your Highness…”

At that moment, he felt something strange with Ahjin’s voice. Her voice trembled as if she was nervous and afraid. The sudden change in Ahjin led Hwawoon to raise his head and look at her. When he raised his head like that,

In the distance, Hwawoon saw a man standing at the entrance of the garden in Jeongan Palace.

The man who wore the black dragon dopo that never be eaten away by the darkness of the night. The existence that couldn’t be two under the sky and above the ground. The emperor who led over this whole nation, and the only emperor for Hwawoon, Sung Yihan.

He was standing alone under the moonlight and quietly stared at Hwawoon. As if he was entranced, Hwawoon slowly raised his body.

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