Surviving the Romance Fantasy

However, there was no way I could give a coherent answer. Because it was already an outlier.

He spat out the words while trying to straighten his messy hair, but the excuse was too crude to be called.

Like that… Only silence came and went in the tent.

Eventually, after listening to the words of the queen, the emperor let out a deep sigh of great disappointment.

“I am deeply disappointed in you….”

*

“your majesty! Please reconsider! Something! something is wrong! That wicked fox from the Palace of the White Tiger tried to get rid of me!”

Is this the same person who shed tears praying for mercy from Deokbi Ha?

To the extent that I could think of such a thing, the bound heavy rain was crying miserably.

“That poor Deokbi over there did all the tricks! The sealed woman is ambitious to get rid of the highest-ranking woman in the house and take her place! I… I can tell! Ha Duk-bi is a girl who would sell her soul for power!”

It was a pointless struggle.

However, Deokbi Ha just quietly looked down at the floor and listened to his struggles.

Deokbi Ha was like that too. It was human nature to struggle to the end even when death was on the verge of death.

Since he did it, there was no law telling him not to do it as well.

“your majesty! Please… please listen to me just once… Your Majesty…!”

Shake off the soldiers holding the bound hands. The heavy rain jumped out in front of the emperor and fell to the floor.

He struggled ugly and howled, but the emperor just closed his eyes and shook his head.

“Ha, my lord! Ha lord! Hear me out! Doesn’t Lord Ha know the essence of Deokbi Ha?”

Like that… With a feeling of grabbing at least a straw, he gazed at Gaju Ha Kang-seok, who was sitting under the emperor, but he too just closed his eyes as if he was ashamed.

In any case, this incident was a great disgrace to the sealing party. Even if one of the two was guilty, from the position of Gaju Ha Kang-seok, he could not raise his voice in front of the emperor.

“What are you doing without taking me away!”

When the future shouted, the warriors of the enemy palace rushed in and grabbed the arms of the heavy rain again.

While being dragged along like that, he cried out uglyly, but in the end, he had no choice but to be led by the hands of the soldiers.

As it is, you will be imprisoned in the prison of the enemy palace and receive karma. Considering the nature of the crime… it wasn’t strange even if he was sentenced to death.

‘…’

So, while Joong-bi was arguing for a while, Deok-bi Ha just stared blankly at the floor.

As the sound of heavy rain gradually faded away, I suddenly raised my head and looked around.

In the grand tent, the seat of the emperor is located at the highest point.

Beneath it, countless high-ranking officials were watching Ha Deok-bi with pitiful eyes.

Along with Deokbi Ha, who was bowing her head on the floor, Gwibi In, who defended her with all her might, was sitting next to her with a smile on her face.

On one side, commander-in-chief Mirae leads the soldiers and takes out the middle guard.

And, the farthest place from the emperor.

Fighting to the point of bursting blood against the demons, and running around drinking a lot of fumes in the burning Baekho Palace.

A man who ran until the very end to the tomb site and defended Ha Deokbi in front of the emperor was breathing heavily.

His hands are full of burns, and his whole body is bursting with wounds.

It was to the extent that it made me cringe just looking at it was so pitiful.

And then, I saw myself.

After realizing that the figure was not much different from that of Seol Tae-pyeong, a strange feeling suddenly came up.

“Raise your head, Deokbi Ha.”

At that time, the emperor called Ha Deokbi. It was to comfort Ha Deok-bi, who must have suffered more severely than anyone else because of being involved with Jung-bi.

However, the moment Deokbi Ha looked up, the emperor and other dignitaries were speechless.

“…”

What kind of person is Deokbi Ha, the owner of the Palace of the White Tiger? She was a person who always maintained a noble figure and made a name for herself as a fairy who landed on the ground.

When such a person, stained ugly with ashes and burns, raised his head… he was pouring out tears.

I thought that she was just a girl contemplating the joys and sorrows of the world as if they were no big deal, but in the end, she was just a human crawling on this earth. If so, she is a 17-year-old girl.

How long have you forgotten that fact?

“Uh-uhhhhh”

Survived.

My efforts to survive were not meaningless.

“Ugh… Ugh… Ugh…”

It seemed that the fact had been confirmed… The girl cried endlessly, forgetting even the importance of the seat. He bowed his head again and continued to sob.

The sight was so bleak… All the high officials on the floor had no choice but to keep their heads down quietly.

Duckby (4)

The ripening Celestial Dragon Festival was about to hold its final event.

The fire that broke out in the Palace of the White Tiger had been extinguished to some extent, and the fact that the royal family played tricks with the nobles was well dealt with, so it seemed that there would be no great difficulty in finishing the Celestial Dragon Festival right away.

“I will punish you myself after the Heavenly Dragon Festival is over.”

Emperor Unseong returned to the main palace for a while and was changing into his Cheonryongpo.

Numerous maids were in the middle of it to check the emperor’s attire.

“Since the commander has captured it, I don’t think there will be any problems until the Celestial Dragon Festival is over.”

Sitting in front of the emperor with his head bowed was Shim Sang-gon, one of the top three dignitaries in the main palace.

Sangseo-gwan Inseon-rok and Jungseo-gwan Chu Bum-seok were those whose duties in the main palace were clearly separated, and Munha-gwan Sim Sang-gon was the one closest to Emperor Unseong among the high officials.

In the first place, the job itself was the person in charge of the payment and receipt of the emperor, and the position was so high that he acted as the emperor’s representative when conditions were not available.

“When the warriors of the Red Palace investigated, they said that the fallen demons were found starting from the Palace of the White Tiger. I heard that Unbaek, the leader of the demons, was also found in the backyard passed out at the time.”

Unseong Emperor pulled the tip of the Cheonryongpo and hardened his expression.

Emperor Unseong knew the skills of the members of the gwisu best. Since he was mainly in charge of behind-the-scenes work such as espionage, he was different from the military officers of the Red Palace. However, in terms of powerless strength, they were never inferior to the military officers of the enemy palace.

On top of that, Woonbaek, the leader of the nobles… If he had walked the path of a regular military officer, it wouldn’t be strange to have the rank of general by now.

Seeing that he and his motive for entering the palace, Jeong Seo-tae, rose to the position of deputy general, Unbaek also did not hold secular power, but was never a low-level military officer.

“I must see the warrior in the tent myself.”

Emperor Yunseong said so, and added as if to say.

“…I was reported to be a warrior from the Hwa-yong-seol family.”

Munhagwan had to choose his words well.

Seol Yi-mun, the head of the family of Hwa-Yong-Seol, is the one who belittled the emperor.

Now that head has been blown away, and the people of the Hwa-yong Seolga who have participated have been almost destroyed.

If Gongnyeo Cheondo hadn’t stepped in and sorted out the situation, the warrior named Seol Tae-pyeong wouldn’t have had a title either.

Seol Yi-mun of Hwayong Seolga was truly a weightlifter among weightlifters who will remain in the history of Qingdao Palace.

He was said to have come closest to the swordsman, but he was also a man who went mad himself intoxicated by strong power. At some point, he couldn’t control his murderous intent, and the moment he pulled out the real sword, he completely changed into another guy.

The high officials of the party do not forget the day of treason.

It was three days after Seol Yi-mun’s mistress, the peddler Seonghyeol-hwa, was executed.

A man with a bloody body who trudges through Cheonryong-daero and trudges into the main palace road while cutting down general-level military officers alone.

The light in his eyes shining through the raindrops looked like an envoy who had come to take the life of Qingdao.

If he had been able to handle the killing, he could have become a swordsman who would leave his name in the history of Qingdao, but the Emperor of Heaven took away his reason instead of giving him enormous powers.

If you were a descendant of such a person, it was only natural that you would start with not very good thoughts right away.

A grown-up who fights with the grim reapers at the age of not even having a coming-of-age ceremony.

It was inevitable that the image of the young swordsman overlapped with the image of the swordsman who was mad at the murder.

“Unbaek, the leader of the nobles, has come.”

At that time, the eunuch talked quietly outside the Jangjimun. It was Emperor Unseong who called the leader of the nobles.

The situation was sorted out to some extent, but it was to determine the facts more clearly.

The Jangjimun opened, and the figure of Unbaek with his head lowered was a wreck.

Although she received urgent treatment before entering the main palace, it was not enough to hide her condition.

“your majesty. I have nothing to say to show you my shame.”

“…”

“If you command Unbaek, the leader of the nobles, to lay down your head, I will pay for your sins here.”

The leader of the nobles was not aware of the secret strategy and was taken advantage of, and he was beaten by a third-rate warrior.

Because that itself was a great disloyalty and shame, the leader of the nobles could not raise his head.

Although his face was covered with a cotton cloth, it was not difficult to see how much his teeth were shaking just by looking at his clenched teeth.

“It happened. I heard that he was attacked by a warrior from Baek Seon-gung. Was his martial arts at such a high level?”

“…”

“Tell it as it is.”

Anything you say will look like an excuse from the point of view that you came from an unsightly defeat. Therefore, Unbaek tried to choose his words carefully.

However, Emperor Unseong seemed to want to hear more information about the warrior than to reprimand Unbaek.

Unbaek concluded that it would be better to tell the truth without adding or subtracting.

“The level of martial arts… is high compared to his age group, but it was not absolutely high.”

It’s just ugly to have to say this from the point of view of what happened.

Nevertheless, Unbaek thought that it would be better to talk about what he felt.

“The way he grips the sword, the way he swings it, the way he grips the scabbard, the way he hits it… All of it is at the level of a skilled swordsman… but it hasn’t felt polished for a long time.”

“What if?”

“…I had a strong feeling that I was gifted with senses.”

Two things are necessary for a person to become strong.

Bone-cutting training and natural talent. If one of the two was lacking, it was difficult to become a strong player above a certain level.

Of course, it is true that Seol Tae-pyeong has reached a considerable level as an objective prosecutor.

However, no matter how old he is, he is only sixteen this year.

In the realm of training, there will be many who are at a higher level than that man.

Even if he is born with strength, he is a little behind compared to Unbaek or Jung Seo-tae, who have innate strength.

Even if you are born with a nimble eye, you can’t block an attack that is not even consciously caught.

If you arm wrestle, Jeong Seo-tae or Unbaek will win, and if you attack while sleeping, you will be assassinated.

However, even if it was taken for granted… The sense of incongruity did not disappear throughout the swords facing each other.

“It is the realm of instinct. He is the one who senses how to take victory in a duel.”

“…”

Even when fighting the detached army in the future, even when fighting the nobles of the main palace.

The man named Seol Tae-pyeong knows who to subdue first, what position to occupy, and how to catch off guard. He was the one who quickly came up with the methodology.

It is not a result of learning. It is an innate sense.

strong. If you approach it as a concept, it is a bit ambiguous to define him.

However, can you win? When I say… I can’t help but nod my head.

It was because Unbaek had also met a person with that kind of strength a few times. Seol Tae-pyeong was a person whose talent reached the peak among those kinds of strong men.

In Dalian, where clear rules are set, there may be room for comparison when purely comparing strength and skill.

However, if it is a wild battlefield with no rules… A man named Seol Tae-pyeong is a winner somehow.

There are people in the world who have that kind of strength.

The arena of a duel where disciplines and rules are bound up, and fair fights are held with respect and respect. Seol Tae-pyeong is not a man suitable for such a battlefield.

He is more of a killer on the battlefield.

There are no friendly rules or regulations on the battlefield where they risk their lives against each other. It is a massacre of those who are obsessed with biting off their ears, throwing sand in their eyes, and grabbing their collars to somehow slash their opponents to death.

The determination to outwit Unbaek even at the cost of burning his hand… was more like a beast’s instinct than a human’s.

It may have been a judgment close to arrogance to beat Seol Tae-pyeong in a space full of all kinds of variables called the burning White Tiger Palace.

In a battlefield where the situation is free and there are no restrictions on the body, he is the one who overturns even the level of strength and training and defeats the opponent without fail.

“Certainly, he is not suitable for the position of a general who defends discipline and commands soldiers. I think he is a much more suitable talent for a nobleman than a red palace.”

“…If you become a nobleman, can you raise him to be a more useful leader than you?”

“Rather than raising them, it would be closer to enlightening them on their own.”

Unbaek only said that and lowered his head.

As a person who became the leader of the nobles, it was not very pleasant to talk about the next leader. Still, the truth was the truth.

However, Seol Tae-pyeong was the one whom the deputy general ordered to take to the enemy palace.

Unbaek also heard the story from Mirae at Neungyeonteo. If the deputy general is a person who has made a fortune on himself, he will never yield to others, even if he has a grudge against overthrowing the main palace. Only those who have experienced it know how crazy the deputy general is, who has gone mad.

Of course, the story would be completely different if the emperor himself came forward, but the emperor’s expression looked very complicated.

Finding useful talent is an auspicious thing for a monarch.

However, his origin is a psalmist. Being said to be a descendant of the swordsman who was engulfed in madness, his feelings inevitably become complicated.

If it wasn’t for Princess Cheondo’s defense, she wouldn’t have been able to hang herself. The nobles are the closest armed group to the emperor, and no matter how talented they are, it was not an easy decision to bring them there.

“I’ll have to see him for myself, but yeah… before that, I’ll have to meet Lady Cheondo.”

Emperor Unseong ordered Unbaek to retreat after completely refining the Cheonryongpo.

Apparently, when there was a collision with the Byeodongdae while chasing Hyeonbi, Gongnyeo Cheondo personally stood up and defended him.

There seemed to be some reason for trying to save him somehow and cover his sins.

Ahyeon, Princess of Heaven.

As a shaman who worships the energy of the Celestial Dragon and the owner of the Celestial Dragon, she seemed to know something.

“Recently, I heard that he has not been in a good physical condition and has not been able to come in and out of the inner room properly. Now that it’s like this, I’ll have to step out and check my body to see if I’m worthy to go up to the podium at the Celestial Dragon Festival.”

It is a great honor in the world for the emperor to step directly.

It meant that Princess Cheondo’s condition had reached its limit.

*

The dungeon of the Red Palace is too harsh for a woman to endure.

Since midsummer, there have been a lot of boiling bugs, it’s hot just to stay still, and the hygiene isn’t very good.

For Ha Chae-rim, who has lived in the main palace and was treated as a heavy lady, it was only natural that every hour there felt like hell.

In the appearance of being locked up in prison with an ugly appearance and gnashing his teeth, the noble appearance as a heavyweight is nowhere to be seen. Only a miserably stained face remains.

With my head bowed in the dark like that, I ruminate over and over again the blind spots in my plan.

If it wasn’t for the third-rate warrior who didn’t know his identity, it would have been Ha Deok-bi, not himself, who would have been trapped here.

The fact made me so grit and resent it that I was in tears of blood.

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At that time, the door over there opened and light leaked out.

When Ha Chae-rim saw the person who entered the dungeon like that, Ha Chae-rim felt as if all the five organs were twisted.

“Ugh, the smell.”

It was Deokbi Ha-wol, the owner of the Palace of the White Tiger, who went into prison with a wrinkled nose.

She was assisted by the maids of the Palace of the White Tiger, arranged her clothes, and treated her wounds urgently. However, he still has scars all over his body.

Ha Chae-rim didn’t even laugh when he saw it.

“Oh my, Lady Jung.”

Deokbi Ha, who shed tears in front of the dignitaries.

Was it that his appearance was so pitiful that he won the sympathy of the high-ranking officials? Ha Deok-bi was given time to take care of herself first before sorting out the situation.

During that time, after taking care of herself with the help of the ladies-in-waiting, the first place she headed was the dungeon of the enemy palace.

Entering the prison with no one to see, Ha Deok-bi sat quietly opposite the iron cage where Jung-bi was imprisoned.

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“You are suffering a lot. What should I do… That white jade-like skin is stained so ugly… Can I give you a little bit of the one I used to use?”

“Yeah two years… four years…!”

“What if you get angry? The fact that the heavyweight is confined there is self-inflicted.”

Seeing such a grinning smile, the pathetic tears shed in front of high-ranking officials are nowhere to be seen.

From the standpoint of the heavyweight, it is truly heartbreaking. Deokbi Ha thought this was an opportunity, so he pretended to be pitiful to win the favor of the high-ranking officials.

The pure Ha Deok-bi, who was caught in the plot of the Jung-bi and was harmed without sin.

It was all thanks to the heavy rain that he was able to hide all his rotten feelings and create such a bleak atmosphere.

“Do you think four years will be different from me…? If I hadn’t intercepted Yowol-hyang… you… you would have done it yourself…!”

“…”

Ha Deok-bi smiled gently and listened to Jung-bi’s words.

Yes. The reason Deokbi Ha came here was to appreciate the face of a loser.

Although they have gone through crises, even human nature does not change easily.

Deokbi Ha was never a great man who would look with compassion on those who tried to take his own life.

“If it weren’t for that unheard-of samurai…! Four years… four years…!”

“Yes it is. I was really lucky. So?”

Deokbi Ha smiled slyly while covering his lower crown with the collar of his royal robe.

“What can you do now?”

At that, Jung-bi grabbed the barbed wire and glared at Ha Deok-bi as if to kill him.

The powder on her face was cracked here and there, and her eyes were so bloodshot that it was hard to see them as human.

Deokbi Ha was really refreshing.

“Mr. Judge your position well now. If the Empress Dowager sleeps well, I can ask the Emperor for mercy.”

“Four years… four years…”

“Of course, that would never happen even if the sky turned upside down.”

Deokbi Ha said that and got up from his seat. After confirming the appearance of the heavy rain, it was said that it was done.

“When the Celestial Dragon Festival is over, you will be sentenced to death. Let’s reflect on the life we’ve lived up to that point. Then I… I have a lot to take care of.”

Laughing heartily, the wicked woman Ha-wol went out of the prison like that.

After that, Deokbi Ha smiled for a long time because the appearance of Jung-bi, who gnashed her teeth and called out Ha Deok-bi’s name, was so savory.

Climbing the dirt stairs leading out of the underground prison, Ha Deok-bi calmly organized her thoughts.

It was truly a blessing from heaven.

It would not have been strange if he fell for the plot of the heavy rain and immediately fell off his head, but he was barely able to save his life with the help of Seol Tae-pyeong in addition to struggling himself.

Seriously, if it weren’t for Seol Tae-pyeong, I would have died.

There was so much joy at the fact that it was hard to keep my shoulders still.

“…”

However, as I continued to walk, my coolness slowly returned.

Deokbi Hawol is a person whose roots are rotten beyond salvation.

I am so grateful that I owed my life to Seol Tae-pyeong.

However, now everything is back to normal.