Surviving the Romance Fantasy

Ha Deok-bi raised his voice in a theatrical tone and somehow managed to hide his blushing face.

Every moment feels like walking on a cliff. Nevertheless, Ha Deok-bi perfectly understands Seol Tae-pyeong’s intentions with superhuman calmness.

That side also doesn’t want to give up control of the situation.

An opponent who runs at you with the intention of fighting with you, whether you die or I die. If you want to deal with someone like that, you have to be strong-hearted.

I am confident in my courage.

No matter how courageous his opponent Seol Tae-pyeong is, he will never lose in this battle of courage that tests his limits.

“Seo, Seol Muin… you… understood my heart…!”

“Ha Deokbi! I have always been captivated by Deokbi Ha’s fairy-like appearance! “Even though I knew how disloyal this feeling was, I couldn’t let go of it!”

“Ah… Lunar New Year…! “Seeing your dependable appearance makes my heart beat again…!”

“Ha Deokbi…!”

Uneasy…!

Seol Taepyeong also gritted his molars and held back the shame that was pouring in, holding back the blood. Here, the one who hesitates first loses…!

“Ha Deokbi… would you like to hold me in your arms… for once…?”

Seoltaepyeong’s strike. It was an unexpected raid.

When he opened his sturdy chest and looked towards Ha Deokbi, Ha Deokbi suddenly lost his breath.

“That… that…”

If you shake your head here, neither porridge nor rice will work.

Seol Tae-pyeong, unable to overcome his shame, is trying to get Deok-bi to push him out first.

We cannot admit defeat here. Ha Deok-bi gritted his teeth and went into Seol Tae-pyeong’s arms.

The sound of my pounding heart almost made me lose consciousness, but I succeeded in parrying his blow anyway.

“Ha Deokbi…!”

“Lunar unmanned…!”

How long will this skit continue?

The desperate story of a man and a woman wandering around in their hearts, trying to find a loophole in the other, seemed like it would never end even if they stayed up all night…

“Even though I worked hard to get to the position of Hyeongwoljang with my humble skills… If I can be with a woman like Deokbi Ha, what use is this worldly power…!”

Ha Deok-bi, who was being held in Seol Tae-pyeong’s arms under the moonlight, felt like his heart was going to stop at any moment and he couldn’t even breathe.

When I actually hugged him, I found that he was more dependable and reliable than I expected, and he was definitely a manly military attaché…!

“So… I want to take on a woman named Ha Wol, even if it means giving up all my positions, including the chief of execution…!”

“Seoul… Seol unmanned…!”

“So… would you please run away from this palace with me? For Ha Deokbi’s sake, I don’t mind being a fugitive for the rest of my life…! “I will give my life to Ha Deokbi!”

A word from Seol Taepyeong that comes like a dagger.

It was definitely… a response that could even be said to be perfect.

No matter how much Ha Deok-bi tried to tie Seol Tae-pyeong by writing a love letter… he couldn’t even nod his head to such a question…

As Wang Han said, Seol Taepyeong’s attitude is to rush in and push ahead without any middle ground.

It’s not that refreshing, it’s an assault with no back. Ha Deok-bi was completely speechless. I never imagined that I would deal with things like this in my life.

Seoltaepyeong seriously looks down at Ha Deokbi under the moonlight.

Even though I thought I had taken a hit, I was suddenly overcome by a strange delusion.

‘Let’s run away together…?’

Is it because of the force like the rushing north wind?

For a moment, I thought about what would happen if I nodded here, but I quickly took a breath and composed myself. I almost fell into a strange delusion.

“Well, that is…!”

“Are you in trouble…?”

“That is…!”

“Ugh…! I guess so…! I… what can I say…! I lost my mind for a moment…! How dare someone like that be the owner of the White Tiger Palace…! Such a ridiculous suggestion…! I’m so… so embarrassed…!”

Looking at Seol Tae-pyeong apologizing as if he had been waiting, Deok-bi Ha couldn’t help but swallow his breath.

I was completely caught up.

From now on, there was a high possibility that Seol Tae-pyeong would take control of the situation.

Confessing and getting scolded, getting rid of a reprimand.

Where will this runaway in the great joint end? What kind of ending does this skit, which started as a political tactic, have to end?

Although it was a point where nothing was certain, Ha Deok-bi still had to realize one thing.

‘New.. I guess the fact that I have more fine muscles than I thought is a military officer…’

The touch that remained from that brief moment of caressing the tip of my arm… remains at the tip of my finger for no reason.

No matter how I try to stop my face from turning red every now and then, there is no way.

Yes. Ha Deok-bi is a person who is particularly difficult to self-objectify in these areas.

She had to know that she was at a huge disadvantage in this duel.

‘Really… the life of a high-ranking official is just tiring…’

Yerim, the head maid of the Baekho Palace, who was sitting outside the Jangjimun Gate, wiped her face and sighed.

When you become the chief maid of one of the four major palaces, you are bound to see a bit of political maneuvering.

In particular, she knew the owner, Ha Deok-bi, better than anyone else. This is because Ha Deok-bi trusted the head maid Yerim to the point where she even borrowed the hand of the maid Yerim when trying to use tricks.

This matter is only a rough outline, as I was told in advance…

The sight of two people fighting back and forth, trying to gauge each other’s intentions… In the eyes of Chief Maid Yerim, it can only be seen as a gruesome battle between two dignitaries struggling desperately.

– ‘The moon is beautiful…! It’s as if I’m seeing your brilliant and brilliant spirit and honor on this Lunar New Year’s Day…!’

– ‘No…! It’s a month that seems to embrace Ha Deokbi’s beautiful and elegant appearance, so how could it not be beautiful…!’

However, a tragic love story unfolds between a man and a woman who confirm their seemingly forbidden feelings…

It’s called politics.

It really seemed like no one was doing it.

I do well when I have time (4)

Eat before you get eaten.

The reason why all the people of Seal Hagah are militant is because they have engraved the teachings in their bones.

The world is a place governed by the law of the fittest.

In this world where you have no choice but to be eaten if you don’t eat them, you can reign as the king of the forest only by devouring every single person who is ambiguous as to whether they are allies or not.

Therefore, the people of Seal Haga do not surround themselves with useless people.

It is a place where even friendship with old friends is casually raised as material on the negotiation board, and it is natural for even blood relations to collapse in the face of interests and losses.

It is a place full of people who calculate even morals and ethics.

Deokbi Howol was a girl who lived her whole life in such a sealing house.

Howell thought about this again and again every time he saw the family descending stone continuing to climb upward, thinking of people only as stepping stones.

You have to be ruthless.

Since you were born as a person in the Sea of Seal, you can only look up and live if you surround your heart with cold ice.

If you are at the top, you have to kick the ladder, and if you have been thrown down, you have to fight hard to turn the situation around.

If you admit your incompetence and become complacent, you will die. Run away and run away from the fire rising from below. Unless you want to burn to death.

After going through the crisis at the White Tiger Palace, where the blade was right in front of me, my heart had already become as strong as a belief, and it had enveloped my entire body.

Having lived like that, it would have been natural for the immature Howol to harbor a sense of inferiority while looking at his wife, In Ha-yeon.

Lady In Ha-yeon is always noble.

He is a person who exactly conforms to the Jeongseon family’s view of character, which values not only success but also character and dignity.

If the noble Suzaku in the folk tale were to imitate a human and arrive in this world, would he take on this appearance?

The sight of her elegantly crossing the harem with her long red palace robes hanging down gives a feeling of nobility that cannot even be reached by those covered in dirt who struggle to climb up from the ground.

– ‘Ha Deokbi is truly thoughtful. ‘I get to learn something every time I attend the tea ceremony, so it is truly a great blessing for me to be in the Four Great Palaces with someone like Deokbi Ha.’

He was born into a Jeongseon family, but he acts arrogantly, mistaking the family’s prestige as his own.

If I were that kind of person, I wouldn’t have felt this strange sense of inferiority and jealousy.

However, Lady In Ha-yeon was truly a person worthy of the position… with both ability and character.

Whether it’s making her appearance beautiful, refining her inner self through poetry, calligraphy and painting, or strengthening her body by focusing on martial arts… She is the most perfect woman in the world, not inferior to Deokbi in any way.

Light can come from people.

When he saw Lady In Ha-yeon, Hadeok-bi was already overcome with a strange sense of defeat deep in his heart.

A person whose body is already covered in grime will adopt one of two postures when they see a person who has reached perfection without a single trace of dirt on their body.

Either you admire it as an idol, or you hate it as an object of jealousy.

Ha Deok-bi was the latter.

Even when I thought about it, it was truly an ugly struggle, but I used to rationalize it as a habit.

Inferiority can be the foundation that helps people move forward, but it can also be an opportunity to harm others.

If you can’t become a person like In-gwi-bi, you will end up thinking about dragging In-gwi-bi down with her.

It’s human nature that’s ugly and twisted, and Deokbi Howell was just an ordinary human being.

Humans were originally ugly.

So, it’s inevitable that you’re ugly.

He is aware that he is pathetic, and he is also well aware that this only serves to further reveal the gap between himself and Ingwibi.

Although there is a cause to interfere with Queen In for the benefit of Seal Haga, he is well aware that the most fundamental reason for interfering with her is the expression of his inferiority complex deep within himself.

The self-objectification in this regard was also surprising in the character of Ha Deok-bi.

So what about it?

If you don’t get eaten, you will get eaten.

If it’s unclear whether it’s friend or foe, eat them all, devour them, and head higher.

That’s how he lived, and as a result, he became the owner of the White Tiger Palace and lives with dozens of maids every day.

You’re not wrong.

It’s just a difference in methodology. He just has his own way.

So, push on.

As it has been until now, if there is an opportunity, take it, use those who can be used, treat people differently, throw them away when they are of no use, betray if there is a need to betray, and kill if there is a need to kill.

All you have to do is to keep your position opportunistically and profitably.

The obstacles and adversities that appear in the process are nothing more than the nourishment that helped you grow.

“Holding myself in Hyeongwoljang’s arms makes me feel at ease, as if I’m lying on warm grass!”

This Seoltaepyeong is something that exploits and eats people, and throws them away when they are no longer useful.

“I also feel like I have gained everything in the world as I hold Deokbi Ha in my arms! It seems like these endless feelings of love have finally been repaid…! Tears are about to flow…!”

Of course, Seoltaepyeong is not an easy opponent!

Seol Tae-pyeong, who was receiving the loving lines thrown by Ha Deok-bi with all his might, bit his lip tightly.

It’s so strong that it wouldn’t be surprising if blood started flowing out right away. The mental strength that is used to somehow straighten out the shriveled hands and feet is truly more powerful than when dealing with a ghost.

It’s poisonous…!

He is truly a poisonous person…!

However, when it comes to poison, even Deokbi Howol will never lose…!

The night is long.

Before the night is over, we have to wait and see who will raise the white flag first…

*

The moon in the midheaven changed its position considerably.

The remaining night is still long, but the time that has passed has also been quite long.

Yerim, the head maid, who was guarding the front of the Jangjimun, her face was red up to her ears.

As she holds an important position as the head maid of the White Tiger Palace, she never showed any signs of being popular so as not to disturb the two people…

I had to somehow resist the urge to internally grit my teeth or punch the innocent wooden pillar.

Actually… there are many women who follow Seol Tae-pyeong because they like him, but that doesn’t mean he has an outstanding dating history.

Ha Deok-bi may also be good at scheming, but as a beautiful woman, she has no experience in bewitching men…! If you do something like that as a crown princess, you have to be prepared to put a knife to your own throat.

In the end, the sentimental lines uttered by the two people as they hugged each other and ran wild were like a magic trick that twisted the five organs and six parts of the body when heard from a third party’s perspective. You get the illusion that it wouldn’t be strange if you were to bleed out and pass out right away.

Even if it means praising the other person here and there by comparing them to the moon or a flower.

My heart is racing, I want to pluck a star from the night sky and give it to him, I want to become housemates living together in a house called love. When I listen to the poetry you wrote, it feels like big waves are shaking my heart.

Each single line tests a person’s patience, and listening to it for an entire episode causes even a third party to vomit blood.

Lady Ye-rim, who is listening from the side, is having a hard time withstanding the storm of her heart, but how on earth are the two people holding up in this hellish ordeal?

In the meantime, Jin-guk is the one who knows each other’s intentions to some extent and never takes a step back.

It’s terrible.

It’s so bad that it’s scary.

Since these two people are fighting a war of nerves with their mental strength to the point that even General Seong Sa-wook would recognize them, the mental torture of only these losers continues without end.

‘I’d rather… kill you…’

The head maid, Ye-rim, clenched her fists and held back, but eventually her patience gave out and she took a quick look inside the tea room.

Inside the tea room, where a fierce battle took place throughout the hour, there was only silence.

…In the end, it was Hyeongwoljang Seol Tae-pyeong who first reached out for reconciliation.

“How about we stop making skits like this…”

Hearing Seol Tae-pyeong’s voice suddenly become more serious, Ha Deok-bi’s ears perked up.

After a close exchange of worldly shameful words that could have made people laugh for the rest of their lives if they were to be seen by anyone, did Hyeongwoljang finally announce his surrender?

However, it was closer to a request for reconciliation than a declaration of surrender.

“Actually… I don’t think Ha Deokbi would have such deep feelings for me.”

Seol Taepyeong is sitting on a wooden table and quietly looking down at the floor.

I can feel that the awkward acting tone has disappeared from his voice.

Ha Deok-bi had to take a moment to gather his thoughts on how to react.

Seol Taepyeong took advantage of the opportunity to continue speaking.

“I guess you need my authority as the chief of execution. If things continue like this, there is a high possibility that he will become a general-level official, so having a general-level official as an ally will be of great benefit to Seal Haga.”

The key is how you react here.

As I have said time and time again, Ha Deokbi was the poisonous species among poisonous species.

He traces the corners of his eyes with his sleeve and succeeds in shedding tears in just 5 seconds.

“Jiongwoljang… Did you see my feelings as an expression of such selfish desires? I thought you truly accepted my feelings…”

“Ha Deokbi…”

“I guess so… You have become a high-ranking official, so no matter how much you are a woman, you can’t help but think about your political background… That breaks my heart even more…”

“Ha Deokbi, I want to talk without all unnecessary pretense.”

However, Seol Taepyeong was adamant.

Yes. He knew Ha Deokbi very well.

I can’t believe that Deokbi Howol truly loved Hyeongwoljang Seol Tae-pyeong so much that she couldn’t overcome her love, so she gave up everything and brought him into Baekho Palace! Not even one bit!

Although I think Seol Tae-pyeong’s appearance of such confidence is truly sharp…

On the one hand, I feel strangely bad.

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What is it that you are completely sure of without a single doubt?

Even though it is a very slight probability, isn’t it possible to leave open the possibility that Ha Deok-bi might really have feelings for Seol Tae-pyeong?

Although it was very prideful to see that, if Seol Taepyeong completely closed his mind, there was nothing Ha Deokbi could do.

If the strategy of courting each other like crazy and making one of the two get tired of it doesn’t work, the next situation they will face is determined.

“ha ha ha…”

Ha Deok-bi said with a smile.

“okay. You got caught. “I don’t know, not even the slightest bit, that I don’t have a single ounce of love for you.”

“…”

“You must be quite the person to see that all of this is an act.”

Isn’t it even weirder not to know it’s acting?

Even as Seol Taepyeong thought so, he quickly composed himself.

Seol Tae-pyeong, who had already learned about the character Ha Deok-bi through the Heavenly Dragon Lover, was already well aware of the fact that she was a maverick who would do anything to gain power.

I knew very well that romantic feelings were nothing more than negotiation material in the face of her ambition, but…