When Min Eun Yeong and Park Seorin reached Eun Yeong's house, Seorin helped Eun Yeong to take her to her room. After so much effort, Eun Yeong lay down on the bed, Seorin thought that Eun Yeong was felled asleep and she was about to turn around to leave the room, all of sudden, Eun Yeong gripped Seorin's hands and pushed her onto the bed and underneath her body.
"Rinnie… Darling… where are you going? Where are my bedtime stories?" Eun Yeong showed Seorin her puppy eyes.
"B-Bedtime Stories" Seorin's eyes almost popped out.
"Yep... The stories that you told me in our high school sleepover party, and said that those are really happened in history..." Eun Yeong pouted.
"W-What K-Kind of Stories are they? You even r-remembered them.." Seorin stuttered.
"Of course duh... They were so interesting~ You started to tell me the stories of a girl who share the same name as mine, but our surnames are different... but you did not complete that as we slept~~ Rinnie~ complete them now~ or give me Lip kisses~" Eun Yeong grinned and said in a seductive voice.
"C-Complete them, N-Now!!" Seorin gulped visibly, "Or Give You L-L-Lip K-Kisses!!!"
"Yes…Come on. Tell me, my bedtime stories…".
Eun Yeong was coming closer to Seorin with a malignant smile on her face and because of shock, Seorin closed her eyes tightly and shouted 'ok' with her all might as if otherwise it's gonna be the end of her life and there was no use in this life anymore.
Eun Yeong gives her a silly smile and makes Seorin sit in her bed. She placed her head on Seorin's lap. Seorin huffed and started to tell her a story.
"Once there was a sweet and beautiful girl named Lee Eun Yeong. She was an orphan so she got adopted by one of the wealthiest people in Hanyang, Prime minister Lee Jong-Suk, who was the elder son of the previous Prime minister Lee Jonghyeok. When she came to the marriageable age, her adopted family persuaded her to get married to the emperor. Not knowing the future which lies ahead of her, she didn't hesitate to tie herself with the Emperor together. From the marriage, the orphan girl only wanted some respect and protection from her emperor husband, then maybe her life ahead could have been a bit better...
However, the reality is just too cruel…
That man, the emperor has a sweetheart, a concubine. After knowing the matter on their wedding night, whatever she feared started to turn into reality. Her position has only remained as a marionette empress who is controlled by the power of the Prime Minister and the group of powerful ministers who pressured the emperor to take her as the empress. But in the life of the emperor, the only person with whom he is madly in love is none other than the concubine..." Seorin paused to take a good look at Eun Yeong's face.
After a great observation, she came to the conclusion that Eun Yeong slept peacefully while she attempt to tell her the story.
Seorin sighs in relief and put Eun Yeong's head on a pillow, and then dash out of the room without wasting a single minute.
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"Huh! What is this red-colored veil in front of my face" Eun Yeong became puzzled, "and why did my head feel so heavy? like a mountain is situated on my head?" But the strangest thing she understood was the fact that she was in an unfamiliar room. Everything about the room seemed off, it was nothing like her apartment.
What she can understand by looking through the veil is the decor of the entire room was completely strange, It didn't look modern. There were no bulbs or electric fans in the room, instead, there were traditional lamps hanging on the walls. It was a widespread room made of wood and decored with extravagant decoration. The room looked like it stepped out of a historical drama.
Eun Yeong didn't want to make any sudden movements so she remained still in her position. While she was racking her brain to understand the whole situation, she suddenly hears hurried footsteps approaching where she is situated. "Now who the hell is intruding ?!", she tried to huff out her anxiety as she presumed that the person now halts in front of her.
She again tries to take a good look through the veil and deduced that there is a handsome man wearing a royal dress, as she tried hard to understand who the person is, she sensed an anxiety that can't be explained by words gradually spreading in the bottom of her heart.
Confused Eun Yeong tries to ask the person who he is, but she felt like her body does not respond to her will. She then tries to move but it looks like the body even forbids her to do that too!
The man who halts in front of her now suddenly takes the veil from her head and throws it in the corner of the room. His strikingly handsome face is scowling at her deeply. Eun Yeong feel like the man scowling at her like she snatched his favorite drink from him. Eun Yeong was also stunned because of the aggressive pulling of the veil.
"LEE EUN YEONG! You are not entitled to this royal dress, so I helped you to at least take off the veil", the man menacingly smiled while uttering this to Eun Yeong. "As you can see, I have already someone in my life, who is the empress of my heart and soul", while he was uttering this he reached towards the folding screen that was situated in the far most corner of the room.
Eun Yeong feels anxiety building up inside her body and she curiously looks at what the person actually wants to do. She kind of understood that the body to which she currently belongs does not respond to any of her will to move. Only the vision she has can let her know what bizarre things are happening actually.
The man brings out a living person behind the screen, which literally shocked Eun Yeong. "What! a Person was hiding behind the screen! but why this man brought a eunuch out and in front of me?
While Eun Yeong thinking about the scenario that is unfolding in front of her by being confused, the man pulls the eunuch hat out from the eunuch's head. A voluminous beautiful strand of long dark brown hair makes its appearance showing the person is actually a beautiful girl, not a eunuch.
"Your Majesty, I don't want to get punished by the empress..." The beautiful girl suddenly cries out clutching the man's arm robe.
"Don't be worried, my love... I'm the emperor and the person whose existence matters the most to me is only you. No one can touch a single strand of your hair. I, the emperor of Hanyang, Jeon Jeonguuk, guarantee you with my words." Jeongguk said in a steadied voice.
"Your Majesty the emperor, I love you so much," the beautiful girl squealed in a sickeningly sweet voice and buried her face in the emperor's chest.
"I know that Sun-er, now let's celebrate our love... the night is still young after all," Jeongguk said while glancing at Eun Yeong.
Eun Yeong felt her vision getting too blurry, and it became problematic to focus on their faces. She understood clearly that the tears will soon be going to stream down from her face. 'I didn't have any single connection with them, though the girl's face looks like someone I know... but I can't remember. Still though, why I'm feeling this stifling pain in my heart?!'
while Eun Yeong was busy searching for the answer to these questions in her mind, she suddenly felt someone give a forceful tug that throw her entire body on the floor. She furiously takes a look at the person's face, who dared to touch her. She found it was none other than the love-struck emperor, which didn't surprise her at all.
"It is the bed, that was made to serve the Emperor and Empress of Hanyang, not for you to sit on. To tell you the truth, it is hard to disobey the old nagging ministers. You don't deserve to marry me, the emperor. Since you marry me, you must learn to behave yourself," Jeongguk spat those words like they aren't hurtful at all.
He took the girl to the bed and started to make out, while Lee Eun Yeong decided to leave the room for the peace of both parties. While Eun Yeong took a turn to leave the chamber, a sickeningly sweet and melodic voice call her out.
"Your majesty the empress, Come here and kneel down, Tonight you will serve us here."
This command is enough for the tears to break free from the eyes of the doomed empress Lee Eun Yeong.
